Veteran American Actor Bill Cobbs passes away at 90
Veteran American Actor Bill Cobbs passes away at 90
Veteran American actor Bill Cobbs, acknowledged for his portrayal as Louisiana Slim in ‘The Hitter’, Walter in ‘The Brother from Another Planet’ and Reginald in ‘Night at the Museum’ is no more.He was 90
His publicist, Chuck I. Jones, confirms Bill died of natural causes at his Riverside home.
Bill born on June 16, 1934, in Cleveland, Cobbs was acclaimed for his exceptional performance as Whitney Houston’s manager in ‘The Bodyguard’, the older brother of Medgar Evers in Rob Reiner’s ‘Ghosts of Mississippi’ a jazz pianist in Tom Hanks’ ‘That Thing You Do!’ and Master Tinker, builder of the Tin Woodsman, in Sam Raimi’s ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’.
Cobbs also made his appearance on Television shows ‘The Slap Maxwell Story’, ‘The Drew Carey Show’, ‘The Gregory Hines Show’ and ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’. He essayed the role of Moses in the Coen brothers’ 1994 film ‘The Hudsucker Proxy’, a mystical clock man whose power to freeze time comes in handy for Tim Robbins’ Norville Barnes.
The actor also played a supporting role in ‘Night at the Museum’ as Reginald, a security guard on the verge of retirement. His other remarkable roles include as a basketball coach and retired basketball player Arthur Chaney in Disney’s ‘Air Bud’ and Medgar Evers’s older brother Charles Evers in Rob Reiner’s ‘Ghosts of Mississippi’. He also played the fictional jazz pianist Del Paxton in Tom Hanks’s ‘That Thing You Do’. He made a brief appearance in the 2010 film ‘The Search for Santa Paws’.
In 2020, he made a guest appearance in the two-part series finale of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D Wilbert Francisco
Following his graduation from East Tech High School in Cleveland, he worked for eight years in the U.S. Air Force, where he experimented with stand-up comedy. He worked for IBM and sold cars before he acted onstage for the first time in 1969 in the anti-apartheid musical Lost in the Stars at Karamu House in his hometown.
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