Bill Cosby Biography Essay

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Bill Cosby Biography, Film Actor, Television Actor, Comedian, and Television Producer, Bill Cosby was born on July 12, 1937, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He dropped out of school to join the U.S. Navy and he also dropped out of college to become a standup comedian. Cosby First role was the series spy in the year 1965-68, he was the first black actor to star in a dramatic role on network television. Cosby was a successful man. The Cosby show was rated sitcom for five years from the year of 1984 to 1992. Cosby was accused of sexual misconduct surfaced in 2014. More than 50 women have accused Cosby of inappropriate behavior. Cosby was charged in 2015 at the age of 78 with sexual assault charges in Pennsylvania.
Cosby the actor, comedian, writer
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The show run for three years Cosby received three Emmy Awards for his work with the show. Cosby starred in his own sitcom. The Bill Cosby Show ran for two seasons, from 1969 to 1971, Bill was a gym teacher at a Los Angeles high school. Around the same time, he appeared on the educational children's series The Electric Company, and developed the animated series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, which he based on many of his childhood experiences. The year 1977 he received a doctorate in urban education from the …show more content…
In mid December a group of women were suing him for defamation in Massachusetts court so he filed a federal countersuit stating that the plaintiffs are making malicious opportunistic, and false and defamatory charges against him, because of the situation he was in numerous of colleges have revoked honorary degrees that was awarded to Cosby and a statue of the comedian was removed from Disney’s MGM Hollywood studios park in July