Joseph Cotten

Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. (15 Mei 1905 – 6 Februari 1994) adalah seorang aktor film, panggung, radio, dan televisi Amerika. Cotten mencapai ketenaran di Broadway, membintangi produksi panggung asli The Philadelphia Story (1939) dan Sabrina Fair (1953). Dia kemudian mendapatkan ketenaran di seluruh dunia untuk kolaborasinya dengan Orson Welles di Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), dan Journey into Fear (1943), yang dibintangi Cotten dan ia juga dikreditkan dengan naskah filmnya.

Cotten kemudian menjadi salah satu aktor Hollywood terkemuka pada tahun 1940-an, muncul dalam film-film seperti Shadow of a Doubt (1943); Gaslight (1944); Love Letters (1945); Duel in the Sun (1946); The Farmer's Daughter (1947); Portrait of Jennie (1948), yang membuatnya memenangkan Piala Volpi untuk Aktor Terbaik; The Third Man (1949), bersama Welles; dan Niagara (1953). Salah satu film terakhirnya adalah Heaven's Gate (1980) karya Michael Cimino.

Kritikus film dan media telah menyebutnya sebagai salah satu aktor terbaik yang tidak pernah menerima nominasi Academy Award.

 Filmografi 

 Too Much Johnson (1938) (short subject)
 Citizen Kane (1941)
 Lydia (1941)
 The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
 Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
 Journey Into Fear (1943)
 Hers to Hold (1943)
 Gaslight (1944)
 Since You Went Away (1944)
 I'll Be Seeing You (1945)
 Love Letters (1945)
 Duel in the Sun (1946)
 The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
 Portrait of Jennie (1948)
 The Third Man (1949)
 Under Capricorn (1949)
 Beyond the Forest (1949)
 Two Flags West (1950)
 Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
 September Affair (1950)
 Half Angel (1951)
 Peking Express (1951)
 The Man with a Cloak (1951)
 The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1952)
 The Wild Heart (1952) (narrator)
 Untamed Frontier (1952)
 The Steel Trap (1952)
 Egypt by Three (1953) (narrator)
 Niagara (1953)
 A Blueprint for Murder (1953)
 Vom Himmel gefallen or Special Delivery (1955)
 The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
 The Killer Is Loose (1956)
 The Halliday Brand (1957)
 Touch of Evil (1958)
 From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
 The Angel Wore Red (1960)
 The Last Sunset (1961)
 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

 The Great Sioux Massacre (1965)
 The Money Trap (1965)
 The Oscar (1966)
 The Tramplers (1966)
 The Cruel Ones (1967)
 Brighty of the Grand Canyon (1967)
 Jack of Diamonds (1967)
 Days of Fire (1968)
 Gangster '70 (1968)
 Petulia (1968)
 White Comanche (1968)
 Keene (1969)
 Latitude Zero (1969)
 The Grasshopper (1970)
 Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
 The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
 Lady Frankenstein (1971)
 Baron Blood (1972)
 Doomsday Voyage (1972)
 The Scientific Cardplayer (1972)
 A Delicate Balance (1973)
 Soylent Green (1973)
 Syndicate Sadists (1975)
 Timber Tramps (1975)
 A Whisper in the Dark (1976)
 F for Fake (1976) (documentary)
 Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
 Airport '77 (1977)
 Last In, First Out (1978)
 Caravans (1978)
 Concorde Affair (1978)
 Something Waits in the Dark (1979)
 Concorde Affair '79 (1979)
 Guyana: Crime of the Century (1979)
 The Hearse (1980)
 Delusion (1980)
 Heaven's Gate (1980)
 The Survivor'' (1981)

 Referensi 

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 Joseph Cotten's biographic sketch at Find A Grave
 Tribute Site 

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