John Cobb was born on 23 December 1879 in Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for The Lure of a Woman (1921). He was married to Millie Louisa Lee. He died on 9 October 1941 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
Veteran of the Spanish-American War; worked as a janitor in a bank in Salina, Kansas; then moved first to Lincoln, Kansas, and then to Kansas City, Kansas. He worked as a construction worker and cement finisher.