Joseph Cotten Biography

(1905-1994)

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Film actor, born in Los Angeles, California, USA. A member of Orson Welles Mercury Theater radio ensemble from 1937, he appeared in the Broadway production of The Philadelphia Story (1939--40), before starring in Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and Journey into Fear (1942). His many later films include Gaslight (1944), The Third Man (1949), and Heaven's Gate (1980).

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