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Biography of Bill Cosby
He is an American actor comedian, and producer, who has played a major role in the development of a more positive portrayal of African-Americans on television.
William Henry Cosby, Jr. (Bill Cosby) was born on July 12, 1937, in Philadelphia, USA. He is an American actor comedian, and producer, who has played a major role in the development of a more positive portrayal of African-Americans on television. He is most known by the comedy series “The Cosby Show”, which had a very big success and helped to cement his name as one of the prominent comics Hollywood has ever had. Bill Cosby is one of the top names in comedy.
Early life
His childhood wasn’t very happy. His mother Anna worked cleaning houses. He and his family lived in the low-income housing project. Also, the family’s money began to slip when his father began drinking heavily. His father went to U.S. Navy, and Bill was like a parent in the family. With money very tight for his family, Bill started to shine shoes to help out when he was 9 years old. He left high school and joined the U.S. Navy, and later also left college and became a stand-up comedian.
Career
Bill got his start as a stand-up performer before landing a starring role in ‘I Spy’, the 1960s action show. The series lasted for 3 years and he got a Primetime Emmy Awards for the show. In 1967 he starred in his own series, ‘The Cosby show’, which was very successful. In that show, he played the role of Dr. Huxtable. The show lasted for eight seasons from 1984 to 1992, and it became the number one show in America for five years. A spin-off series was later on created, ‘A Different World’, and became a right below ‘The Cosby Show’ in ratings.
Bill has a very rich filmography because he has been acting in a lot of movies and series by now, and the most known movies are: Jack, Cosby, I Spy Returns, The Cosby Mysteries, The Meteor Man, A Different World, California Suite, The Fat Albert Halloween Special, Hickey & Boggs, Fat Albert, and the Cosby Kids, Man and Boy and Aesop’s Fables.
He has also has released numerous music and comedy albums.
Personal Life
He has a wife Camille Olivia Hanks, who he married on January 25, 1964. They have five children together, a son and four daughters. With so many years in the show business, the stories about him were coming all the time in the newspapers. He made news headlines when he became a victim of a celebrity death hoax that quickly escalated over the internet, but he denied it. In 2014, he also made headlines, not for his comedy, but numerous accusations of sexual assault. More women soon came forth to claim that the comedian attacked them as well. After this incident, Cosby remained silent about these claims.