
Lee J. Cobb
Highest Rated: 100% The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
Lowest Rated: 20% Mackenna's Gold (1969)
Birthday: Dec 08, 1911
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
It's hard to think of an actor who has had important roles over three solid decades, but Lee J. Cobb definitely belongs on that list. The Russian Jewish actor grew up in the Bronx to working-class parents and made his film debut at the age of 23 in "The Vanishing Shadow." He was associated with the progressive Group Theatre and was named as a possible Communist by the House Un-American Activities Committee during the Red Scare. Cobb's bearing and dignity allowed him to play roles much older than his actual age, which was an enormous asset at the time. In amongst his massive and varied filmography, some of his most memorable roles include playing opposite Marlon Brando as union boss Johnny Friendly in Elia Kazan's 1954 "On The Waterfront"--for which he received an Academy Award nomination--as well as the third juror in Sidney Lumet's 1957 courtroom drama, "12 Angry Men," and Lieutenant Kinderman in the 1973 horror classic "The Exorcist." He also did television work, starring as Judge Henry Garth on four seasons of NBC's Western series "The Virginian." Cobb's stage career was equally storied, as he was the first to play the landmark role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's "Death Of A Salesman" on Broadway.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nick The Sting | Robert Clark (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cross Shot | Dante Ragusa (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | 44% | Blood, Sweat and Fear | Benzi (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That Lucky Touch | Lt. Gen. Henry Steedman (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapped Beneath the Sea | Victor Bateman (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Max | Dr. Maxwell `'Max'` Gordon (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Circus Show | Vent'anni (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Great Ice Rip-Off | Willy Calso (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Double Indemnity | Barton Keyes (Character) | - | 1973 |
83% | 87% | The Exorcist | Lieutenant William Kinderman (Character) | $441.4M | 1973 |
No Score Yet | 47% | The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing | Lapchance (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ultimatum | Unknown (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Bull of the West | Judge Garth (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heat of Anger | Frank Galvin (Character) | - | 1972 |
63% | 61% | Lawman | Vincent Bronson (Character) | - | 1971 |
67% | 80% | The Liberation of L.B. Jones | Oman Hedgepath (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Macho Callahan | Duffy (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | 0% | They Came to Rob Las Vegas | Steve Skorsky (Character) | - | 1969 |
20% | 70% | Mackenna's Gold | The Editor (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Il Giorno Della Civetta | Don Mariano Arena (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mafia | Don Mariano Arena (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Day of the Owl | Don Mariano Arena (Character) | - | 1968 |
94% | 50% | Coogan's Bluff | Lt. McElroy (Character) | - | 1968 |
67% | 51% | In Like Flint | Lloyd C. Cramden (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | 29% | The Meanest Men in the West | Judge Henry Garth (Character) | - | 1966 |
77% | 68% | Our Man Flint | Cramden (Character) | - | 1966 |
75% | 61% | Come Blow Your Horn | Harry R. Baker (Character) | - | 1963 |
86% | 74% | How the West Was Won | Marshal Lou Ramsey (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Julio Madariaga (Character) | - | 1962 |
63% | 69% | Exodus | Barak Ben Canaan (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | 28% | Green Mansions | Nuflo (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | 71% | But Not for Me | Jeremiah MacDonald (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Trap | Victor Massonetti (Character) | - | 1959 |
30% | 60% | The Brothers Karamazov | Father Karamazov (Character) | - | 1958 |
93% | 77% | Man of the West | Dock Tobin (Character) | - | 1958 |
83% | 56% | Party Girl | Rico Angelo (Character) | - | 1958 |
93% | 77% | The Three Faces of Eve | Doctor Curtis Luther (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | 67% | The Garment Jungle | Walter Mitchell (Character) | - | 1957 |
100% | 97% | 12 Angry Men | Juror No. 3 (Character) | - | 1957 |
75% | 73% | The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | Judge Bernstein (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Miami Expose | Lt. Barton "Bart" Scott (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Road to Denver | Jim Donovan (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 48% | The Left Hand of God | Mieh Yang (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Racers | Maglio (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Day of Triumph | Zadok (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | 25% | Gorilla at Large | Detective Sgt. Garrison (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Yankee Pasha | Sultan (Character) | - | 1954 |
99% | 95% | On the Waterfront | Johnny Friendly (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Tall Texan | Capt. Theodore Bess (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fighter | Durango (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Family Secret | Howard Clark (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | 27% | Sirocco | Col. Feroud (Character) | - | 1951 |
100% | 48% | The Man Who Cheated Himself | Lt. Ed Cullen (Character) | - | 1950 |
100% | 78% | Thieves' Highway | Mike Figlia (Character) | - | 1949 |
57% | 48% | The Dark Past | Dr. Andrew Collins (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | 45% | The Luck of the Irish | David C. Augur (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | 58% | The Miracle of the Bells | Marcus Harris (Character) | - | 1948 |
76% | 73% | Call Northside 777 | Brian Kelly (Character) | - | 1948 |
33% | 36% | Johnny O'Clock | Inspector Koch (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | 59% | Captain From Castile | Juan Garcia (Character) | - | 1947 |
80% | 63% | Boomerang! | Chief Harold F. "Robbie" Robinson (Character) | - | 1947 |
88% | 68% | Anna and the King of Siam | Kralahome (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Winged Victory | Doctor (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | 80% | The Moon Is Down | Dr. Albert Winter (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Buckskin Frontier | Jeptha Marr (Character) | - | 1943 |
88% | 80% | The Song of Bernadette | Dr. Dozous (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tonight We Raid Calais | Bonnard (Character) | - | 1943 |
40% | 65% | Men of Boys Town | Dave Morris (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | This Thing Called Love | Julio Diestro (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | 46% | Golden Boy | Mr. Bonaparte (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rustlers' Valley | Cal Howard (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | North of the Rio Grande | RR President Wooden (Character) | - | 1937 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Colonel Josiah Johnson (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McCloud | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Virginian | Unknown (Character) | 1962-1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Startime | Director | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theater | Unknown (Character) | 1958 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Alcoa Hour | Zocco (Character) | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Producers' Showcase | Unknown (Character) | 1955 |
90% | No Score Yet | Lights Out | Unknown (Character) | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of Tomorrow | Unknown (Character) | 1951 |
QUOTES FROM Lee J. Cobb CHARACTERS
Juror No. 3 says: You're talking about a matter of seconds! Nobody can be that accurate
Juror No. 3 says: You're talking about a matter of seconds! Nobody can be that accurate.
