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Cobb is a american film of genre Drama directed by Ron Shelton released in USA on 2 december 1994 with Tommy Lee Jones
Cobb (1994)
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Add to a movie listCobb is a 1994 biopic starring Tommy Lee Jones as the famed baseball player Ty Cobb. It was written and directed by Ron Shelton and was based on a book by Al Stump. The original music score was composed by Elliot Goldenthal.
Synopsis
Sportswriter Al Stump is hired in 1960 as ghostwriter of an authorized autobiography of baseball player Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb. Now 73 and in failing health, Cobb wants an official biography to "set the record straight" before he dies.Actors
Tommy Lee Jones
(Ty Cobb)
Robert Wuhl
(Al Stump)
Lolita Davidovich
(Ramona)
Ned Bellamy
(Ray)
Lou Myers
(Willie)
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