Edmund Fessenden Cobb (June 23, 1892 – August 15, 1974) was an American actor who appeared in more than 620 films between 1912 and 1966.

[1] His maternal grandfather, Edmund G. Ross,[2] was a newspaper editor, a governor of the New Mexico territory, a senator from Kansas, and a leader in the abolitionist movement in the United States.

When he was 18, he worked for the St. Louis Motion Picture Company when it made a film in Albuquerque.

[3] One of his earliest roles was a bit part in the Essanay Studios film A Pueblo Legend (1912).

[4] Cobb died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, in 1974 from a heart attack.