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Joseph Cotten

Joseph Cotten

Highest Rated: 100% Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Lowest Rated: 12% The Oscar (1966)

Birthday: May 15, 1905

Birthplace: Petersburg, Virginia, USA

Quietly intense, highly talented member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theater, a former drama critic who went to Hollywood with the director to act (as a drama critic) in "Citizen Kane" (1941) and stayed to enjoy success on screen, TV and stage alike over the next four decades. Tall, wavy-haired and gentlemanly, with a trace of a Southern drawl, Cotten developed great versatility during his 1930s stage work which would serve him well in one of the most impressive strings of performances any Hollywood actor achieved in the 1940s.

Highest rated movies

100% The Farmer's Daughter
100% Shadow of a Doubt
99% The Third Man 99% Citizen Kane
95% Touch of Evil
89% Gaslight
89% The Magnificent Ambersons
88% F for Fake

Photos

DUEL IN THE SUN, Joseph Cotten, 1946 LOVE LETTERS, Joseph Cotten, Jennifer Jones, 1945 MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles on the set, 1942 SINCE YOU WENT AWAY, from left, Joseph Cotten, Claudette Colbert, 1944 SINCE YOU WENT AWAY, Hattie McDaniel, Joseph Cotten, 1944 THE STEEL TRAP, Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, 1952 THE STEEL TRAP, Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, 1952 UNDER CAPRICORN, Michael Wilding, Joseph Cotten, Ingrid Bergman, 1949 UNTAMED FRONTIER, Shelley Winters, Joseph Cotten, 1952 UNTAMED FRONTIER, Joseph Cotten, 1952 THE MAN WITH A CLOAK, from left: Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, 1951 THE THIRD MAN, from left: Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles on set, 1949 UNDER CAPRICORN, from left: Margaret Leighton, Joseph Cotten, 1949 CITIZEN KANE, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, 1941 MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, Orson Welles pulls a rabbit out a hat held by Joseph Cotten while Dolores Costello looks on, 1942 DUEL IN THE SUN, Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, 1946 THE THIRD MAN, from left: Alida Valli, Joseph Cotten on set, 1949 THE THIRD MAN, Joseph Cotten, 1949 SINCE YOU WENT AWAY, Joseph Cotten, Jennifer Jones, 1944 THE THIRD MAN, from left: Orson Welles, director Carol Reed, Joseph Cotten on set, 1949
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 14% Delusion Ivar Langrock (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Churchill and the Generals General George C. Marshall (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet 17% Guyana, Cult of the Damned Unknown (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 21% The Survivor Priest (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 25% The Hearse Walter Prichard (Character) - 1980
57% 54% Heaven's Gate The Reverend Doctor (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 25% The Concorde Affair Milland (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Perfect Crime Sir Arthur Dundee (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet 58% Caravans Crandall (Character) - 1978
60% 36% Screamers Prof. Ernest Marvin (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet 100% Return to Fantasy Island Simon Grant/Thomas Cummings (Character) - 1978
40% 32% Airport '77 Nicholas St. Downs III (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Timber Tramps Greedy sawmill mogul (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet 80% The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case Dr. Joseph Francis Condon (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Origins of the Mafia Unknown (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet 26% Syndicate Sadists Paternò (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet 29% The Devil's Daughter Judge Weatherby (Character) - 1973
67% 61% A Delicate Balance Harry (Character) - 1973
88% 88% F for Fake Special Participant (Character) - 1973
71% 70% Soylent Green William (Character) - 1973
14% 34% Baron Blood Baron Otto von Kleist/Alfred Becker (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Doomsday Voyage Captain Jason (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet 68% The Scientific Cardplayer George (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Screaming Woman George Tresvant (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet 36% City Beneath the Sea Dr. Ziegler (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet 20% Lady Frankenstein Baron Frankenstein (Character) - 1971
88% 75% The Abominable Dr. Phibes Dr. Vesalius (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Latitude Zero Capt. Craig McKenzie/Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie (Character) - 1970
55% 81% Tora! Tora! Tora! Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet 55% The Grasshopper Richard Morgan (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cutter's Trail Gen. Spalding (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Split Second to an Epitaph Dr. Ben Stern (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Do You Take This Stranger? Dr. Robert Carson (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Assault on the Wayne Admiral (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet The King of Denmark Henry "Harry" Worthington Rayner (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lonely Profession Martin Bannister (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet 50% Latitude Zero (Atragon II) (Ido zero daisakusen) Unknown (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet 33% White Commanche Unknown (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet White Comanche Sheriff Logan (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet 58% The Hellbenders Col. Jonas (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Brighty of the Grand Canyon Jim Owen (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Some May Live Col. Woodward (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet 43% Jack of Diamonds As (Character) - 1967
