Invoice Cobbs, an actor with over 50 years of expertise in Hollywood, is useless … TMZ has confirmed.
Invoice died Tuesday at his dwelling within the Inland Empire in CA … in line with his publicist, Chuck I. Jones.
With an appearing profession spanning all the best way again to the Seventies, Invoice has almost 200 film and TV present credit to his identify.
Some highlights … he performed Devaney, one in every of Whitney Houston’s staffers, in “The Bodyguard,” Louisiana Slim in 1979’s “The Hitter,” was Walter in 1984’s “The Brother from Another Planet,” and had a job as Reginald in 2006’s “Night at the Museum.”
Invoice was additionally in 2013’s “Oz the Great and Powerful” as Grasp Tinker and performed Arthur Chaney in 1997’s “Air Bud.”
He made his function movie debut in 1974 with a component in “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.”
His TV credit embrace a recurring position as Lewis Coleman on “I’ll Fly Away” within the early Nineties … plus visitor appearances on “Walker, Texas Ranger” and “The Sopranos” … simply to call just a few.
Invoice even gained a Daytime Emmy Award … taking dwelling the {hardware} for Excellent Restricted Efficiency in a Daytime Program for his work on the children present “Dino Dana.”
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Invoice served within the Air Power for 8 years and labored at IBM and as a automobile salesman earlier than relocating to New York to seek out work as an actor.
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Invoice additionally acted in theater productions and performed the drums.
He was 90 and had simply reached that milestone birthday on June sixteenth, and his brother Thomas Cobbs posted says the entire household was capable of rejoice with him … calling Invoice a “beloved partner, big brother, uncle, surrogate parent, godfather and friend.”
Thomas tells us Invoice was lately battling pneumonia, which is the suspected explanation for loss of life.
He added, “As a family we are comforted knowing Bill has found peace and eternal rest with his Heavenly Father. We ask for your prayers and encouragement during this time.”
RIP
