Joseph Cheshire Cotten, Jr. was an American film, stage and television actor. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair. He first gained worldwide fame in the Orson Welles films Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, and Journey into Fear, 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, Love Letters, Duel in the Sun, Portrait of Jennie and The Third Man. One of his final films was the infamous critical and financial failure Michael Cimino film Heaven's Gate. 

May 15th, 1905 in Petersburg  /  Died:   Feb 6th, 1994 - aged 88