Bing Crosby
Acting
🎂 1903-05-03
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Cast credits(203)
Self
1962
Self
1967
Self - Guest / Various Characters
1967
Bing Crosby
1950
Self
1961
Self (archive footage)
1961
Self
1948
Self
1950
Bing Collins
1964
George Warren
1963
Self (archive footage)
2006
Self
1957
Self
1971
Self (archive footage)
1975
C. K. Dexter-Haven
1956
Narrator (segment "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow")
1949
Bob Wallace
1954
Self
1971
Doc Josiah Boone
1966
Father Chuck O'Malley
1944
George Cochran
1953
Self (archive footage)
1999
Spectator (uncredited)
1952
Frank Elgin
1954
Allen A. Dale
1964
Bing Crosby
1960
Jeff Peters
1942
Bing Crosby (uncredited)
1951
Self (archive footage)
2014
Bing
1930
Narrator
1949
(archive footage)
1976
Bing Crosby (uncredited)
1960
(archival footage)
2025
Father Chuck O'Malley
1945
Margaret's Sweetheart (uncredited)
1944
Hank Martin
1949
Jeff Peters (archive footage)
2018
(archive footage)
1994
Self
1992
Narrator / Ichabod Crane / Brom Bones (voice) (archive footage)
2003
Self - C.K Dexter-Haven (archive footage)
2022
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Jim Hardy
1942
Self - Host / Narrator
1974
Self (archive footage)
1968
Bing (uncredited)
1959
Bing Crosby
1947
Self (archive footage)
2021
Harry (uncredited)
1947
Joshua 'Josh' Mallon V
1940
Harry Turner
1962
Skeleton (uncredited)
1953
Mark Twain
1970
Self (archive footage)
2022
Tom Grayson
1935
Bing
1935
Self (archive footage)
1990
'Lefty' Boylan
1937
Earl Carleton
1957
Scat Sweeney
1947
Peter 'Pete' Garvey
1951
Self (archive footage)
1987
Jeff Larabee
1936
Gilbert Gordon
1935
Self (archive footage)
1976
(archive footage)
1982
Bing Crosby
1942
Virgil Smith
1948
Bing Crosby (archive footage) (uncredited)
1952
Daniel Decatur Emmett
1943
Duke Johnson
1946
(archive footage)
1982
Trio Singer (as The Rhythm Boys)
1930
Van Van Dorn
1956
Self (archive footage)
2014
Man Outside Union Hall (uncredited)
1942
Self
1943
Paul Lawton
1934
Jeff Lambert
1941
Self (archive footage)
1982
Tony Marvin
1937
Stephen Jones
1934
Bill Benson
1956
Joe Beebe
1938
Self (archive footage)
1972
Chuck Reardon
1941
(archive footage)
1984
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2006
Father Conroy
1959
Driver (uncredited)
1952
Music Box (voice)
1943
Self (archive footage)
2017
Self (archive footage)
1985
Self (archive footage)
1988
Professor Frederick Danvers
1933
Harvey Howard
1960
Self (archive footage)
1976
Jordan Blake
1952
Dan Brooks
1950
Johnny Adams
1946
Himself (uncredited)
1972
Larry Poole
1936
Himself
1938
Denny Martin
1939
Dr. James 'Jim' Pearson
1947
Billy Crocker
1936
J. Paul Jones
1934
Leonard Cook
1971
Self - Host (archive footage)
1998
Self (archive footage)
2022
Herbie Fenton (singing voice)
1945
Self (archive footage)
1991
(archive footage)
2002
Buzz Blackwell
1940
Self (archive footage)
2001
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1968
Self
1950
Self (archive footage)
2001
Dr. Bill Remsen
1938
Johnny Cabot
1944
Self (archive footage)
2000
Bill Wainright
1953
(archive footage)
1960
Himself
1961
Bing Crosby
1945
Self (archive footage)
2019
Self - Vocalist (archive footage)
1992
Bob Wallace (archive footage)
1997
Bing Crosby
1945
Self
1961
Himself (voice) (uncredited)
1949
(archive footage)
1979
Self
1957
'Lucky' Lawton
1939
Bill 'Billy' Williams
1933
1998
Self (archive footage)
2024
Self (uncredited)
1932
Eddie Bronson
1933
Larry Earl
1939
Bob Wallace (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000
Bing Crosby / Jack Smith
1931
Bing
1930
Self
1959
2010
Narrator (voice)
1966
Himself
1971
Paul Merrick
1950
Himself
1947
Bob (Singer in Grocery Store)
1963
Bing
1933
Self (Archive Footage)
2003
Self
1977
Self (host)
1965
Self
1957
Self
1975
Self
1944
Bing Hornsby
1932
Self
1934
Himself
1962
Self
1945
Self
1932
Self
2007
Self (uncredited)
1950
Self
1932
Bob Sommers
1940
Self
2005
Bing Crosby
1931
Bing Crosby (uncredited)
1944
Self
1930
Bing Fawcett (Plumber)
1932
Bing Bangs
1931
Influential Man
1956
(archive footage)
1949
Archive Footage
2006
Self (archive footage)
2003
Himself (Archive)
1994
Narrator/Brom Bones
1977
1973
Self
2004
(archive footage)
2003
Self
1945
1961
Self
1971
Joe Mulqueen
1949
1958
Self
1934
Bing
1931
Self / Papa Bear (voice)
1970
Self
1965
Self
1954
Himself
1940
1994
Himself
1966
Self
2010
Himself (archival footage)
1978
Self
1970
Bing
1932
Himself
1977
Howard Jones
1933
1945
Self
2004
