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Also known as Joseph Cheshire Cotten, Jr.

American actor (1905–1994)

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Born
1905
Works
4

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  • The Magnificent Ambersons
  • Journey into fear (1943)
  • Autobiografia - La Vanidad Te Llevara a Algun
  • Joseph Cotten
  • Vanity Will Get You Somewhere

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1905-05-15
Active to
1994-02-06

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Listeners
37
Total plays
150

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5 total works indexed

  1. You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection

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  2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 34,730x

  3. Naturalistic inquiry

    · 1985 · cited 33,252x

  4. When to use and how to report the results of PLS-SEM

    · 2019 · cited 19,913x

  5. CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP

    · 1985 · cited 19,541x

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Born
Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. , ( 1905-05-15 ) May 15, 1905, Petersburg, Virginia , U.S.
Died
February 6, 1994 (1994-02-06) (aged 88), Los Angeles , California , U.S.
Burial place
Blandford Cemetery , Petersburg, Virginia
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1930–1981
Height
6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Spouses
Lenore Kipp ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1931 ; died 1960 ) ​ Patricia Medina ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1960 ) ​
Awards
Volpi Cup for Best Actor :, 1949 Portrait of Jennie

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date of death
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Joseph Cotten
birth name
Joseph Cheshire Cotten
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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 (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.

Cotten became one of the leading Hollywood actors of the 1940s, appearing in films such as Shadow of a Doubt (1943); Gaslight (1944); Love Letters (1945); Duel in the Sun (1946); The Farmer's Daughter (1947); Portrait of Jennie (1948), for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor; The Third Man (1949), alongside Welles; and Niagara (1953). One of his final films was Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980).

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