Bill Cosby
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
136
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 Many of his awards have been rescinded due to numerous sexual assault allegations, including the 1998 Kennedy Center Honor, the 2009 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and all but 10 of 72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 Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show
Great Performances
The Cosby Show
Meet the Press
Late Night with David Letterman
The Merv Griffin Show
Becker
A Different World
Touched by an Angel
The Dick Cavett Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Dinah!
The Ed Sullivan Show
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Murder at N.B.C.
The Bob Hope Show
Jack
Zone interdite
The Dean Martin Show
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Fat Albert
The Jay Leno Show
Reading Rainbow
I Spy
The Midnight Special
The Midnight Special
Hickey & Boggs
The Kennedy Center Honors
Comedian
The Electric Company
Entertainment Tonight
Goose
Basketball: A Love Story
Baadasssss!
Diana!
The Flip Wilson Show
California Suite
Cosby
The Hollywood Palace
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
The Bill Cosby Show
The Meteor Man
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Top Secret
Cher
The Emmy Awards
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
The Harlem Globetrotters: The Team That Changed the World
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
The Don Knotts Show
Let's Do It Again
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Bill Cosby: Himself
Keep On Keepin' On
Man and Boy
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
I Spy Returns
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Superstars and their Moms
The David Susskind Show
The Fat Albert Easter Special
Los Angeles Plays Itself
When Ruby Wax Met...
Mother, Jugs & Speed
I Am Richard Pryor
Nickelodeon Studios Opening Day Celebration!
We Need to Talk About Cosby
TV's Funniest Comedians - 14 Stars Do Classic Routines
The Devil and Max Devlin
The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits
Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon
Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special
4 Little Girls
The Cosby Mysteries
Leonard Part 6
After Newtown: Guns in America
A Different World
Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party
B.B. King: The Life of Riley
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
Ruby Wax Meets
Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis
A Piece of the Action
The Earth Day Special
Ghost Dad
The Chocolate Princess
The Shame of a City
Lightning in a Bottle
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class
Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven
Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
Bill Cosby: Walking Free
Cola Wars
The One, the Only... Groucho
Doug Henning's World of Magic
To All My Friends on Shore
Of Black America
Cos
The Fat Albert Christmas Special
Kids Say the Darndest Things
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
The Cosby Show: A Look Back
The Fat Albert Halloween Special
Uptown Saturday Night
Bill Cosby: Far From Finished
In Remembrance of Martin
Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed
The Case Against Cosby
Jack Paar: Smart Television
Lipstick & Dynamite
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
The New Bill Cosby Show
Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life
Goin' Back to Indiana
The Pact
Bicycles are Beautiful
Aesop's Fables
Jack Paar: 'As I Was Saying...'
Bill Cosby: An American Scandal
Bill Cosby on Prejudice
Bill Cosby: 49
Sesame Street: 20 Years ... and Still Counting!
The Weird Harold Special
The Incredible Voyage of Bill Pinkney
Creole Giselle
