
Lee J. Cobb (December 8, 1911 — February 11, 1976) was an American actor. He was best known for his performances in On the Waterfront (1954), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, 12 Angry Men (1957), and The Exorcist (1973). He also played the role of Willy Loman in the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan. On television, Cobb costarred in the first four seasons of the popular, long-running western series The Virginian. He typically played arrogant, intimidating, and abrasive characters, but often had roles as respectable figures such as judges. Born Leo Jacob in New York City, he grew up in The Bronx, before studying at New York University and making his film debut in The Vanishing Shadow (1934). Cobb performed in numerous theater productions and companies, including Group Theatre (New York) before serving in the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Force during World War II. Following the war, Cobb returned to film, television and theater before being accused of being a Communist in 1951 testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee by Larry Parks, himself a former Communist Party member. Cobb was called to testify before HUAC but refused to do so for two years until, with his career threatened by the blacklist, he relented in 1953 and gave testimony in which he named 20 people as former members of the Communist Party USA. Following the hearing he resumed his career and worked with Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg, two other HUAC "friendly witnesses", on the 1954 film On the Waterfront, which is widely seen as an allegory and apologia for testifying. His 1968 performance as King Lear achieved the longest run (72 performances) for the play in Broadway history. One of his final film roles was that of police detective Lt. Kinderman in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist. Cobb died of a heart attack in February 1976 in Woodland Hills, California, and was buried in Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. He was survived by his second wife, Mary Hirsch, and daughter, also an accomplished actress, Julie Cobb.

十二人の怒れる男

This Thing Called Love

波止場

エクソシスト

The Ford Television Theatre

Thieves' Highway

イブの三つの顔

Captain from Castile

Il giorno della civetta

McCloud

The Song of Bernadette

Boomerang!

西部開拓史

La polizia sta a guardare

The Great Ice Rip-Off

Il venditore di palloncini

アカデミー賞

Party Girl

The Trap

Call Northside 777

Gli amici di Nick Hezard

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Exodus

The Moon Is Down

Gunsmoke

The Brothers Karamazov

Mark il poliziotto spara per primo

マッケンナの黄金

西部の人

The Vanishing Shadow

Golden Boy

Lawman

The Garment Jungle

The Road to Denver

General Electric Theater

バージニアン

Our Man Flint

The Left Hand of God

マンハッタン無宿

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

Johnny O'Clock

Men of Boys Town

The Man Who Cheated Himself

In Like Flint

La Legge Violenta Della Squadra Anticrimine

Anna and the King of Siam

But Not for Me

Buckskin Frontier

The Racers

Death of a Salesman

That Lucky Touch

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Tales of Tomorrow

The Luck of the Irish

The Liberation of L.B. Jones

Sirocco

The Dark Past

The Miracle of the Bells

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Las Vegas: 500 millones

Danger on the Air

Trapped Beneath the Sea

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Lights Out

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

Medic

Green Mansions

The Family Secret

Gorilla at Large

Mark il poliziotto

North of the Rio Grande

Winged Victory

裸の町

Tonight We Raid Calais

Paris Calling

The Bull of the West

Miami Exposé

Rustlers' Valley

Studio One

The Young Lawyers

Come Blow Your Horn

Double Indemnity

The Tall Texan

The Fighter

西部番外地

The Phantom Creeps

The Meanest Men in the West

Yankee Pasha

The Phantom Creeps

Day of Triumph

The Devil's Children

The Final Hour

The Brazen Bell

Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man

Heat of Anger

Dr. Max

Arthur Miller on Home Ground

Alle origini della mafia