FrameThrower · Actors · Lee J. Cobb
Lee J. Cobb
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1957–1973
Born 8 December 1911 · New York City, New York, USA · died 11 February 1976
Lee J. Cobb was an American actor. He was best known for his performances in On the Waterfront (1954), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, 12 Angry Men (1957), and The Exorcist (1973). He also played the role of Willy Loman in the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan. On television, Cobb costarred in the first four seasons of the popular, long-running western series The Virginian. He typically played arrogant, intimidating, and abrasive characters, but often had roles as respectable figures such as judges.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1957–1973
- Golden Plate Award1960
- Donaldson Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Lee takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Lee takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 130 frames from Lee J. Cobb's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.