Birthday: May 15, 1905
Born to a well-to-do Southern family, Joseph Cotten studied at the Hickman School of Expression in Washington D.C., and later sought out theater jobs in New York. He made his Broadway debut in 1930, and seven years later joined Orson Welles' progressive Mercury Theatre company, playing leads in such productions as +Julius Caesar and +Shoemaker's Holiday. He briefly left Welles in ...more- 1949
- Venice International Film Festival
- International Prize for Best Actor
- Portrait of Jennie
- win
- 1982
- The House Where Evil Dwells
- Ivar
- 1981
- Heaven's Gate
- The Reverend Doctor
- 1980
- Casino
- Ed Booker
- 1980
- Guyana, Cult of the Damned
- Richard Gable
- 1980
- The Hearse
- Walter Pritchard
- 1942
- Journey into Fear
- Screenwriter














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