
Lee J. Cobb
Lee J. Cobb (December 8, 1911 – February 11, 1976) ) was an American actor best known for his performance in 12 Angry Men (1957), his Academy Award-nominated performance in On the Waterfront, and one of his last films, 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. Born Leo Jacob in New York City, he grew up in The Bronx, before studying at New York University and making his film debut in The Vanishing Shadow (1934). Cobb performed in numerous theater productions and companies, including Group Theatre (New York) before serving in the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Force during World War II.
Following the war, Cobb returned to film, television and theater before being accused of being a Communist in 1951 testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee by Larry Parks, himself a former Communist Party member. Cobb was called to testify before HUAC but refused to do so for two years until, with his career threatened by the blacklist, he relented in 1953 and gave testimony in which he named 20 people as former members of the Communist Party USA. Following the hearing he resumed his career and worked with Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg, two other HUAC "friendly witnesses", on the 1954 film On the Waterfront, which is widely seen as an allegory and apologia for testifying. His 1968 performance as King Lear achieved the longest run (72 performances) for the play in Broadway history. One of his final film roles was that of police detective Lt. Kinderman in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist.
Cobb died of a heart attack in February 1976 in Woodland Hills, California, and was buried in Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. He was survived by his second wife, Mary Hirsch, and daughter, also an accomplished actress, Julie Cobb.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.299 |
Birthday | 1911-12-08 |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Lee Colt, Leo Jacoby, Cpl. Lee Cobb, Lee Cobb, Ли Дж. Кобб, لی جی. کاب, |

1954

On the Waterfront
7.9/1607
Terry Malloy is a kindhearted dockworker, and former boxer, who is tricked by his corrupt bosses into leading his friend to death. After falling in lo...
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On the Waterfront

1960

Exodus
6.6/201
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyp...
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Exodus

1949

Thieves' Highway
7.3/104
Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his fa...
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Thieves' Highway

1951

Sirocco
5.8/40
A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
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Sirocco

1967

In Like Flint
6.1/78
Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 3 Minutes while golfing with the President. Flint finds t...
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In Like Flint

1966

Our Man Flint
6.4/116
When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agen...
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Our Man Flint

1957

The Garment Jungle
6.4/25
Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union...
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The Garment Jungle

1962

How the West Was Won
7/442
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one...
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How the West Was Won

1958

Party Girl
6.8/66
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realiz...
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Party Girl

1973

The Exorcist
7.73/8081
When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do. As people begin to die,...
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The Exorcist

1948

Call Northside 777
6.6/157
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 t...
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Call Northside 777

1963

Come Blow Your Horn
4.8/19
The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.
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Come Blow Your Horn

1968

Coogan's Bluff
6.346/334
Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads int...
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Coogan's Bluff

1943

Tonight We Raid Calais
5.4/5
A British commando is on a one-man raid to destroy a bomb factory in Nazi-occupied France. He must enlist the aid of French farmers to complete his mi...
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Tonight We Raid Calais

1956

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
6.8/48
Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which...
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

1957

The Three Faces of Eve
7.2/138
A doctor treats a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder.
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The Three Faces of Eve

1973

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
5.8/25
On the run from her violent husband, Catherine Crocker witnesses a train robbery and is taken prisoner by a frontier outlaw gang, led by a bandit who’...
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The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

1971

Lawman
6.6/115
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a st...
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Lawman

1956

Miami Exposé
5.3/6
A police detective baits killer gamblers with a mob witness (Patricia Medina) in the Everglades.
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Miami Exposé

1958

Man of the West
6.5/208
Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley...
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Man of the West

1958

The Brothers Karamazov
6.6/43
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons...
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The Brothers Karamazov

1948

The Dark Past
5.8/35
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be ab...
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The Dark Past

1948

The Miracle of the Bells
6.3/13
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days...
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The Miracle of the Bells

1946

Anna and the King of Siam
6.1/36
In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.
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Anna and the King of Siam

