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Lee J. Cobb (December 8, 1911 – February 11, 1976) was an American actor. Well known old public photo of Lee J. Cobb File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ...
February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...
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Biography
Early life He was born Leo Joachim Jacoby IV[citation needed] to a Jewish family in New York City. Cobb had studied at New York University when he joined the left wing Group Theatre in 1935 and appeared in its production of Clifford Odets' play Waiting for Lefty. The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination...
Nickname: Big Apple Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area - City 1,214. ...
New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ...
The Group Theatre was a left-wing theater collective, formed in New York in 1931 by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg. ...
Clifford Odets photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 - August 18, 1963) was an American socialist playwright, screenwriter, and social protester. ...
Waiting for Lefty was the first play by Clifford Odets to be produced (though not the first one written), and it is his best known work. ...
Career In 1937 he made his movie debut in Ali Baba Goes to Town. He was rather oddly cast[citation needed] 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. He is probably best known for creating the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's stage play Death of a Salesman directed by Elia Kazan. It is widely considered his best performance, and one of the greatest performances ever on the American stage. 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
Anna and the King of Siam is a 1944 book by Margaret Landon, a play and a 1946 movie. ...
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Cover to the Penguin Group edition. ...
Elia Kazan, (Greek Ηλίας Καζάν), (September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was an American film and theatre director and producer. ...
He also played James Coburn's supervisor in the psychedelic flicks In Like Flint and Our Man Flint. He reprised his role of Willy Loman in the 1966 CBS TV adaptation of the play Death of a Salesman, which included then unknown actors like 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. James Coburn in Sam Peckinpahs Cross of Iron (1977). ...
In Like Flint is a 1967 sequel to the spy film, Our Man Flint (1966). ...
Our Man Flint was a 1966 sci-fi action film which starred James Coburn. ...
1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ...
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Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman on June 11, 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American actor who has starred in more than thirty movies. ...
Bernie Kopell (born June 21, 1933) is a television actor who portrayed Conrad Siegfried in Get Smart, Jerry Bauman in That Girl, and Dr. Adam Bricker in The Love Boat. ...
George Segal George Segal (born February 13, 1934) is a well-known Jewish American film and stage actor who was born in Great Neck, Long Island, New York. ...
An Emmy Award. ...
Mildred Dunnock (born January 25, 1901; died July 5, 1991) was an American theater, film and television actress. ...
1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...
Cobb was named as a possible Communist in testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee because of his involvement in the Group Theatre. 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. This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ...
HUAC hearings House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC or HCUA) (1938-1975) was an investigating committee of the United States House of Representatives. ...
A blacklist is a list or register of entities who, for one reason or another, are being denied a particular privilege, service, or mobility. ...
The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is a Marxist-Leninist political party in the United States. ...
Later, Cobb explained why he "named names" saying:
- "When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual it can be terrifying. The blacklist is just the opening gambit - being deprived of work. Your passport is confiscated. That's minor. But not being able to move without being tailed is something else. After a certain point it grows to implied as well as articulated threats, and people succumb. My wife did, and she was institutionalized. The HUAC did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn't borrow. I had the expenses of taking care of the children. Why am I subjecting my loved ones to this? If it's worth dying for, and I am just as idealistic as the next fellow. But I decided it wasn't worth dying for, and if this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary I'd do it. I had to be employable again." (Inteview 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. Other notable films he appeared in include The Left Hand of God (1955), Twelve Angry Men (1957), Man of the West (1958), The Brothers Karamazov (1958), Exodus (1960), How the West Was Won (1962), Our Man Flint (1966), In Like Flint (1967), Coogan's Bluff (1968) and The Exorcist (1973), his last movie. Picture of writer Budd Schulberg (born March 27, 1914 in New York City, New York) is an American screenwriter and novelist. ...
On the Waterfront is an American 1954 film about mob violence and corruption among longshoremen, and it has become a standard of its kind. ...
Gabriel delivering the Annunciation. ...
12 Angry Men is a 1957 film which tells the story of one lone juror who holds out against the other eleven members of the jury because he is not convinced that the defendant is guilty. ...
Man of the West is a 1958 western film directed by Anthony Mann in his last film of the genre. ...
Pevear & Volokhonsky Translation of The Brothers Karamazov. ...
Exodus Exodus is a 1960 film starring Paul Newman. ...
Movie poster of 1962s How the West Was Won. ...
Our Man Flint was a 1966 sci-fi action film which starred James Coburn. ...
In Like Flint is a 1967 sequel to the spy film, Our Man Flint (1966). ...
Motion picture Coogans Bluff is the title of a 1968 film starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Don Siegel. ...
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Cobb also appeared as ranch owner Judge Garth in the television series The Virginian. The Virginian was a Western-themed television series which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971. ...
Lee J. Cobb died of a heart attack in 1976 in Woodland Hills, California and was buried in Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. A myocardial infarction occurs when an atherosclerotic plaque slowly builds up in the inner lining of a coronary artery and then suddenly ruptures, totally occluding the artery and preventing blood flow downstream. ...
1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...
Woodland Hills is a community within the City of Los Angeles. ...
Mount Sinai Memorial Park is a Jewish cemetery located at 5950 Forest Lawn Drive in Los Angeles, California. ...
See also Senator Joseph McCarthy McCarthyism is the term describing a period of intense anti-Communist suspicion in the United States that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. ...
Political cartoon of the era depicting an anarchist attempting to destroy the Statue of Liberty. ...
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