# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-cotten
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:11:48.123Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-cotten"
name: "Joseph Cotten"
slug: "joseph-cotten"
description: "Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. was an American film, stage, radio and television actor. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philadelphia Story (1939) and Sabrina Fair (1953). He gained worldwide fame for his collaborations with Orson Welles on films Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and Journey into Fear (1943). Cotten starred in the latter and was also credited with the screenplay."
tagline: "American actor (1905–1994)"
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birthDate: "1905-05-15"
deathDate: "1994-02-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump