Trucker Cobb — The Flight of the Phoenix Character Profile

About Trucker Cobb

An oil worker foreman suffering from mental fatigue. He defies orders to stay behind during the oasis search, wanders into the desert, and succumbs to exposure.

Character Facts

Played by

Ernest Borgnine

Appears in

The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (2)

• Trucker Cobb — Conflict Defiant Outcast — Frank Towns (James Stewart)

  Mentally unstable worker who disobeys orders and perishes.

• Trucker Cobb — Conflict Commander & Defiant — Captain Harris (Peter Finch)

  Authority figure whose orders are openly defied by the worker.

Explore the full interactive character relationship map of The Flight of the Phoenix

More characters from The Flight of the Phoenix

• Frank Towns (James Stewart)
• Lew Moran (Richard Attenborough)
• Captain Harris (Peter Finch)
• Heinrich Dorfmann (Hardy Krüger)
• Gabriel (Gabriele Tinti)
• Crow (Ian Bannen)
• Bill (William Aldrich)
• Arab Singer (voice) (uncredited) (Stanley Ralph Ross)
• Farida (Barrie Chase)
• Carlos (Alex Montoya)
• Tasso (Peter Bravos)
• Sergeant Watson (Ronald Fraser)