Film and television work His early works include
Dark Shadows, and the two tie-in feature films
House of Dark Shadows (1970) and
Night of Dark Shadows (1971). Cobert composed the scores for the 1972 TV movie
The Night Stalker, the sequel
The Night Strangler (1973), and the offshoot 1974–75 television series
Kolchak: The Night Stalker. His other scores include the horror films
Burnt Offerings (1976) and
Scalpel (1977), the comedy film
Me and the Kid (1993), and the television movies
The Norliss Tapes (1973), ''
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1974), Scream of the Wolf (1974), Melvin Purvis: G-Man (1974) and the 1975 sequel The Kansas City Massacre, The Turn of the Screw (1974), The Great Ice Rip-Off (1974), Trilogy of Terror (1975), Dead of Night (1977), Curse of the Black Widow (1977), The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang (1979) and Trilogy of Terror II'' (1996).
Other works Cobert composed themes for
game shows, the bulk of them associated with shows produced by
Goodson-Todman Productions and
Bob Stewart Productions. Of note are themes for
To Tell the Truth (1961–1967 theme),
Password (1963–1967 theme),
Blockbusters (1980–1982 theme),
The $25,000 Pyramid (1982 update, also used in 1991, and re-recorded in 2012 and 2016), ''
Your Number's Up (1985 theme), Jackpot (1985–1989 theme) and Chain Reaction (1980, 1986–1991 theme, a re-make of the theme from Supertrain). Cobert scored multiple episodes of the 1963–82 NBC soap opera The Doctors and the 1964–66 ABC daytime soap opera The Young Marrieds, and the 1980–1981 CBS reality series That's My Line''. He composed several pieces for American violist John Peskey, including "Concert Piece for Viola and Small Orchestra"; Peskey commissioned and premiered them with the South Dakota Symphony, plus "Contrasts for Viola and Cello", "3 Moods for 2 Violas", and "Music for Only One Lonely Viola" for Peskey. Cobert also taught composition at the
University of Southern California. ==Death==