Bill Cobbs, an actor with over 50 years of experience in Hollywood, is dead ... TMZ has confirmed.
Bill died Tuesday night at his home in Riverside, CA ... according to his publicist, Chuck I. Jones. The cause of death is unclear.
With an acting career spanning all the way back to the 1970s, Bill has nearly 200 movie and TV show credits to his name.
Some highlights ... he played Devaney, one of Whitney Houston's staffers, in "The Bodyguard," Louisiana Slim in 1979's "The Hitter," was Walter in 1984's "The Brother from Another Planet," and had a role as Reginald in 2006's "Night at the Museum.