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): Alfredo Aceves • Anita Weyermann • Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria • Conceição Lima • Dewey Martin (actor) • Ernie Toshack • François de La Rochefoucauld (cardinal) • Frederik Buch • Friedrich Traugott Kützing • Frits Pirard • Kateryna Yushchenko (scientist) • Lucian Freud • Phil Collen

Born in the same month (December 1911): Danny O'Dea • Hans von Ohain • Hortense Calisher • Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz • Kenneth Patchen • Klaus Fuchs • Niels Kaj Jerne • Nino Rota • Władysław Szpilman