Bill Cosby

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Born: July 12, 1937
From: Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Biography

William Henry "Bill" Cosby Jr. (born July 12, 1937) is an American 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 Many of his awards have been rescinded due to numerous sexual assault allegations, including the 1998 Kennedy Center Honor, the 2009 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and all but 10 of 72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.

Works

88 films

Malcolm X

19927.6

Jack

19966.3

Fat Albert

20045.1

Ghost Dad

19905.1

The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There

1985

Cola Wars

20197.8

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

19696.2

The Meteor Man

19935.8

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

20083.8

NBC 75th Anniversary Special

20026.0

California Suite

19785.8

The Earth Day Special

19906.1

Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party

1999

Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’

20125.0

Mother, Jugs & Speed

19765.3

Uptown Saturday Night

19746.2

Lightning in a Bottle

20047.6

Playboy's Playmate Party

1977

Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years

19907.2

The Cosby Show: A Look Back

20027.8

Nelson Mandela Redrawn

201410.0

Let's Do It Again

19757.0

A Piece of the Action

19775.8

An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

1986

A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

1979

Bill Cosby: Walking Free

20228.3

Jack Paar: Smart Television

20038.0

The Devil and Max Devlin

19815.9

The Jackson 5: Goin' Back to Indiana

1971

Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party

19791.0

Lipstick & Dynamite

20056.4

The One, the Only... Groucho

199110.0

B.B. King: The Life of Riley

20127.0

Jack Paar: 'As I Was Saying...'

19975.2

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

20045.3

The Fat Albert Christmas Special

19774.4

Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration

19908.7

Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven

20075.5

Man and Boy

19716.7

Baadasssss!

20046.5

Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed

20087.0

Leonard Part 6

19872.9

Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s

2007

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

19707.3

Hickey & Boggs

19725.9

Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy

20098.0

The Pact

2006

Comedian

20026.6

I Am Richard Pryor

20196.9

Superstars and their Moms

198710.0

Goose

20127.0

Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley

20136.7

4 Little Girls

19977.1

TV's Funniest Comedians - 14 Stars Do Classic Routines

1986

The Fat Albert Halloween Special

19776.1

Murder at N.B.C.

1966

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

20009.0

Playmate Pajama Party

19996.2

The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits

20066.0

In Remembrance of Martin

19868.0

Aesop's Fables

19719.0

Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon

201710.0

The Harlem Globetrotters: The Team That Changed the World

20057.8

Bill Cosby: Himself

19837.6

Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life

2006

The Fat Albert Easter Special

19827.0

Diana!

19717.0

Top Secret

197810.0

Keep On Keepin' On

20147.1

Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis

1986

Bicycles are Beautiful

1974

Bill Cosby: Far From Finished

20137.0

Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special

19869.0

To All My Friends on Shore

19726.8

I Spy Returns

19945.0

After Newtown: Guns in America

20139.5

Nickelodeon Studios Opening Day Celebration!

19907.0

Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class

20054.5

The Weird Harold Special

1973

Bill Cosby: 49

19876.3

The Incredible Voyage of Bill Pinkney

1994

The Shame of a City

2006

Bill Cosby: An American Scandal

2017

Sesame Street: 20 Years ... and Still Counting!

19897.3

Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed

19689.0

Bill Cosby on Prejudice

1971

Creole Giselle

1987

The Chocolate Princess

1974