Joseph Cotten (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American actor, noted for his key roles in such classics as Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Third Man, and Shadow of a Doubt. He made his cinematic debut in Citizen Kane, at the invitation of his longtime friend, Orson Welles.

He was born in Petersburg, Virginia and died in Palm Springs, California from complications of throat cancer at the age of 88.

Filmography

• Too Much Johnson (1938) (short subject)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Lydia (1941)
• The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
• Journey Into Fear (1943)
• Hers to Hold (1943)
• Gaslight (1944)
• Since You Went Away (1944)
• I'll Be Seeing You (1945)
• Love Letters (1945)
• Duel in the Sun (1946)
• The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
• Portrait of Jennie (1948)
• The Third Man (1949)
• Under Capricorn (1949)
• Beyond the Forest (1949)
• Two Flags West (1950)
• Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
• September Affair (1950)
• Half Angel (1951)
• Peking Express (1951)
• The Man with a Cloak (1951)
• The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1952)
• The Wild Heart (1952) (narrator)
• Untamed Frontier (1952)
• The Steel Trap (1952)
• Egypt by Three (1953) (narrator)
• Niagara (1953)
• A Blueprint for Murder (1953)
• Vom Himmel gefallen or Special Delivery (1955)
• The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
• The Killer Is Loose (1956)
• The Halliday Brand (1957)
• Touch of Evil (1958)
• From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
• The Angel Wore Red (1960)
• The Last Sunset (1961)
• Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
• The Great Sioux Massacre (1965)
• The Money Trap (1965)
• The Oscar (1966)
• The Tramplers (1966)
• The Cruel Ones (1967)
• Brighty of the Grand Canyon (1967)
• Jack of Diamonds (1967)
• Days of Fire (1968)
• Gangster '70 (1968)
• Petulia (1968)
• White Comanche (1968)
• Keene (1969)
• Latitude Zero (1969)
• The Grasshopper (1970)
• Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
• The Abominable Mr. Phibes (1971)
• Lady Frankenstein (1971)
• Baron Blood (1972)
• Doomsday Voyage (1972)
• The Scientific Cardplayer (1972)
• A Delicate Balance (1973)
• Soylent Green (1973)
• Syndicate Sadists (1975)
• Timber Tramps (1975)
• A Whisper in the Dark (1976)
• F for Fake (1976) (documentary)
• Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
• Airport '77 (1977)
• Last In, First Out (1978)
• Caravans (1978)
• Concorde Affair (1978)
• Something Waits in the Dark (1979)
• Concorde Affair '79 (1979)
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• The Hearse (1980)
• Delusion (1980)
• Heaven's Gate (1980)
• The Survivor (1981)