Bill Cosby
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
139
Gender
Male
Birthday
1937-07-12 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Bill Cosby
Biography
William Henry "Bill" Cosby Jr. (born July 12, 1937) is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer and convicted sex offender. He got his start as a nightclub stand-up comic before landing a starring role in the action show I Spy (1965-1968). After various film and television roles, Cosby's greatest success came when he produced and starred in The Cosby Show (1984-1992), a popular sitcom that highlighted the experiences and growth of an upper-middle-class African-American family. Due to this role, he was widely dubbed "America's Dad." After the show ended, he produced and starred in multiple other shows and films. He was a sought-after spokesman from the 1960s until the early 2000s, endorsing a number of products including Jell-O, Kodak film, Ford, Texas Instruments, and Coca-Cola. Cosby has received several awards including 5 Primetime Emmy Awards, 2 Daytime Emmy Awards, 9 Grammy Awards, 2 Golden Globe Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his contribution to television (2002), and several honorary degrees from colleges and universities. Many of his awards have been rescinded due to numerous sexual assault allegations, including the 1998 Kennedy Center Honor, the 2009 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and all but 10 of 72 honorary degrees. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expelled him as a member of the Actors Branch in May 2018. Approximately 60 women have accused Cosby of various forms of sexual assault in alleged incidents spanning from 1965 to 2008. These allegations became highly publicized in 2014, leading to several civil suits and criminal investigations for cases that had not yet reached the statute of limitations. Many networks, including NBC, removed reruns of The Cosby Show from their schedules. In April of 2018, Cosby was sentenced to three to ten years in prison for multiple counts of aggravated indecent assault. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the conviction in June 2021 due to violation of a prior prosecutorial agreement that Cosby's previous civil suit testimony—in which he admitted to giving drugs to women he wanted to have sex with—would not be used in the criminal trial. He was released from prison later that month after serving almost three years of the sentence and maintains his innocence in all accusations. As of August 2021, there is still one known active civil suit against Cosby.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Great Performances
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Meet the Press
The Cosby Show
The Dick Cavett Show
The Merv Griffin Show
Touched by an Angel
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Jay Leno Show
A Different World
Becker
The Bob Hope Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
Late Night with David Letterman
Dinah!
Reading Rainbow
Basketball: A Love Story
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Kennedy Center Honors
Jack
Goose
The Dean Martin Show
Baadasssss!
I Am Richard Pryor
Bill Cosby: Himself
Comedian
Diana!
Entertainment Tonight
The Midnight Special
The Midnight Special
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Zone interdite
Cosby
The Flip Wilson Show
The Bill Cosby Show
Man and Boy
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
I Spy
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
The Chocolate Princess
The Emmy Awards
The Electric Company
Cher
The Hollywood Palace
Bill Cosby: Walking Free
Cola Wars
The Don Knotts Show
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
The David Susskind Show
Ruby Wax Meets
When Ruby Wax Met...
A Piece of the Action
Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party
The Pact
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Fat Albert
California Suite
The Cosby Mysteries
The Meteor Man
Let's Do It Again
Kids Say the Darndest Things
The One, the Only... Groucho
The Case Against Cosby
Ghost Dad
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
Lipstick & Dynamite
The Earth Day Special
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
Of Black America
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Bill Cosby: 49
We Need to Talk About Cosby
Doug Henning's World of Magic
I Spy Returns
B.B. King: The Life of Riley
Lightning in a Bottle
Leonard Part 6
Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Superstars and their Moms
Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
Hickey & Boggs
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
Keep On Keepin' On
Mother, Jugs & Speed
The Cosby Show: A Look Back
Uptown Saturday Night
4 Little Girls
Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special
Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Cos
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
Murder at N.B.C.
The Weird Harold Special
The New Bill Cosby Show
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
Nickelodeon Studios Opening Day Celebration!
Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven
Top Secret
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
The Harlem Globetrotters: The Team That Changed the World
Playboy's Playmate Party
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
TV's Funniest Comedians - 14 Stars Do Classic Routines
The Devil and Max Devlin
Bicycles are Beautiful
Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
Jack Paar: Smart Television
Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life
The Shame of a City
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
Goin' Back to Indiana
The Fat Albert Christmas Special
Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class
Aesop's Fables
Bill Cosby: Far From Finished
The Fat Albert Easter Special
The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits
The Fat Albert Halloween Special
In Remembrance of Martin
Sesame Street: 20 Years ... and Still Counting!
To All My Friends on Shore
After Newtown: Guns in America
Jack Paar: 'As I Was Saying...'
The Incredible Voyage of Bill Pinkney
Bill Cosby on Prejudice
Creole Giselle
Bill Cosby: An American Scandal
