Cast & creator
Bing Crosby
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Mike Douglas Show, The Mike Douglas Show
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, comedian and actor. The first multimedia star, Crosby was a leader in record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses from 1931 to 1954. His early career coincided with recording innovations that allowed him to develop an intimate singing style that influenced many male singers who followed him, including Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes, and Dean Martin. Yank magazine said that he was "the person who had done the most for the morale of overseas servicemen" during World War II. In 1948, American polls declared him the "most admired man alive", ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII. Also in 1948, Music Digest estimated that his recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music. Crosby won an Oscar 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 opposite Ingrid Bergman the next year, becoming the first of six actors to be nominated twice for playing the same character. In 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. He is one of 33 people to have three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the categories of motion pictures, radio, and audio recording. He was also known for his collaborations with longtime friend Bob Hope, starring in the Road to... films from 1940 to 1962. Crosby influenced the development of the postwar recording industry. After seeing a demonstration of a German broadcast quality reel-to-reel tape recorder brought to America by John T. Mullin, he invested $50,000 in a California electronics company called Ampex to build copies. He then convinced ABC to allow him to tape his shows. He became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. Through the medium of recording, he constructed his radio programs with the same directorial tools and craftsmanship (editing, retaking, rehearsal, time shifting) used in motion picture production, a practice that became an industry standard. In addition to his work with early audio tape recording, he helped to finance the development of videotape, bought television stations, bred racehorses, and co-owned the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team.
Also known as: Harry Lillis Crosby, Der Bingle, The Rhythm Boys
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film credits
29
television credits
224
1930–2025 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (243)
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961The Mike Douglas Show
Self (archive footage)
1961
Top of the Pops
Self (archive footage)
1964Top of the Pops
Self - Jim Hardy (archive footage)
1964
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Winner
1944
The South Bank Show
1978
The Red Skelton Show
Self
1951Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
George Warren
1963
The Carol Burnett Show
Self
1967The Carol Burnett Show
Self - Guest / Various Characters
1967
Ben Casey
Executive Producer
1961
Dinah!
Self
1974
The Bob Hope Show
Self
1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
The Jack Benny Program
Bing Crosby
1950
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self (uncredited)
1968Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
1968
Parkinson
Self - Guest / Performer (archive footage)
2004
The Phil Silvers Show
Bing Crosby
1955
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
Self
1969V.I.P. Schaukel
Self
1971
The Bell Telephone Hour
Self
1959
Legends
Self (archive footage)
2006
The Danny Thomas Hour
Charlie Castle
1967
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Narrator (segment "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow")
1949
The Bing Crosby Show
Bing Collins
1964The Pearl Bailey Show
Self
1971
High Society
C. K. Dexter-Haven
1956
Let's Make Love
Bing Crosby (uncredited)
1960
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Self - C.K Dexter-Haven (archive footage)
2022
Paper Moon
Thanks
1973
White Christmas
Bob Wallace
1954
Frank Sinatra Show
Self
1957
The Greatest Show on Earth
Spectator (uncredited)
1952
Angels in the Outfield
Bing Crosby (uncredited)
1951
The Bells of St. Mary's
Father O'Malley
1945
Alias Jesse James
Bing (uncredited)
1959
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Allen A. Dale
1964
Stagecoach
Doc Josiah Boone
1966
White Christmas
Songs
1995
Holiday Inn
Jim Hardy
1942
Dean Martin: King of Cool
Self (archive footage)
2021
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
1976
The Princess and the Pirate
Margaret's Sweetheart (uncredited)
1944
The Road to Hong Kong
Harry Turner
1962
Howard
Jeff Peters (archive footage)
2018
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1994
The Country Girl
Frank Elgin
1954
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
1968
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2
Self (archive footage)
2001
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.1
Narrator / Ichabod Crane / Brom Bones (voice) (archive footage)
2003Television: The First Fifty Years
Self (archive footage)
1999
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage)
2022
'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
Self
2004Bob Hope's World of Comedy
(archive footage)
1976
Ben
Executive Producer
1972
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Hank Martin
1949
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Self (archive footage)
1990
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
Self
1977
Scared Stiff
Skeleton (uncredited)
1953
Here Comes the Groom
Peter 'Pete' Garvey
1951
Waikiki Wedding
Tony Marvin
1937
Going My Way
Father Chuck O'Malley
1944
That's Entertainment!
Self - Host / Narrator
1974
Road to Bali
George Cochran
1952Road to Bali
Executive Producer
1952
Blue Skies
Johnny Adams
1946
Road to Morocco
Jeff Peters
1942
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Narrator
1949
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
1975
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
1995
Hollywood on Parade No. B-4
Self
1934
Here Come the Waves
Johnny Cabot
1944
Son of Paleface
Driver (uncredited)
1952
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
Self (archive footage)
2002
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1968
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
1972
Tenderness
Music
1985
Say One for Me
Father Conroy
1959
This Is Bob Hope...
