Biography
Lee J. Cobb was an American actor, known both for film roles and his work on the Broadway stage, as well as for his starring role on the television series The Virginian. He often played arrogant, intimidating, and abrasive characters, but he also acted as respectable figures such as judges and police officers. He was nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, all in the Best Supporting Actor category.
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Awards & recognition
- Golden Plate Award · 1960
- Donaldson Awards
- Golden Globe Award — Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture · 1963 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1959 · nominated
- Golden Globe Award — Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture · 1957 · nominated
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- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1955 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
12 Angry Men
On the Waterfront
The Exorcist
McCloud
The Three Faces of Eve
Captain from Castile
Mafia
Boomerang!
The Song of Bernadette
The Vanishing Shadow
How the West Was Won
Buckskin Frontier
The Trap
Nick the Sting
Party Girl
Exodus
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Gunsmoke
Lux Video Theatre
Call Northside 777
North of the Rio Grande
Mackenna's Gold
Man of the West
The Brothers Karamazov
Lawman
The Virginian
Our Man Flint
Tales of Tomorrow
Men of Boys Town
Coogan's Bluff
The Left Hand of God
Medic
Johnny O'Clock
The Man Who Cheated Himself
Anna and the King of Siam
In Like Flint
The Luck of the Irish
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Sirocco
Lights Out
The Dark Past
They Came to Rob Las Vegas
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
Rustlers' Valley
Green Mansions
Naked City
Gorilla at Large
The Fighter
The Tall Texan
Come Blow Your Horn