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Biography

Bing Crosby, an American singer and actor, will be remembered as one of the greatest entertainers of the 20th century. Crosby and his casual…more

Born

5/2/1903, Tacoma, Washington, USA

Died

10/14/1977

Birth Name

Harry Lillis Crosby

Gender

Male

Credits

Star (3)

Role
- The Hollywood Palace
  Host (1964-1970)
  - S 7: Ep 11 Hosts: George Gobel & Vikki Carr
    12/27/69
  - S 7: Ep 10 Host: Perry Como (1969 Christmas Show)
    12/20/69
  - S 7: Ep 9 Host: Flip Wilson / Friends of Distinction
    12/13/69
  - S 7: Ep 8 Host: Anthony Newley / Lulu / Dyan Cannon
    12/6/69
  - S 7: Ep 7 Host: Diahann Carroll / Stevie Wonder / Robert Culp
    11/29/69
  - + 186 More Credits
- The Bing Crosby Show
  Bing Collins
  - S 1: Ep 28 Conform, Conform, Whoever You Are
    4/12/65
  - S 1: Ep 27 What's a Buddy For?
    4/5/65
  - S 1: Ep 26 Moonlight Becomes You
    3/29/65
  - S 1: Ep 25 The Test
    3/22/65
  - S 1: Ep 24 Real Estate Venture
    3/15/65
  - + 23 More Credits
- The DuPont Show of the Week
  Narrator
  - S 1: Ep 2 Happy With the Blues
    9/24/61
Recurring Role (2)

Role
- The Hollywood Palace
  Himself, host
  - S 7: Ep 1 Host: Bing Crosby / Sweetwater
    10/11/69
  - S 6: Ep 26 Host: Bing Crosby / The Four Tops
    4/5/69
  - S 6: Ep 21 Host: Bing Crosby / The Temptations
    3/1/69
  - S 6: Ep 13 Host: Bing Crosby / Bob Hope (cameo) / Bobbie Gentry
    1/4/69
  - S 6: Ep 12 Host: Bing Crosby (1968 Christmas Show) / Glen Campbell
    12/21/68
  - + 26 More Credits
- The Ed Sullivan Show
  Himself, on film
  - S 16: Ep 38 15th Anniversary Show with clips from past shows: Elvis Presley, Gary Cooper
    6/23/63
  - S 15: Ep 3 Phil Silvers / On film: Brigitte Bardot, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Jackie Gleason, Gene Kelly
    10/1/61
  - S 11: Ep 16 Bing Crosby (on film) / James Arness / Mike Kellin & Sondra Lee
    1/12/58
  - S 10: Ep 38 Johnny Mathis / Polly Bergen / Rusty Draper / Bing Crosby (on film)
    6/16/57
  - S 9: Ep 43 Julie Andrews / Louis Armstrong / Bing Crosby (on film)
    7/15/56
Guest Star (42)

