Bing Crosby
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Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, comedian and actor. The first multimedia star, Crosby was a leader in record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses from 1931 to 1954. His early career coincided with recording innovations that allowed him to develop an intimate singing style that influenced many male singers who followed him, including Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes, and Dean Martin. Yank magazine said that he was "the person who had done the most for the morale of overseas servicemen" during World War II. In 1948, American polls declared him the "most admired man alive", ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII. Also in 1948, Music Digest estimated that his recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music.
Crosby won an Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Father Chuck O'Malley in the 1944 motion picture Going My Way and was nominated for his reprise of the role in The Bells of St. Mary's opposite Ingrid Bergman the next year, becoming the first of six actors to be nominated twice for playing the same character. In 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. He is one of 33 people to have three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the categories of motion pictures, radio, and audio recording. He was also known for his collaborations with longtime friend Bob Hope, starring in the Road to... films from 1940 to 1962.
Crosby influenced the development of the postwar recording industry. After seeing a demonstration of a German broadcast quality reel-to-reel tape recorder brought to America by John T. Mullin, he invested $50,000 in a California electronics company called Ampex to build copies. He then convinced ABC to allow him to tape his shows. He became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. Through the medium of recording, he constructed his radio programs with the same directorial tools and craftsmanship (editing, retaking, rehearsal, time shifting) used in motion picture production, a practice that became an industry standard. In addition to his work with early audio tape recording, he helped to finance the development of videotape, bought television stations, bred racehorses, and co-owned the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team.
Known for
The Jack Benny Program
Bing Crosby
The Carol Burnett Show
Self
The Carol Burnett Show
Self - Guest / Various Characters
The Bing Crosby Show
Bing Collins
Frank Sinatra Show
Self
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)
Legends
Self (archive footage)
The Pearl Bailey Show
Self
Best of The Dean Martin Variety Show
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
Television: The First Fifty Years
Self (archive footage)
Howard
Jeff Peters (archive footage)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Self (archive footage)
The Greatest Show on Earth
Spectator (uncredited)
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
Twiggy
(archival footage)
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
Angels in the Outfield
Bing Crosby (uncredited)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
Self (archive footage)
Stagecoach
Doc Josiah Boone
That's Entertainment!
Self - Host / Narrator
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Self - C.K Dexter-Haven (archive footage)
Let's Make Love
Bing Crosby (uncredited)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage)
Alias Jesse James
Bing (uncredited)
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Narrator (segment "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow")
Dean Martin: King of Cool
Self (archive footage)
Scared Stiff
Skeleton (uncredited)
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
This Is Bob Hope...
Self (archive footage)
Variety Girl
Bing Crosby
Here Comes the Groom
Peter 'Pete' Garvey
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Hank Martin
The Princess and the Pirate
Margaret's Sweetheart (uncredited)
Road to Utopia
Duke Johnson
Swing Out, Sweet Land
Mark Twain
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
A Bing Crosby Christmas
Self - Host (archive footage)
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
Self (archive footage)
The Bells of St. Mary's
Father Chuck O'Malley
The Country Girl
Frank Elgin
My Favorite Brunette
Harry (uncredited)
Riding High
Dan Brooks
Road to Bali
George Cochran
Pepe
Bing Crosby
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Self (archive footage)
Road to Morocco
Jeff Peters
Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show'
Self - Vocalist (archive footage)
My Music: A Classic Christmas
Self (archive footage)
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
Self (archive footage)
White Christmas
Bob Wallace
High Society
C. K. Dexter-Haven
Star Spangled Rhythm
Bing Crosby
High Tor
Van Van Dorn
It's Showtime
Self (archive footage)
Road to Rio
Scat Sweeney
Road to Singapore
Joshua 'Josh' Mallon V
I Can't Give You Anything But Love: The Jimmy McHugh Story
Self (archive footage)
Anything Goes
Bill Benson
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2
Self (archive footage)
The Road to Hong Kong
Harry Turner
My Favorite Blonde
