Lee J. Cobb

See also:. 857, The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. Other notable films he's appeared in include The Left Hand of God (1955), Twelve Angry Men (1957), The Brothers Karamazov (1958), Exodus (1960), How the West Was Won (1962), Coogan's Bluff (1968) and The Exorcist (1973), his last movie. The relevant bill is H.R. Following the hearing he resumed his career and worked with Kazan and Budd Schulberg, two other HUAC "friendly witnesses" on the 1954 film On the Waterfront which is widely seen as an allegory and aplogia for tesifying. Curtis and actress-activist Bo Derek met with Representative Jack Kingston (R-GA) in Washington, D.C., in May 2004 to discuss protecting horses. Later, Cobb explained why he "named names" saying:. Other notable roles include:.

He was called to testify before HUAC but refused to do so for two years until, with his career threatened by the blacklist, he relented in 1953 and gave testimony in which he named twenty people as former members of the Communist Party USA. He is probably best known for his role in the 1959 film Some Like It Hot, co-starring with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe. Cobb was named as a possible Communist in testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee because of his involvement in the Group Theatre. His earliest credited role is in the 1949 film City Across the River. Cobb was nominated for an Emmy Award for the performance. He was also married to actress Christine Kaufmann in the 1960s. He was in the original live TV movie, "Death of a Salesman" which included then unknown actors like Gene Wilder, Bernie Kopell, and George Segal. He has been married five times; his first wife was actress Janet Leigh, with whom he fathered actress Jamie Lee Curtis.

He also played James Coburn's supervisor in the psychedelic flicks, In Like Flint and Our Man Flint. Curtis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and received the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1995. He is probably best known for creating the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's stage play Death of a Salesman directed by Elia Kazan. Since at least the early 1980s Curtis has had a second career as a painter. In 1937 he made his movie debut in Ali Baba Goes to Town. Curtis has also appeared frequently on television; he co-starred with Roger Moore in the TV series The Persuaders. He was born Lee Jacoby in New York City. Cobb had studied at New York University when he joined the left wing Group Theatre in 1935 and appeared in its production of Clifford Odets' play Waiting for Lefty. June 3, 1925 in the Bronx, New York), an actor who has appeared in over 100 films since 1949.

Cobb (1911-1976) was an American actor. Tony Curtis is the stage name of Bernard Schwartz (b. Lee J. a stunt man in The Great Race (1965). Red Scare. Ferdinand Waldo Demara, the title role of The Great Impostor (1962); and. McCarthyism. appearing as Antoninus in Spartacus (1960);.