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Lee J. Cobb was an American actor who was best known for his roles in films such as On the Waterfront (1954), 12 Angry Men (1957), and The Exorcist (1973). He was also a successful stage actor, appearing in productions such as Death of a Salesman (1949) and The Iceman Cometh (1956). Cobb was born in New York City on December 8, 1911. He began his acting career in the 1930s, appearing in small roles in films such as The Roaring Twenties (1939) and The Sea Wolf (1941). He made his Broadway debut in 1941 in the play Golden Boy. Cobb's breakout role came in 1954 when he starred as Johnny Friendly in On the Waterfront. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. He went on to star in 12 Angry Men (1957), for which he received another Oscar nomination. Cobb continued to appear in films throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including The Exorcist (1973). He also appeared in numerous television shows, including The Untouchables (1959-1963) and The Virginian (1962-1971). Cobb died on February 11, 1976, at the age of 64. He was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1981.

Popular As Leo Jacoby
Occupation actor,director,soundtrack
Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 8 December 1911
Birthday 8 December
Birthplace New York City, New York, USA
Date of death 11 February, 1976
Died Place Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Nationality United States

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Lee J. Cobb Height, Weight & Measurements

At 65 years old, Lee J. Cobb height is 5' 11" (1.8 m) .

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Who Is Lee J. Cobb's Wife?

His wife is Mary Brako Hirsch (27 June 1957 - 11 February 1976) ( his death) ( 2 children), Helen Beverley (7 February 1940 - 28 July 1952) ( divorced) ( 2 children)

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Wife Mary Brako Hirsch (27 June 1957 - 11 February 1976) ( his death) ( 2 children), Helen Beverley (7 February 1940 - 28 July 1952) ( divorced) ( 2 children)
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Lee J. Cobb Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Lee J. Cobb worth at the age of 65 years old? Lee J. Cobb’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from United States. We have estimated Lee J. Cobb's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.

Exodus (1960)$75,000

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Timeline

2003

Featured in "Bad Boys: The Actors of Film Noir" by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry (McFarland, 2003).

1973

Kinderman in The Exorcist--The Version You've Never Seen Before (1973). Lee J.

1970

Jones (1970). In addition to his frequent supporting roles in film, Cobb often appeared on television.

1968

His final Broadway appearance was as King Lear in the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center's 1968 production of Shakespeare's play.

1966

Cobb later won an Emmy nomination as Willy when he played the role in a made-for-TV movie of the play (Death of a Salesman (1966)). Miller said that he wrote the role with Cobb in mind.

1963

Was just 4 years older than Frank Sinatra, who played his son on Come Blow Your Horn (1963).

1962

He played Judge Henry Garth on The Virginian (1962) from 1962-66 and also had a regular role as the attorney David Barrett on The Young Lawyers (1969) from 1970-71. Cobb also appeared in made-for-TV movies and made frequent guest appearances on other TV shows. His last major Hollywood movie role was that of police detective Lt.

1960

Major films in which Cobb appeared after reaching his career plateau include Otto Preminger's adaptation of Leon Uris' ode to the birth of Israel, Exodus (1960); the Cinerama spectacle How the West Was Won (1962); the James Coburn spy spoofs, Our Man Flint (1966) and In Like Flint (1967); Clint Eastwood's first detective film, Coogan's Bluff (1968); and legendary director William Wyler's last film, The Liberation of L. B.

1958

After again returning to his native New York, he made his Broadway debut as a saloonkeeper in a dramatization of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, but it closed after 15 performances (later in his career, Dostoevsky would prove more of a charm, with Cobb's role as Father Karamazov in The Brothers Karamazov (1958) garnering him his second Oscar nomination),Cobb joined the politically progressive Group Theater in 1935 and made a name for himself in Clifford Odets' politically liberal dramas Waiting for Lefty and Til the Day I Die, appearing in both plays that year in casts that included Elia Kazan, who later became famous as a film director.

1957

Luther in The Three Faces of Eve (1957) and as the volatile Juror #3 in 12 Angry Men (1957).

1955

Suffered a near-fatal heart attack in August 1955 while filming The Houston Story (1956).

