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Invoice Cobbs, a prolific character actor who had a 50-year profession with nearly 200 movie and TV credit, died Tuesday at his residence in Riverside, Calif., his rep confirmed. He was 90.
Amongst his most notable roles had been on Season 3 of “The West Wing,” the place his character Alan Tatum visits the White Home together with his son. Within the Coen brothers “The Hudsucker Proxy,” Cobbs performed Moses, the clock man who delivers the prologue originally of the movie.
Cobbs performed supervisor Devaney in “The Bodyguard” starring Whitney Houston.
His first tv credit score was 1975’s “Vegetable Soup,” a New York public tv academic sequence. He went on to look in reveals like “The Sopranos,” “Good Occasions,” “Sesame Avenue” and “My Spouse and Children.” He additionally received a Daytime Emmy Award for excellent restricted efficiency in a daytime program for the sequence “Dino Dana” in 2020.
Within the “West Wing” episode, presidential private aide Charlie Younger tells Tatum that they’d rediscovered a letter he had written when he was 9 years outdated to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
He made his characteristic movie debut in 1974’s “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.” He later appeared in 1979’s “The Hitter,” 1984’s “Brother From One other Planet,” 1997’s “Air Bud,” “I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer time” and 2011’s “The Muppets.” He additionally performed safety guard Reginald in 2006’s “Night time on the Museum” starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.
Born in Cleveland, he served as an Air Drive radar technician and labored different jobs earlier than leaving for New York on the age of 36 to pursue performing. His first skilled performing function was in “Journey a Black Horse” on the New York Metropolis-based theater firm and workshop, Negro Ensemble Firm. He later appeared in small theater productions, road theater, regional theater and on the Eugene O’Neill Theater.
Cobbs’ relative Thomas Cobbs, posted on Fb to commemorate Invoice Cobbs, calling him a “beloved companion, massive brother, uncle, surrogate guardian, godfather and good friend.”
“As a household we’re comforted realizing Invoice has discovered peace and everlasting relaxation together with his Heavenly Father,” the publish learn. “We ask to your prayers and encouragement throughout this time.”