Juror No. 8 says: I think testimony that could put a boy into the electric chair should be that accurate
Juror No. 8 says: I think testimony that could put a boy into the electric chair should be that accurate.
Lt. Gen. Henry Steedman says: In NATO, you have to have unanimous approval from all the member nations. It's like getting a troop of horses to piss at the same time.
Juror #3 says: That business before when that tall guy, what's-his-name, was trying to bait me? That doesn't prove anything. I'm a pretty excitable person. I mean, where does he come off calling me a public avenger, sadist and everything? Anyone in his right mind would blow his stack. He was just trying to bait me.
Juror #4 says: He did an excellent job.
Juror #3 says: What's the matter matter with you?
Juror #4 says: I have a reasonable doubt
Juror #4 says: I have a reasonable doubt.
Juror #8 says: Your a sadist.
Juror #8 says: Ever since you walked into this room, you've been acting like a self-appointed public avenger! You want to see this boy die because you personally want it, not because of the facts! You're a sadist! [Three lunges wildly at Eight, who holds his ground. Several jurors hold Three back]
Juror #2 says: I'll kill you.
Juror #3 says: I'll kill him! I'LL KILL HIM!
Juror #8 says: Would you really do that?
Juror #8 says: You don't *really* mean you'll kill me, do you?
Mr. Baker says: then you're a bum
Mr. Baker says: Then you're a bum.
Lt. Kinderman says: Well, this desecration in the church. Do you think this has anything to do with witchcraft?
Father Damien Karras says: Maybe. Some rituals use the Black Mass. Maybe.
Lt. Kinderman says: And now, Dennings, you read how he died?
Father Damien Karras says: In a fall.
Lt. Kinderman says: Let me tell you how, and please Father, confidential. Burke Dennings, good Father, was found at the bottom of those steps leading to M Street with his head turned completely around - facing backwards.
Lt. Kinderman says: Let me tell you how, and please Father, confidential. Burke Dennings, good Father, was found at the bottom of those steps leading to M Street with his head turned completely around facing backwards.
Father Damien Karras says: It didn't happen in the fall?
Lt. Kinderman says: It's possible. Possible, however -
Lt. Kinderman says: It's possible. Possible, however...
Father Damien Karras says: ...unlikely.
Father Damien Karras says: Unlikely.
Lt. Kinderman says: Exactly. So on the one hand, we've got a witchcraft kind of murder, and on the other hand a Black Mass type desecration in the church.
Father Damien Karras says: You think the killer and the desecrator are the same?
Lt. Kinderman says: Maybe somebody crazy. Somebody with a spite against the church; some unconscious rebellion.
Father Damien Karras says: A sick priest - is that it?
Father Damien Karras says: A sick priest, is that it?
Lt. Kinderman says: Look, Father, this is hard for you. Please, I understand, but for priests on the campus here, you're the psychiatrist. You know who was sick at the time, who wasn't. I mean, this kind of sickness. You'd know that.
Lt. Kinderman says: It's strange. The deceased comes to visit - stays only 20 minutes...and leaves all alone a very sick girl. And speaking plainly, Mrs. MacNeil, it isn't likely he would fall from a window. Besides, a fall wouldn't do to his neck what we found, except maybe one chance in a thousand. Nope, my hunch, my opinion - he was killed by a very powerful man - point one. - And the fracturing of his skull - point two. Plus the various other things we mentioned would make it very probable, probable, not certain, that the deceased was killed and then pushed from your daughter's window. But nobody was in the room, except your daughter. So how can this be? It could be one way. If someone came calling between the time Miss Spencer left and the time you returned...
Lt. Kinderman says: It's strange. The deceased comes to visit, stays only 20 minutes, and leaves all alone a very sick girl. And speaking plainly, Mrs. MacNeil, it isn't likely he would fall from a window. Besides, a fall wouldn't do to his neck what we found, except maybe one chance in a thousand. Nope, my hunch, my opinion, he was killed by a very powerful man, point one. - And the fracturing of his skull - point two. Plus the various other things we mentioned would make it very probable, probable, not certain, that the deceased was killed and then pushed from your daughter's window. But nobody was in the room, except your daughter. So how can this be? It could be one way. If someone came calling between the time Miss Spencer left and the time you returned.
Chris MacNeil says: Judas Priest. Just a second...
Chris MacNeil says: Judas Priest. Just a second.
Johnny Friendly says: stop breath'n that clam juice on me
Johnny Friendly says: Stop breathin' that clam juice on me.