TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Lee J. Cobb.
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Birthdate: December 8, 1911
Death date: February 11, 1976
Lee J. Cobb
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
1.1923
4
1940s
2.7226
17
1950s
2.6236
23
1960s
2.6254
13
1970s
1.9741
10
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.8251
2.8251
Lee J. Cobb Movie Rankings
1
3.9683The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. ...more about 12 Angry Men
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $10.20
(5 sellers)
2
3.6087The Exorcist is based on the 1971 novel by William Peter Blatty and considered one of the scariest movies of all time. The devil possesses the body of a young girl and it is up to two priests to expel it from her body before she is too strong to control. ...more about Exorcist
DVD from $5.24
(10 sellers)
3
3.5617Terry has been a witness and participant in the murder of dockworker, Joey. Terry's conscience begins to get the best of him when he starts falling for Joey's sister. Soon Terry will have to stand up against some of the most powerful men in New Jersey. ...more about On the Waterfront
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
DVD from $11.84
(13 sellers)
4
3.0383
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. ...more about Call Northside 777
DVD from $5.90
(12 sellers)
5
2.9841
In 1862, young English widow Anna Owens accepts the job of teaching the royal children of Siam. On her arrival in Bangkok, culture clash is immediate. The king respects Anna for standing up to him, though this appalls his courtiers. ...more about Anna and the King of Siam
DVD from $4.86
(10 sellers)
6
2.9785
On his way to hire a schoolteacher, a homesteader is left a hundred miles from anywhere when the train he is on is robbed. ...more about Man of the West
- Not Available on DVD
8
2.8974
Flint is a super spy that has all the right moves and all the right gadgets. When he finds that agents from around the world are being murdered it's Flints job to find who these villains are and save the world. ...more about Our Man Flint
DVD from $12.79
(9 sellers)
9
2.8645
Eve White is a quite, mousy, unassuming wife and mother who keeps suffering from headaches and occasional black outs. Eventually she is sent to see psychiatrist Dr. ...more about Three Faces of Eve
DVD from $4.86
(11 sellers)
10
2.8524
In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the virgin Mary. ...more about Song of Bernadette
DVD from $5.99
(12 sellers)
12
2.7798
Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 90 seconds while golfing with the president. ...more about In Like Flint
DVD from $12.79
(9 sellers)
13
2.7611
The gangster Colorado kidnaps Marshal McKenna. He believes that McKenna has seen a map which leads to a rich vein of gold in the mountains and forces him to show him the way. ...more about Mackenna's Gold
DVD from $3.92
(13 sellers)
14
2.6871
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. ...more about Brothers Karamazov
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.6697
Coogan, an Arizona cop, is sent to New York to collect a prisoner. Everyone in New York assumes Coogan is from Texas, much to his annoyance. To add to Coogan's problems the prisoner isn't ready, so he decides to cut a few corners. ...more about Coogan's Bluff
DVD from $3.92
(12 sellers)
17
2.6170
This dramatization of a factual incident opens in a quiet Connecticut town where a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner. The citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. ...more about Boomerang!
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.6057
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. ...more about Captain from Castile
DVD from $11.23
(11 sellers)
19
2.4382
Mr. and Mrs. Maitland give crippled Ted a dog and offer to provide him with an operation but they adopt Whitey. Whitey tries to visit a friend in reform school and inmate Flip is hiding in car as Whitey leaves. ...more about Men of Boys Town
DVD from $5.99
(13 sellers)
20
2.3296
Lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career defending crooks in trials. He has never realised that there is a downside to his success, until he meets the dancer Vicki Gayle. She makes him decide to get a better reputation. ...more about Party Girl
- Not Available on DVD
21
2.2784
Joe Bonaparte's father wants him to pursue his musical talent; but Joe wants to be a boxer. Persuading near-bankrupt manager Tom Moody to give him a chance, Joe quickly rises in his new profession. ...more about Golden Boy
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.2556
When the Germans invade Norway their Commandant and the town Mayor confront each other, attempting to maintain civility as far as possible. ...more about Moon Is Down
- Not Available on DVD
24
2.1245
The history of Western expansion in the United States as told by the story of one pioneer family's history. Zebulon Prescott takes his family from New York, heading West in the early 1800s. ...more about How the West Was Won
