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Lee J. Cobb is a Actor and Director American born on 8 december 1911 at New York City (USA)

Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb
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Birth name Leo Jacoby
Nationality USA
Birth 8 december 1911 at New York City (USA)
Death 11 february 1976 (at 64 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)

Lee J. Cobb (December 8, 1911 – February 11, 1976) was an American actor. He is best known for his performances in 12 Angry Men (1957), 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 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 western series The Virginian. He typically played arrogant, intimidating, and abrasive characters, but often had roles as respectable figures such as judges and police officers.

Biography

Débuts au théâtre et au cinéma
Cobb poursuit des études à l'université de New York quand il rejoint un groupe de théâtre de sensibilité de gauche, en 1935, et joue dans l'œuvre de Clifford Odets Waiting for Lefty (pièce mettant en scène des conducteurs de taxis pendant la Grande Dépression, selon une lecture fortement marxiste). En 1937, il débute au cinéma avec Ali Baba Goes to Town réalisé par David Butler. On le connaît alors surtout pour le rôle de Willy Loman dans Mort d'un commis voyageur d'Arthur Miller, dirigé par Elia Kazan. En 1957, Sidney Lumet lui confie le rôle du troisième juré dans le film Douze hommes en colère qui est encore considéré aujourd'hui comme un des plus grands chefs-d'œuvre du Septième art.

Il interprète aussi le rôle du mentor de James Coburn dans F comme Flint et Our Man Flint. Il joue aussi dans le téléfilm Mort d'un commis voyageur, avec d'autres acteurs, encore peu connus : Gene Wilder, Bernie Kopell, et George Segal. Il est nommé pour un Emmy Award à cette occasion.


Témoin devant la HUAC
Cobb est sur les listes des communistes « possibles » du House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) du fait de ses débuts au théâtre dans un groupe marqué politiquement. Appelé à témoigner dans cette chasse aux sorcières, il commence par refuser, ce qui lui vaut quelques menaces, puis s'y résout en 1953 en dénonçant une vingtaine de personnes comme anciens membres du Parti communiste des États-Unis d'Amérique (CPUSA).

Après l'audience, il reprend sa carrière et travaille avec Kazan et Budd Schulberg, deux autres témoins de la HUAC, dans le film Sur les quais (1954), dans lequel on voit souvent une apologie pour leur comportement de donneurs.


Décès
Lee J. Cobb meurt d'une crise cardiaque à 64 ans, en 1976 à Woodland Hills et est enterré au Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery de Los Angeles.

Best films

The Exorcist (1973)
(Actor)
On the Waterfront (1954)
(Actor)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
(Actor)
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
(Actor)
Captain from Castile (1947)
(Actor)
The Luck of the Irish (1948)
(Actor)

Usually with

Ben Nye
Ben Nye
(11 films)
Lyle Wheeler
Lyle Wheeler
(10 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Lee J. Cobb (73 films)

