Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby , of her true name William Henry Cosby Jr., is a producing Acteur, , Scénariste, Compositeur and American Réalisateur born the July 12th 1937 with Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania.
Biography
Then adolescent, Bill Cosby joined the United States Navy, and supplements her years of college there. It will finish its studies by a school superior of sport to Temple, in the Texas. It will hold then a café, where its humor and its spirit will be noticed for the first time, thanks to its relation with the customers.
Bill Cosby started in the Télévision and the Cinéma in the Années 1960. It is then located for its humor by Carl Reiner, which will help it to prove reliable for the Télévision. In 1969, he will be first black-African has to create a sitcom only interpreted by blacks: the Cosby Show . Several derivatives will rise, like a cartoon for the children for example.
With the sight of her success in the Television, Bill Cosby decides to launch out in the Cinéma, where it will be at the time of its beginnings the partner of Sidney Poitier in its comedies. It will be also behind the camera with Uptown Saturday Night in 1974. But one will especially notice it for his play in the comedies, that of Peter Yates: Ambulances all risks in 1976, or California Hotel of Herbert Ross in 1978, where he will play sides of Jane Fonda, Michael Caine and Walter Matthau.
It will be put then at the writing, the production, and even at the composition: in 1990, Ghost dad where one finds also Sidney Poitier. This same year, Francis Ford Coppola will offer to him a role in Jack , which will not have a great commercial impact.
But, in 1987, its Feature-length film Leonard Leaves 6 , elected worse film of the year, and considered by one of worst the feature-length film of the history of the American Cinéma, will make him lose its image. In 1996, it will test a return with Jack , but this film will not succeed in giving again its old quality to him. In 1997, aves the murder of his/her son Ennis, it will fall into depresses, but will become aware of the social ideas which people in this connection had, a black.
Bill Cosby is the first black to have succeeded in having a durable image in the world of the Cinéma and the Télévision, her influence forever ceased grandir.
He currently is married with Camille O. Cosby, born Camille Olivia Hanks, since the January 25th 1964. Together, they had five children.
Catalog of films
as Actor
- 1965 : I Spy (series TV): Alexander “Scotty” Scott
- 1969: The Bill Cosby Show (series TV): Chet Kincaid
- 1969: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice : Owner At nightclub
- 1970: Dick Van Dyke Meets Bill Cosby (TV): Host
- 1971 : The Electric Company (series TV): Various Characters (1971-1972)
- 1972: To All My Friends one Shore (TV): Blue
- 1972 : Man and Servant boy : Caleb Reverse
- 1972: Conceited Albert and the Cosby Kids (series TV): Host/Conceited Albert/Bill/Mushmouth/Mudfoot/Brown Hornet (voice)
- 1972: The New Bill Cosby Show (series TV): Host
- 1972 : Hickey & Boggs : Al Hickey
- 1974: Uptown Saturday Night : Franklin Wardell
- 1974: Journey Back to OZ : The Wizard off OZ (TV version)
- 1975: Let' S C It Again : Billy Foster
- 1976: Ambulances all risks ( Mother, Jugs & Speed ): Mother
- 1976 : Cos (series TV): Host
- 1977 : has Part off the Action : Dave Anderson
- 1977 : Conceited The Albert Special Christmas (TV): Conceited Albert/Mushmouth/Bill/Mudfoot Brown (voice)
- 1978: Secret Signal (TV): Aaron Strickland
- 1978 : California hotel ( California Continuation ): Visitors from Chicago - Dr. Willis Panama
- 1981: The Devil and max Devlin : Barney Satin
- 1984: Cosby Show ( " The Cosby Show" ) (series TV): Dr. Cliff Huxtable
- 1987: Leonard Leaves 6 : Leonard Parker
- 1990: Ghost Dad : Elliot Hopper
- 1991 : Sinbad and Friends: All the Way Live... Almost! (TV): God (voice)
- 1993: The Meteor Man : Marvin
- 1994 : The Cosby Mysteries (TV): Guy Hanks
- 1994: I Spy Returns (TV): Alexander Scott
- 1994 : The Cosby Mysteries (series TV): Guy Hanks
- 1996: Jack : Lawrence Woodruff
- 1996: Cosby ( " Cosby" ) (series TV): Hilton Lucas
as Producer
- 1968 : The Door
- 1971 : Special The Bill Cosby, gold? (TV)
- 1972: To All My Friends one Shore (TV)
- 1972: Man and Servant boy
- 1977: Conceited The Albert Special Christmas (TV)
- 1983: Bill Cosby: Himself
- 1987 : Bill Cosby: 49 (video)
- 1987: Leonard Leaves 6
- 1994: I Spy Returns (TV)
- 1996: Cosby ( " Cosby" ) (series TV)
- 1999: Bill junior ( " Little Bill" ) (series TV)
- 2000: Ways of dignity ( Men off Honor )
- 2002: The Cosby Show: With Look Back (TV)
- 2004: Fatherhood (series TV)
- 2004: Conceited Albert
as Scenario writer
- 1971 : Special The Bill Cosby, gold? (TV)
- 1983: Bill Cosby: Himself
- 1987 : Bill Cosby: 49 (video)
- 1996: Bill Cosby: Mr. Sapolsky, with Coils (video)
- 2002: The Cosby Show: With Look Back (TV)
- 2004: Conceited Albert
as Type-setter
- 1983 : Bill Cosby: Himself
- 1972 : To All My Friends one Shore (TV)
- 1994: The Cosby Mysteries (TV)
- 1994: The Cosby Mysteries (series TV)
- 1999: Bill junior ( " Little Bill" ) (series TV)
like Realizer
- 1969: The Bill Cosby Show (series TV)
Rewards and Nominations
; Emmy award- 1988 : Worse scenario, worse actor, and worse film for Leopard leave 6
Anecdotes
- national Inquisiteur offered 100000 $ to the person who found the murderer of Ennis, the son of Bill
- In 1976, it obtains a doctorate in education. The topic of its thesis was: “An integration of the media visual, with Conceited Albert and Cosby Kids ”, which was regarded as an assistance to a better training
- His wife Camille O. Cosby is downward direct of Nancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln, and related with Tom Hanks
- Bill is also the first black to have gained a Emmy Award, and is an author of best seller
External bonds
- Bill Cosby on Internet Movie Database
- Bill Cosby on Allocine
Simple: Bill Cosby
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