Joseph Cotten
Born: 1905-05-15 in Petersburg, Virginia, USA
Died: 1994-02-06
Known For: Acting
Biography
Joseph Cheshire Cotten (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American actor of stage and film. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair. He is associated with Orson Welles, leading to appearances in Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Journey into Fear (1943), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay, and The Third Man (1949). He was a star in his own right with films such as Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Love Letters (1945), Portrait of Jennie (1948), and The Third Man (1949).
Filmography
2018
- They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Self (archive footage)
- Black Baby as Jedediah Leland (archive footage)
1991
- Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Baron Frankenstein (archive footage)
1990
- Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths as (archive footage)
1981
- The Survivor as Priest
- Delusion as Ivar Langrock
1980
- The Hearse as Walter Prichard
- Heaven's Gate as The Reverend Doctor
- Casino as Ed Booker
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Lionel
- Island of the Fishmen as Prof. Ernest Marvin
- Guyana: Crime of the Century as Richard Gable
- Concorde Affair as Milland
- All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman as Self
- Churchill and the Generals as Gen. George C. Marshall
1978
- Caravans as Crandall
- The Perfect Crime as Sir Arthur Dundee
- Last In, First Out as Foster Johnson
- Return to Fantasy Island as Simon Grant
1977
- The Love Boat as Colonel Van Ryker
- The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
- Airport '77 as Nicholas St. Downs III
- Twilight's Last Gleaming as Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State
- Aspen as Horton Paine
1976
- Mysteries of the Gods as Narrator
- The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case as Dr. Joseph Francis Condon
- A Whisper in the Dark as The Professor
- Origins of the Mafia as The Envoy
1975
- Timber Tramps as Greedy sawmill mogul
- Syndicate Sadists as Paternò
1974
- The Rockford Files as Warner Jameson
1973
- Soylent Green as William R. Simonson
- F for Fake as Self
- A Delicate Balance as Harry
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- The Devil's Daughter as Judge Weatherby
- Police Dog as Narrator
1972
- The Streets of San Francisco
- The Scopone Game as George
- The Screaming Woman as George Tresvant
- Baron Blood as Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker
- Doomsday Voyage as Captain Jason
1971
- V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
- City Beneath the Sea as Dr. Ziegler
- The Abominable Dr. Phibes as Dr. Vesalius
- Assault on the Wayne as Admiral
- Lady Frankenstein as Baron Frankenstein
- Journey to Murder as Jeff Wheeler
- Do You Take This Stranger? as Dr. Robert Carson
1970
- The Grasshopper as Richard Morgan
- Tora! Tora! Tora! as Henry L. Stimson
- Cutter's Trail as General Spalding
1969
- Latitude Zero as Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie
- The Lonely Profession as Martin Bannister
1968
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
- Gangsters '70 as Destil
- Petulia as Mr. Danner
- White Comanche as Sheriff Logan
- Alexander The Great as Antigonus
- Petulia: The Uncommon Movie as Himself
- Split Second to an Epitaph as Dr. Ben Stern
1967
- Ironside
- The Hellbenders as Colonel Jonas
- Cimarron Strip
- Jack of Diamonds as Ace
- Some May Live as Colonel Woodward
- Lionpower from MGM
1966
- The Oscar as Kenneth Regan
- Brighty of the Grand Canyon as Jim
1965
- The Great Sioux Massacre as Major Marcus A. Reno
- The Money Trap as Dr. Horace Van Tilden
- The Tramplers as Temple Cordeen
1964
- Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte as Drew Bayliss
1963
- The Great Adventure as Captain Meehan
- Hollywood and the Stars as Narrator
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Charles Ladovan
- The Last Sunset as John Breckenridge
- Bus Stop
- Hollywood: The Selznick Years as Self (uncredited)
1960
- The Barbara Stanwyck Show as Mac McClay
- Checkmate
- The Angel Wore Red as Hawthorne
1959
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Dick Burlingame
1958
- 77 Sunset Strip
- Kraft Music Hall
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- Touch of Evil as Coroner (uncredited)
- From the Earth to the Moon as Victor Barbicane
1957
- Suspicion as Gregg Carey
- The Edge of Innocence as Robert Rainey
- The Halliday Brand as Daniel Halliday
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Ben Harper
- Telephone Time
- The Bottom of the Bottle as Pat 'P.M.' Martin
- The Killer Is Loose as Detective Sam Wagner
- On Trial
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as William Callew
- Special Delivery as John Adams
1953
- Niagara as George Loomis
- A Blueprint for Murder as Whitney 'Cam' Cameron
- Letter to Loretta as Self - Guest Host
- Egypt by Three as Narrator
- General Electric Theater as Paul Henty
1952
- Untamed Frontier as Kirk Denbow
- The Steel Trap as Jim Osborne
1951
- Othello as Senator (uncredited)
- Half Angel as John Raymond Jr.
- Peking Express as Michael Bachlin
- The Man with a Cloak as Dupin
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1950
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- September Affair as David Lawrence
- Walk Softly, Stranger as Chris Hale aka Steve
- Two Flags West as Col. Clay Tucker
1949
- Under Capricorn as Sam Flusky
- The Third Man as Holly Martins
- Beyond the Forest as Doctor Louis Moline
1948
- Portrait of Jennie as Eben Adams
1947
- The Farmer's Daughter as Glenn Morley
- Our American Heritage as Narrator
1946
- Duel in the Sun as Jesse McCanles
1945
- Love Letters as Allen Quinton
1944
- Gaslight as Brian Cameron
- I'll Be Seeing You as Zachary Morgan
- Since You Went Away as Lieutenant Tony Willett
1943
- Shadow of a Doubt as Uncle Charlie
- Journey into Fear as Howard Graham
- Hers to Hold as Bill Morley
1942
- The Magnificent Ambersons as Eugene Morgan
1941
- Citizen Kane as Jedediah Leland
- Lydia as Michael Fitzpatrick
1934
- Too Much Johnson as Augustus Billings