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Lee J. Cobb
8 December 1911
Lee J. Cobb played in 17 movies in the Biography, Drama, Romance, Music, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Action, Western, Adventure, History, War, Horror genres.
Lee J. Cobb got succeed with average imdb rating 7.
American character actor of platform, sort out, and TV Lee J. Cobb, born Leo Jacob or Jacoby, was on the whole seen scowling and smoking a cigar. As a offspring, Cobb showed artistic promise as a virtuoso violinist, but any hope for a musical career was ended nearby a broken wrist.
He ran away from home at age 17 and ended up in Hollywood. Unfit to find film work there, he returned to Callow York and acted in transmit dramas while going to Cimmerian dark school at CCNY to learn
... accounting. Returning to California in 1931, he made his stage debut with the Pasadena Playhouse. Stand behind in New York in 1935, he joined the celebrated Group Theater and appeared in several plays with them, including Waiting as Lefty and Golden Boy. He began his film career in 1937, going on to leading light and play supporting roles in dozens of films resolve through to the end of his life. Cobb was most frequently warp as menacing villains, but sometimes appeared as a brooding company official or community chairperson. His greatest triumph on grade came in the 1949 production of Arthur Miller's Undoing of a Salesman in which he played the in capacity, Willy Loman (he repeated his about in a 1966 TV version). Between 1962-66, he also appeared on TV in the post of Find Garth in the long-running series The Virginian.
He was twice nominated in the direction of "Superior Supporting Actor" Oscars for his drudgery in On the Waterfront (1954) and The Brothers Karamazov (1958).
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