1954

Ironically, he would win his first Oscar nomination in On the Waterfront (1954) directed and written by fellow HUAC informers Kazan and Budd Schulberg. The film can be seen as a stalwart defense of informing, as epitomized by the character Terry Malloy's testimony before a Congressional committee investigating racketeering on the waterfront.

1953

Appearing before the committee in 1953, he named names and thus saved his career.

1952

Later he reprised the role of Joe Bonaparte's father in the 1952 revival of Golden Boy opposite Garfield as his son, and appeared the following year in The Emperor's Clothes.

1950

His movie career reached its artistic peak in the 1950s, when he was twice nominated for Best Supporting Actor Academy Awards, for his role as Johnny Friendly in On the Waterfront (1954) and as the father in The Brothers Karamazov (1958).

Other memorable supporting roles in the 1950s included the sagacious Judge Bernstein in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956), as the probing psychiatrist Dr.

It was in the 1950s that Cobb achieved the sort of fame that most artists dreaded: he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee on charges that he was or had been a Communist.

1949

Cobb achieved immortality by giving life to the character of Willy Loman in the original 1949 Broadway production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. His performance was a towering achievement that ranks with such performances as Edwin Booth as Richard III and John Barrymore as Hamlet in the annals of the American theater.

1946

After a hiatus while serving in the Army Air Force during World War II, Cobb's movie career resumed in 1946. He continued to play major supporting roles in prestigious A-list pictures.

1943

Appears in five Oscar Best Picture nominees: The Song of Bernadette (1943), On the Waterfront (1954), 12 Angry Men (1957), How the West Was Won (1962) and The Exorcist--The Version You've Never Seen Before (1973), with On the Waterfront winning in 1954.

1940

Before triumphing as Miller's Salesman, Cobb had appeared on Broadway only a handful of times in the 1940s, including in Ernest Hemingway's The Fifth Column (1940), Odets' "Clash by Night" (1942) and the US Army Air Force's Winged Victory (1943-44).

1939

Bonaparte, the protagonist's father, in the 1939 film version of the play, despite the fact that he was not yet 30 years old. The role of a patriarch suited him, and he'd play many more in his film career. It was as a different kind of patriarch that he scored his greatest success.

1937

Cobb also appeared in the 1937 Group Theater production of Odets' Golden Boy, playing the role of Mr. Carp, in a cast that also included Kazan, Julius Garfinkle (later better known under his stage name of John Garfield), and Martin Ritt, all of whom later came under the scrutiny of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the heyday of the McCarthy Red Scare hysteria more than a decade later. Cobb took over the role of Mr.

1931

An older Cobb tried his luck in California once more, making his debut as a professional stage actor at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1931.

1930

The charges were rooted in Cobb's membership in the Group Theater in the 1930s. Other Group Theater members already investigated by HUAC included Clifford Odets and Elia Kazan, both of whom provided friendly testimony before the committee, and John Garfield, who did not. Cobb's own persecution by HUAC had already caused a nervous breakdown in his wife, and he decided to appear as a friendly witness in order to preserve her sanity and his career, by bringing the inquisition to a halt.

1929

He reportedly made his film debut as a member of Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica Rascals (their first known movie appearance was in the 1929 two-reeler Boyhood Days), but that cannot be substantiated. However, it's known that after Leo was unable to find work he returned to New York City, where he attended New York University at night to study accounting while acting in radio dramas during the day.

1928

He was also an accomplished harmonica artist. He was a member of the famed Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica Rascals, who appeared in the 1928 film, The Patriot (1928) starring Lewis Stone, and directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

1920

Aside from his possible late 1920s movie debut and his 1934 appearance in the western The Vanishing Shadow (1934), Cobb's film career proper began in 1937 with the westerns North of the Rio Grande (1937) (in which he was billed as Lee Colt) and Rustlers' Valley (1937) and spanned nearly 40 years until his death.

1911

Lee J. Cobb, one of the premier character actors in American film for three decades in the post-World War II period, was born Leo Jacoby in New York City's Lower East Side on December 8, 1911. The son of a Jewish newspaper editor, young Leo was a child prodigy in music, mastering the violin and the harmonica. Any hopes of a career as a violin virtuoso were dashed when he broke his wrist, but his talent on the harmonica may have brought him his first professional success. At the age of 16 or 17 he ran away from home to Hollywood to try to break into motion pictures as an actor.