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Lee J. Cobb (born Leo Jacoby; December 8, 1911 – February 11, 1976) was an American actor, known both for film roles and his work on the Broadway stage, as well as for his television role in the series, The Virginian. He often played arrogant, intimidating and abrasive characters, but he also acted as respectable figures such as judges and police officers. Cobb originated the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan, and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for On the Waterfront (1954) and The Brothers Karamazov (1958). His film performances included Juror #3 in 12 Angry Men (1957), Dock Tobin in Man of the West (1958), Barak Ben Canaan in Exodus (1960), Marshall Lou Ramsey in How the West Was Won (1962), Cramden in Our Man Flint (1966), and Lt. William Kinderman in The Exorcist (1973). On television, Cobb played a leading role in the first four seasons of the Western series, The Virginian as Judge Henry Garth and the ABC legal drama The Young Lawyers as David Barrett, and was nominated for an Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor Primetime Emmy Award three times. In 1981, Cobb was posthumously inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Early life and education Cobb was born in New York City, to a Jewish family of Russian and Romanian origin. He grew up in the Bronx, New York, on Wilkins Avenue, near Crotona Park. His parents were Benjamin (Benzion) Jacob, a compositor for a foreign-language newspaper, and Kate (Neilecht).Interested in acting from a young age, Cobb ran away from home at 16 to try to make it in Hollywood. He joined Borrah Minevitch's Harmonica Rascals as a musician and had a bit part in a short film featuring the group, but failed to find steady work and eventually moved back to New York. Cobb studied accounting at New York University while working as a radio salesman. Still interested in show business, he went back to California and studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. He finally made his film debut at 23 in two episodes of the film serial The Vanishing Shadow (1934). He joined the Manhattan-based Group Theatre in 1935. Career Stage Cobb performed summer stock with the Group Theatre in 1936, when it summered at Pine Brook Country Club in Nichols, Connecticut. He made his Broadway debut as a saloonkeeper in a dramatization of Crime and Punishment that closed after 15 nights. He starred opposite Elia Kazan in Group Theatre's productions of Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty and Golden Boy. He also acted in Ernest Hemingway's only ever full-length play, The Fifth Column, and Odets' Clash by Night. Cobb gained widespread recognition for his portrayal of Willy Loman in the original production of Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan. Miller praised Cobb as "the greatest dramatic actor I ever saw" and, upon his casting, changed a line referring to the physical appearance of the title character, whom the author had originally conceived of as a small man, from "shrimp" to "walrus". Cobb played through the play's entire initial run at the Morosco Theatre between February 1949 and November 1950. The play won the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Miller later offered Cobb the part of Eddie Carbone in A View from the Bridge, but Cobb turned it down. During World War II, Cobb joined the US Army Air Forces in the hopes of becoming a pilot. Instead, he was assigned to a radio unit. He was later transferred to the First Motion Picture Unit, where he appeared in Moss Hart Army Emergency Relief fundraiser productions like This is the Army and Winged Victory. In 1968, his performance as King Lear with Stacy Keach as Edmund, René Auberjonois as the Fool, and Philip Bosco as Kent achieved the longest run (72 performances) for the play in Broadway history. Film Cobb entered films in the 1930s, successfully playing middle-aged and even older characters while he was still a youth. His first credited role was in the 1937 Hopalong Cassidy oater Rustlers' Valley, where he was billed using the stage name 'Lee Colt.' In all subsequent films, he used Lee Cobb and later Lee J. Cobb. He starred in the 1939 film adaptation of Golden Boy, albeit in a different role. He was cast as the Kralahome in the 1946 film Anna and the King of Siam, upon which the musical play The King and I was later partially based. He also played the sympathetic doctor in The Song of Bernadette and appeared as Derek Flint's (James Coburn) supervisor in the James Bond spy spoofs Our Man Flint and In Like Flint. In August 1955, while filming The Houston Story, Cobb suffered a heart attack and was replaced by Gene Barry. Later that year, he picked up a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal of corrupt union boss Johnny Friendly in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront. He was nominated a second time for playing Fyodor in Richard Brooks' movie adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov. In 1957, he appeared in Sidney Lumet's 12 Angry Men as the abrasive Juror #3. The role earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor, one of two in the same category. He was nominated again for the Frank Sinatra comedy Come Blow Your Horn (1963). One of his final film roles was that of Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police homicide detective Lt. Kinderman in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist, about a demonic possession of a teen-age girl (Linda Blair) in Georgetown, D. C. In the same decade, Cobb travelled to Europe to work in Italian films, primarily poliziotteschi (crime thrillers). His final films, Cross Shot and Nick the Sting, were both released posthumously, nearly two months after Cobb died. Television In 1959, on CBS' DuPont Show of the Month, he starred in the dual roles of Miguel de Cervantes and Don Quixote in the play I, Don Quixote, which years later became the musical Man of La Mancha. Cobb also appeared as the Medicine Bow, Wyoming owner of the Shiloh Ranch, Judge Henry Garth in the first four seasons (1962–1966), of the long-running NBC Western television series The Virginian (1962–1971). He reprised his role of Willy Loman in the 1966 CBS television adaptation of the famous play Death of a Salesman, which included Gene Wilder, James Farentino, Bernie Kopell, and George Segal. Cobb was nominated for an Emmy Award for the performance. Mildred Dunnock, who had co-starred in both the original stage version and the 1951 film version, again repeated her role as Linda, Willy's devoted wife. One of his last television roles was as a stalwart overworked elderly physician still making house calls in urban Baltimore, in Doctor Max, a TV pilot for a potential series that never materialized. His final aired television role was Origins of the Mafia, a miniseries about the history of the Sicilian Mafia, filmed on-location in Italy. He subsequently appeared alongside British actor Kenneth Griffith in an ABC television documentary on t.... Discover the M J Lee popular books. Find the top 100 most popular M J Lee books.

