Joseph Cotten
Biography
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 (1939) and Sabrina Fair (1953). He gained worldwide fame for his collaborations with Orson Welles on films Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and Journey into Fear (1943). Cotten starred in the latter and was also credited with the screenplay. Cotten became one of the leading Hollywood actors of the 1940s, appearing in films such as Shadow of a Doubt (1943); Gaslight (1944); Love Letters (1945); Duel in the Sun (1946); The Farmer's Daughter (1947); Portrait of Jennie (1948), for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor; The Third Man (1949), alongside Welles; and Niagara (1953). One of his final films was Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980). Film critics and media outlets have cited him as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.
Bio from Wikipedia
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
21 releases · 7 albums · active 1954–2014
- Other credits · 26
- Performance · 3
Studios: MCA Studios, New York · Rodel Audio
Frequent collaborators
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Orson Welles
- Various
- Orson Welles And The Mercury Theatre On The Air