...as Emory Erickson.
Bill Cobbs (June 16, 1935 - ) was the actor who played Emory Erickson, the inventor of the transporter, in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Daedalus".
Cobbs has made numerous film and television appearances. One of his earliest motion pictures was 1977's Greased Lightning, which also featured Noble Willingham. Cobbs and Willingham would co-star together again in 1994's The Hudsucker Proxy, along with Roy Brocksmith and Mike Starr. He and Starr will have previously appeared in the 1987 film Five Corners and 1992's The Bodyguard.
In 1978, Cobbs appeared as a bartender in A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich, starring Paul Winfield. He also played a bartender in the 1983 comedy Trading Places, which also featured Ron Taylor. That same year, he had a role in the made-for-television movie Rage of Angels. Kevin Conway, Deborah May and John Glover also appeared in this movie.
He also appeared in 1983's Silkwood with Bruce McGill and Jim Beaver). In 1986, he had a supporting role in The Color of Money. Iggy Pop also appeared in that film. In 1988, Cobbs appeared in Clint Eastwood's Bird, as did Star Trek: Voyager star Tim Russ as well as Trek guest actors Hamilton Camp and Tony Todd. He was also a regular on the short-lived TV series The Slap Maxwell Story, co-starring Megan Gallagher.
Cobbs co-starred with Bob Gunton in the 1993 science fiction action film Demolution Man and in the 1995 TV movie Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long. Other films Cobbs appeared in throughout the 90s include New Jack City (1991, with Vanessa Williams), Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995, with Christopher Lloyd, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr., and Bill Bolender), Fluke (1995, with Ron Perlman), That Thing You Do! (1996, with Clint Howard), and Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). That last film also featured Susanna Thompson, Bill Smitrovich, Terry O'Quinn, Richard Riehle, Brock Peters, and Thomas Kopache. Cobbs and Susanna Thompson would also appear in 1999's Random Hearts. In 1998, Cobbs appeared in the film Paulie, along with Star Trek: Enterprise guest actor Bruce Davison, and in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, with frequent Trek guest actor Jeffrey Combs.
Cobbs also had a role in the 1995 made-for-TV science fiction comedy Out There, which co-stars the likes of Carel Struycken, Paul Dooley, and, in an uncredited cameo, Robert Picardo. Cobbs and Paul Dooley would both also appear in the 2003 film A Mighty Wind. Some of Cobbs' other more recent films include 2002's Sunshine State, with Miguel Ferrer, and Enough, with Bruce French and Jeff Kober.
Cobbs played the role of Tony in several episodes of The Drew Carey Show, from 2002 through its end in 2004. Actor Diedrich Bader was a regular on this series.
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