Cast: Lee J. Cobb

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Lee J. Cobb. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


12 Angry Men

1957 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Henry Fonda · Lee J. Cobb · Jack Warden · E.G. Marshall

Synopsis Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion?

8.7

67K votes

8.7

67K votes

On the Waterfront

1954 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Marlon Brando · Eva Marie Saint · Karl Malden · Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) is an ex-prize fighter struggling against union corruption along the New York waterfront. Malloy's battle takes him all the way to the witness stand, where he finds himself testifying against union leaders.

8.1

28K votes

8.1

28K votes

The Exorcist

1973 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction William Friedkin

Cast Linda Blair · Max von Sydow · Ellen Burstyn · Jason Miller

Synopsis Linda Blair plays Regan, a 12-year-old girl possessed by the devil. After exhausting all the options of science, psychology, and medicine, Regan's mother (Ellen Burstyn) realizes the supernatural nature of her daughter's condition and resorts to a religious solution, turning...

7.6

99K votes

7.6

99K votes

Party Girl

1958 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Robert Taylor · Cyd Charisse · Lee J. Cobb · John Ireland

Synopsis 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. But...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Call Northside 777

1948 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast James Stewart · Richard Conte · Lee J. Cobb · Helen Walker

Synopsis 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....

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Man of the West

1958 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Gary Cooper · Julie London · Lee J. Cobb · Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis On his way to hire a schoolteacher, a homesteader is left a hundred miles from anywhere when the train he is on is robbed. With him are an attractive dancehall girl and an untrustworthy gambler and he decides to get...

7.2

3K votes

7.2

3K votes

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

1962 · Movie · 153 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Glenn Ford · Ingrid Thulin · Charles Boyer · Paul Lukas

Synopsis Two rich families in Argentina have gathered to welcome Heinrich home after many years of medical studies in Germany. They are shocked when they hear that he has given up his studies and joined the Nazi Party. His cousin is...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

Thieves' Highway

1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Richard Conte · Valentina Cortese · Lee J. Cobb · Barbara Lawrence

Synopsis A war-veteran-turned-truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.

7.1

836 votes

7.1

836 votes

How the West Was Won

1962 · Movie · 164 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway · John Ford · George Marshall · Richard Thorpe

Cast Carroll Baker · James Stewart · Debbie Reynolds · Gregory Peck

Synopsis The fifty years of American westward expansion between the 1830s and 1880s are viewed through the experiences of the Prescott and Rawlings families, as they migrate by the Erie Canal, continue over the prairies from St. Louis during the California...

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

The Brothers Karamazov

1958 · Movie · 146 min. · United States

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Yul Brynner · Claire Bloom · Maria Schell · Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis This epic 19th-century Russian tale is based on the critically acclaimed novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Four very different brothers growing up in a rural village in tsarist Russia plot against their wealthy, overbearing father. When the eldest brother, Dmitri, falls...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Golden Boy

1939 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · William Holden · Adolphe Menjou · Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis 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. When he has second thoughts Moody's...

6.7

289 votes

6.7

289 votes

Exodus

1960 · Movie · 200 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Paul Newman · Eva Marie Saint · Ralph Richardson · Peter Lawford

Synopsis The theme is the founding of the state of Israel. Following World War II, the life of the Jewish nation is uncertain. The United Nations is contemplating taking a vote on creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Until then, many...

6.7

4K votes

6.7

4K votes

The Luck of the Irish

1948 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Tyrone Power · Anne Baxter · Cecil Kellaway · Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis Steven Fitzgerald, a newpaper reporter from New York, meets a leprechaun and a beautiful young woman while traveling in Ireland. When he returns to his fiance and her wealthy father's political campaign in New York, he finds that the leprechaun...

6.7

70 votes

6.7

70 votes

Boomerang!

1947 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Dana Andrews · Jane Wyatt · Lee J. Cobb · Arthur Kennedy

Synopsis 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. All of the witnesses identify John...

6.7

626 votes

6.7

626 votes

The Day of the Owl

1968 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Franco Nero · Lee J. Cobb · Tano Cimarosa

Synopsis 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. Salvatore Colasbena, a construction supplier, was murdered #...

6.7

344 votes

6.7

344 votes

Johnny O'Clock

1947 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

6.7

172 votes

6.7

172 votes

The Three Faces of Eve

1957 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Nunnally Johnson

Cast Joanne Woodward · David Wayne · Lee J. Cobb · Nancy Kulp

Synopsis Eve White is a quiet, mousy, unassuming wife and mother who keeps suffering from headaches and occasional black outs. Eventually she is sent to see psychiatrist Dr. Luther, and, while under hypnosis, a whole new personality emerges: the racy, wild,...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

The Song of Bernadette

1943 · Movie · 156 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Jennifer Jones · William Eythe · Charles Bickford · Vincent Price

Synopsis 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....

6.5

920 votes

6.5

920 votes

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

1956 · Movie · 153 min. · United States

Direction Nunnally Johnson

Cast Gregory Peck · Jennifer Jones · Fredric March · Marisa Pavan

Synopsis A very long and serious adaptation of the Sloan Wilson novel about a Madison Avenue advertising exec trying to balance his life between work and family. A man returns home after World War II and finds it tough to support...

6.4

443 votes

6.4

443 votes