Bill Cosby
- Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Birthday: July 12, 1937
As a stand-up comic, author, actor and producer, Bill Cosby was revered as an All American dad, and his accomplishment was all the more remarkable as he was among the first African-American actors whose popularity knew no racial boundaries. The playful, charismatic Cosby drew much of his conversational style stand-up material from his childhood, but once he started having children of his own, they proved an endless source for his bemused accounts of parenthood. From his No. 1 rated sitcom “The Cosby Show” (NBC, 1984-1992), which painted a t…more
