Joseph Cotten
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- Born
- Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. , ( 1905-05-15 ) May 15, 1905, Petersburg, Virginia , U.S.
- Died
- February 6, 1994 (1994-02-06) (aged 88), Los Angeles , California , U.S.
- Burial place
- Blandford Cemetery , Petersburg, Virginia
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1930–1981
- Height
- 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
- Spouses
- Lenore Kipp ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1931 ; died 1960 ) Patricia Medina ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1960 )
- Awards
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor :, 1949 Portrait of Jennie
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Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American film, stage, radio and television actor. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philadelphia Story (1939) and Sabrina Fair (1953). He gained worldwide fame for his collaborations with Orson Welles on films Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and Journey into Fear (1943). Cotten starred in the latter and was also credited with the screenplay.
Cotten became one of the leading Hollywood actors of the 1940s, appearing in films such as Shadow of a Doubt (1943); Gaslight (1944); Love Letters (1945); Duel in the Sun (1946); The Farmer's Daughter (1947); Portrait of Jennie (1948), for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor; The Third Man (1949), alongside Welles; and Niagara (1953). One of his final films was Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980).
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