1943

The Song of Bernadette
7/114
In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anythi...
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The Song of Bernadette

1939

Golden Boy
6.4/28
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangste...
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Golden Boy

1947

Captain from Castile
7.2/28
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to f...
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Captain from Castile

1955

The Left Hand of God
6.3/38
A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems...
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The Left Hand of God

1950

The Man Who Cheated Himself
6.2/43
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.
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The Man Who Cheated Himself

1969

Mackenna's Gold
6.6/184
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to ke...
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Mackenna's Gold

1947

Boomerang!
6.9/78
When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the p...
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Boomerang!

1947

Johnny O'Clock
6.2/43
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partn...
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Johnny O'Clock

1937

North of the Rio Grande
6/1
Hoppy's brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. To get them he makes himself seem to be a wanted man.
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North of the Rio Grande

1937

Rustlers' Valley
6/2
Hoppy clears Lucky on a charge of bank robbery and foils the plot of a crooked lawyer to rustle a herd of pedigree cattle and take over the valley.
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Rustlers' Valley

1962

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
5.9/49
In Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is married to a German thus leading to a crisis when Nazi...
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

1959

The Trap
6.8/16
Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the air...
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The Trap

1954

Gorilla at Large
5.6/12
At a carnival called the Garden of Evil, a man is murdered, apparently by a gorilla...or someone in a gorilla suit.
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Gorilla at Large

1973

The Great Kidnapping
6.8/7
In early seventies Italy, plagued by criminality and political terrorism, a fearless police commissioner is sent to restore law and order in a norther...
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The Great Kidnapping

1973

Double Indemnity
4.8/16
A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing...
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Double Indemnity

1968

The Day of the Owl
7.014/104
Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction sup...
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The Day of the Owl

1970

The Liberation of L.B. Jones
5.795/22
A successful African American businessman has a quarrel with a white policeman, suspecting that he is having an affair with his wife. The policeman's...
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The Liberation of L.B. Jones

1941

Paris Calling
5.4/5
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi st...
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Paris Calling

1959

But Not for Me
6/8
Out of hit ideas and seemingly in the twilight of his career, Broadway producer Russ Ward decides to give up the game. But when Russ lays off his nubi...
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But Not for Me

1968

They Came to Rob Las Vegas
5.7/20
After successfully assaulting an armored car between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the ambitions of the diverse members of the intrepid criminal gang col...
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They Came to Rob Las Vegas

1948

The Luck of the Irish
5.6/20
Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.
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The Luck of the Irish

1972

The Bull of the West
5.4/8
Two episodes of the TV series "The Virginian" edited together: "Duel at Shiloh" (2 Jan. 1963) and "Nobility of Kings" (10 Nov. 1965).
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The Bull of the West

1943

The Moon Is Down
6.7/12
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
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The Moon Is Down

1943

Buckskin Frontier
6/2
A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.
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Buckskin Frontier

1954

Yankee Pasha
4/2
Tale of an adventurer trying to rescue a damsel kidnapped by pirates.
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Yankee Pasha

1934

The Vanishing Shadow
6.5/3
A 12-episode serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicians. He develops a wide variety of complex devices...
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The Vanishing Shadow

1955

The Racers
6/2
An Italian daredevil turns Grand Prix driver and works his way up to Le Mans with his ballerina lover.
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The Racers

1978

The Meanest Men in the West
4.1/11
Bronson and Marvin star as murderous half-brothers who are running from the law as well as each other. A climatic confrontation proves to each of them...
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The Meanest Men in the West

2023

Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
7.3/3
A lyrical and spiritual cinematic essay on The Exorcist, the last film of Alexandre O. Philippe explores the uncharted depths of William Friedkin’s mi...
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Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist

1944

Winged Victory
5.5/2
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with...
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Winged Victory

1976

Cross Shot
6.1/4
A mobster kills a cop during a robbery and then finds himself pursued by the police, his gang, and the media.
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Cross Shot