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  • Vibrational Passage synopsis, comments

    Vibrational Passage

    Dr. J. Dustow and K.M. Lee

    What if one discovers something so dangerous lives are being lost over it? Bookstore owner Emma Lange is thrust into a disturbing world of deadly secrets and left with only the hau...

  • Mason Lumber Company v. J. M. Lee synopsis, comments

    Mason Lumber Company v. J. M. Lee

    Supreme Court of Florida

    Appellants, who are engaged in the operation of retail lumber yards in the State of Florida, were denied an injunction against the enforcement of the taxes prescribed b...

  • State v. J. M. Lee synopsis, comments

    State v. J. M. Lee

    Supreme Court of Florida

    Relators and corelators, all of whom are ad valorem taxpayers of the State of Florida, by an information in the nature of quo warrantor (not joined by the Attorney Gene...

  • J. M. Lee v. Holsum-Miami Corporation synopsis, comments

    J. M. Lee v. Holsum-Miami Corporation

    Division A. Supreme Court of Florida

    The facts presented and the questions raised in this case are similar to those raised and urged in Lee, Comptroller, v. The Cloverleaf, Inc., et al., decided this date.

  • State Ex Rel. R. S. Williams v. J. M. Lee synopsis, comments

    State Ex Rel. R. S. Williams v. J. M. Lee

    Supreme Court of Florida

    Alternative writ of mandamus was directed to the Comptroller commanding him to draw his warrant for $300 to pay relator as Marshal of the Supreme Court for his salary f...

  • The Cannonball Tree Mystery synopsis, comments

    The Cannonball Tree Mystery

    Ovidia Yu

    'One of Singapore's finest living authors' South China Morning Post'Simply glorious. Every nook and cranny of 1930s Singapore is brought richly to life' CATRIONA MCPHERSON'Charming...

  • State v. J. M. Lee synopsis, comments

    State v. J. M. Lee

    En Banc. Supreme Court of Florida

    This is one of the several cases presented to this Court and required to be decided by it involving the constitutionality of Chapter 16848 (Senate Bill No. 724) Acts 19...

  • State v. J. M. Lee synopsis, comments

    State v. J. M. Lee

    En Banc. Supreme Court of Florida

    The relator's bonds involved in this case are bonds of AtlanticGulf Special Road & Bridge District, eight in number, the principal of which matured on September 1, ...

  • The Mimosa Tree Mystery synopsis, comments

    The Mimosa Tree Mystery

    Ovidia Yu

    LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER'Simply glorious. Every nook and cranny of 1930s Singapore is brought richly to life' CATRIONA MCPHERSON 'Charming' RHYS BOWEN'One of the mo...

  • State v. J. M. Lee synopsis, comments

    State v. J. M. Lee

    En Banc. Supreme Court of Florida

    In State, ex rel. Cunningham, v. Davis, above, it was adjudged that Senate Bill No. 724, Chapter 16848, Acts of 1935, was duly signed by the Legislative officers and du...

  • 80 Days - Die Farbe der Lust synopsis, comments

    80 Days - Die Farbe der Lust

    Vina Jackson

    Junge, urbane, moderne Erotikliteratur!Frustriert von einer unbefriedigenden Beziehung findet die leidenschaftliche Violinistin Summer Erfüllung in der Musik. Sie spielt nachmittag...

  • State v. J. M. Lee synopsis, comments

    State v. J. M. Lee

    Division A. Supreme Court of Florida

    Knight, Thompson & Turner; Shackleford, Ivy, Farrior and Shannon; Macfarlane, Jackson, Hansbrough & Ferguson; Loftin, Stokes & Calkins; Evans, Merson & ...

  • No Way Back synopsis, comments

    No Way Back

    M. J. Arlidge

    A treat for fans of DI Helen Grace: an ebook short story from Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author M. J. Arlidge.Jodie's arriving at her third children's home. She's only fiftee...

  • FaceOff synopsis, comments

    FaceOff

    David Baldacci & Lee Child

    An instant New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller and “a thriller reader’s ultimate fantasy” (Booklist), this oneofakind anthology pulls together the most beloved characters from ...

  • Wm. J. and M. S. Vesey Inc. v. Lee H. synopsis, comments

    Wm. J. and M. S. Vesey Inc. v. Lee H.

    Supreme Court Of Indiana

    Plaintiffappellant (Vesey) entered into a lease for two lots and the improvements thereon, with the Lincoln National Bank and Trust Company of Fort Wayne, acting as the trustee of ...

