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).
Movie | They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | Self (archive footage) | 2018-08-31 |
Movie | Too Much Johnson | Augustus Billings | 2013-10-09 |
Movie | Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film | Self | 2000-01-03 |
Movie | Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook | Baron Frankenstein (archive footage) | 1991-01-01 |
Movie | Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths | (archive footage) | 1990-01-01 |
Movie | Delusion | Ivar Langrock | 1981-01-23 |
Movie | The Survivor | Priest | 1981-07-09 |
Movie | The Hearse | Walter Prichard | 1980-06-01 |
Movie | Heaven's Gate | The Reverend Doctor | 1980-11-19 |
Movie | Casino | Ed Booker | 1980-08-01 |
Movie | Concorde Affair | Milland | 1979-03-23 |
Movie | Island of the Fishmen | Prof. Ernest Marvin | 1979-01-18 |
Series | Tales of the Unexpected | Lionel | 1979-03-24 |
Movie | Guyana: Crime of the Century | Richard Gable | 1979-09-20 |
Movie | Churchill and the Generals | Gen. George C. Marshall | 1979-09-23 |
Movie | Last In, First Out | Foster Johnson | 1978-08-30 |
Movie | The Perfect Crime | Sir Arthur Dundee | 1978-11-24 |
Movie | Caravans | Crandall | 1978-11-02 |
Series | The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries | Unknown | 1977-01-30 |
Movie | Twilight's Last Gleaming | Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State | 1977-02-09 |
Series | Aspen | Horton Paine | 1977-11-05 |
Movie | Airport '77 | Nicholas St. Downs III | 1977-03-11 |
Movie | Mysteries of the Gods | Narrator | 1976-03-17 |
Movie | The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Dr. Joseph Francis Condon | 1976-02-26 |
Movie | A Whisper in the Dark | The Professor | 1976-08-12 |
Series | Origins of the Mafia | The Envoy | 1976-11-19 |
Movie | Syndicate Sadists | PaternĂ² | 1975-08-16 |
Movie | Timber Tramps | Greedy sawmill mogul | 1975-12-31 |
Series | The Rockford Files | Warner Jameson | 1974-09-13 |
Movie | The Devil's Daughter | Judge Weatherby | 1973-01-09 |
Movie | Soylent Green | William R. Simonson | 1973-04-18 |
Movie | F for Fake | Self | 1973-09-01 |
Movie | A Delicate Balance | Harry | 1973-11-12 |
Movie | The Screaming Woman | George Tresvant | 1972-01-29 |
Movie | Baron Blood | Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker | 1972-02-25 |
Movie | Doomsday Voyage | Captain Jason | 1972-02-01 |
Movie | The Scopone Game | George | 1972-08-28 |
Series | The Streets of San Francisco | Unknown | 1972-09-23 |
Movie | Do You Take This Stranger? | Dr. Robert Carson | 1971-01-18 |
Movie | Assault on the Wayne | Admiral | 1971-01-12 |
Series | V.I.P. Schaukel | Unknown | 1971-05-09 |
Movie | Lady Frankenstein | Baron Frankenstein | 1971-10-22 |
Movie | The Abominable Dr. Phibes | Dr. Vesalius | 1971-05-18 |
Movie | City Beneath the Sea | Dr. Ziegler | 1971-07-16 |
Movie | Cutter's Trail | General Spalding | 1970-02-10 |
Movie | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Henry L. Stimson | 1970-01-26 |
Movie | The Grasshopper | Richard Morgan | 1970-05-27 |
Movie | Latitude Zero | Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie | 1969-07-26 |
Movie | The Lonely Profession | Martin Bannister | 1969-10-21 |
Movie | Gangsters '70 | Destil | 1968-04-29 |
Movie | Petulia | Mr. Danner | 1968-06-10 |
Movie | Alexander The Great | Antigonus | 1968-01-26 |
Movie | White Comanche | Sheriff Logan | 1968-06-21 |
Movie | Split Second to an Epitaph | Dr. Ben Stern | 1968-09-26 |
Movie | The Hellbenders | Colonel Jonas | 1967-02-02 |
Movie | Some May Live | Colonel Woodward | 1967-01-01 |
Series | Ironside | Unknown | 1967-03-28 |
Series | Cimarron Strip | Unknown | 1967-09-07 |
