Cobb played through the play's entire initial run at the Morosco Theatre between February 1949 and November 1950. Miller praised Cobb as "the greatest dramatic actor I ever saw" and, upon his casting, changed a line referring to the physical appearance of the title character, whom the author had originally conceived of as a small man, from "shrimp" to "walrus". He also acted in Ernest Hemingway's only ever full-length play, The Fifth Column, and Clash by Night.Ĭobb gained widespread recognition for his portrayal of Willy Loman in the original production of Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan. He starred opposite Elia Kazan in Group Theatre's productions of Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty and Golden Boy. He made his Broadway debut as a saloonkeeper in a dramatization of Crime and Punishment that closed after 15 nights. Career Stage Ĭobb performed summer stock with the Group Theatre in 1936, when it summered at Pine Brook Country Club in Nichols, Connecticut. He joined the Manhattan-based Group Theatre in 1935.
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He finally made his film debut at 23 in two episodes of the film serial The Vanishing Shadow (1934). Still interested in show business, he went back to California and studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. He joined Borrah Minevitch's Harmonica Rascals as a musician and had a bit part in a short film featuring the group, but failed to find steady work and eventually moved back to New York.Ĭobb studied accounting at New York University while working as a radio salesman. Interested in acting from a young age, Cobb ran away from home at 16 to try to make it in Hollywood. His parents were Benjamin (Benzion) Jacob, a compositor for a foreign-language newspaper, and Kate (Neilecht). He grew up in the Bronx, New York, on Wilkins Avenue, near Crotona Park. In 1981, Cobb was posthumously inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.Ĭobb was born in New York City, to a Jewish family of Russian and Romanian origin.
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On television, Cobb starred in the Western series The Virginian as Judge Henry Garth and the ABC legal drama The Young Lawyers as David Barrett, and nominated for an Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor Primetime Emmy Award three separate times. William Kinderman in The Exorcist (1973).
His film performances included Juror #3 in 12 Angry Men (1957), Dock Tobin in Man of the West (1958), Barak Ben Canaan in Exodus (1960), Marshall Lou Ramsey in How the West Was Won (1962), Cramden in Our Man Flint (1966), and Lt. Cobb originated the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan, and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for On the Waterfront (1954) and The Brothers Karamazov (1958). He often played arrogant, intimidating and abrasive characters, but he also acted as respectable figures such as judges and police officers.
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Cobb (born Leo Jacoby December 8, 1911 – February 11, 1976) was an American actor, known both for film roles and his work on the Broadway stage, as well as for his television role as the star of the TV series The Virginian.
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