Born on 12-8-versatile screen icon Lee J. Cobb who was the bitter jurist #3 in the Sidney Lumet masterpiece 12 Angry Men (1957) who tried to bully the wise kindly senior jurist # 9 (first to back Henry Fonda in his “Not Guilty” vote) played to perfection by Joseph Sweeney…. However, talk about great actors reversing roles in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) Sweeney shows off his diverse acting range when he plays the bitter old man Edward M. Schultz who tries to cheat Gregory Peck/Jennifer Jones out of a family inheritance and Lee J. Cobb plays Bernstein the wise kindly Connecticut judge who exposes Sweeney as a fraud.
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