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Mackenna's Gold, 2h2
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv, Camilla Sparv, Keenan Wynn
Roles The Editor
Rating66% 3.348193.348193.348193.348193.34819
An old legend tells of a fortune in gold hidden in the "Cañon del Oro," guarded by the Apache spirits. Along with several others, a man named Adams found it when he was a young man, only to have the Indians capture and blind him, leaving him stranded in the desert after killing his companions. Years later, Marshal MacKenna (Gregory Peck) wounds an old Indian shaman named Prairie Dog (Eduardo Ciannelli) who tried to bushwhack him; Prairie Dog subsequently dies, despite MacKenna's attending to him. MacKenna thereby comes into possession of a map that supposedly shows the way to the treasure. Though skeptical, he memorizes the directions before burning the map.
The Day of the Owl, 1h52
Directed by Damiano Damiani
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Gangster films
Actors Claudia Cardinale, Franco Nero, Lee J. Cobb, Tano Cimarosa, Nehemiah Persoff, Serge Reggiani
Roles Don Mariano Arena
Rating69% 3.4931353.4931353.4931353.4931353.493135
Sicile, 1961. L'officier Bellodi, des Carabiniers doit mener une enquête sur le meurtre de Salvatore Colasberna, un chef d'entreprise de bâtiments assassiné pour avoir refusé de confier un chantier à une entreprise protégée par la mafia. Le meurtre s'est produit près de l'habitation de Rosa Nicolosi, de son mari et de leur petite fille. Le capitaine Bellodi parvient à arracher à Rosa l'aveu que son mari lui a confié avoir vu le long de la route, le jour du crime, un certain « Zecchinetta », nom qui est confirmé par un informateur de la police, « Parrinieddu ». Entre-temps, le boss (chef, capo en italien) local de la mafia, Don Mariano Arena, cherche à déguiser le meurtre de Colasberna en crime passionnel et fait remonter les pistes vers Nicolosi : il a tué le chef d'entreprise en tant qu'amant de sa femme. Le capitaine ne croit pas à cette version et cherche le corps de Nicolosi, dont il pense qu'il a été tué comme témoin gênant ; de corps, il ne trouvera que celui de « Parrinieddu », tué parce que compromis. L'enquête aboutit à l'arrestation de Don Mariano mais, grâce à ses accointances politiques, il est libéré et Bellodi est transféré.
They Came to Rob Las Vegas, 2h4
Directed by Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Palance, Jean Servais, Georges Géret
Roles Steve Skorsky
Rating58% 2.94992.94992.94992.94992.9499
The wealthy Skorsky runs an armored-car service with high-tech surveillance and weaponry. He also has ties to a criminal organization and is being investigated by Douglas, a government law-enforcement agent.
Coogan's Bluff, 1h33
Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Motocyclette, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark, Don Stroud, Betty Field, Tom Tully
Roles Lt. McElroy
Rating63% 3.199053.199053.199053.199053.19905
Arizona deputy sheriff Walt Coogan is sent to New York City to extradite escaped killer James Ringerman. Detective Lieutenant McElroy informs him that Ringerman is recovering from an overdose of LSD, cannot be moved until the doctors release him, and that Coogan needs to get extradition papers from the New York State Supreme Court.
Day of the Evil Gun, 1h35
Directed by Jerry Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Glenn Ford, John Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, John Anderson, Paul Fix, Harry Dean Stanton
Roles Rancher
Rating63% 3.196913.196913.196913.196913.19691
A woman and two children are kidnapped by Apaches. The husband Lorne Warfield (Glenn Ford), enlists the help of his neighbor Owen Forbes (Arthur Kennedy) to find his captured family. Warfield is a former gunman trying to forget his violent past. Forbes, a decent and humane rancher, is also in love with Warfield's wife and feels guilty that he let her be captured without trying to help. An Indian trader (Dean Jagger) aids them in their quest. Along the way they are encounter Mexican bandits, Apache warriors, renegade soldiers, and a town blighted by cholera. While Warfield in his cynicism immediately recognizes malevolent motives, each encounter results in further stripping Forbes of his humanity and making him accustomed to killing. The search eventually leads them to the Apache camp where they rescue the woman and children. Safely back home, Forbes challenges Warfield (who is now unarmed, trading his gun to a storekeeper for clothing for his family) to a duel, but he refuses. Forbes shoots Warfield in the back, wounding him. Before he can finish him off, he is shot and killed by the storekeeper using Warfield's gun.
In Like Flint, 1h39
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale, Andrew Duggan, Herb Edelman, Anna Lee
Roles Lloyd C. Cramden
Rating60% 3.0499653.0499653.0499653.0499653.049965