  • A Life in Conversation synopsis, comments

    A Life in Conversation

    Michael A. Cowan

    In a long and creative academic career, Professor Bernard J. Lee has published and taught on the cutting edge of Catholic theology. He has been a beloved teacher, generous mentor a...

  • Gadsden County v. H. B. Kerce and J. M. Lee synopsis, comments

    Gadsden County v. H. B. Kerce and J. M. Lee

    Supreme Court of Florida

    This appeal is from a final decree adjudicating Chapter 15890, Acts of 1933, to be unconstitutional and restraining the Comptroller from making any distribution of gas ...

  • J. M. Lee v. Cloverleaf synopsis, comments

    J. M. Lee v. Cloverleaf

    Division A. Supreme Court of Florida

    This appeal is from final decree permanently restraining the Comptroller from enforcing the provisions of Chapter 16848, Acts of 1935, against the Appellees on the theo...

  • Liggett Drug Company v. J. M. Lee synopsis, comments

    Liggett Drug Company v. J. M. Lee

    Supreme Court of Florida

    This cause was heard on May 13, 1936, upon the application of the plaintiffs, Liggett Drug Company, Incorporated, et al., for a Temporary Injunction, and now comes o...

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    My Bloody Valentine

    Alastair Gunn

    From the bestselling author of The Advent Killer SHE LOVES ME, SHE LOVES ME NOT ...The second thrilling novel in the DCI Antonia Hawkins series by Alastair Gunn When the body of a ...

  • Night of the Were-Cat synopsis, comments

    Night of the Were-Cat

    Eileen Watkins

    Cassie McGlone’s Comfy Cats grooming service can turn a scruffy stray into a glamorous Catdashian. But with a drugpeddling killer at loose in her picturesque hometown of Chadwick, ...

  • J. B. Coen v. J. M. Lee synopsis, comments

    J. B. Coen v. J. M. Lee

    Supreme Court of Florida

    In a suit by a taxpayer, the Circuit Judge granted and subsequently dissolved a temporary restraining order enjoining the State Comptroller and his employees from proce...

  • The Brown Reader synopsis, comments

    The Brown Reader

    Judy Sternlight

    “To be up all night in the darkness of your youth but to be ready for the day to come…that was what going to Brown felt like.” Jeffrey EugenidesIn celebration of Brown University’s...

  • State Florida v. J. M. Lee synopsis, comments

    State Florida v. J. M. Lee

    Division A. Supreme Court of Florida

    That a Florida State Commission is hereby created under the name of Everglades National Park Commission and is referred to in this Act as the Commission.

  • Trust No One synopsis, comments

    Trust No One

    Anthony Mosawi

    My name is Sara Eden, and this is all I can remember . . . There are government agents pursuing me. They think I know something they want. They will never stop. I could be a dange...

  • The Paper Bark Tree Mystery synopsis, comments

    The Paper Bark Tree Mystery

    Ovidia Yu

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA SAPERE BOOKS HISTORICAL DAGGER'Simply glorious. Every nook and cranny of 1930s Singapore is brought richly to life' CATRIONA MCPHERSON 'Charming' RHYS BOWEN...

  • State Ex Rel. M. M. Gibson v. J. M. Lee synopsis, comments

    State Ex Rel. M. M. Gibson v. J. M. Lee

    En Banc. Supreme Court of Florida

    To alternative writ of mandamus addressed to Honorable J. M. Lee as Comptroller of the State of Florida, commanding him "to forthwith determine the net amount payable t...

  • Minnie M. Clanton v. Lee Clark synopsis, comments

    Minnie M. Clanton v. Lee Clark

    Supreme Court of Texas

    This is an appeal from an order dismissing a will contest for failure to file security for costs. The court of appeals affirmed the trial courts dismissal. We affirm the judgment o...

  • City Houston v. Lee M. Fox synopsis, comments

    City Houston v. Lee M. Fox

    Supreme Court of Texas No. B-228

    ON MOTION FOR REHEARING OF APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF ERROR Respondent's motion for rehearing is granted and our Per Curiam opinion and judgment of July 19, 1967, are withdrawn and th...

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    Echoes

    Ellen Datlow

    The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genreincluding stories from awardwinning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oa...

  • J. M. Lee v. Carl E. Beck synopsis, comments

    J. M. Lee v. Carl E. Beck

    Supreme Court of Florida

    The ultimate purpose of this suit was similar to that sought to be accomplished in City of Miami, et al., v. J. M. Lee, et al., decided and filed this date. The bill of...

  • J. M. Lee v. City Miami synopsis, comments

    J. M. Lee v. City Miami

    Supreme Court of Florida

    Cary D. Landis, Attorney General, G. A. Worley, State Attorney, J. V. Keen, Assistant, Attorney General, Philip D. Beall, and John R. Beacham, for Appellants.

  • The Investigation synopsis, comments

    The Investigation

    J. M. Lee

    Watanabe Yuichi, a young guard with a passion for reading, is ordered to investigate. The victim, Sugiyama, also a guard, was feared and despised throughout the prison and inquirie...