Joseph Cotten, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph Cotten

American film, stage and television actor

Date of Birth: 15-May-1905

Place of Birth: Petersburg, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 06-Feb-1994

Profession: screenwriter, stage actor, radio personality, television actor, film actor, autobiographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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 and Sabrina Fair. He first gained worldwide fame in three Orson Welles films: Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and Journey into Fear (1943), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay.
He went on to become one of the leading Hollywood actors of the 1940s, appearing in films such as Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Love Letters (1945), Duel in the Sun (1946), Portrait of Jennie (1948), The Third Man (1949) and Niagara (1953).
One of his final films was Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980).