DVD from $9.58
(5 sellers)
25
2.1141
Steven Fitzgerald, a newpaper reporter from New York, meets a leprechaun and a beautiful young woman while traveling in Ireland. ...more about Luck of the Irish
- Not Available on DVD
26
2.0605
The theme is the founding of the state of Israel. The action begins on a ship filled with Jewish immigrants bound for Israel who are being off loaded on Cyprus. ...more about Exodus
DVD from $5.99
(11 sellers)
29
1.9441
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Supporting Actor
- Not Available on DVD
30
1.8812
Granting her final request, a Hollywood press agent brings the dead body of an actress, who died after making her first and only film, back to her hometown for burial. ...more about Miracle of the Bells
- Not Available on DVD
32
1.6515
Rich Lois Frazer, divorcing her fortune-hunter husband, finds he's bought a gun. Suspecting he plans to kill her, she calls in her lover, who just happens to be Homicide Lieutenant Ed Cullen. When Ed arrives, the gun gets used... ...more about Man Who Cheated Himself
DVD from $5.99
(5 sellers)
33
1.6515
Salem, Massachusetts, 1800. Mountaineer Jason Starbuck rides into town with furs to sell and dreams to fulfill. He falls in love with Roxana, who breaks her previous engagement and leaves for France to await Jason. ...more about Yankee Pasha
- Not Available on DVD
35
1.2680
A young girl is kept isolated on her parents' plantation in the Amazon jungle and knows nothing about the outside world, until one day she meets a young man who fled to the jungle to escape political persecution, and she falls in love. ...more about Green Mansions
- Not Available on DVD
38
Russ Ward, after 30 years of producing Broadway plays, is ready to quit. His secretary, Ellie Brown, on being given notice, tells him she loves him. Russ proceeds to turn this into a hit play starring Ellie and romance her in a May-December affair. ...more about But Not for Me
- Not Available on DVD
45
Karl from Germany and Marcelo from France emigrated to Argentina and became brothers-in-law. Whatever happens later they will always preserve a strong family feeling. Karl soon returned to Germany to serve in the army. ...more about Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
DVD from $12.06
(2 sellers)
46
Based on the Leonardo Sciascia novel of the same title, this story deals with the difficulties facing a northern police officer investigating a Mafia murder in a small Sicilian town in 1961. ...more about The Day of the Owl
- Not Available on DVD
47
At sinister carnival The Garden of Evil, the main attraction is Goliath, "world's largest gorilla...cost the lives of 1,000 men before his capture. ...more about Gorilla at Large
- Not Available on DVD
49
A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. ...more about Left Hand of God
- Not Available on DVD
51
A man tricked into enlisting in the Confederate army is later thrown into a hellish stockade on desertion charges. ...more about Macho Callahan
- Not Available on DVD
54
Hoppy arives posing as an outlaw to avenge his brother's killing by Plunkett. After robbing a train and killing Plunkett, he gets to meet the boss known as the Lone Wolf and lead his next job. ...more about North of the Rio Grande
- Not Available on DVD
58
The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill finally gives up on his younger brother and heads for Colorado. ...more about Road to Denver
- Not Available on DVD
59
Hoppy is the foreman on a ranch owned by Randall Glenn. Lawyer Cal Howard is trying to pressure Glenn into mortgaging his property, but Hoppy saves the ranch and gets the girl, Glenn's daughter. ...more about Rustlers' Valley
- Not Available on DVD
60
In 1925 Damascus Harry Smith runs guns to the rebels under Emir Hassan. The French arrest him along with others and force him to sell weapons to them. He develops an interest in French intelligence officer Feroud's mistress Violette. ...more about Sirocco
DVD from $39.75
(1 sellers)
61
A European arms dealer (Roger Moore) meets a liberated woman journalist (Susannah York), who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO war games meeting. Needless to say, the two meet and make sparks. ...more about That Lucky Touch
- Not Available on DVD
62
Two professional people (Melvyn Douglas, Rosalind Russell) marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months, just to see if they are truly compatible. ...more about This Thing Called Love
- Not Available on DVD
63
British Intellengence dispatches Commando Geoffrey Carter (John Sutton) on a one-man raid to destroy a munitions plant that manufactures bombs in Nazi-occupied France. He enlists the aid of a patriotic farmer, M. Bonnard (Lee J. ...more about Tonight We Raid Calais
DVD from $5.99
(11 sellers)
64
Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit from the country. ...more about Trap
- Not Available on DVD
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