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 Many of his awards have been rescinded due to numerous sexual assault allegations, including the 1998 Kennedy Center Honor, the 2009 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and all but 10 of 72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

Cola Wars

20197.8

The Meteor Man

19935.8

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

19696.2

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

1985

California Suite

19785.8

Uptown Saturday Night

19746.2

Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party

1999

NBC 75th Anniversary Special

20026.0

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

20083.8

Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’

20125.0

The Earth Day Special

19906.1

Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party

19791.0

A Piece of the Action

19775.8

Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years

19907.2

Mother, Jugs & Speed

19765.3

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

20045.3

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

19707.3

Let's Do It Again

19757.0

4 Little Girls

19977.1

Bill Cosby: Walking Free

20228.3

An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

1986

The Jackson 5: Goin' Back to Indiana

1971

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

19975.2

The Fat Albert Christmas Special

19774.4

Lipstick & Dynamite

20056.4

A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

1979

The Cosby Show: A Look Back

20027.8

Lightning in a Bottle

20047.6

Hickey & Boggs

19725.9

Playboy's Playmate Party

1977

B.B. King: The Life of Riley

20127.0

Jack Paar: Smart Television

20038.0

Leonard Part 6

19872.9

The Devil and Max Devlin

19815.9

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

2007

Nelson Mandela Redrawn

201410.0

Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy

20098.0

The One, the Only... Groucho

199110.0

Goose

20127.0

Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed

20087.0

The Pact

2006

Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration

19908.7

Comedian

20026.6

Baadasssss!

20046.5

Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven

20075.5

I Am Richard Pryor

20196.9

The Fat Albert Halloween Special

19776.1

Man and Boy

19716.7

Superstars and their Moms

198710.0

Playmate Pajama Party

19996.2

Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley

20136.7

The Harlem Globetrotters: The Team That Changed the World

20057.8

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

20009.0

Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special

19869.0

Aesop's Fables

19719.0

The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits

20066.0

TV's Funniest Comedians - 14 Stars Do Classic Routines

1986

Murder at N.B.C.

1966

In Remembrance of Martin

19868.0

Diana!

19717.0

Nickelodeon Studios Opening Day Celebration!

19907.0

Top Secret

197810.0

Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life

2006

The Fat Albert Easter Special

19827.0

Bill Cosby: Himself

19837.6

Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon

201710.0

To All My Friends on Shore

19726.8

Sesame Street: 20 Years & Still Counting! 1969-1989

19897.2

I Spy Returns

19945.0

After Newtown: Guns in America

20139.5

Keep On Keepin' On

20147.1

The Weird Harold Special

1973

Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class

20054.5

Bill Cosby: Far From Finished

20137.0

Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis

1986

Bill Cosby: 49

19876.3

Bicycles are Beautiful

1974

Bill Cosby on Prejudice

1971

The Chocolate Princess

1974

Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed

19689.0

Bill Cosby: An American Scandal

2017

The Shame of a City

2006

The Incredible Voyage of Bill Pinkney

1994

Creole Giselle

1987