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Bill Cobbs

Bill Cobbs

Total Box Office:
 $395.1M
Highest Rated:
100% The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Lowest Rated:
0% Ed (1996)
Birthday:
Jun 16
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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Filmography

Movies | TV series

MOVIES   

Rating Title Credit Box Office Year
Branch Line
  • Actor
-- 2013
A House Is Not a Home
  • Actor
-- 2013
18% The Ultimate Life
  • Hamilton
$1.3M 2013
The Undershepherd
  • Actor
-- 2013
96% The Muppets
  • Grandfather
$88.6M 2011
The Tenant
  • Actor
$9.6k 2011
84% Get Low
  • Rev. Charlie Jackson
$9.2M 2010
Black Water Transit
  • Actor
-- 2010
Search for Santa Paws
  • Actor
-- 2010
No Limit Kids: Much Ado About Middle School
  • Actor
-- 2010
50% My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
  • Actor
-- 2009
Duck - Think Outside the Flock
  • Actor
-- 2008
The Morgue
  • Actor
-- 2008
Morgue
  • Actor
-- 2008
32% The Ultimate Gift
  • Ted Hamilton
$3.2M 2007
Three Days to Vegas (Retirement)
  • Actor
-- 2007
44% Night at the Museum
  • Reginald
$250.8M 2006
Special Ed
  • Actor
-- 2005
50% Duck
  • Norman
-- 2005
The Final Patient
  • Dr. Daniel Green
-- 2005
The Derby Stallion
  • Houston Jones
-- 2005
22% Enough
  • Jim Toller
$39.2M 2002
80% Sunshine State
  • Dr. Lloyd
$2.8M 2002
For All Time
  • Conductor
-- 2000
15% Random Hearts
  • Marvin
-- 1999
62% Paulie
  • Virgil
-- 1998
7% I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
  • Estes
-- 1998
24% Hope Floats
  • Nurse
-- 1998
Always Outnumbered
  • Right Burke
-- 1998
45% Air Bud
  • Arthur Chaney
-- 1997
Thrill
  • Actor
-- 1996
0% Ed
  • Tippet
-- 1996
Nightjohn
  • Old Man
-- 1996
46% Ghosts of Mississippi
  • Charlie Evers
-- 1996
93% That Thing You Do!
  • Del Paxton
-- 1996
23% First Kid
  • Actor
-- 1996
27% Fluke
  • Bert
-- 1995
33% Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
  • Malt
-- 1995
Man with a Gun (Gun for Hire) (Hired for Killing)
  • Henry Griggs
-- 1995
56% The Hudsucker Proxy
  • Moses
-- 1994
64% Demolition Man
  • Zachary Lamb "Aged"
-- 1993
32% The Bodyguard
  • Bill Devaney
-- 1992
83% Roadside Prophets
  • Oscar
-- 1992
Carolina Skeletons
  • Elijah Crooks
-- 1992
56% The People Under The Stairs
  • Grandpa Booker
-- 1991
75% The Hard Way
  • Raggedy Man
-- 1991
76% New Jack City
  • Old Man
-- 1991
Exiled in America
  • Actor
-- 1990
Decoration Day
  • Gee
-- 1990
21% The January Man
  • Detective Reilly
-- 1989
100% Dominick and Eugene
  • Jesse Johnson
-- 1988
78% Bird
  • Dr. Caulfield
-- 1988
75% Five Corners
  • Man in Coffee Shop
-- 1987
69% Suspect
  • Arraignment Judge Franklin
-- 1987
31% Streets Of Gold
  • Actor
-- 1986
92% The Color of Money
  • Orvis
-- 1986
53% Compromising Positions
  • Sgt. Williams
-- 1985
92% Brother From Another Planet
  • Walter
-- 1984
75% The Cotton Club
  • Bib Joe Ison
-- 1984
88% Trading Places
  • Bartender
-- 1983
Rage of Angels
  • Abraham Wilson
-- 1983
70% Silkwood
  • Man in Lunchroom
-- 1983
Hitter
  • Actor
-- 1979
Greased Lightning
  • Mr. Jones
-- 1977
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
  • Bartender
-- 1977
100% The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
  • Man on Platform
-- 1974

Movies | TV series

TV SERIES   

Rating Title Credit Year
42% Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
  • Bishop Sanford
2011-2011
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  • Harry Bastille
2000-2014
59% Go On
  • George
2012-2013

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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 (2 years 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 (2 years ago)

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