Joseph Cotten
Birthday: 1905-05-15
Place of Birth: Petersburg, Virginia, USA
Biography: 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).
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Citizen Kane
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich ...
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The Magnificent Ambersons
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man...
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The Third Man
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest o...
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Touch of Evil
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement ag...
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Lady Frankenstein
When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant continue...
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after...
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Under Capricorn
A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that bind...
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Heaven's Gate
Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing...
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Seeing the World: Part One - A Visit to New York, N.Y.
A sightseeing portrait of New York, with lively narration taking the viewer aboard the New York elev...
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Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a Holl...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...
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Baron Blood
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an a...
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Journey into Fear
An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ...
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I'll Be Seeing You
Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough fr...
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Shadow of a Doubt
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie ...
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The Steel Trap
Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday a...
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A Blueprint for Murder
Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harb...
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Airport '77
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passen...
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Soylent Green
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to...
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Duel in the Sun
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself...
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The Halliday Brand
Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind hate t...
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Island of the Fishmen
After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a s...
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The Killer Is Loose
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as...
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Gaslight
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion....
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Guyana: Crime of the Century
This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly c...
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Syndicate Sadists
A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a wa...
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Beyond the Forest
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man ...
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Caravans
This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener's best-selling novel concerns a young American emb...
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Since You Went Away
In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose pa...
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F for Fake
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committ...
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The Farmer's Daughter
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unex...
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The Money Trap
When half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the burglar...
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From the Earth to the Moon
Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new sourc...
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A Delicate Balance
In their finely appointed Connecticut home, Agnes and Tobias have grown used to the imperfection and...
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The Last Sunset
At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenri...
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes
After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a...
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The Grasshopper
A British Columbia teenager dreams of show business but winds up as a call girl in Las Vegas....
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White Comanche
William Shatner plays two roles: cowboy Johnny Moon and his ruthless Indian twin brother, Notah. Not...
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Latitude Zero
A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are...
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City Beneath the Sea
A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as...
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Niagara
Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N....
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The Hearse
A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by...
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The Man with a Cloak
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of ...
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The Hellbenders
A Southern Colonel, his three sons, and a card shark embark on an odyssey through the Southwest carr...
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September Affair
An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are re...
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Lydia
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home ...
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The Oscar
An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Holly...
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The Scopone Game
An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the car...
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The Survivor
When a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he and ...
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo n...
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Casino
Mike Connors is a suave gambler who owns a floating hotel/casino which takes a turn when the passeng...
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Walk Softly, Stranger
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter....
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Two Flags West
A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison t...
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The Perfect Crime
The death of a multinational company’s chairman induces the three candidates for the chairmanship to...
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The Devil's Daughter
A young girl whose mother had sold her soul to Satan when she was born is told by Satan that she mus...
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Love Letters
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always compli...
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Assault on the Wayne
The U.S. submarine Anthony Wayne is underway for a top-secret mission. Onboard is a highly classifie...
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The Bottom of the Bottle
An alcoholic escaped convict asks his Arizona lawyer brother to help him cross the Mexican border....
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Jack of Diamonds
The protégé of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the ...
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Half Angel
Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night ...
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Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Documentary with a treasure trove of rare footage and vintage trailers, offering a rich and unusual ...
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The Screaming Woman
A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the gr...
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The Tramplers
After the war of secession, the aging Cordeen, who owns thousands of acres in Texas, rules his numer...
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Gangsters '70
An elderly gangster just released from prison plans one last job, and gathers a small crew to do the...
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A Whisper in the Dark
Martino is a young child who claims to have an invisible friend called Luca. His parents assume it i...
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The Angel Wore Red
A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himsel...
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Peking Express
A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outla...
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Too Much Johnson
This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles' M...
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Untamed Frontier
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn D...
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Hers to Hold
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" film...
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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, an...
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Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
A short documentary about the Making Of Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943)....
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, ...
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Our American Heritage
Public service featurette shown in connection with the 1947-1949 biannual nation-wide tour of the Fo...
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the ...
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Last In, First Out
A woman on a train becomes the center of attention when she is mistaken for a spy by opposing factio...
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Alexander The Great
An historical film that follows the life of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king that united all...
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Petulia
Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new ...
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Return to Fantasy Island
A second feature-length pilot film for the wish-fulfillment series sees six lucky people having thei...
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Special Delivery
Complications ensue when a U.S. diplomat discovers that he has a baby on his hands and an undercover...
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Delusion
Meredith Stone, a home care nurse, has been assigned the duty of looking after a wealthy invalid nam...
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Do You Take This Stranger?
A social climber/con artist schemes to inherit one million dollars by trading identities with a dyin...
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Timber Tramps
A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working....
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Journey to Murder
Television movie that consists of two episodes from the UK TV series Journey to the Unknown (1968): ...
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Some May Live
During the Vietnam War U.S. decoder Kate Meredith is plagued with guilt when her husband coerces her...
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The Great Sioux Massacre
Colonel Custer, an outspoken believer in fair treatment for the Indians, is ousted from his post and...
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Othello
When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of...
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Concorde Affair
A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their b...
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Brighty of the Grand Canyon
At the turn of the century in the Southwest, Brighty the wild burro accompanies his friend, a prospe...
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Doomsday Voyage
A political extremist on the run after assassinating a corrupt politician, poses as a French sailor ...
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Churchill and the Generals
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during Wo...
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The Edge of Innocence
An unscrupulous criminal lawyer falls in love with a wealthy widow and becomes involved with her bro...
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Egypt by Three
Three tales of life on the Nile River reveal love and vengeance, religion and deception. Each atmos...
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The Lonely Profession
Private investigator Leo Gordon is hired to trail Karen Mendaros, the mistress of a reclusive billio...
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Split Second to an Epitaph
In the second "Ironside" movie, the Chief has his spine jolted during a hospital encounter with a na...
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Cutter's Trail
The Marshal of Santa Fe returns home to find his town almost wiped out by Mexican bandits and enlist...
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Mysteries of the Gods
William Shatner explores the theory that the U.S. government is involved in a cover-up of visiting a...
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Police Dog
Narrated by Joseph Cotten, this two-part film shows how police dogs are trained and how they help po...
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Lionpower from MGM
"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's rel...
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All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
Frank Sinatra, Goldie Hawn, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and many more pay tribute to Ingrid Bergman....
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Black Baby
A black baby attempts to escape a labyrinth whilst being pursued by a gaggle of giant humanoids...
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