Biography of actor joseph cotten

Joseph Cheshire Cotten (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American actor. He was known for his roles in Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Duel in the Sunand, Journey into Fear (1943), Love Letters (1945), Portrait of Jennie (1948) and The Third Man (1949).

Cotten was born in Petersburg, Virginia on May 15, 1905. He was married to Lenore Kipp from 1931 until her death in 1960. Then he was married to Patricia Medina from 1960 until his death in 1994. Cotten died on February 6, 1994 from pneumonia caused by throat cancer in Los Angeles, California, aged 88.

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American actor (1905–1994)

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 then gained worldwide fame for his collaborations with Orson Welles on Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and Journey into Fear (1943), in which Cotten starred and for which he was also credited with the screenplay.

Cotten went on to become 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).

Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited him as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.^[2][3]

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