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Lee J. Cobb. Actor: 12 Angry Men. 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...
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Other articles where Lee J. Cobb is discussed: 12 Angry Men: …of a dynamic cast, including Lee J. Cobb and E.G. Marshall, to create a riveting drama. Although a critical success, the film performed poorly at the box office. In 1997 12 Angry Men was remade as an acclaimed television movie, starring Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott.
Actor. Born Leo Jacoby in New York City, the son of a compositor with the Jewish Daily Forward, he had ambitions of becoming a violinist before suffering a wrist injury. He would then focus his attention toward theatre and following high school graduation, he went to California where he began an association with the...
Feb 12, 1976 · Lee J. Cobb, the stage and screen actor best known for the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's “Death of a Salesman,” died yesterday. He was 64 years old. Page 34.
May 20, 2024 · Henry Fonda (foreground, left) and Lee J. Cobb (right) in 12 Angry Men (1957), directed by Sidney Lumet. (more) 12 Angry Men, American courtroom film drama, released in 1957, considered a classic of the genre. It marked the feature-film directorial debut of Sidney Lumet. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.)
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