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Lee J. Cobb
Birth name	Leo Jacoby
Born	December 8, 1911(1911-12-08) New York City, New York
Died	February 11, 1976 (aged 64) Woodland Hills, California
Spouse(s)	Helen Beverly (m.1940) Mary Hirsch (1957-1976)
Children	Julie Cobb (b.1947)
Awards Academy Awards Nominated: Best Supporting Actor 1954 On the Waterfront 1958 The Brothers Karamazov

Lee J. Cobb (December 8, 1911 – February 11, 1976) was an American actor.

Born Leo Jacoby to a Jewish family in New York City, Cobb studied at New York University before making his film debut in The Vanishing Shadow (1934). He joined the Manhattan-based left wing Group Theatre in 1935. He is probably best known for creating the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan. It is widely considered to be his best performance, and one of the greatest performances ever on the American stage.

Cobb was cast as the Kralahome in the 1946 non-musical film Anna and the King of Siam. He also played the sympathetic doctor in The Song of Bernadette, and appeared as James Coburn's supervisor in the spy spoofs In Like Flint and Our Man Flint. He reprised his role of Willy Loman in the 1966 CBS television adaptation of Death of a Salesman, which included then-unknown actors Gene Wilder, 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.

Cobb was named as a possible Communist in testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee because of his involvement in liberal causes and his support of political and charitable organizations suspected of being Communist fronts. He 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 twenty people as former members of the Communist Party USA.

Later, Cobb explained why he "named names" saying:

— Interview with Victor Navasky for the 1982 book Naming Names

Following the hearing he resumed his career and worked with 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.

Cobb also appeared as ranch owner Judge Garth in the television series The Virginian, and his 1968 performance as King Lear with Stacy Keach as Edmund, René Auberjonois as the Fool, and Philip Bosco as Kent achieved the longest run for the play in Broadway history.

Cobb died of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Woodland Hills, California and was buried in Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

• Crime and Punishment (1935)
• Waiting for Lefty (1935)
• Johnny Johnson (1936)
• Golden Boy (1937)
• Death of a Salesman (1949)
• King Lear (1968)

• The Vanishing Shadow (1934)
• North of the Rio Grande (1937)
• Rustlers' Valley (1937)
• Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)
• Danger on the Air (1938)
• The Phantom Creeps (1939)
• Golden Boy (1939)
• This Thing Called Love (1940)
• Men of Boys Town (1941)
• Paris Calling (1941)
• Down Rio Grande Way (1942)
• The Moon Is Down (1943)
• Tonight We Raid Calais (1943)
• Buckskin Frontier (1943)
• The Song of Bernadette (1943)
• Winged Victory (1944)
• Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
• Johnny O'Clock (1947)
• Boomerang! (1947)
• Captain from Castile (1947)
• Call Northside 777 (1948)
• The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
• The Luck of the Irish (1948)
• The Dark Past (1948)
• Thieves' Highway (1949)
• The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
• Sirocco (1951)
• The Family Secret (1951)
• The Fighter (1952)
• The Tall Texan (1953)
• Yankee Pasha (1954)
• Gorilla at Large (1954)
• On the Waterfront (1954)
• Day of Triumph (1954)
• The Racers (1955)
• The Road to Denver (1955)
• The Left Hand of God (1955)
• The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
• Miami Expose (1956)
• 12 Angry Men (1957)
• The Garment Jungle (1957)
• The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
• The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
• Man of the West (1958)
• Party Girl (1958)
• The Trap (1959)
• Green Mansions (1959)
• But Not for Me (1959)
• Exodus (1960)
• The Final Hour (1962)
• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
• The Brazen Bell (1962)
• How the West Was Won (1962)
• Come Blow Your Horn (1963)
• Our Man Flint (1966)
• In Like Flint (1967)
• The Day of the Owl (1968)
• Coogan's Bluff (1968)
• They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968)
• Mackenna's Gold (1969)
• The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
• Macho Callahan (1970)
• Lawman (1971)
• The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973)
• Ultimatum (1973)
• Ransom! Police Is Watching (1973)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• The Balloon Vendor (1974)
• Mark of the Cop (1975)
• That Lucky Touch (1975)
• Cross Shot (1976)
• Nick the Sting (1976)

• McCarthyism
• Second Red Scare

• Lee J. Cobb at the Internet Broadway Database
• Lee J. Cobb at the Internet Movie Database
• Find-A-Grave profile for Lee J. Cobb