Lee J. Cobb

Highest Rated: 100% Thieves' Highway (1949)

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

			Credit
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	The Last Circus Show	Vent'anni (Character)	-	1974
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Dr. Max	Dr. Maxwell `'Max'` Gordon (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)	-	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
No Score Yet	47%	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	61%	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
87%	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
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
No Score Yet	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.

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.