Lee J. Cobb

1911-12-08 New York City, New York, USA

Biografia

Lee J. Cobb (December 8, 1911 — February 11, 1976) was an American actor. He was best known for his performances in On the Waterfront (1954), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, 12 Angry Men (1957), and The Exorcist (1973). He also played the role of Willy Loman in the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan. On television, Cobb costarred in the first four seasons of the popular, long-running western series The Virginian. He typically played arrogant, intimidating, and abrasive characters, but often had roles as respectable figures such as judges. Born Leo Jacob in New York City, he grew up in The Bronx,  before studying at New York University and making his film debut in The Vanishing Shadow (1934).  Cobb performed in numerous theater productions and companies, including Group Theatre (New York) before serving in the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Force during World War II.   Following the war, Cobb returned to film, television and theater before being accused of being a Communist in 1951 testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee by Larry Parks, himself a former Communist Party member. Cobb was called to testify before HUAC but refused to do so for two years until, with his career threatened by the blacklist, he relented in 1953 and gave testimony in which he named 20 people as former members of the Communist Party USA. Following the hearing he resumed his career and worked with Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg, two other HUAC "friendly witnesses", on the 1954 film On the Waterfront, which is widely seen as an allegory and apologia for testifying.  His 1968 performance as King Lear achieved the longest run (72 performances) for the play in Broadway history.  One of his final film roles was that of police detective Lt. Kinderman in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist. Cobb died of a heart attack in February 1976 in Woodland Hills, California, and was buried in Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. He was survived by his second wife, Mary Hirsch, and daughter, also an accomplished actress, Julie Cobb.

Películas

	Arthur Miller on Home Ground		1979-11-01
	The Meanest Men in the West	Judge Henry Garth	1978-05-04
	La legge violenta della squadra anticrimine	Dante Ragusa	1976-12-30
	Gli amici di Nick Hezard	Robert Clark	1976-09-14
	Mark il poliziotto	Benzi	1975-08-01
	That Lucky Touch	Henry Steedman	1975-08-07
	Mark il poliziotto spara per primo	Il commedator Benzi	1975-12-22
	Dr. Max	Maxwell Gordon	1974-04-04
	Il venditore di palloncini	Twenty Years	1974-12-21
	The Great Ice Rip-Off	Willy Calso	1974-11-06
	Trapped Beneath the Sea	Victor Bateman	1974-10-22
	Double Indemnity	Barton Keyes	1973-10-13
	The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing	Lapchance	1973-06-28
	La polizia sta a guardare	Jovine	1973-11-16
	The Exorcist	Lt. Bill Kinderman	1973-12-26
	The Bull of the West	Judge Garth	1972-05-04
	Heat of Anger	Frank Galvin	1972-03-03
	Macho Callahan	Duffy	1971-02-28
	Lawman	Vincent Bronson	1971-03-11
	Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man	Himself	1970-02-18
	The Liberation of L.B. Jones	Oman Hedgepath	1970-03-18
	Mackenna's Gold	The Editor	1969-03-18
	Las Vegas: 500 millones	Steve Skorsky	1968-02-07
	Il giorno della civetta	Don Mariano Arena	1968-02-17
	Coogan's Bluff	Lt. McElroy	1968-10-02
	In Like Flint	Lloyd C. Cramden	1967-03-15
	Our Man Flint	Cramden	1966-01-16
	Death of a Salesman	Willy Loman	1966-05-07
	The Final Hour	Judge Henry Garth	1965-05-27
	The Brazen Bell	Judge Henry Garth	1964-03-18
	Come Blow Your Horn	Harry R. Baker	1963-06-05
	The Devil's Children	Judge Henry Garth	1962-12-05
	How the West Was Won	Marshal Lou Ramsey	1962-11-02
	The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse	Julio Madariaga	1962-02-07
	Exodus	Barak Ben Canaan	1960-12-15
	But Not for Me	Jeremiah MacDonald	1959-08-19
	Green Mansions	Nuflo	1959-03-19
	The Trap	Victor Massonetti	1959-01-28
	I, Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote de la Mancha / Alonso Quijana	1959-11-09
	Man of the West	Dock Tobin	1958-10-01
	The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Karamazov	1958-02-20
	Party Girl	Rico Angelo	1958-10-28
	The Garment Jungle	Walter Mitchell	1957-05-01
	12 Angry Men	Juror 3	1957-04-10
	The Three Faces of Eve	Doctor Curtis Luther	1957-12-19
	Miami Exposé	Lt. Barton 'Bart' Scott	1956-09-01
	The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit	Judge Bernstein	1956-04-12
	The Road to Denver	Jim Donovan	1955-06-15
	The Racers	Maglio	1955-02-04
	The Left Hand of God	Mieh Yang	1955-09-02
	Yankee Pasha	Sultan	1954-04-17
	Gorilla at Large	Detective Sgt. Garrison	1954-05-01
	On the Waterfront	Johnny Friendly	1954-06-22
	Day of Triumph	Zadok	1954-12-25
	The Tall Texan	Capt. Theodore Bess	1953-02-13
	The Fighter	Durango	1952-05-23
	Sirocco	Col. Feroud	1951-06-13
	The Family Secret	Howard Clark	1951-10-21
	The Man Who Cheated Himself	Lt. Ed Cullen	1950-12-26
	The Phantom Creeps	Road Crew Foreman (uncredited)	1949-06-06
	Thieves' Highway	Mike Figlia	1949-09-20
	The Luck of the Irish	David C. Augur	1948-09-15
	Call Northside 777	Brian Kelly	1948-02-13
	The Miracle of the Bells	Marcus Harris	1948-03-27
	The Dark Past	Dr. Andrew Collins	1948-12-22
	Captain from Castile	Juan Garcia	1947-12-25
	Johnny O'Clock	Inspector Koch	1947-01-07
	Boomerang!	Chief Harold F. 'Robbie' Robinson	1947-02-28
	Anna and the King of Siam	Kralahome	1946-08-11
	Winged Victory	Doctor	1944-12-22
	Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane	Arthur Deeds	1944-03-13
	Tonight We Raid Calais	Bonnard	1943-04-30
	The Song of Bernadette	Dr. Dozous	1943-12-21
	Buckskin Frontier	Jeptha Marr	1943-05-14
	The Moon Is Down	Dr. Albert Winter	1943-03-14
	Paris Calling	Captain Schwabe	1941-12-04
	Men of Boys Town	Dave Morris	1941-04-11
	This Thing Called Love	Julio Diestro	1940-12-20
	The Phantom Creeps	Road Crew Foreman (archive footage)	1939-01-07
	Golden Boy	Mr. Bonaparte	1939-09-05
	Danger on the Air	Tony Lisotti	1938-06-30
	North of the Rio Grande	President Wooden	1937-06-28
	Rustlers' Valley	Cal Howard	1937-07-23
	The Vanishing Shadow	Roadwork Foreman	1934-04-22