Joseph Cotten
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"Joseph Cheshire Cotten, Jr." was an American film, stage and television actor. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway theatre/Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philadelphia Story (play)/The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair. He first gained worldwide fame in the Orson Welles films Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (film)/The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and Journey into Fear (1943 film)/Journey into Fear (1943), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay. He went on to become one of the leading Hollywood actors of the 1940s, appearing in films such as Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Love Letters (1945 film)/Love Letters (1945), Duel in the Sun (film)/Duel in the Sun (1946), Portrait of Jennie (1948) and The Third Man (1949). One of his final films was the infamous Michael Cimino-directed film Heaven's Gate (film)/Heaven's Gate (1980).

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