Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb (December 8th 1911; February 11th 1976) was a American Acteur. Of its true name Leo Jacoby , it is resulting from an Jewish family of New York.

Beginnings with the theater and the cinema

Cobb continued studies at the university of New York when it joined a group of theater of sensitivity of left, in 1935 and played in the work of Clifford Odets play Waiting for Lefty (part putting in scene drivers of taxis during the Grande depression, according to a strongly Marxist reading). In 1937 it started in the cinema with Ali Baba Goes to Town realized by David Butler. One especially knows it for the role of Willy Loman in Mort of a commercial traveller of Arthur Miller, directed by Elia Kazan.

He played also the mentor of James Coburn in F. like Flint and Our Man Flint . He also occurred in the film TV Mort of a commercial traveller , where intervened of other actors little known: Gene Wilder, Bernie Kopell, and George Segal. Cobb it was nominated for a Emmy Award on this occasion.

Witness in front of the HUAC

Cobb was on the lists of the Communistes " possibles" House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) because of its beginnings with the theater in a politically marked group. Invited to testify in this hunting for the witches, it started by refusing, which was worth some threats to him, then was solved there in 1953 by giving a score of people like former members of the Communist party of the United States of America (CPUSA).

After the taken again audience, he his career and worked with Kazan and Budd Schulberg, two other witnesses of the HUAC, in the film On the quays (1954), in which one often sees an apology for their behavior for donors .

Other films

Other remarkable films where it intervened:

the Slave with the gold hands ( Golden delicious Servant boy ) (1939), of Rouben Mamoulian with Barbara Stanwyck
Anna and the king of Siam (Anna and the king off Siam) (1946), of John Cromwell
the Left hand of the Lord (1955), of Edward Dmytryk, with Humphrey Bogart,
Twelve men in anger (1957),
the Man of the West (1958), of Anthony Mann, with Gary Cooper,
The Brothers Karamazov (1958), of Richard Brooks (1912-1992), with Yul Brynner and Maria Schell
Trap (1958), of Nicholas Ray, with Cyd Charisse and Robert Taylor
Exodus (1960),
the conquest of the West (1962), of John Ford
a sheriff in New York (Coogan' S Bluff) (1968), directed by Gift Siegel , with Clint Eastwood,
the Exorcist (1973), his last film.

Cobb played also the owner of ranch Judge Garth in the televised series Virginien .

Death

Lee J. Cobb died of a infarction in 1976 with Woodland Hills (California) and was buried with the cemetery Mount the Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery of Los Angeles.

See too

Maccarthisme

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