Bill Cobbs
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Wilbert "Bill" Cobbs (born June 16, 1934) is an American film and television actor. He has starred in over 120 television programs and movies.
Cobbs was born in Cleveland, Ohio to a domestic worker mother and a father who worked in construction.[1] He was a part of the Negro Ensemble Company. Cobbs has appeared and been a regular on many television programs including: The Michael Richards Show, The Outer Limits, I'll Fly Away, Yes, Dear, The Sopranos, The Others, JAG, The Drew Carey Show, October Road, and many more.
Bill is a second cousin of the late African-American actor and Song of the South star James Baskett.
In 2006, Cobbs played a supporting role in Night at the Museum as Reginald, a security guard on the verge of retirement. He also played basketball coach and retired basketball player Arthur Chaney in Disney's Air Bud, and Medgar Evers' older brother Charles Evers in Rob Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi. He had a pivotal role in the Coen Brothers' The Hudsucker Proxy, and played a jazz pianist in Tom Hanks' That Thing You Do.
He recorded a public service announcement for Deejay Ra's 'Hip-Hop Literacy' campaign, encouraging reading of Ice-T's autobiography.
[edit] Filmography
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
- Greased Lightning (1977)
- Trading Places (1983)
- Silkwood (1983)
- The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
- The Cotton Club (1984)
- Compromising Positions (1985)
- The Color of Money (1986)
- Five Corners (1987)
- Suspect (1987)
- Dominick and Eugene (1988)
- Bird (1988)
- The January Man (1989)
- Decoration Day (1990)
- New Jack City (1991)
- The Hard Way (1991)
- The People Under the Stairs (1991)
- Roadside Prophets (1992)
- The Bodyguard (1992)
- Demolition Man (1993)
- The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
- Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
- Fluke (1995)
- Ed (1996)
- First Kid (1996)
- That Thing You Do! (1996)
- Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
- Air Bud (1997)
- Always Outnumbered (1998)
- Paulie (1998)
- Hope Floats (1998)
- I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
- Random Hearts (1999)
- Sunshine State (2002)
- Enough (2002)
- A Mighty Wind (2003)
- Lost (2004)
- Duck (2005)
- The Derby Stallion (2005)
- Hard Luck (2006)
- Night at the Museum (2006)
- The Ultimate Gift (2007)
- The Morgue (2008)
- Black Water Transit (2009)
- My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Bill Cobbs at the Internet Movie Database
- Bill Cobbs at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
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