From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation. A multimedia star, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby was a leader in record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses. Crosby's early career coincided with technical recording innovations; this allowed him to develop a laid-back, intimate singing style that influenced many of the popular male singers who followed him, including Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin. Yank magazine recognized Crosby as the person who had done the most for American G.I. morale during World War II and, during his peak years, around 1948, polls declared him the "most admired man alive," ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII. Also in 1948, the Music Digest estimated that Crosby recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music. Crosby exerted an important influence on the development of the postwar recording industry. Crosby worked for NBC at the time and wanted record his shows, however, most broadcast networks did not allow recording. This was mainly because of the quality of the recording at the time. While in Europe performing during the war, Crosby had witnessed tape recording, on which The Crosby Research Foundation would come to have many patents. The company also developed equipment and recording techniques such as the Laugh Track which are still in use today. In 1947, he invested $50,000 in the Ampex company, which built North America's first commercial reel-to-reel tape recorder. He left NBC to work for ABC, because NBC was not interested in recording at the time. This proved beneficial because ABC accepted him and his new ideas. Crosby then became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. He gave one of the first Ampex Model 200 recorders to his friend, musician Les Paul, which led directly to Paul's invention of multitrack recording. Along with Frank Sinatra, Crosby was one of the principal backers behind the famous United Western Recorders studio complex in Los Angeles. During the "Golden Age of Radio," performers often had to recreate their live shows a second time for the west coast time zone. Through the aegis of recording, Crosby constructed his radio programs with the same directorial tools and craftsmanship (editing, retaking, rehearsal, time shifting) being used in motion picture production. This became the industry standard. Crosby won an Academy Award 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 the next year, becoming the first of four actors to be nominated twice for playing the same character. In 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. Crosby is one of the 22 people to have three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bing Crosby, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Series | The Edsel Show | Himself/host | 2018 |
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Movie | Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History | 2008-10-14 | |
Movie | Edith Head: The Paramount Years | (archive footage) | 2002-11-26 |
Movie | A Bing Crosby Christmas | Self - Host (archive footage) | 1998-01-01 |
Movie | Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas | Bob Wallace (archive footage) | 1997-12-01 |
Movie | Songs That Won the War | Himself (Archive) | 1994-05-01 |
Movie | That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) | 1994-07-01 |
Movie | The Magic of Bing Crosby | Self (archive footage) | 1991-10-29 |
Movie | Grace Kelly: The American Princess | Self (archive footage) | 1987-06-08 |
Movie | It's Showtime | Self (archive footage) | 1976-03-31 |
Movie | That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
Movie | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 |
Movie | That's Entertainment! | Self - Host / Narrator | 1974-06-21 |
Movie | Cancel My Reservation | Himself (uncredited) | 1972-09-21 |
Movie | Dr. Cook's Garden | Leonard Cook | 1971-01-19 |
Movie | The Movie Orgy | Self (archive footage) | 1968-01-01 |
Movie | The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1968-05-08 |
Movie | Cinerama's Russian Adventure | Narrator (voice) | 1966-03-03 |
Movie | Stagecoach | Doc Josiah Boone | 1966-04-21 |
Movie | Hollywood My Home Town | Self (archive footage) | 1965-12-31 |
Series | The Hollywood Palace | 1964-01-04 | |
Movie | Robin and the 7 Hoods | Allen A. Dale | 1964-06-24 |
Series | The Bing Crosby Show | Bing Collins | 1964-09-14 |
Movie | The Road to Hong Kong | Harry Turner | 1962-03-29 |
Movie | Let's Make Love | Bing Crosby (uncredited) | 1960-09-08 |
Movie | High Time | Harvey Howard | 1960-09-16 |
Movie | Pepe | Bing Crosby | 1960-12-21 |
Movie | Alias Jesse James | Bing (uncredited) | 1959-03-20 |
Movie | Say One for Me | Father Conroy | 1959-06-19 |
Movie | Man on Fire | Earl Carleton | 1957-08-22 |
Movie | Happy Holidays with Bing and Frank | Himself | 1957-12-20 |
Movie | High Tor | Van Van Dorn | 1956-03-10 |
