Trivia

For the aged, post-Apocalyptic look of Steel in 1999's "Superman versus The Terminator" comics, Cobbs' likeness was used.

He was awarded the 1988 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "Driving Miss Daisy" in Chicago, Illinois.

In 2020, Bill won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Performance in a Daytime Program for playing Mr. Hendrickson in Dino Flyer/Dino Prints (2019).

Often confused with actor Bill Cosby.

Lives in New York City and Los Angeles, California.

In addition to co-starring with Mickey Rooney in the Night at the Museum movies (both playing night watchmen), they also had appearances in 2011's Muppets movie.

In 2020, he guest starred in the two-part series finale of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., portraying an unnamed elderly S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.

As an amateur actor in the city's Karamu House Theater, Cobbs starred in the Ossie Davis play Purlie Victorious. Cobbs was in Vegetable Soup (1976), a New York public television educational series, and he made his feature film debut with a one-line role in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three in 1974.

Second cousin of James Baskett.

Bill Cobbs was an American actor, known for such film roles as Louisiana Slim in The Hitter (1979), Walter in The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Reginald in Night at the Museum (2006) and Master Tinker on Oz the Great and Powerful (2013).