Happy Birthday, Lee J. Cobb (1911-1976)

12 Angry Men (1957)

In his 35 year career, Lee J. Cobb made a considerable number of Films Noir, including The Trap (1959), Party Girl (1958), The Garment Jungle (1957), The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950), Thieves' Highway (1949), The Dark Past (1948), Call Northside 777 (1948), Boomerang! (1947), Johnny O'Clock (1947) and Double Indemnity (1973) (TV).

Thieves' Highway (1949)

Party Girl (1958)

Party Girl (1958)

Miami Expose (1956)

The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)

The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950) with Jane Wyatt


The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950) with Jane Wyatt and John Dall

A scene from the Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman, 1949

Cobb achieved immortality by giving life to the character of Willy Loman in the original 1949 Broadway production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Cobb later won an Emmy nomination as Willy when he played the role in a made-for-TV movie of the play Death of a Salesman (1966) (TV). Miller said that he wrote the role with Cobb in mind.

as Juror #3, angriest of the 12 Angry Men (1957)


Golden Boy (1939)

Golden Boy (1939)

with Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger in On the Waterfront (1954)

with Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve (1957)

with Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve (1957)



Exodus (1960)


Exodus (1960)


How the West Was Won (1962)


with James Drury in the TV series "The Virginian" (1962-1966)