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Joseph Cotten
Known for: ActingJoseph Cheshire Cotten, Jr. (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 61
Citizen Kane
as Jedediah Leland 
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Henry L. Stimson 
The Third Man
as Holly Martins 
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State 
Soylent Green
as William R. Simonson 
Gaslight
as Brian Cameron 
Heaven's Gate
as The Reverend Doctor 
Niagara
as George Loomis 
Shadow of a Doubt
as Charlie Oakley 
Touch of Evil
as Coroner (uncredited) 
Portrait of Jennie
as Eben Adams 
A Blueprint for Murder
as Whitney 'Cam' Cameron 
Duel in the Sun
as Jesse McCanles 
Airport '77
as Nicholas St. Downs III 
The Magnificent Ambersons
as Eugene Morgan 
F for Fake
as Self 
Under Capricorn
as Sam Flusky 
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
as Dr. Vesalius 
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
as Drew Bayliss 
The Last Sunset
as John Breckenridge 
The Tramplers
as Temple Cordeen 
Othello
as Senator (uncredited) 
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
as Self (archive footage) 
Petulia
as Mr. Danner 
Two Flags West
as Clay Tucker 
The Oscar
as Kenneth Regan 
The Farmer's Daughter
as Glenn Morley 
Island of the Fishmen
as Prof. Ernest Marvin 
White Comanche
as Sheriff Logan 
Lady Frankenstein
as Baron Frankenstein 
The Hearse
as Walter Prichard 
I'll Be Seeing You
as Zachary Morgan 
Since You Went Away
as Tony Willett 
The Killer Is Loose
as Detective Sam Wagner 
Baron Blood
as Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker 
The Great Sioux Massacre
as Major Marcus A. Reno 
Caravans
as Crandall 
Love Letters
as Allen Quinton 
September Affair
as David Lawrence 
City Beneath the Sea
as Dr. Ziegler 
The Hellbenders
as Colonel Jonas 
The Man with a Cloak
as Dupin 
Syndicate Sadists
as Paternò 
The Devil's Daughter
as Judge Weatherby 
Guyana: Crime of the Century
as Richard Gable 
Peking Express
as Michael Bachlin 
From the Earth to the Moon
as Victor Barbicane 
A Delicate Balance
as Harry 
The Money Trap
as Dr. Horace Van Tilden 
The Grasshopper
as Richard Morgan 
Latitude Zero
as Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie 
The Survivor
as Priest 
Jack of Diamonds
as Ace 
Delusion
as Ivar Langrock 
Too Much Johnson
as Augustus Billings (uncredited) 
Hers to Hold
as Bill Morley 
Lydia
as Michael Fitzpatrick 
The Halliday Brand
as Daniel Halliday 
Return to Fantasy Island
as Simon Grant 
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
as Self (archive footage) 
Mysteries of the Gods
as Narrator