Veteran American actor Bill Cobbs, known for his roles as Louisiana Slim in “The Hitter,” Walter in “The Brother from Another Planet” and Reginald in “Night at the Museum,” has died. He was 90, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
According to his publicist, Chuck I. Jones, “he died of natural causes at his home in Riverside.”
Born on June 16, 1934 in Cleveland, Cobbs was known for his excellent performance as Whitney Houston’s manager in ‘The Bodyguard’ (1992), Medgar Evers’ older brother in Rob Reiner’s ‘Ghosts of Mississippi’ (1996), a jazz pianist in Tom Hanks’ ‘That Thing You Do’ (1996) and Master Tinker, builder of the Tin Woodman, in Sam Raimi’s ‘Oz the Powerful’ (2013).
Cobbs appeared on television shows such as “The Slap Maxwell Story,” “The Drew Carey Show,” “The Gregory Hines Show” and “Star Trek: Enterprise.”
Cobbs played Moses in the 1994 Coen brothers’ film “The Hudsucker Proxy,” a mystical clock whose power to freeze time comes in handy for Tim Robbins’ Norville Barnes.
Cobbs played a supporting role in “Night at the Museum” as Reginald, a security guard about to retire. His other notable roles were basketball coach and retired basketball player Arthur Chaney in Disney’s “Air Bud” and Medgar Evers’ older brother Charles Evers in Rob Reiner’s “Ghosts of Mississippi.” He also played fictional jazz pianist Del Paxton in Tom Hanks’ “That Thing You Do.” He had a brief appearance in the 2010 film “The Search for Santa Paws.”
In 2020, he appeared as a guest in the two-part series finale of Agents of SHIELD.
Wilbert Francisco Cobbs was born on June 16, 1934. After graduating from East Tech High School in Cleveland, he served for eight years in the U.S. Air Force, where he experimented with monologue. He worked for IBM and sold cars before performing on stage for the first time in 1969 in the anti-apartheid musical Lost in the Stars at Karamu House in his hometown.
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