Acting Career
As a Hollywood actor Cobb has played a series of villainous roles in films such as Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol, Raising Arizona, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Golden Child, Liar Liar, Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult, Fletch Lives, and Ernest Goes to Jail. He has made some guest appearances on television shows, including Miami Vice, Highlander: The Series, Married... with Children, Moonlighting, Walker, Texas Ranger, MacGyver (in which he played a character named "Earthquake"), and The X-Files. Cobb's other appearances include the 1983 hit movie Uncommon Valor, which reversed his villainous image; the 1987 movie Critical Condition, in which he plays a character in the psych ward who thinks he's a "brother" (an African-American); The Champ, which referred to his boxing career by casting Cobb as a boxer that fights the title character, Billy Flynn; and Diggstown in which he plays a prison inmate who fights at the behest of a con man.
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