Role
- Walk On By: The Story of Popular Song
  Performer (Archive)
  - S 1: Ep 2 Stardust
    3/21/01
- The Mike Douglas Show
  Himself
  - S 14: Ep 60 November 21, 1975
    11/21/75
  - S 13: Ep 229 August 28, 1975
    8/28/75
- Dinah!
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 43 November 12, 1975
    11/12/75
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
  Guest (cameo)
  - S 14: Ep 4 Show #2704
    10/15/75
- Parkinson (1971)
  Himself
  - S 4: Ep 1 Bing Crosby
    8/30/75
  - S 2: Ep 26 Bing Crosby
    12/23/72
- The Merv Griffin Show
  Himself
  - S 12: Ep 213 July 25, 1975
    7/25/75
  - S 12: Ep 89 January 17, 1975
    1/17/75
  - S 9: Ep 70 December 16, 1971
    12/16/71
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
  Cameo Appearance
  - S 5: Ep 12 Episode #104
    12/13/71
  - S 4: Ep 23 Episode #89
    2/22/71
  - S 4: Ep 14 Episode #80
    12/14/70
  - S 3: Ep 18 Episode #58
- The David Frost Show
  Himself (film footage)
  - S 3: Ep 212 July 28, 1971
    7/28/71
- The David Frost Show
  Himself
  - S 3: Ep 158 May 11, 1971
    5/11/71
  - S 3: Ep 95 February 10, 1971
    2/10/71
- Pearl Bailey Show
  Himself
  - S 1: Ep 1 January 23, 1971
    1/23/71
- Frost over America
  Himself
  - S 1: Ep 2 Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong
    7/15/70
- Christopher Closeup
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 23 The World Starts With Jimmy
  - S 1: Ep 15 You Can Change the World
  - S 1: Ep 1 Faith, Hope and Hogan
- The Carol Burnett Show
  himself
  - S 3: Ep 7 with Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin
    11/10/69
  - S 5: Ep 7 with Bing Crosby, Paul Lynde
    11/3/71
- The Dean Martin Show
  Himself
  - S 5: Ep 8 Bing Crosby / Eva Gabor / Dom DeLuise / Jack Gilford
    11/6/69
  - S 3: Ep 6 Bing Crosby / Lena Horne / Dom DeLuise
    10/19/67
  - S 2: Ep 30 Bing Crosby, Polly Bergen, Don Cherry, Rowan & Martin
    4/13/67
  - S 7: Ep 4 Bing Crosby / Richard Castellano / Clair and McMahon
    10/7/71
- The Mike Douglas Show
  Himself - filmed interview
  - S 7: Ep 139 March 20, 1969
    3/20/69
- The Bob Hope Show
  Himself
  - S 19: Ep 7 February 17, 1969
    2/17/69
  - S 18: Ep 7 February 12, 1968
    2/12/68
  - S 17: Ep 3 November 16, 1966
    11/16/66
  - S 16: Ep 3 December 15, 1965
    12/15/65
  - S 14: Ep 3 December 13, 1963
    12/13/63
  - + 8 More Credits
- The Ed Sullivan Show
  Himself
  - S 21: Ep 34 May 5, 1968: 80th Birthday Salute to Irving Berlin
    5/5/68
  - S 15: Ep 41 June 24, 1962: 14th Anniversary Show - Bing Crosby; Jerry Lewis; Theresa Brewer
    6/24/62
  - S 10: Ep 8 Life Magazine Tribute with Julie Andrews; Bing Crosby; Phil Silvers
    11/11/56
- The Joey Bishop Show
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 25 October 25, 1967
    10/25/67
- The Danny Thomas Hour
  Charlie Castle
  - S 1: Ep 5 The Demon Under the Bed
    10/9/67
- Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre
  Himself
  - S 4: Ep 8 Bing and Me
    11/16/66
- The Andy Williams Show (1962)
  Himself
  - S 5: Ep 8 October 30, 1966
    10/30/66
- The Bell Telephone Hour
  Himself
  - S 7: Ep 1 Show #1
    10/6/64
- Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre
  George Warren
  - S 1: Ep 6 The House Next Door
    11/15/63
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
  Himself
  - S 7: Ep 6 February 17, 1963
    2/17/63
- The DuPont Show of the Week
  Himself
  - S 1: Ep 8 America's Music -- Music of the Thirties
    11/5/61
- The Perry Como Show
  Himself
  - S 12: Ep 21 March 16, 1960
    3/16/60
  - S 2: Ep 70 March 17, 1950
    3/17/50
- The Frank Sinatra Show
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 1 The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
    10/15/59
  - S 1: Ep 10 Bing Crosby
    12/20/57
- The Academy Awards
  Himself - Performer
  - S 29: Ep 1 The 29th Annual Academy Awards
    3/27/57
- The Phil Silvers Show
  Himself.
  - S 2: Ep 18 Sergeant Bilko Presents Bing Crosby
    1/22/57
- Ford Star Jubilee
  Himself/Special Appearance
  - S 1: Ep 11 You're The Top
    10/6/56
- Ford Star Jubilee
  Van Van Dorn
  - S 1: Ep 7 High Tor
    3/10/56
- Disneyland
  Narrator, Ichabod Crane, etc.
  - S 2: Ep 7 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
    10/26/55
- The Academy Awards
  Himself - Presenter
  - S 27: Ep 1 The 27th Annual Academy Awards
    3/30/55
- The Jack Benny Program
  Himself (voice only)
  - S 5: Ep 13 Gary Crosby Show
    3/20/55
- The Red Skelton Show
  Himself
  - S 4: Ep 25 Look Awards
    3/8/55
- The Lux Video Theatre
  Lux Video Theatre Guest
  - S 5: Ep 20 Sunset Boulevard
    1/6/55
- Person to Person
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 14 December 3, 1954
    12/3/54
- Toast of the Town
  Himself, on film
  - S 8: Ep 6 scheduled: Bing Crosby (on film); Irving Berlin; Liberace; Orson Bean
    10/17/54
- Climax!
  Cameo
- The Jack Benny Program
  Himself/Goldie
  - S 4: Ep 10 Goldie, Fields And Glide
    3/21/54
- I Married Joan
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 20 The Opera
    2/25/53
- Toast of the Town
  scheduled guest
  - S 6: Ep 23 The Record Industry Story
    2/15/53
Cameo (3)

Role
- The Bob Hope Show
  Himself
  - S 20: Ep 5 December 18, 1969
    12/18/69
  - S 12: Ep 3 February 27, 1962
    2/27/62
- The Perry Como Show
  Himself (on record)
  - S 12: Ep 1 September 30, 1959
    9/30/59
- The Perry Como Show
  Himself (on tape)
  - S 10: Ep 33 May 3, 1958
    5/3/58
Story (1)

Role
- Climax!
  Story
Main Title Theme (1)

Role
- Vacation Playhouse
  Main Title Theme
  - S 1: Ep 9 Come A-Runnin'
    9/16/63

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Trivia
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- Bing was the first performer ever to pre-record a radio show on magnetic tape, and was instrumental in the development of taped programming. After choosing to record his radio show for delayed broadcast, he had to find a better way to record than on discs. Bing hired a company that was pioneering an advanced recording techonology and invested $50,000 of his own money in the new Ampax tape recorders.
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- After announcing that he wanted to pre-record his radio program, NBC sued Bing Crosby. Bing won the suit and quit radio for a year before taking his program to ABC.
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- At the end of World War II a poll voted Bing Crosby as the person who did the most to boost wartime morale.
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- Bing: Come on in. It's a bit fresh out there. We may be getting ourselves a bit of a soak.
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- Bing: My golf is woeful, but I will never surrender.
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- Bing: (when asked what his epitaph should read) He was an average guy who could carry a tune.
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