Joseph Cotten

A pal doffs his hat to Charlie Chaplin 06/03/2009

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