Veteran Actor Bill Cobbs Dead at 90, Roles in ‘Bodyguard,’ ‘Air Bud’ and More

Bill Cobbs, an actor with over 50 years of expertise in Hollywood, is useless … TMZ has confirmed.

Bill died Tuesday evening at his residence in Riverside, CA … in line with his publicist, Chuck I. Jones.

With an performing profession spanning all the best way again to the Seventies, Bill has practically 200 film and TV present credit to his title.

Some highlights … he performed Devaney, one among Whitney Houston’s staffers, in “The Bodyguard,” Louisiana Slim in 1979’s “The Hitter,” was Walter in 1984’s “The Brother from Another Planet,” and had a task as Reginald in 2006’s “Night at the Museum.”

Bill was additionally in 2013’s “Oz the Great and Powerful” as Grasp Tinker and performed Arthur Chaney in 1997’s “Air Bud.”

He made his function movie debut in 1974 with an element in “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.”

His TV credit embrace a recurring position as Lewis Coleman on “I’ll Fly Away” within the early Nineties … plus visitor appearances on “Walker, Texas Ranger” and “The Sopranos” … simply to call just a few.

Bill even received a Daytime Emmy Award … taking residence the {hardware} for Excellent Restricted Efficiency in a Daytime Program for his work on the children present “Dino Dana.”

Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Bill served within the Air Pressure for 8 years and labored at IBM and as a automobile salesman earlier than relocating to New York to seek out work as an actor.

Bill additionally acted in theater productions and performed the drums.

He was 90 and had simply reached that milestone birthday on June sixteenth, and his brother Thomas Cobbs posted says the entire household was in a position to have a good time with him … calling Bill a “beloved partner, big brother, uncle, surrogate parent, godfather and friend.”

Thomas tells us Bill was just lately battling pneumonia, which is the suspected reason behind loss of life.

He added, “As a family we are comforted knowing Bill has found peace and eternal rest with his Heavenly Father. We ask for your prayers and encouragement during this time.”