Most Recent Role: Josiah on Gunsmoke
Gender: Male
Birthplace: New York,New York ,USA
Birthday: 12-8-1911
Birth Name: Leo Jacoby
Date of Death: 2-11-1976
Cause of Death: Details of death and place of death Woodland Hills, California,USA (Heart Attack)
Gender: Male
Birthplace: New York,New York ,USA
Birthday: 12-8-1911
Birth Name: Leo Jacoby
Date of Death: 2-11-1976
Cause of Death: Details of death and place of death Woodland Hills, California,USA (Heart Attack)
Noted character actor who played some of the nastiest heavies to ever appear on-screen in movies such as On the Waterfront, Brothers Karamazov, and Man of the West . Despite the fact that his best remembered roles today were as villains, Cobb could also play sympathetic roles such as the crusty detective in Coogan's Bluff or comedy such as James Coburn's boss in Our Man Flint . His best...
Most Recent Appearance
The Colonel
Monday 16 December 1974 on CBS
Lee J. Cobb and his daughter Julie Cobb appear together for the first time when Cobb guest-stars as a once-proud military officer who is suddenly faced with a painful and unplanned reunion with his daughter.
Cobb is buried in Mount Sinai Memorial Park in Los Angeles.
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Cobb was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor twice: once in 1958 for 12 Angry Men and again in 1964 for Come Blow Your Horn.
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Cobb was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice: once for On the Waterfront in 1955 and a second time for Brothers Karamazov in 1959.
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Cobb's daughter, Julie, is married to actor James Cromwell.
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Cobb's final Broadway appearance was in the 1968 production of King Lear.
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Other Appearances
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The Virginian
Judge Henry Garth [1-4] |
The Young Lawyers
David Barrett |
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Alcoa Hour
A Patch of Faith Zocco |
Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre
It's Mental Work Ernie Wigman |
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Ford Theatre: All Star Theatre
Night Visitor Matt Erwin |
Frontier Justice
Death Watch Captain Andrew Watling |
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General Electric Theater
The Unstoppable Gray Fox Grayson Foxhall |
General Electric Theater
Lear vs. the Committeeman Dominic Roma |
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Ford Startime
Tennessee Ernie Ford Meets King Arthur |
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The Virginian
This is a long-lived series which was almost unique for its time in that it was filmed in color and that each episode had a running time of one and one-half hours (ca. 74 minutes if you exclude... more The Young Lawyers
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This is a long-lived series which was almost unique for its time in that it was filmed in color and that each episode had a running time of one and one-half hours (ca. 74 minutes if you exclude... more The Young Lawyers
The concept for this show took off in 1969, with the idea of a firm of young idealistic law students who would take up the causes of those who could not normally afford lawyers. The show was... more
