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Lee J. Cobb - Characters of an Actor (Hardcover)
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Lee J. Cobb - Characters of an Actor (Hardcover)
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For many of his theater contemporaries, Lee J. Cobb (1911-1976) was
the greatest actor of his generation. In Hollywood he became the
definitive embodiment of gangsters, psychiatrists, and roaring
lunatics. From 1939 until his death, Cobb contributed riveting
performances to a number of films, including Boomerang, On the
Waterfront, The Brothers Karamazov, 12 Angry Men, and The Exorcist.
But for all of his conspicuous achievements in motion pictures,
Cobb's name is most identified with the character Willy Loman in
the original stage production of Arthur Miller's Death of a
Salesman (1949). Directed by Elia Kazan, Cobb's Broadway
performance proved to be a benchmark for American theater. In Lee
J. Cobb: Characters of an Actor, Donald Dewey looks at the life and
career of this versatile performer. From his Lower East Side roots
in New York City-where he was born Leo Jacob-to multiple accolades
on stage and the big and small screens, Cobb's life proved to be a
tumultuous rollercoaster of highs and lows. As a leading man of the
theater, he gave a number of compelling performances in such plays
as Golden Boy and King Lear. For the Hollywood studios, Cobb fit
the description of the "character actor." No one better epitomized
the performer who suddenly appears on the screen and immediately
grabs the audience's attention. During his forty-five-year career,
there wasn't a significant star-from Humphrey Bogart and James
Stewart to Paul Newman and Clint Eastwood-with whom he didn't work.
Cobb was also followed by controversy: he appeared before the House
Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s and was a witness to
a movie-set murder case in the 1970s. Through it all, he never lost
his taste for fast cars and gin rummy. A bear of a man with a voice
that equally accommodated growls and sibilant sympathies, Cobb was
undeniably an actor to be reckoned with. In this fascinating book,
Dewey captures all of the drama that surrounded Cobb, both on
screen and off.
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