Search results for

Joseph Cotten, the enduring, elegant actor whose four decades in movies began at the pinnacle of film lore with the classic “Citizen Kane” and ended less memorably with the stunning flop “Heaven’s Gate,” died Sunday.

Feb. 7, 1994

Joseph Cotten, who died Sunday at age 88 of pneumonia (although after nearly two decades of failing health endured and fought with great courage), brought off two of the most difficult feats in Hollywood.

Feb. 8, 1994

A retrospective film tribute to Joseph Cotten screens Friday to May 30 at the County Museum of Art.

May 3, 1987

Joseph Cotten, the enduring, elegant actor whose four decades in movies began at the pinnacle of film lore with the classic “Citizen Kane” and ended less memorably with the stunning flop “Heaven’s Gate,” died Sunday.

Feb. 7, 1994

Courtliness is not a staple American commodity, even in those Eastern Seaboard fastnesses from Boston to Richmond where it might once have been said to flourish.

May 3, 1987

In Charles Champlin’s appreciation “Joseph Cotten: The Film Actor and the Gentleman” (Feb. 8), he mentions that Cotten played “the steadying father seeing his family through World War II” in “Since You Went Away.”

Feb. 12, 1994

Patricia Medina began her film career in her native England in the 1930s and after World War II arrived in L.A., where she was initially signed to MGM. In 1960, she married Joseph Cotten.

May 2, 2012

Plaudits to Jack Smith for his piece on class.

June 7, 1987

The homeowners on Penny Cotten’s street in a residential area of Los Angeles near Venice High School were unanimous in their decision to have the city install a series of speed humps, but that didn’t make getting the financing or the approvals for the humps any easier.

Nov. 12, 2000

Joseph Cotten stars on Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Sunday at 11:30 p.m. on Nickelodeon) as a man who kills his wife when she won’t give him a divorce; a pre-”MASH” Robert Altman directed.

Nov. 3, 1991