Movie | Anything Goes | Bill Benson | 1956-04-27 |
Movie | High Society | C. K. Dexter-Haven | 1956-07-17 |
Movie | White Christmas | Bob Wallace | 1954-10-14 |
Movie | The Country Girl | Frank Elgin | 1954-12-15 |
Movie | Road to Bali | George Cochran | 1953-01-29 |
Movie | Little Boy Lost | Bill Wainright | 1953-09-21 |
Movie | Scared Stiff | Skeleton (uncredited) | 1953-04-27 |
Movie | The Greatest Show on Earth | Spectator (uncredited) | 1952-02-16 |
Movie | Just for You | Jordan Blake | 1952-09-27 |
Movie | Off Limits | Bing Crosby (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1952-12-30 |
Movie | Here Comes the Groom | Peter 'Pete' Garvey | 1951-09-20 |
Movie | Angels in the Outfield | Bing Crosby (uncredited) | 1951-10-19 |
Movie | Riding High | Dan Brooks | 1950-04-12 |
Movie | Mr. Music | Paul Merrick | 1950-12-08 |
Movie | Screen Actors | Self (uncredited) | 1950-05-13 |
Movie | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Hank Martin | 1949-04-18 |
Movie | Down Memory Lane | (archive footage) | 1949-08-01 |
Movie | The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad | Narrator (segment "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow") | 1949-10-05 |
Movie | Top o' the Morning | Joe Mulqueen | 1949-08-31 |
Movie | Jolson Sings Again | Himself (voice) (uncredited) | 1949-08-17 |
Movie | The Emperor Waltz | Virgil Smith | 1948-07-02 |
Movie | Welcome Stranger | Dr. James 'Jim' Pearson | 1947-06-13 |
Movie | My Favorite Brunette | Harry (uncredited) | 1947-03-19 |
Movie | Variety Girl | Bing Crosby | 1947-08-29 |
Movie | Road to Rio | Scat Sweeney | 1947-12-25 |
Movie | Road to Utopia | Duke Johnson | 1946-02-27 |
Movie | Blue Skies | Johnny Adams | 1946-10-15 |
Movie | The All-Star Bond Rally | Self | 1945-05-10 |
Movie | Duffy's Tavern | Bing Crosby | 1945-09-28 |
Movie | Out of This World | Herbie Fenton (singing voice) | 1945-07-13 |
Movie | The Bells of St. Mary's | Father Chuck O'Malley | 1945-12-27 |
Movie | Hollywood Victory Caravan | Bing Crosby | 1945-09-30 |
Movie | Going My Way | Father Chuck O'Malley | 1944-01-01 |
Movie | The Shining Future | Self | 1944-04-11 |
Movie | The Princess and the Pirate | Margaret's Sweetheart (uncredited) | 1944-11-17 |
Movie | The Road to Victory | Bing Crosby (uncredited) | 1944-05-18 |
Movie | Here Come the Waves | Johnny Cabot | 1944-12-18 |
Movie | They Got Me Covered | Music Box (voice) | 1943-03-04 |
Movie | Show-Business at War | Self | 1943-05-21 |
Movie | Dixie | Daniel Decatur Emmett | 1943-06-23 |
Movie | Holiday Inn | Jim Hardy | 1942-01-01 |
Movie | Star Spangled Rhythm | Bing Crosby | 1942-03-05 |
Movie | My Favorite Blonde | Man Outside Union Hall (uncredited) | 1942-04-02 |
Movie | Road to Morocco | Jeff Peters | 1942-11-10 |
Movie | Road to Zanzibar | Chuck Reardon | 1941-04-11 |
Movie | Birth of the Blues | Jeff Lambert | 1941-11-07 |
Movie | Swing with Bing | Himself | 1940-06-30 |
Movie | Road to Singapore | Joshua 'Josh' Mallon V | 1940-03-22 |
Movie | Rhythm on the River | Bob Sommers | 1940-08-28 |
Movie | Paris Honeymoon | 'Lucky' Lawton | 1939-01-27 |
Movie | East Side of Heaven | Denny Martin | 1939-04-07 |
Movie | The Star Maker | Larry Earl | 1939-08-25 |
Movie | Doctor Rhythm | Dr. Bill Remsen | 1938-05-06 |
Movie | Sing, You Sinners | Joe Beebe | 1938-09-02 |
Movie | Hollywood Handicap | Himself | 1938-05-28 |
Movie | Waikiki Wedding | Tony Marvin | 1937-03-23 |
Movie | Double or Nothing | 'Lefty' Boylan | 1937-09-17 |
Movie | Anything Goes | Billy Crocker | 1936-01-24 |
Movie | Pennies from Heaven | Larry Poole | 1936-11-25 |
Movie | Rhythm on the Range | Jeff Larabee | 1936-07-01 |
Movie | Mississippi | Tom Grayson | 1935-03-22 |
Movie | Two for Tonight | Gilbert Gordon | 1935-09-12 |
Movie | The Big Broadcast of 1936 | Bing | 1935-09-20 |
Movie | We're Not Dressing | Stephen Jones | 1934-04-27 |
Movie | She Loves Me Not | Paul Lawton | 1934-08-31 |
Movie | Here Is My Heart | J. Paul Jones | 1934-12-28 |
Movie | Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove | Self | 1934-12-01 |
Movie | Sing, Bing, Sing | Bing | 1933-03-23 |
Movie | College Humor | Professor Frederick Danvers | 1933-07-05 |
Movie | Going Hollywood | Bill 'Billy' Williams | 1933-12-22 |
Movie | Too Much Harmony | Eddie Bronson | 1933-09-23 |
Movie | Please | Howard Jones | 1933-12-16 |
Movie | Billboard Girl | Bing | 1932-03-20 |
Movie | Dream House | Bing Fawcett (Plumber) | 1932-01-17 |
Movie | Hollywood on Parade | Self | 1932-06-05 |
Movie | The Big Broadcast | Bing Hornsby | 1932-10-14 |
Movie | Confessions of a Co-Ed | Bing | 1931-07-11 |
Movie | I Surrender Dear | Bing Crosby | 1931-09-13 |
Movie | Blue of the Night | Bing Crosby / Jack Smith | 1931-09-13 |
Movie | King of Jazz | Trio Singer (as The Rhythm Boys) | 1930-04-20 |
Movie | Reaching for the Moon | Bing | 1930-12-29 |
Movie | Two Plus Fours | Bing | 1930-08-10 |
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