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Bill Cobbs, the convincing character actor who had pivotal turns in such films as The Hudsucker Proxy, Sunshine State and Night at the Museum, has died.

A native of Cleveland who excelled at comedy as well as drama, Cobbs portrayed Whitney Houston’s manager in The Bodyguard (1992), the older brother of Medgar Evers in Rob Reiner’s Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), a jazz pianist in Tom Hanks’ That Thing You Do!

In the Coen brothers’ The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), Cobbs portrayed Moses, the mystical clock man whose ability to stop time comes not a moment too soon for Tim Robbins’ Norville Barnes.

Cobbs headed east a year later and joined the Negro Ensemble Company in New York, working with the likes of Davis, Ruby Dee, Adolph Caesar and Moses Gunn.

Cobbs’ film résumé also included Greased Lightning (1977), Trading Places (1983), The Cotton Club (1984), The Color of Money (1986), New Jack City (1991), The Hard Way (1991), The People Under the Stairs (1991), Demolition Man (1993), Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead (1995), Hope Floats (1998), A Mighty Wind (2003), Three Days to Vegas (2007), Get Low (2009) and The Muppets (2011).

Cobbs also was a regular on Sam Waterston’s I’ll Fly Away, The Michael Richards Show, Julianne Nicholson’s The Others and Matthew Perry’s Go On, and he guest-starred on many other series, from The Equalizer, Kate & Allie and The Sopranos to Six Feet Under and Yes, Dear.

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