Lee J. Cobb
Gender: Male
Born: 8th December 1911
Died: 11th February 1976
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Death of a Salesman, The Virginian, The Young Lawyers
Movies: 12 Angry Men, Boomerang, Call Northside 777, How the West Was Won, In Like Flint, Johnny O'Clock, Man of the West, On the Waterfront, Our Man Flint, Party Girl, Sirocco, The Dark Past, The Exorcist, Thieves' Highway, The Left Hand of God, Mackenna's Gold, Coogan's Bluff, Gorilla at Large, Lawman, Il giorno della civetta, The Brothers Karamazov, Green Mansions, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Luck of the Irish, The Trap, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The Song of Bernadette, The Three Faces of Eve, Anna and the King of Siam, Exodus, The Liberation of L.B. Jones, Golden Boy, The Balloon Vendor, But Not for Me, Winged Victory, The Man Who Cheated Himself, The Exorcist series, The Road to Denver, The Miracle of the Bells, Come Blow Your Horn, The Garment Jungle, Tonight We Raid Calais, The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, Captain from Castile, The Tall Texan, Macho Callahan, They Came to Rob Las Vegas, Trapped Beneath the Sea, Derek Flint, Men of Boys Town
Lee J. Cobb (December 8, 1911 – February 11, 1976) was an American actor. He is best known for his performance in 12 Angry Men (1957), his Academy Award-nominated performance in On the Waterfront (1954), and one of his last films, The Exorcist (1973). He also played the role of Willy Loman in the original Broadway performance of Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan.
Born Leo Jacob in New York City to a Jewish family of Russian and Romanian extraction. He grew up in The Bronx, New York, on Wilkins Avenue, near Crotona Park. His parents were Benjamin (Benzion) Jacob, a compositor for a foreign-language newspaper, and Kate Neilecht. Cobb studied at New York University before making his film debut in The Vanishing Shadow (1934). He joined the Manhattan-based Group Theatre in 1935.
Cobb did summer stock at Pine Brook Country Club located in the countryside of Nichols, Connecticut, in the 1930s and early 1940s. Pine Brook was the summer home of the Group Theatre (New York) from 1931 until the 1940s.
Cobb entered films in the 1930s, successfully playing middle-aged and even older men while he was still a youth. He was cast as the Kralahome in the
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