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- Cosby began his career as a stand-up comic at the Hungry I nightclub in San Francisco in 1961, and primarily performed observational comedy in a conversational style.
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William Henry Cosby Jr. (/ ˈkɒzbi / KOZ-bee; born July 12, 1937) is an American former comedian, actor, and media personality. He performed over a period of decades in film, television, and stand-up comedy, with his longest-running live-action role being that of Cliff Huxtable in the sitcom The Cosby Show (1984–1992).
Apr 3, 2014 · Cosby was born William Henry Cosby Jr. on July 12, 1937, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Cosby, the oldest of four boys, grew up in Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood. At first, the...
Jun 30, 2021 · Bill Cosby will be released from prison Wednesday after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania overturned his 2018 sexual assault conviction. Cosby had been sentenced to three to 10 years in state ...
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Sep 20, 2024 · Early life and career. Cosby left high school without earning his diploma and joined the U.S. Navy in 1956. While enlisted he passed a high-school equivalency exam, and after his discharge he received an athletic scholarship to Temple University in Philadelphia in 1961.
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- Bill Cosby was a comedian, an actor, and a producer who played a major role in the development of a more positive portrayal of African Americans on...
- Bill Cosby was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 12, 1937.
- After Bill Cosby was discharged from the U.S. Navy, he received an athletic scholarship to Temple University in Philadelphia in 1961. He left Templ...
- Bill Cosby became the subject of dozens of sexual assault accusations dating back to the 1960s. In 2015 he was charged with felony aggravated indec...
Dec 3, 2014 · Born in 1937 in a social housing complex in Philadelphia, the young William Henry Cosby Jr shone shoes and worked at a local supermarket to help his family make ends meet. His early life was...
Sep 25, 2018 · Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison on Tuesday, completing the famed actor and comic’s spectacular fall from one of America’s most beloved entertainers to disgraced sex...
Jun 30, 2021 · Bill Cosby, the disgraced comedian who was convicted of sexual assault in 2018, is no longer in prison, due to a state supreme court decision in Commonwealth v. Cosby.
