Bill Cobbs
Birthday: 1934-06-16
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Biography: William Francisco Cobbs (June 16, 1934 – June 25, 2024) was an American actor. He was known for such film roles as Louisiana Slim in The Hitter (1979), Walter in The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Reginald in Night at the Museum (2006) and Master Tinker on Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). He played Lewis Coleman on I'll Fly Away (1991–1993), Jack on The Michael Richards Show (2000), and had guest appearances on Walker, Texas Ranger and The Sopranos. In 2020, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Performance in a Daytime Program for the series Dino Dana. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Cobbs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Bodyguard
A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened ...
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Night at the Museum
Chaos reigns at the natural history museum when night watchman Larry Daley accidentally stirs up an ...
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Enough
Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch...
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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Ever since killing the Fisherman one year ago, Julie James is still haunted by images of him after h...
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New Jack City
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. ...
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Air Bud
A lonely boy befriends a stray dog who has a natural talent for basketball and together they experie...
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The Hudsucker Proxy
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock sc...
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Bird
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his rema...
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The Color of Money
Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He...
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Ed
Jack Cooper could be a world-class baseball pitcher if he didn't keep buckling under the pressure. H...
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Hope Floats
Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping...
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Demolition Man
In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to dec...
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Always Outnumbered
An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More impo...
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Hard Luck
Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A...
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The People Under the Stairs
Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy quickly learns the true na...
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Paulie
Paulie, a talking parrot, recounts his travels looking for his original owner to a Russian janitor w...
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Greased Lightning
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier N...
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Get Low
A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Te...
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The Final Patient
When retired physician Daniel Green (Bill Cobbs, Night at the Museum) lifts a 5-ton farm tractor off...
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Oz the Great and Powerful
Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of O...
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Caroltyn
When a mysterious illness targets several children in the small town of Caroltyn, young single mom K...
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The Derby Stallion
An alcoholic former horse-trainer perceives in a fifteen-year-old boy a unique gift of horsemanship ...
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The Tenant
A simple man, Dr. Walter Newman has high aspirations to cure all disease through genetic manipulatio...
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No Limit Kids - Much Ado About Middle School
No Limit Kids centers on a group of young teens that band together to save their town's landmark, th...
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Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly....
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Moe's World
The spirit of a deceased 11-year-old boy acts as the guardian of his family and friends in the worki...
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Decoration Day
A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin hi...
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Lukewarm
Luke Rogers was the ideal "Christian". Now in his mid-twenties, Luke has found himself far from the ...
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Carolina Skeletons
After a long time in the army, an Afro-American soldier returns to his hometown, where, years ago, h...
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The Hitter
An ex-professional boxer gets a new start when teaming up with an ageing hoodlum and an ex-call girl...
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The Ultimate Life
Despite his best intentions, billionaire Jason Stevens can’t find enough time to keep his beloved Al...
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Captiva Island
While vacationing on Captiva Island, Florida with his parents, a teen, gloomy about his future, find...
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A House Is Not a Home
Ben (Webb) and Linda Williams move the family into a dream home in a last ditch effort to save their...
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Tuesday Morning Ride
Tuesday Morning Ride is based on the short story "A Summer Tragedy" by Arna Bontemps, a Harlem Renai...
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Block Party
Recent Harvard grad Keke McQueen, 23, is eager to ditch her hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan for h...
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Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
A Louisiana governor becomes a controversial political kingpin during the Depression....
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I'll Fly Away: Then and Now
Lilly Taylor returns to her hometown for the first time in thirty years, where she remembers the dra...
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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
When the magic powers of The Tablet of Ahkmenrah begin to die out, Larry Daley spans the globe, unit...
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The Hard Way
Seeking to raise his credibility as an actor and to land a role as a tough cop on a new show, Hollyw...
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Three Days to Vegas
Four grumpy old men go on a road trip from their retired life in Florida to the excitement of Las Ve...
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Divas
Members of an all-female black singing group learn about the industry and themselves in their rise t...
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Dear Secret Santa
Beverly Hills banker/workaholic Jennifer comes home to her small Northern California town just befor...
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Nightjohn
John is a man of many talents, including one forbidden skill: he can read. When he teaches a young s...
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The Muppets
When Kermit the Frog and the Muppets learn that their beloved theater is slated for demolition, a sy...
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That Thing You Do!
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with...
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First Kid
Some say that to be the leader of a country is one of the loneliest jobs in the world. But being the...
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid...
