Bill Cosby
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 Many of his awards have been rescinded due to numerous sexual assault allegations, including the 1998 Kennedy Center Honor, the 2009 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and all but 10 of 72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.
135 acting credits · 3 directing credits
Acting · 135
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Great Performances
1971
The Cosby Show
1984
Touched by an Angel
1994
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Meet the Press
1947
A Different World
1987
Becker
1998
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Dinah!
1974
Reading Rainbow
1983
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Bob Hope Show
1950
The Jay Leno Show
2009
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
Basketball: A Love Story
2018
The Dean Martin Show
1965
The Midnight Special
1972
The Electric Company
1971
I Spy
1965
The Flip Wilson Show
1970
Cosby
1996
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
The Hollywood Palace
1964
Entertainment Tonight
1981
The Bill Cosby Show
1969
Zone interdite
1993
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Cher
1975
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
1972
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
The Emmy Awards
1949
The David Susskind Show
1959
The Don Knotts Show
1970
Jack
1996
Ruby Wax Meets
1996
The Cosby Mysteries
1994
When Ruby Wax Met...
2021
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
1969
The Earth Day Special
1990
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
2009
The Meteor Man
1993
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
Doug Henning's World of Magic
1975
Fat Albert
2004
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
2002
California Suite
1978
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Kids Say the Darndest Things
1998
We Need to Talk About Cosby
2022
Bill Cosby: Himself
1983
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004
Ghost Dad
1990
Mother, Jugs & Speed
1976
Baadasssss!
2004
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
2012
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
1990
Comedian
2002
B.B. King: The Life of Riley
2012
Cos
1976
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
1979
Of Black America
1968
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
Cola Wars
2019
Let's Do It Again
1975
The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits
2006
The Case Against Cosby
2022
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
2007
Leonard Part 6
1987
The Devil and Max Devlin
1981
Jack Paar: Smart Television
2003
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
2014
Hickey & Boggs
1972
The Harlem Globetrotters: The Team That Changed the World
2005
The New Bill Cosby Show
1972
Nickelodeon Studios Opening Day Celebration!
1990
The Cosby Show: A Look Back
2002
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class
2005
A Piece of the Action
1977
Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
2008
Superstars and their Moms
1987
Keep On Keepin' On
2014
Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special
1986
I Am Richard Pryor
2019
4 Little Girls
1997
Uptown Saturday Night
1974
TV's Funniest Comedians - 14 Stars Do Classic Routines
1986
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
2013
The One, the Only... Groucho
1991
Lipstick & Dynamite
2005
Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven
2007
Lightning in a Bottle
2004
Murder at N.B.C.
1966
Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party
1999
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
1985
The Jackson 5: Goin' Back to Indiana
1971
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
2008
Diana!
1971
Playboy's Playmate Party
1977
I Spy Returns
1994
Bill Cosby: Walking Free
2022
The Fat Albert Christmas Special
1977
Man and Boy
1971
To All My Friends on Shore
1972
Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life
2006
Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party
1979
Top Secret
1978
Goose
2012
Creole Giselle
1987
In Remembrance of Martin
1986
Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis
1986
Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon
2017
The Fat Albert Halloween Special
1977
After Newtown: Guns in America
2013
The Incredible Voyage of Bill Pinkney
1994
The Pact
2006
The Fat Albert Easter Special
1982
The Chocolate Princess
1974
Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed
1968
Aesop's Fables
1971
Jack Paar: 'As I Was Saying...'
1997
Bill Cosby on Prejudice
1971
Sesame Street: 20 Years ... and Still Counting!
1989
Bill Cosby: Far From Finished
2013
Bill Cosby: An American Scandal
2017
The Weird Harold Special
1973
The Shame of a City
2006
Bill Cosby: 49
1987
Bicycles are Beautiful
1974