Joseph Cotten was an American actor known for his roles on stage and screen. Cotten's most notable projects include his collaborations with Orson Welles. He portrayed Jed Leland in Citizen Kane (1941), Eugene Morgan in (1942), and Howard Graham in Journey into Fear (1943). He continued to act alongside Welles in films such as (1949), Othello (1951), Touch of Evil (1958), and F for Fake (1973),

He gained stardom for his roles in Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Gaslight (1944), Duel in the Sun (1946), Under Capricorn (1949), and Niagara (1953). He won the Venice International Film Festival Award for his performance in Portrait of Jennie (1948). He also acted in Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Soylent Green (1973), (1973), (1976), Airport '77 (1977), (1978), and Heaven's Gate (1980). His final film role was in (1981).

Stage Date Title Role Notes Ref. October 17, 1932 – January 1933 Absent Father Larry Vanderbilt Theatre, New York December 19, 1933 – January 1934 Jezebel Dick Ashley Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York February 4 – 1934 Loose Moments Ralph Merkes Vanderbilt Theatre, New York September 26 – December 5, 1936 Horse Eats Hat Freddy Maxine Elliott Theatre, New York January 8 – April 1, 1937 Faustus 2nd Scholar Maxine Elliott Theatre, New York April 21–23, 1937 The Second Hurricane Airplane pilot Henry Street Settlement, New York City November 11, 1937 – May 28, 1938 Caesar Publius Mercury Theatre, New York Moved to the larger National Theatre January 24, 1938 December 25, 1937 The Shoemaker's Holiday Rowland Lacy Mercury Theatre, New York Surprise preview performance immediately following Caesar January 1 – April 28, 1938 The Shoemaker's Holiday Rowland Lacy Mercury Theatre, New YorkMoved to the National Theatre January 26, 1938 August 16–29, 1938 Too Much Johnson Augustus Billings Stony Creek Theatre, Stony Creek, Connecticut Wood, Bret, Orson Welles: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1990 November 2–19, 1938 Danton's Death Barrere Mercury Theatre, New York March 28, 1939 – March 30, 1940 The Philadelphia Story C. K. Dexter Haven Shubert Theatre, New York November 11, 1953 – August 21, 1954 Sabrina Fair Linus Larrabee Jr. National Theatre, New YorkMoved to the Royale Theatre May 17, 1954 October 21, 1958 – June 6, 1959 Once More with Feeling Victor Fabian National Theatre, New York

Screen Year Title Role Notes 1937 Seeing the World: Part One – A Visit to New York, N.Y. Short 1938 Too Much Johnson Augustus Billings 1940 Citizen Kane trailer Himself, Jedediah "Jed" Leland Short 1941 Citizen Kane Jed Leland / Screening Room Reporter 1941 Lydia Michael Fitzpatrick 1942 Eugene Morgan 1943 Journey into Fear Howard Graham Screenplay (with uncredited Orson Welles) 1943 Shadow of a Doubt Uncle Charles Oakley 1943 Hers to Hold Bill Morley 1944 Gaslight Brian Cameron 1944 Since You Went Away Lieutenant Tony Willett 1944 I'll Be Seeing You Zachary Morgan 1945 Love Letters Alan Quinton 1946 Duel in the Sun Jesse McCanles 1947 Glenn Morley 1948 Portrait of Jennie Eben Adams Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actor 1949 Holly Martins 1949 Under Capricorn Sam Flusky 1949 Beyond the Forest Dr. Lewis Moline 1950 September Affair David Lawrence 1950 Two Flags West Colonel Clay Tucker 1950 Walk Softly, Stranger Chris Hale Shot in 1948 1951 Half Angel John Raymond Jr. 1951 Peking Express Michael Bachlin 1951 Othello Venetian senator Uncredited 1951 Dupin 1952 Narrator 1952 Untamed Frontier Kirk Denbow 1952 James Osborne 1953 Niagara George Loomis 1953 Egypt by Three Narrator 1953 Whitney Cameron 1955 Special Delivery John Adams 1955 Bedevilled Flight announcer at the airport Voice, Uncredited 1956 P.M. Martin 1956 Detective Sam Wagner 1957 Daniel Halliday 1958 Touch of Evil Coroner Uncredited 1958 From the Earth to the Moon Victor Barbicane 1960 Hawthorne 1961 John Breckenridge 1964 Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte Dr. Drew Bayliss 1965 Major Reno 1965 Dr. Horace Van Tilden 1965 Temple Cordeen 1966 Kenneth H. Regan 1966 Brighty of the Grand Canyon Jim Owen 1967 Colonel Jonas 1967 Some May Live Colonel Woodward 1967 Jack of Diamonds Ace of Diamonds 1968 Days of Fire Destil 1968 Petulia Mr. Danner 1968 White Comanche Sheriff Logan 1969 Latitude Zero Captain Craig McKenzie 1969 Keene 1970 Richard Morgan 1970 Tora! Tora! Tora! Henry L. Stimson 1971 Dr. Vesalius 1971 Lady Frankenstein Dr. Frankenstein 1972 Doomsday Voyage Captain Jason 1972 Baron Blood Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker 1972 George 1973 Soylent Green William R. Simonson 1973 F for Fake Special Participant 1973 Harry 1975 Syndicate Sadists Paternò 1975 Timber Tramps Greedy Sawmill Mogul 1976 The Professor 1977 Twilight's Last Gleaming Secretary of State Arthur Renfrew 1977 Airport '77 Nicholas St. Downs III 1978 Last In, First Out Foster Johnson 1978 Caravans Ambassador Crandall 1978 Sir Arthur Dundee 1979 Island of the Fishmen Professor Ernest Marvin 1979 The Concorde Affair Milland 1979 Guyana: Crime of the Century Richard Gable 1980 Walter Pritchard 1980 Heaven's Gate The Reverend Doctor 1980 Delusion Ivar Langrock 1981 Priest Final film role

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