Bill Cobbs

Name: Bill Cobbs
Date of Birth: June 16, 1935
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Mini-bio: Bill Cobbs was born and raised in Cleveland, where his mother was a cleaning lady and his father was a construction worker. As an amateur actor in the city's Karamu House Theater, he starred in the Os...( read more)

Post it anywhere	Link it anywhere
<div style="font-size:11px;text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/actor/bill-cobbs"> <img src="http://content6.flixster.com/photo/39/10/46/3910468_tml.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="Bill Cobbs" /></a><br/><a href="http://www.flixster.com/actor/bill-cobbs">Bill Cobbs</a></div>	<a href="http://www.flixster.com/actor/bill-cobbs">Bill Cobbs</a>

report missing or incorrect data

Bill Cobbs Wiki Profile

Welcome to the Bill Cobbs wiki profile. This page is created by Flixster users like you with the help of friendly community Flixster Experts.

No Expert yet! Want your picture here? Click here.

Adding your knowledge to this page is easy. Just click the "EasyEdit" button below. To become a Flixster Expert or find out more about the program, click here. And for general help on the wiki, click here.

No pages yet
Add a page

Bill Cobbs Biography Bill Cobbs Quotes Bill Cobbs Best Movies and Characters

EasyEdit

(What's this?)

What's going on here?
Flixster members are collaborating to create the definitive resource for Bill Cobbs information on the Internet. We're adding all the images, info, and ideas that best tell this actor's unique story. To add your knowledge of Bill Cobbs, just log in and click the EasyEdit button at the top of the wiki pages. (Click here for help.)

Bill Cobbs mini-bio: Bill Cobbs was born and raised in Cleveland, where his mother was a cleaning lady and his father was a construction worker. As an amateur actor in the city's Karamu House Theater, he starred in the Ossie Davis play "Purlie Victorious". Cobbs was an Air Force radar technician for eight years; he also worked in office products at IBM and sold cars in Cleveland. In 1970, at the age of 36, he left for New York to seek work as an actor. There he turned down a job in the NBC sales department in order to have time for auditions. He supported himself by driving a cab, repairing office equipment, selling toys, and performing odd jobs. His first professional acting role was in "Ride a Black Horse" at the Negro Ensemble Company. From there he appeared in small theater productions, street theater, regional theater and at the Eugene O'Neill Theater. His first television credit was in "Vegetable Soup" (1976), a New York public television educational series, and he made his feature film debut in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) in 1974. In his free time Cobbs enjoys music, reading, playing his drums, and learning how to play golf.