Charge Cobbs, performing artist in ‘The West Wing’ and ‘The Bodyguard,’ passes on at 90

In "The West Wing," Cobbs as Alan Tatum visits the White House with his child — but he had more than 200 film and TV credits over a long career.

     Charge Cobbs in 1997.CBS through Getty Pictures file

  By Variety

Charge Cobbs, a productive character on-screen character who had a 50-year career with nearly 200 film and TV credits, passed on Tuesday at his domestic in Riverside, California, his rep affirmed. He was 90.

Among his most eminent parts was on Season 3 of “The West Wing,” where his character Alan Tatum visits the White House with his child. In the Coen brothers “The Hudsucker Proxy,” Cobbs played Moses, the clock man who conveys the preamble at the starting of the film.

Cobbs played director Devaney in “The Bodyguard” featuring Whitney Houston.

His to begin with tv credit was 1975’s “Vegetable Soup,” a Modern York open tv instructive arrangement. He went on to show up in appears like “The Sopranos,” “Good Times,” “Sesame Street” and “My Spouse and Kids.” He moreover won a Daytime Emmy Grant for extraordinary restricted execution in a daytime program for the arrangement “Dino Dana” in 2020.

In the “West Wing” scene, presidential individual assistant Charlie Youthful tells Tatum that they had rediscovered a letter he had composed when he was 9 a long time ancient to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

He made his highlight film make a big appearance in 1974’s “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.”