Joseph Cotten

Also Credited As:

Joseph Cheshire Cotten
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Biography

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 and attractive if unconventional features, Cotten developed great versatility during his 1930s stage work …
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Job Title

Actor, Other

Born

May 15, 1905

LATEST CREDITS

The Third Man

Holly Martins

The Killer Is Loose

Sam Wagner

Assault on the Wayne

Admiral

The Fish Men

Actor

Sussuri Nel Buio

Actor

La Figlia di Frankenstein

Actor

The Great Sioux Massacre

Major Reno

On Trial

William Meredith, Host, Performer

Some May Live

Colonel Woodworth

Gli Orrori del Castello di Norimberga

Becker--The Baron

The Magnificent Ambersons

Eugene Morgan

Special Delivery

Jonathan Adams

The Hellbenders

Jonas

Two Flags West

Actor

Doomsday Voyage

Captain Jason

Niagara

George Loomis

Shadow of a Doubt

Uncle Charlie

Duel in the Sun

Actor

The Abominable Doctor Phibes

Dr Vesalius

The Bottom of the Bottle

P M

Jack of Diamonds

Ace of Diamaonds

Beyond the Forest

Dr Lewis Moline

Orson Welles: What Went Wrong?

Actor