# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-cobbs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:53:31.411Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-cobbs"
name: "Bill Cobbs"
slug: "bill-cobbs"
description: "Wilbert Francisco 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). He also played Lewis Coleman on I'll Fly Away (1991–1993), Jack on The Michael Richards Show (2000), and had guest appearances on Walker, Texas Ranger and The Sopranos. In 2012, he had a reoccurring role as George in the sitcom, Go On. In 2020, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Performance in a Daytime Program for the series Dino Dana."
tagline: "American actor (1934–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Cobbs_from_trailer_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1934-06-16"
deathDate: "2024-06-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.54
  momentum:             0.6096876753319619
  historical:           22.62114
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167850/"
    handle:    "nm0167850"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump