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Joseph Cotten
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| Known for: | Citizen Kane, The Third Man, The Magnificent Ambersons |
| Birth name: | Joseph Cheshire Cotten |
| Birthday: | 15 May 1905, Petersburg, Virginia, USA |
| Height: | 6' 2" (1.88 m) |
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Retired from acting in the early 1980s after a stroke and a laryngectomy.
Like Orson Welles, he has appeared in the top films of both the American Film Institute and the British Film Institute; for AFI it was Citizen Kane (1941) as Jedediah Leland and for BFI, its The Third Man (1949) as Holly Martins.
Was cast as C.K. Dexter Haven in the original 1939 Broadway production of Philip Barry's play Philadelphia StoryZ with Katharine Hepburn. When Hepburn, who owned the rights, sold the story to MGM, Cary Grant was cast in the part.
Served as best man at Orson Welles's wedding to Rita Hayworth.
His brother, Sam, passed away on February 27, 2010 in Winchester, Virginia, at the age of 90.
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