After observing the launch of a new space platform, Z.O.W.I.E. (Zonal Organisation World Intelligence Espionage) Chief Lloyd C. Cramden joins President Trent (Andrew Duggan) for a game of golf. While on the links they are interrupted by a small group, two women disguised as boys and an actor disguised as an old man, all from the Fabulous Face organization. Discreetly substituting the presidential golf ball with a small gas bomb they succeed in temporarily immobilizing the presidential party and replacing the president with the now-undisguised actor, who has been surgically altered to look exactly like him. The Fabulous Face organization has conceived a plot to gain control of the world and run it entirely by a group of women led by Elisabeth (Anna Lee); Cramden has more-or-less inadvertently stumbled upon this world-domination plot. The women want to establish a matriarchy, and the first step in their plan is to gain control of a US space facility in the Virgin Islands. Elisabeth has established the spa there as a cover. The women establish their headquarters near the rocket base to brainwash their male-oriented sisters by planting tape recorders in their hair dryers.
In Like Flint, 1h54
Directed by Gordon Douglas, David S. Hall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Spy films
Actors James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale, Andrew Duggan, Anna Lee, Steve Ihnat
Roles Lloyd C. Cramden
Rating60% 3.0499653.0499653.0499653.0499653.049965
L’agent Flint découvre que le président des États-Unis est un imposteur. Ce dernier est en réalité un acteur engagé par un groupe de femmes qui tentent de conquérir le monde. Pour ce faire, elles se servent de leurs salons de coiffure pour effectuer des lavages de cerveaux à toute personne s’y rendant…
Our Man Flint, 1h48
Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Comedy science fiction films, Political films
Actors James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Gila Golan, Edward Mulhare, Benson Fong, Shelby Grant
Roles Cramden
Rating63% 3.199763.199763.199763.199763.19976
Spy extraordinaire Derek Flint (James Coburn) is an ex-agent of Z.O.W.I.E. (Zonal Organization for World Intelligence and Espionage) who is brought out of retirement to deal with the threat of Galaxy, a world-wide organization led by a trio of mad scientists: Doctor Krupov (Rhys Williams), Doctor Wu (Peter Brocco), and Doctor Schneider (Benson Fong). Impatient that the world's governments will never improve, the scientists demand that all nations capitulate to Galaxy. To enforce their demands, they initiate earthquakes, volcanoes, storms and other natural disasters with their climate-control apparatus, for the only purpose to bring the nations to give up weapons and nuclear energy.
Come Blow Your Horn, 1h52
Directed by Bud Yorkin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb, Molly Picon, Barbara Rush, Tony Bill, Jill St John
Roles Harry R. Baker
Rating59% 2.995232.995232.995232.995232.99523
Buddy Baker is bored living with his parents. He goes to the big-city apartment of older brother Alan, who works for their father's artificial-fruit company but never lets business interfere with a good time.
How the West Was Won, 2h35
Directed by John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Themes Political films
Actors James Stewart, Carroll Baker, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Carolyn Jones
Roles Marshal Lou Ramsey
Rating69% 3.4997953.4997953.4997953.4997953.499795
Zebulon Prescott (Karl Malden) and his family set out west for the frontier via the Erie Canal, the “west” at this time being the Illinois country. On the journey, they meet mountain man Linus Rawlings (James Stewart), who is traveling east to Pittsburgh to trade his furs. He and Zebulon's daughter Eve (Carroll Baker) are attracted to each other, but Linus is not ready to settle down.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 2h33
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Glenn Ford, Paul Henreid, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb, Paul Lukas
Roles Julio Madariaga
Rating65% 3.2928753.2928753.2928753.2928753.292875
Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le conflit entre les deux branches, l'une française et l'autre allemande, dont est issue une famille argentine, sur fond de nazisme et d'occupation de Paris.
Exodus
Exodus (1960)
, 3h28
Directed by Otto Preminger, George Cosmatos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Sal Mineo, Jill Haworth
Roles Barak Ben Canaan
Rating66% 3.3490053.3490053.3490053.3490053.349005
The film is based initially on events surrounding the ship Exodus in Cyprus in 1947 and then on events in Palestine during the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1948.
The Trap
The Trap (1959)
, 1h24
Directed by Norman Panama
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Tina Louise, Earl Holliman, Lorne Greene, Carl Benton Reid
Roles Victor Massonetti
Rating65% 3.2951253.2951253.2951253.2951253.295125
Ralph Anderson returns to his remote California hometown for the first time in many years. Now a lawyer, he has been estranged from his father, Lloyd, and brother, Tippy, ever since being sent to reform school as a youth for stealing a car, taking the blame for his brother's crime.
But Not for Me, 1h44
Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Clark Gable, Carroll Baker, Lilli Palmer, Lee J. Cobb, Barry Coe, Thomas Gomez
Roles Jeremiah MacDonald
Rating62% 3.1465753.1465753.1465753.1465753.146575
Russ Ward is a Broadway producer with a 30-year record of success who has been out of town. On returning to New York, everybody wants a piece of him: ex-wife Kathryn Ward, hard-drinking playwright Jeremiah "Mac" MacDonald, magazine reporter Roy Morton, business manager Miles Atwood and lawyer Charles Montgomery, one after another.