Man Outside Union Hall (uncredited)
Off Limits
Bing Crosby (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Narrator
Hooray for Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
If I Had My Way
Buzz Blackwell
Show-Business at War
Self
Road to Zanzibar
Chuck Reardon
Cancel My Reservation
Himself (uncredited)
Just for You
Jordan Blake
Disney's Halloween Treat
(archive footage)
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Self (archive footage)
Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas
Bob Wallace (archive footage)
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
Self
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
(archive footage)
East Side of Heaven
Denny Martin
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rhythm on the Range
Jeff Larabee
Mississippi
Tom Grayson
Double or Nothing
'Lefty' Boylan
Welcome Stranger
Dr. James 'Jim' Pearson
Out of This World
Herbie Fenton (singing voice)
The Emperor Waltz
Virgil Smith
Blue Skies
Johnny Adams
Here Come the Waves
Johnny Cabot
Man on Fire
Earl Carleton
Son of Paleface
Driver (uncredited)
Waikiki Wedding
Tony Marvin
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.1
Narrator / Ichabod Crane / Brom Bones (voice) (archive footage)
Dixie
Daniel Decatur Emmett
Rhythm on the River
Bob Sommers
Mr. Music
Paul Merrick
The Big Broadcast
Bing Hornsby
Reaching for the Moon
Bing
They Got Me Covered
Music Box (voice)
The Hollywood Clowns
(archive footage)
Dr. Cook's Garden
Leonard Cook
High Time
Harvey Howard
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
Self
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Allen A. Dale
Biography: Bob Hope: America's Entertainer
Self (archive footage)
Duffy's Tavern
Bing Crosby
Birth of the Blues
Jeff Lambert
Going Hollywood
Bill 'Billy' Williams
Here Is My Heart
J. Paul Jones
A Classic Christmas From The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
Showdown at Ulcer Gulch
Influential Man
Bing Crosby: Cooling It
Self
Say One for Me
Father Conroy
Top o' the Morning
Joe Mulqueen
Paris Honeymoon
'Lucky' Lawton
Two for Tonight
Gilbert Gordon
Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin
Self (archive footage)
Sing, You Sinners
Joe Beebe
The Big Broadcast of 1936
Bing
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Going My Way
Father Chuck O'Malley
Bob Hope Christmas Show
Self
Anything Goes
Billy Crocker
The Sound of Laughter
Bob (Singer in Grocery Store)
The Shining Future
Self
The Great Radio Comedians
Self
Confessions of a Co-Ed
Bing
Holiday Inn
Jim Hardy
College Humor
Professor Frederick Danvers
Shanks for the Memory
Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
Down Memory Lane
(archive footage)
Pennies from Heaven
Larry Poole
Doctor Rhythm
Dr. Bill Remsen
Hollywood Victory Caravan
Bing Crosby
Too Much Harmony
Eddie Bronson
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Handicap
Himself
We're Not Dressing
Stephen Jones
Lifetime of Comedy
(archive footage)
The Star Maker
Larry Earl
The Road to Victory
Bing Crosby (uncredited)
The All-Star Bond Rally
Self
Cole Porter in Hollywood: True Love
Self (Archive Footage)
Bing Crosby Color Christmas Show
Self (host)
Screen Actors
Self (uncredited)
Swing with Bing
Himself
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Self
Goldilocks
Self / Papa Bear (voice)
The Bing Crosby Show
Self
You Can Change The World
Self
Hollywood on Parade
Self
Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials
Self
Road to Hollywood
Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Tim Conway: Timeless Comedy
Self
Sing, Bing, Sing
Bing
Little Boy Lost
Bill Wainright
The Magic of Bing Crosby
Self (archive footage)
Jolson Sings Again
Himself (voice) (uncredited)
Please
Howard Jones
'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney
Bob Wallace (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bing Crosby and the Sounds of Christmas
Himself
Legendary Christmas Entertainers
Self
Road to Home
Self
Halloween Hall o' Fame
Narrator/Brom Bones
'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
Self
The March of Time
Self
Christmas with Crosby & Kate
Himself
The Edsel Show
Self
Hollywood on Parade No. A-2
Self
Hollywood on Parade No. B-4
Self
I Surrender Dear
Bing Crosby
King of Jazz
Trio Singer (as The Rhythm Boys)
Hollywood on Parade No. A-4
Self (uncredited)
Happy Holidays with Bing and Frank
Self
"All -Singing All-Dancing" Before And After
Archive Footage
Dream House
Bing Fawcett (Plumber)
One More Chance
Bing Bangs
She Loves Me Not
Paul Lawton
Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years
Himself (archival footage)
Billboard Girl
Bing
The Bing Crosby Show
Self
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
Self
Hollywood Ghosts & Gravesites
(archive footage)
The Grand Olympics
Himself
Blue of the Night
Bing Crosby / Jack Smith
Cinerama's Russian Adventure
Narrator (voice)
Bing Crosby: Live In Mysen, Norway
Himself
Classic Commercials: Volume 3
Two Plus Fours
Bing
Songs That Won the War
Himself (Archive)
Big Night Out: The Peggy Lee Show
The Bing Crosby Show
Himself
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Self (archive footage)
Bing Crosby: Legends in Concert
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
We've Got Another Bond to Buy
V.I.P. Schaukel
Self