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Bill Cobbs

Highest Rated:: 100% The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Lowest Rated:: 0% Ed (1996)

Birthday:: Jun 16, 1935
Birthplace:: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Bio:: Character actor Bill Cobbs began his acting career relatively late in life after working odd jobs in Cleveland, OH. At the age of 36, he moved to New York and joined the Negro Ensemble Company, making his Broadway debut in First Breeze of Summer. His film career started in the late '70s with small…

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Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 100%

Number of Movies: 64

Box Office Since 2001: $393.8M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2013		Branch Line	Actor	--
2012		The Under Shepherd	Actor	--
2011		The Tenant	Actor	$9.6k
2011	96%	The Muppets	Grandfather	$88.6M
2010		Search for Santa Paws	Actor	--
2010		No Limit Kids: Much Ado About Middle School	Actor	--
2010	85%	Get Low	Rev. Charlie Jackson	$9.2M
2010		Black Water Transit	Actor	--
2009	50%	My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done	Actor	--
2008		Duck - Think Outside the Flock	Actor	--
2008		The Morgue	Actor	--
2008		Morgue	Actor	--
2007	32%	The Ultimate Gift	Ted Hamilton	$3.2M
2007		Three Days to Vegas (Retirement)	Actor	--
2006	44%	Night at the Museum	Reginald	$250.8M
2005		The Derby Stallion	Houston Jones	--
2005		Special Ed	Actor	--
2005	50%	Duck	Norman	--
2005		The Final Patient	Dr. Daniel Green	--
2002	80%	Sunshine State	Dr. Lloyd	$2.8M
2002	22%	Enough	Jim Toller	$39.2M
2000		For All Time	Conductor	--
1999	15%	Random Hearts	Marvin	--
1998	62%	Paulie	Virgil	--
1998	7%	I Still Know What You Did Last Summer	Estes	--
1998	24%	Hope Floats	Nurse	--
1998		Always Outnumbered	Right Burke	--
1997	45%	Air Bud	Arthur Chaney	--
1996	93%	That Thing You Do!	Del Paxton	--
1996	23%	First Kid	Actor	--
1996		Thrill	Actor	--
1996	0%	Ed	Tippet	--
1996		Nightjohn	Old Man	--
1996	46%	Ghosts of Mississippi	Charlie Evers	--
1995		Man with a Gun (Gun for Hire) (Hired for Killing)	Henry Griggs	--
1995	30%	Fluke	Bert	--
1995	33%	Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead	Malt	--
1994	56%	The Hudsucker Proxy	Moses	--
1993	63%	Demolition Man	Zachary Lamb "Aged"	--
1992		Carolina Skeletons	Elijah Crooks	--
1992	32%	The Bodyguard	Bill Devaney	--
1992	83%	Roadside Prophets	Oscar	--
1991	76%	New Jack City	Old Man	--
1991	56%	The People Under The Stairs	Grandpa Booker	--
1991	74%	The Hard Way	Raggedy Man	--
1990		Decoration Day	Gee	--
1990		Exiled in America	Actor	--
1989	21%	The January Man	Detective Reilly	--
1988	78%	Bird	Dr. Caulfield	--
1988	100%	Dominick and Eugene	Jesse Johnson	--
1987	69%	Suspect	Arraignment Judge Franklin	--
1987	75%	Five Corners	Man in Coffee Shop	--
1986	92%	The Color of Money	Orvis	--
1986	31%	Streets Of Gold	Actor	--
1985	53%	Compromising Positions	Sgt. Williams	--
1984	92%	Brother From Another Planet	Walter	--
1984	75%	The Cotton Club	Bib Joe Ison	--
1983	89%	Trading Places	Bartender	--
1983		Rage of Angels	Abraham Wilson	--
1983	70%	Silkwood	Man in Lunchroom	--
1979		Hitter	Actor	--
1977		Greased Lightning	Mr. Jones	--
1977		A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich	Bartender	--
1974	100%	The Taking of Pelham One Two Three	Man on Platform	--

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1. Mommy: Get off my property!
2. Grandpa Booker: Just want to finish saying our piece, ma'am.
3. Ruby: Not only are you bad landlords but 10 times worse. You've stolen all the children from our community for your own sick needs!
4. Mommy: There's no community here, all I see are a couple of-- (the whole neighborhood shows up behind Ruby and Grandpa Booker)
5. Ruby: What are you gonna do, shoot us all?
From The People Under The Stairs. Submitted by Creep F (23 months ago)

1. Grandpa Booker: That brother and sister act you mess with are evil, plain and simple.
2. Fool: Wait a minute, brother and sister?
3. Grandpa Booker: Brother and sister. Tail-end of the craziest family you ever heard of, every generation more insane than the one before it. Started out as a family running a funeral home, selling cheap coffins for expensive prices. Then they got their fingers into real estate, started making a lot of money taking over people's homes. The more money they got, the greedier they got. The greedier they got, the crazier they got. All sorts of rumors about what's going on in that place. Never proved it because the police never took it serious. But believe me, when I was a kid, none of us ever walked past that house.
From The People Under The Stairs. Submitted by Creep F (23 months ago)

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