Actor Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 12, 1937. He was the oldest of four boys. He had three brothers, and their names were: James, Russell, and Robert. His father ran away near Christmas time when he was very young and he had to get a job to help support the family. In school he was the class clown and was sent to a special school for rowdy boys. In his new school his teacher was Mary Forchic. She saw that he was a great comedian and she put that into her lessons to make them more understandable for Bill. She made the lessons fun for him and made it easier to learn. He said that she made him what he is today.After a couple years he went back to his old school and even though his grades were dropping he still kept it together. Bill was starting to look up to comedians on the radio and the TV. They were comedians like Sam Levenson, Sid Caesar, and Carl Reiner. Even though his grades were poor in junior high, when he took the standardized tests he was accepted to Central High School, which was a school for all the gifted children in Pennsylvania. Now being six feet, he was on the high school football team. But in the first week of football he broke his arm. Since there were few blacks in the school and he was
In 1963 Bill Cosby was making 500 dollars for one live performance. He soon signed a contract with Warner Brothers to make a comedy album called, ABill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow . . . Right!@ This album was a very big success. He was in Washington for comedy, and one day he was in a bowling alley and met a girl named Camille Hanks. She was a psychology student at the university of Maryland. They fell in love. They got married fast in only a couple of months. He was now making 1,000 dollars for a single performance. If I were to meet Bill Cosby I would first ask him: What were your feelings when you first heard about your son=s death? I would ask this because the book is entitled, ABill Cosby Family Man,@ and his son=s death must have had a great effect on his family. I would also ask him: When you were asked to go to court about your alleged daughter, what was your reaction? What was the first thing that popped into your head? I would ask him that because it must have been a traumatizing experience for him to be accused of wrongdoing by someone he tried to help. In 1964 Bill Cosby made his first appearance on Johnny Carson=s, ATonight Show.@ That was the first of many appearances he would make there. He came out with his second album which made 1,000,000 dollars. It was called, AI Started Out As a Child@ and it was very successful. Cosby was selected to play a spy on a TV show series called AI Spy.@ The producer, Sheldon Leanord, was taking great risks in having Cosby playing this part. Racial issues were stirring in the 60's and Cosby was the first Black American to have a major role on a very popular television series.
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