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Actor Born: May 15, 1905 in Petersburg, VA Death: February 6, 1994 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:Born to a well-to-do Southern family, "Joseph Cotten" studied at the Hickman School of Expression in Washington D.C., and later sought out theater jobs in New York. He made his Broadway debut in 1930, and seven years later joined "Orson Welles"' progressive Mercury Theatre company, playing leads in such productions as Julius Caesar and Shoemaker's Holiday. He briefly left Welles in 1939 to co-star in "Katharine Hepburn"'s Broadway comeback vehicle "The Philadelphia Story". Cotten rejoinedWelles in Hollywood in 1940, making his feature-film debut as Jed Leland in Welles' "Citizen Kane" (1941). As a sort of private joke, Jed Leland was a dramatic critic, a profession which Cotten himself had briefly pursued on the Miami Herald in the late '20s. Cotten went on to play the kindly auto mogul Eugene Morgan in Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons" in 1942, and both acted in and co-wrote "Journey Into Fear", the... Full Biography
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