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Bill Cobbs, Night at the Museum, The Bodyguard and Air Bud actor, dies aged 90


Ohio native who often played a familiar and memorable everyman likely died of natural causes, says publicist

Cobbs died Tuesday at his home in the Inland Empire, California, surrounded by family and friends, his publicist Chuck I Jones said. He was Whitney Houston’s manager in The Bodyguard (1992), the mystical clock man of the Coen brothers’ The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) and the doctor of John Sayles’s Sunshine State (2002). Wilbert Francisco Cobbs, born 16 June 1934, served eight years in the US air force after graduating high school in Cleveland.

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