Biography: Lee J. Cobb |
American character actor of stage, screen, and TV Lee J. Cobb, born Leo Jacob or Jacoby, was usually seen scowling and smoking a cigar. As a child, Cobb showed artistic promise as a virtuoso violinist, but any hope for a musical career was ended by a... more
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Cast: Susannah York Roger Moore Shelley Winters
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy
Length: 93min
Lee J. Cobb's last film is in this light romantic comedy starring Roger Moore as Michael Scott, an arms dealer who comes complete with a sophisticated playboy patter for the ladies. During war games, Michael attempts to sell weapons to NATO forces by...
Tags: Crime Drama Drama
Length: 260min
From 16th century Sicily to the streets of contemporary New York, the Mafia has transcended its humble roots to evolve into one of the most formidable crime organizations ever. Centuries ago, the dreaded Gramignanos family took control over Sicily by...
Trapped Beneath the Sea (1974)
Tags: Action Thriller Docudrama Action
Length: 97min
The inspiration for the made-for-TV movie was an actual event which occurred in June of 1973. A crew of four sinks in a minisub off the Florida coast. As half the nation (apprised of the disaster by TV and radio) holds its breath, a daring rescue...
Tags: Drama
Length: 74min
The made-for-TV Dr. Max is cut from the same cloth as The Last Angry Man. Lee J. Cobb stars as a taciturn elderly doctor who chooses to work in a dingy Baltimore neighborhood and minister to those far less fortunate than themselves. His refusal to...
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973)
Cast: Burt Reynolds John Williams
Length: 114min
This romantic western drama, based on the best-selling novel by Marilyn Durham, stars Burt Reynolds as Jay Grobart, an outlaw married to an Indian woman named Cat Dancing. When Cat is raped and murdered, a distraught Grobart kills the man responsible...
Cast: Jean Seberg David Janssen
Tags: Revisionist Western Crime Western
Length: 99min
This violent western tale finds Macho (David Janssen) as a Union Army regular in a Confederate prison. He escapes by planting dynamite in the coffin of an executed officer, making his move when the coffin is being carried outside the gate. He returns...
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
Cast: William Wyler
Tags: Melodrama Crime Drama Drama
Length: 101min
Justice runs red in the deep South in this powerful drama. Steve Mundine (Lee Majors) is a young lawyer who, shortly after marrying his sweetheart Nella (Barbara Hershey), takes a position with a law firm in a small Southern town, run by his uncle...
Cast: Burt Lancaster Robert Duvall
Tags: Revisionist Western Western
Length: 98min
In Lawman, Burt Lancaster is Jered Maddox, a dedicated marshal with an inflexible adherence to upholding the law at all costs. Riding into a nearby town to pick up a group of local carousers who, during a drunken spree, killed an old man, Maddox meets...
Las Vegas 500 Milliones (1969)
Cast: Elke Sommer
Length: 128min
Gino (Jean Servais) breaks out of jail and visits his friend Tony (Gary Lockwood) with a plan to rob an armored car. Although both men are motivated by greed, Tony says no to the risky proposition. When Gino is killed by some trigger-happy cops, Tony...
Cast: Edward G. Robinson Gregory Peck Lee J. Cobb
Tags: Traditional Western Western
Length: 128min
Mackenna's Gold is a colorful, action-packed western feature with an all-star cast. Mackenna (Gregory Peck) has committed to memory the map that leads to some hidden Apache gold. The Indians now want the gold to finance their fight against the white...
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