1955

The Road to Denver
6/4
The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill finall...
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The Road to Denver

1940

This Thing Called Love
8/4
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
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This Thing Called Love

1974

The Great Ice Rip-Off
7/1
A retired cop goes up against a slick jewel thief and his gang, who have pulled a diamond heist and are trying to smuggle the diamonds cross-country.
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The Great Ice Rip-Off

1966

Death of a Salesman
5.9/9
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.
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Death of a Salesman

1951

The Family Secret
5.7/11
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
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The Family Secret

1938

Danger on the Air
5.9/4
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder...
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Danger on the Air

1953

The Tall Texan
5.4/4
Groups of desperate travelers journey together throughout the Southwest and soon find trouble when they all get gold fever. The action and drama are h...
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The Tall Texan

1974

The Balloon Vendor
7/2
A young boy tries to make living out of a puppet show when his mother abandons him and his father.
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The Balloon Vendor

1974

Trapped Beneath the Sea
5.8/4
Based on an incident that occurred off the coast of Florida in 1973, this film tells the story of four men who find themselves trapped in a mini-subma...
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Trapped Beneath the Sea

1952

The Fighter
6/2
A boxer, in Mexico, sets out to avenge the murder of his family by using the money from his winnings to purchase weapons.
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The Fighter

1939

The Phantom Creeps
4.31/21
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
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The Phantom Creeps

1971

Macho Callahan
4.3/16
A man tricked into enlisting in the Confederate army is later thrown into a hellish stockade on desertion charges. He eventually breaks out of the pri...
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Macho Callahan

1975

Mark Shoots First
6.7/5
Mark Terzi goes to Genoa to take on the case of a serial killer who calls himself "The Sphinx".
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Mark Shoots First

1954

Day of Triumph
0/1
A film about the last days of Jesus Christ.
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Day of Triumph

1976

Nick the Sting
6.7/9
Nick Hezard, a young con man, wants to avenge the death of a friend of his and organizes a swindle trying to cheat Robert Turner, an American business...
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Nick the Sting

1962

The Devil's Children
0/0
An old farmer, who has raised his daughter and son with the utmost severity, is soon faced with a mess in the family: the daughter sets fire to a barn...
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The Devil's Children

1964

The Brazen Bell
0/0
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The Brazen Bell

1965

The Final Hour
0/0
Two episodes of the TV series "The Virginian" edited together.
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The Final Hour

1975

That Lucky Touch
6/4
A European arms dealer meets a liberated woman journalist, who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO...
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That Lucky Touch

1975

Blood, Sweat and Fear
5.6/8
Police believe that a respectable industrialist is actually the head of drug smuggling ring in Milan.
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Blood, Sweat and Fear

1959

I, Don Quixote
0/0
The original TV play which evolved into the hit musical, "Man of La Mancha".
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I, Don Quixote

1941

Men of Boys Town
6.1/12
Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.
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Men of Boys Town

1959

Green Mansions
5.9/26
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon...
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Green Mansions

1970

Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man
0/0
A CBS television special, renowned for its legendary "Yma, Ava....Yma, Uta... Yma, Oona" sequence. Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man (1970), won...
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Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man

1944

Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane
0/0
U.S. Army Air Force pilot Bob Chilton and North American Aircraft designer Arthur Deeds show an Air Force colonel and major the new P-51B aircraft, ex...
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Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane

1972

Heat of Anger
0/0
A woman attorney and her young associate defend a wealthy contractor accused of murdering an ironworker who was having an affair with the contractor's...
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Heat of Anger

1957

12 Angry Men
8.5/8954
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of m...
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12 Angry Men

1974

Dr. Max
0/0
A small-town doctor neglects his family to look after his patients.
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Dr. Max

1949

The Phantom Creeps
3.333/6
An edited version of the 4½ hour serial about a mad scientist who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
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