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Joseph Cotten

(1905-1994)
American actor
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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 then 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.

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Born Joseph Chesire Cotten
15 May 1905
Petersburg, Virginia, USA
Died
6 February 1994 (aged 88)
Westwood, California, USA
Zodiac Taurus
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