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  • Death Of A Salesman
  • Death Of A Salesman review by from London, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars 29 June 2005
    ... into how the play might have looked at its controversial opening in 1949, with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock both giving supremely powerful performances as they reprise...   Read customer review
  • Coogan's Bluff
  • Coogan's Bluff review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 4.0 stars TOP MOVIE !!! 19 October 2005
    ... Stroud). On arrival, he's forced to wait by NYPD detective Lieutenant McElroy (Lee J. Cobb), who informs him that Ringerman is recovering from a bad acid trip at Bellevue...   Read customer review
  • Lawman
  • Lawman review by A customer from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars A REAL WINNER! 19 March 2009
    ...the lead role, and is ably backed up by a very strong supporting cast including Lee J. Cobb and Richard Jordan as a reluctant gunslinger. ...   Read customer review

Lee J. Cobb - filmography


  • That Lucky Touch (1975)
    Starring: Roger Moore,  Susannah York,  Shelley Winters
    Director: Christopher Miles
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A European arms dealer (Roger Moore) meets a liberated woman journalist (Susannah York), who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO war games meeting. Needless to say, the two meet and make sparks.
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 3 members
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  • The Exorcist on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Ellen Burstyn,  Linda Blair,  Jason Miller
    Director: William Friedkin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    With THE EXORCIST, William Friedkin (THE FRENCH CONNECTION, THE BOYS IN THE BAND) rivals Hitchcock for heart-stopping terror in this deeply horrifyingmasterpiece that led to religious boycotts, fainting and nauseous audiences, and a commercial success that forever changed Hollywood. Linda Blair ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 24,875 members
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  • Double Indemnity on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Kathleen Cody,  Richard Crenna,  Lee J. Cobb
    Director: Jack Smight
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Richard Crenna plays the old Fred MacMurray role of Walter Neff, the slightly larcenous insurance salesman inveigled into an elaborate murder/fraud scheme by sexy Phyllis Dietrichson (Samantha Eggar, replacing the 1944 version's Barbara Stanwyck). The scheme almost goes off without a hitch, but ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 18 members
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  • Lawman on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Robert Ryan,  Lee J. Cobb
    Director: Michael Winner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    While in a neighbouring town, some drunken locals from Sheriff Maddox' domain accidentally kill a man. So the stern, unbending Maddox (Burt Lancaster) goes there to arrest the missing men, a task that proves much harder than he expected, thanks to his rude and arrogant manner. The residents quickly ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 431 members
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  • Coogan's Bluff on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Susan Clark,  Don Stroud,  Tisha Sterling
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Clint Eastwood stars as Walt Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff who has been sent to New York City to extradite escaped killer James Ringerman (Don Stroud). On arrival, he's forced to wait by NYPD detective Lieutenant McElroy (Lee J. Cobb), who informs him that Ringerman is recovering from a bad ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,756 member
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  • MacKenna's Gold on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Gregory Peck,  Omar Sharif,  Telly Savalas
    Director: J. Lee Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A U.S. Sheriff, entrusted with a map of the legendary Valley of Gold, is attacked by an unruly bandit gang and his own local townspeople. They are all fired by greed and gold lust, but bound together by a fear of their common enemy - the Apache. Based on a novel by Will Henry, with music by Quincy ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 442 members
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  • Death Of A Salesman on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Lee J. Cobb,  Mildred Dunnock,  George Segal
    Director: Alex Segal
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    One of the most famous plays of all time and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Arthur Miller's classic DEATH OF A SALESMAN is adapted here for American television. Broadcast in 1966, the production features Lee J. Cobb in a stunning performance as the tragic salesman Willy Loman, with Mildred ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 327 members
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  • Exodus on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Ralph Richardson,  Lee J. Cobb,  Martin Benson
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on Leon Uris' sweeping novel, "Exodus" is the epic saga of the founding of Israel in the days following World War II. Paul Newman stars as an Israeli resistance fighter, a member of the Hagannah, involved in the effort to bring a group of 600 European Jews from British-blockaded Cyprus into ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 660 members
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  • The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  Maria Schell,  Claire Bloom
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov is given a Hollywood screen treatment by producer Pandro S. Berman and director Richard Brooks. Yul Brynner plays Dmitri Karamazov, a callous Russian officer who cuckolds his domineering father (Lee J. Cobb) with the old man's mistress Grushenka (Maria ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1 member
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  • Twelve Angry Men on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Henry Fonda,  Lee J. Cobb,  Ed Begley
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In the definitive version of Reginald Rose's timeless script, an all-white jury decides the fate of a youth accused of murder. This tightly constructed searing exposé of prejudice in the American legal system stars Henry Fonda and a pantheon of great character actors.
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 23,543 members
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  • On The Waterfront - Blu-ray (1954)
    Starring: Marlon Brando,  Karl Malden,  Lee J. Cobb
    Director: Elia Kazan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Elia Kazan's compelling social drama was the winner of eight Academy Awards and marks one of Marlon Brando's finest screen performances. Brando is Terry Malloy, a handsome but inarticulate longshoreman, who gets involved in a labor scandal when a fellow dock worker is murdered. He knows that the ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 57 members
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  • On The Waterfront on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Marlon Brando,  Karl Malden,  Lee J. Cobb
    Director: Elia Kazan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Elia Kazan's compelling social drama was the winner of eight Academy Awards and marks one of Marlon Brando's finest screen performances. Brando is Terry Malloy, a handsome but inarticulate longshoreman, who gets involved in a labor scandal when a fellow dock worker is murdered. He knows that the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 14,613 members
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  • The Fighter on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Richard Conte,  Vanessa Brown,  Lee J. Cobb
    Director: Herbert Kline
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on Jack London's novel "The Mexican," the story follows that of a Mexican fisherman who seeks revenge against the government for the murder of his family. He must overthrow the dictator and decides he must compete as a prize fighter to win enough money to pay the rebels who will help in his cause.
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 93 members
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  • Sirocco on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Marta Toren,  Lee J. Cobb
    Director: Curtis Bernhardt
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Bogart produced this action vehicle, in which he stars as Harry Smith, an American gun runner selling weapons to the Arabs in Damascus, circa 1925. As the French and Syrians wage war against each other, Smith is pursued by Feroud (Lee J. Cobb), a French colonel. Smith complicates matters for ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 239 members
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  • Call Northside 777 (1948)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Richard Conte,  Lee J. Cobb
    Director: Henry Hathaway
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    When a cop is murdered on patrol small-time crook Frank Wiecke takes the rap and is sentenced to life. Eleven years later, hard-boiled reporter PJ O'Neal is assigned to look into the case but finds the authorities unwilling to co-operate...
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 451 members
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Lee J. Cobb facts

5 most recent films

That Lucky Touch - 2.5 stars
The Exorcist - 3.5 stars
The Exorcist - The Version You've Never Seen - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Double Indemnity - 3.0 stars
Lawman - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Twelve Angry Men - 4.0 stars
On The Waterfront - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Exorcist - The Version You've Never Seen - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
On The Waterfront - 3.5 stars
The Song Of Bernadette - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Brothers Karamazov - 2.5 stars
That Lucky Touch - 2.5 stars
The Miracle Of The Bells - 2.5 stars
Double Indemnity - 3.0 stars
Boomerang - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Randy Boone - 12 times - show films
Harper Flaherty - 12 times - show films
John McIntire - 12 times - show films
James Drury - 12 times - show films
Gary Clarke - 12 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Ted Post - 12 times - show films
David Friedkin - 12 times - show films
Burt Kennedy - 12 times - show films
Henry Hathaway - 7 times - show films
John Ford - 6 times - show films