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Roadside Prophets
On a quest to fulfill a friend's last wish, Joe takes to the desert road on his 1957 Harley-Davidson...
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The Brother from Another Planet
A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through th...
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Greased Lightning
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier N...
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Special Ed
Dr. David Edwards is a cancer specialist, and his life is his work. His only friend is Lou Rosen, 73...
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Fluke
Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and reincarnates as a dog. Remembering some of hi...
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Duck
An aging widower and a duck encounter helpful and hostile characters as they search for a place and ...
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The Member of the Wedding
12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams dreams of going away with her brother and his bride-to-be on their...
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Call Me King
In the international world of gun running... loyalty, honor and discretion are valuable commodities,...
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Random Hearts
After losing their spouses in a plane crash, an internal affairs cop and a congresswoman find each o...
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For All Time
A man facing middle-age and a failing marriage finds a time slip that can take him back to the end o...
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The Great Gilly Hopkins
Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with ...
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The Search for Santa Paws
When Santa and his new best friend, Paws, discover that the boys and girls of the world have lost th...
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The Ultimate Legacy
A self-absorbed young man is challenged to grow a conscience and change his ways in order to receive...
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A Mighty Wind
Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following ...
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Christmas In Palm Springs
Jessica has a big presentation in Palm Springs. There are a couple of problems though: her two kids ...
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On Angel's Wings
When the Angel's Soccer team's top player is injured, the Coach decides to play water girl McKenzie ...
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Orphaned after her parents are killed in an accident, Goldilocks is sent to live with her Uncle Hal ...
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Queen of Swing
QUEEN OF SWING recounts the true story of a Jazz Age trailblazer — 95-year-old entertainer Norma Mil...
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New Life
Benjamin Morton's life changed forever the day he met the little girl next door. Ava was and always...
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Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress B...
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The January Man
Nick and Frank Starkey were both policemen. A scandal forced Nick to leave the force, now a serial k...
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Exiled in America
A Central American revolutionary is captured and tortured by government forces. He escapes and flees...
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My Christmas Grandpa
The cashier at a small market is a grouchy man who never has a smile for anyone; but when a little g...
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Fatal Instinct
Ned Ravine is a police officer and lawyer who occasionally defends the delinquents he arrests. He cr...
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Sunshine State
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal...
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Suspect
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to...
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Five Corners
A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the wo...
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Dominick and Eugene
Dominick and Eugene are twins, but Dominick is a little bit slow due do an accident in his youth. Th...
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The Arcadian
The Arcadian follows "The Lighthouse Keeper" on a story of revenge and redemption in a strange futur...
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Out There
A Pulitzer Prize winning photographer is fired from his job for not being sensationalistic enough. A...
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The Cotton Club
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...
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The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood i...
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Beyond the Law
When a former detective learns of the murder of his estranged son, he ventures back to the darkened ...
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Trading Places
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by t...
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Of Mind and Music
Dr. Alvaro Cruz, a neuroscientist, disillusioned by the death of his mother and his inability to hel...
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Silkwood
Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highl...
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The Last Letter
Catharine Wright struggles with a debilitating sleep disorder. Her husband Michael struggles to cope...
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The Ultimate Gift
When his wealthy grandfather finally dies, Jason Stevens fully expects to benefit when it comes to t...
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This Man's Life
A magical tale about a man traveling home to claim his estranged father's inheritance when he encoun...
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A Rugrats Kwanzaa
When Aunt T. visits the Carmichaels to celebrate Kwanzaa, she tells Susie the holiday is a time to h...
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The Undershepherd
Best friends LC and Roland are two young ministers, climbing the ranks at the First Baptist Church u...
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Ghosts of Mississippi
A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to bring a white supremacist ...
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Saving Paradise
A ruthless corporate raider is forced to return to his small town roots where he suddenly inherits h...
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Dino Dana: The Movie
Finds 10-year-old Dana, who sees dinosaurs in the real world, solving dino experiment #901 - where a...
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A Boy and a Boa
A story of a young boy and his pet boa. The boa gets loose in a library and gives the viewer a snake...
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Johnny Bull
An English girl comes to America to join her American husband in a Pennsylvania coal town in the lat...
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Compromising Positions
An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigat...
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Streets of Gold
Alek is an immigrant from the Soviet Union who was a talented boxer in his day, but he was not allow...
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Broken Church
Rev. James Logan and his wife Beverly Logan were forced into a vicious spiritual warfare against the...
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