
Bill Cobbs
Born June 16, 1934 · Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

Night at the Museum

Trading Places

Demolition Man

The Bodyguard

The Muppets

The People Under the Stairs

Oz the Great and Powerful

Hope Floats

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

Air Bud

That Thing You Do!

New Jack City

The Ultimate Gift

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

Enough

The Color of Money

The Hard Way

The Ultimate Life

Random Hearts

Paulie

The Hudsucker Proxy

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

Get Low

The Cotton Club

The Search for Santa Paws

Beyond the Law

Fluke

First Kid

Silkwood

Suspect

The January Man

The Great Gilly Hopkins

Fatal Instinct

Ghosts of Mississippi

Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long

A Mighty Wind

Bird

Five Corners

The Brother from Another Planet

Hard Luck

Ed

The Undershepherd

New Life

Out There

Greased Lightning

Duck
TV Shows

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

JAG

NYPD Blue

ER

Coach

Star Trek: Enterprise

The Practice

Six Feet Under

Army Wives

L.A. Law

The Drew Carey Show

Touched by an Angel

The Division

The Equalizer

Northern Exposure

The Outer Limits

The Wild Thornberrys

Walker, Texas Ranger

The Glades

My Wife and Kids

Designing Women

Empty Nest

Kate & Allie

The Wayans Bros.

Greenleaf

Harry's Law

Good Times

Spenser: For Hire

Yes, Dear

L.A. Doctors

Hand of God

Go On

Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior

10-8: Officers on Duty

I'll Fly Away

The Carmichael Show

October Road

True Colors

Soul Food

Gabriel's Fire

The Trials of Rosie O'Neill

The Michael Richards Show

Rake

The Others

Side Order of Life

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Rage of Angels
More Movies

No Limit Kids - Much Ado About Middle School

Caroltyn

The Ultimate Legacy

Christmas in Palm Springs

Dino Dana: The Movie

Three Days to Vegas

For All Time

Of Mind and Music

Compromising Positions

Moe's World

Always Outnumbered

Man with a Gun

The Derby Stallion

The Morgue

Sunshine State

Call Me King

Saving Paradise

Dear Secret Santa

A House Is Not a Home

A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Streets of Gold

A Rugrats Kwanzaa

Carolina Skeletons

Block Party

The Hitter

Decoration Day

Roadside Prophets

The Last Letter

My Christmas Grandpa

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

Dominick and Eugene

Exiled in America

Lukewarm

The Member of the Wedding

The Final Patient

Divas

Thrill

Nightjohn

The Arcadian

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

Johnny Bull

Broken Church

On Angel's Wings

Tuesday Morning Ride

Special Ed