Series | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Unknown | 1967-09-09 |
Movie | Jack of Diamonds | Ace | 1967-11-10 |
Movie | The Oscar | Kenneth Regan | 1966-03-04 |
Movie | Brighty of the Grand Canyon | Jim | 1966-11-24 |
Movie | The Great Sioux Massacre | Major Marcus A. Reno | 1965-04-25 |
Movie | The Money Trap | Dr. Horace Van Tilden | 1965-09-07 |
Movie | The Tramplers | Temple Cordeen | 1965-12-31 |
Movie | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Drew Bayliss | 1964-12-15 |
Series | Hollywood and the Stars | Narrator | 1963-09-30 |
Series | The Great Adventure | Unknown | 1963-09-27 |
Movie | The Last Sunset | John Breckenridge | 1961-06-08 |
Series | Dr. Kildare | Unknown | 1961-09-27 |
Series | Bus Stop | Unknown | 1961-10-01 |
Movie | Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Self (uncredited) | 1961-12-31 |
Movie | The Angel Wore Red | Hawthorne | 1960-04-14 |
Series | Checkmate | Unknown | 1960-09-17 |
Series | The DuPont Show with June Allyson | Unknown | 1959-09-21 |
Series | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Unknown | 1958-10-06 |
Movie | Touch of Evil | Coroner (uncredited) | 1958-03-30 |
Series | 77 Sunset Strip | Unknown | 1958-10-10 |
Series | Kraft Music Hall | Unknown | 1958-10-08 |
Movie | From the Earth to the Moon | Victor Barbicane | 1958-11-26 |
Movie | The Halliday Brand | Daniel Halliday | 1957-01-01 |
Movie | The Edge of Innocence | Robert Rainey | 1957-10-31 |
Movie | The Killer Is Loose | Detective Sam Wagner | 1956-02-03 |
Movie | The Bottom of the Bottle | Pat 'P.M.' Martin | 1956-02-01 |
Series | Telephone Time | Unknown | 1956-04-08 |
Series | On Trial | 1956-09-14 | |
Series | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown | 1956-10-05 |
Movie | Special Delivery | John Adams | 1955-04-07 |
Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown | 1955-10-02 |
Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
Movie | Niagara | George Loomis | 1953-01-26 |
Movie | Egypt by Three | Narrator | 1953-03-31 |
Movie | A Blueprint for Murder | Whitney 'Cam' Cameron | 1953-07-24 |
Series | Letter to Loretta | Unknown | 1953-09-20 |
Movie | Untamed Frontier | Kirk Denbow | 1952-07-23 |
Movie | The Steel Trap | Jim Osborne | 1952-11-12 |
Movie | Half Angel | John Raymond Jr. | 1951-05-05 |
Movie | Peking Express | Michael Bachlin | 1951-08-01 |
Series | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Unknown | 1951-10-05 |
Movie | Othello | Senator (uncredited) | 1951-11-28 |
Movie | The Man with a Cloak | Dupin | 1951-11-27 |
Movie | Two Flags West | Col. Clay Tucker | 1950-10-12 |
Movie | September Affair | David Lawrence | 1950-10-18 |
Movie | Walk Softly, Stranger | Chris Hale aka Steve | 1950-10-14 |
Movie | Under Capricorn | Sam Flusky | 1949-09-08 |
Movie | The Third Man | Holly Martins | 1949-08-31 |
Movie | Beyond the Forest | Doctor Louis Moline | 1949-10-21 |
Series | Ford Theatre | Unknown | 1948-10-17 |
Movie | Portrait of Jennie | Eben Adams | 1948-12-25 |
Movie | The Farmer's Daughter | Glenn Morley | 1947-03-26 |
Movie | Duel in the Sun | Jesse McCanles | 1946-12-31 |
Movie | Love Letters | Allen Quinton | 1945-10-26 |
Movie | Gaslight | Brian Cameron | 1944-05-04 |
Movie | Since You Went Away | Lieutenant Tony Willett | 1944-06-30 |
Movie | I'll Be Seeing You | Zachary Morgan | 1944-12-31 |
Movie | Shadow of a Doubt | Charlie Oakley | 1943-01-15 |
Movie | Journey into Fear | Howard Graham | 1943-01-07 |
Movie | Hers to Hold | Bill Morley | 1943-07-16 |
Movie | The Magnificent Ambersons | Eugene Morgan | 1942-07-10 |
Movie | Citizen Kane | Jedediah Leland | 1941-04-17 |
Movie | Lydia | Michael Fitzpatrick | 1941-09-18 |
Movie | Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y. | 1937-12-31 |