12% 29% The Oscar Kenneth Regan (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet 36% The Money Trap Dr. Horace Van Tilden (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet In Saigon: Some May Live Col. Woodward (Character) - 1966
82% 85% Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte Drew (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet 25% The Great Sioux Massacre Major Reno (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Tramplers Temple Cordeen (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet 17% Alexander the Great Antigonus (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Search Dr. Nathan Tio (Character) - 1964
60% 57% The Last Sunset John Breckenridge (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet 36% The Angel Wore Red Hawthorne (Character) - 1960
38% 39% From the Earth to the Moon Victor Barbicane (Character) - 1958
95% 92% Touch of Evil Coroner (uncredited) (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet 45% Halliday Brand Daniel Halliday (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 43% The Bottom of the Bottle Pat "P.M." Martin (Character) - 1956
60% 40% The Killer Is Loose Det. Sam Wagner (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet Special Delivery John Adams (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 62% A Blueprint for Murder Whitney `'Cam'` Cameron (Character) - 1953
78% 69% Niagara George Loomis (Character) - 1953
17% No Score Yet Untamed Frontier Kirk Denbow (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet 89% Othello Senator (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet 65% The Steel Trap Jim Osborne (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet 17% Half Angel John Raymond Jr. (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 45% The Man With a Cloak Dupin (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet No Score Yet Peking Express Michael Bachlin (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 54% Walk Softly, Stranger Chris Hale (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet 22% Two Flags West Col. Clay Tucker (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet 50% September Affair David Lawrence (Character) - 1950
60% 66% Beyond the Forest Doctor Louis Moline (Character) - 1949
56% 34% Under Capricorn Sam Flusky (Character) - 1949
99% 93% The Third Man Holly Martins (Character) $447.0K 1949
88% 85% Portrait of Jennie Eben Adams (Character) - 1948
100% 77% The Farmer's Daughter Glenn Morley (Character) - 1947
76% 55% Duel in the Sun Jesse McCanles (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet 60% Love Letters Allen Quinton (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet 71% I'll Be Seeing You Zachary Morgan (Character) - 1944
77% 79% Since You Went Away JLt. Tony Willett (Character) - 1944
89% 90% Gaslight Brian Cameron (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet 50% Hers to Hold Bill Morley (Character) - 1943
100% 89% Shadow of a Doubt Charlie Oakley (Character) - 1943
73% 49% Journey Into Fear Howard Graham (Character),
Screenwriter 		- 1942
89% 84% The Magnificent Ambersons Eugene (Character) - 1942
99% 90% Citizen Kane Jedediah Leland/Newsreel Reporter (Character) $977.3K 1941
No Score Yet 47% Lydia Michael Fitzpatrick (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 58% Too Much Johnson Augustus Billings (Character) - 1938

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tales of the Unexpected Edward (Character) 1979-1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fantasy Island Unknown (Guest Star) 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries Unknown (Guest Star) 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rockford Files Warner Jameson (Guest Star) 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Streets of San Francisco John R. James (Guest Star) 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Virginian Judge Hobbs (Guest Star) 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Name of the Game Unknown (Guest Star) 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cimarron Strip Unknown (Character) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet 77 Sunset Strip Arnold Buhler (Guest Star) 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wagon Train John Augustus (Guest Star) 1961-1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dr. Kildare Unknown (Guest Star) 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bus Stop Unknown (Guest Star) 1961
No Score Yet 85% Alfred Hitchcock Presents William Callew (Character) 1955 1958-1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Zane Grey Theatre Unknown (Character) 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet The 20th Century-Fox Hour Unknown (Character) 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet Producers' Showcase Unknown (Character) 1954