Name
Irvin S. Cobb
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1876-06-23
Deathday
1944-03-10 (68 years old)
Place of Birth
Paducah, Kentucky, USA
Biography
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876 – March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky who relocated to New York in 1904, living there for the remainder of his life. He wrote for the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States.
Known For
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Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Pos...
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Jeffrey and Glenda are two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their ...
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A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady n...
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. I...
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With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century ...
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A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while tr...
- 1938 The Young in Heart as Senator Albert Jennings
- 1935 Steamboat Round the Bend as Captain Eli
- 1938 The Arkansas Traveler as Town Constable
- 1930 Cobb Goes Fishing as Irvin
- 1938 Hawaii Calls as Captain O'Hare
- 1935 Movies on Sundays as Himself
- 1936 Pepper as John Wilkes
- 1935 La Fiesta de Santa Barbara as Self
- 1935 A Dream Comes True as Himself (uncredited)
- 1940 Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self (archive footage)
- 1934 You Bring the Ducks as Irvin S. Cobb
- 1934 The Ballad of Paducah Jail as Fictional Irvin S. Cobb
- 1936 Everybody's Old Man as William Franklin
- 1914 The Lambs' All-Star Gambol as Self
