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At Temple, he studied physical education while he ran track and played fullback on the college's football team. He served until 1960 and became a petty officer 3rd class.Ĭosby as a basketball player during his Navy service in 1957Ĭosby earned his high school equivalency diploma through correspondence courses and was awarded a track and field scholarship to Temple University in 1961. He worked in physical therapy with Navy and Marine Corps personnel who were injured during the Korean War. In 1956, Cosby enlisted in the Navy and served as a hospital corpsman at the Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia at Naval Station Argentia in Newfoundland, Canada and at the National Naval Medical Center in Maryland. He transferred to Germantown High School but failed the tenth grade. Cosby attended Philadelphia's Central High School, a magnet school and academically rigorous college prep school, where he ran track and played baseball, football, and basketball. At FitzSimons Junior High School, Cosby acted in plays and continued to compete in sports. Teachers noted his propensity for joking around instead of studying, and he described himself as the class clown. Ĭosby was the class president as well as captain of both the baseball and track and field teams at Mary Channing Wister Public School in Philadelphia. He is one of four sons of Anna Pearl ( née Hite), a maid, and William Henry Cosby Sr., who served as a mess steward in the U.S. Ĭosby was born on July 12, 1937, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was imprisoned until the conviction was vacated in June 2021, by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for violations of Cosby's 5th Amendment and 14th Amendment due process rights. In 2018, Cosby was convicted of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand. In 2014, Cosby became the subject of numerous sexual assault allegations which became highly publicized during the Me Too movement. He then created and produced the animated children's program Little Bill (1999–2004). He also starred in The Cosby Mysteries (1994–1995), the sitcom Cosby (1996–2000) and hosted Kids Say the Darndest Things (1998–2000). Cosby produced the spin-off sitcom A Different World, which aired from 1987 to 1993. During this time, Cosby gained a reputation as 'America's Dad' for his portrayal of Cliff Huxtable. The sitcom highlighted the experiences and growth of an affluent African-American family.

His dissertation discussed the use of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids as a teaching tool in elementary schools.īeginning in the 1980s, Cosby produced and starred in the television sitcom The Cosby Show, which aired from 1984 to 1992 and was rated as the number one show in America from 1985 through 1989. In 1976, he earned his Doctor of Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, returning to the school after completing his Masters of Arts there in 1972. He also starred in the original cast of The Electric Company alongside Rita Moreno and Morgan Freeman from 1971 to 1973. Throughout the 1970s, Cosby starred in various films including Sidney Poitier's Uptown Saturday Night (1974), and Let's Do It Again (1975), and Neil Simon's California Suite (1978) alongside Richard Pryor.

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In 1972, using the Fat Albert character developed during his stand-up routines, Cosby created, produced, and hosted the animated comedy television series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids which ran until 1985, centering on a group of young friends growing up in an urban area. His acting career continued as he starred in the sitcom The Bill Cosby Show, which ran for two seasons from 1969 to 1971. Cosby made history when he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1966, making him the first African American to earn an Emmy Award for acting. He also had a starring role in the television crime show I Spy (1965–1968) opposite Robert Culp. Throughout the decade he released several standup comedy records which consecutively earned him the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album from 1965 to 1970. Cosby began his career as a stand-up comic at the Hungry i nightclub in San Francisco during the 1960s. ( / ˈ k ɒ z b i/ born July 12, 1937) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and author.

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