Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb was an American actor, known both for film roles and his work on the Broadway stage, as well as for his television role in the series, The Virginian. He often played arrogant, intimidating and abrasive characters, but he also acted as respectable figures such as judges and police officers. 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).

8 December 1911

Born on the same birth date (8 December 1911): Nikos Gatsos

Born on the same birth day (8 December): Arthur Leslie • Astorre II Manfredi • August Belmont • Bob Brown (offensive lineman) • Bodo Tümmler • Camille Claudel • Charles III, Prince of Monaco • Ernie Toshack • Frédéric Piquionne • Georges Feydeau • Georges Méliès • Indrek Allmann • Ingrid Michaelson • Janae Kroc • Jimmy Smith (musician) • Lim Guan Eng • McDonald Bailey • Michael Z. Hobson • Mike Buchanan (politician) • Mike Mussina • Rudolph Pariser • Vladimir Shatalov • Yui Yokoyama

Born in the same month (December 1911): Anna Russell • Broderick Crawford • Calvin Griffith • Danny O'Dea • Hortense Calisher • James Gregory (actor) • Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz • Josh Gibson • Klaus Fuchs • Louise Bourgeois • Niels Kaj Jerne • Nikos Gatsos • Ryūzō Sejima • Val Guest • Walter Alston • Władysław Szpilman