Self (archive footage)
2017
Showbiz Goes to War
Self (archive footage)
1982
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Silent Night
Songs
1996
King of Jazz
Trio Singer (as The Rhythm Boys)
1930
Terror in the Wax Museum
Producer
1973
Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin
Self (archive footage)
2022
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
Self (archive footage)
2001
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
Self (archive footage)
1985
Reaching for the Moon
Bing
1930
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Self (archive footage)
1987
You Can Change The World
Self
1950
Top o' the Morning
Joe Mulqueen
1949
High Time
Harvey Howard
1960
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
1984
The All-Star Bond Rally
Self
1945
Show-Business at War
Self
1943
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2006
I Can't Give You Anything But Love: The Jimmy McHugh Story
Self (archive footage)
2024
Goldilocks
Self / Papa Bear (voice)
1970
Welcome Stranger
Dr. James 'Jim' Pearson
1947Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
Self
1975
She Loves Me Not
Paul Lawton
1934
Out of This World
Herbie Fenton (singing voice) (uncredited)
1945Hollywood on Parade No. A-2
Self
1932
Disney's Halloween Treat
(archive footage)
1982
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
Billboard Girl
Bing
1932
It's Showtime
Self (archive footage)
1976
Dixie
Daniel Decatur Emmett
1943
Twiggy
(archival footage)
2025
Here Is My Heart
J. Paul Jones
1934
The Sound of Laughter
Bob (Singer in Grocery Store)
1963
My Favorite Brunette
Harry (uncredited)
1947
Star Spangled Rhythm
Bing Crosby
1942
Mr. Music
Paul Merrick
1950
If I Had My Way
Buzz Blackwell
1940
We're Not Dressing
Stephen Jones
1934
Rhythm on the Range
Jeff Larabee
1936
Road to Utopia
Duke Johnson
1946
My Favorite Blonde
Man Outside Union Hall (uncredited)
1942
Birth of the Blues
Jeff Lambert
1941
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
Self (archive footage)
2001
Rhythm on the River
Bob Sommers
1940
East Side of Heaven
Denny Martin
1939
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Self (archive footage)
1982
Road to Singapore
Josh Mallon
1940
They Got Me Covered
Music Box (voice)
1943
Bing Crosby: Cooling It
Self
1970
Pepe
Bing Crosby
1960
Road to Rio
Scat Sweeney
1947
The Great John L.
Executive Producer
1945
America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers
1951
Down Memory Lane
Bing Crosby
1949
Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas
Bob Wallace (archive footage)
1997
Halloween Hall o' Fame
Narrator/Brom Bones
1977
Swing Out, Sweet Land
Mark Twain
1970
Double or Nothing
'Lefty' Boylan
1937
The Best of Johnny Carson
Self (archive footage)
2010Hollywood on Parade No. A-4
Self (uncredited)
1932
Variety Girl
Bing Crosby
1947
Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years
Himself (archival footage)
1978
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
Self (archive footage)
2000
Michael Bublé: Home For The Holidays
Self (archive footage)
2012
Bing Crosby and the Sounds of Christmas
Himself
1971
The Bing Crosby Show
Self
1961
A Bing Crosby Christmas
Self - Host (archive footage)
1998
Happy Holidays with Bing and Frank
Self
1957
The All-Star Christmas Show
Self
1958
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Self
1934
My Music: A Classic Christmas
Self (archive footage)
2019
Man on Fire
Earl Carleton
1957Man on Fire
Executive Producer
1957
Anything Goes
Bill Benson
1956
Road to Hollywood
Himself
1947
The Big Broadcast of 1936
Bing
1935
Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
1973
Lifetime of Comedy
(archive footage)
1960
Road to Zanzibar
Chuck
1941
Tim Conway: Timeless Comedy
Self (archive footage)
2007The Road to Victory
Bing Crosby (uncredited)
1944
Hollywood on Parade
Self
1932
Showdown at Ulcer Gulch
Influential Man
1956
Confessions of a Co-Ed
Bing
1931
Pennies from Heaven
Larry Poole
1936
Abie's Irish Rose
Executive Producer
1946Cole Porter in Hollywood: True Love
Self (Archive Footage)
2003The Great Radio Comedians
Self
1971
Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials
Self (archive footage)
2010
The Emperor Waltz
Virgil Smith
1948
A Classic Christmas from The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1992
Cancel My Reservation
Himself (uncredited)
1972
Classic Commercials: Volume 3
1998
Anything Goes
Billy Crocker
1936Bob Hope Christmas Show
Self
1965
Stan Ridgway's Holiday In Dirt
Thanks
2005
Dr. Cook's Garden
Leonard Cook
1971
Shanks for the Memory
1994
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
Self
1959
Off Limits
Bing Crosby (archive footage) (uncredited)
1952
'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney
Bob Wallace (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000
Hooray for Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
1976
Mean Dog Blues
Executive Producer
1978
Duffy's Tavern
Bing Crosby
1945
Arnold
Executive Producer
1973
The Magic of Bing Crosby
Self (archive footage)
1991
Little Boy Lost
Bill Wainright
1953
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
Self (archive footage)
2014
Paris Honeymoon
'Lucky' Lawton
1939
White Christmas
Music
1968
Just for You
Jordan Blake
1952
Going Hollywood
Bill 'Billy' Williams
1933
Hollywood Handicap
Himself
1938
The Big Broadcast
Bing Hornsby
1932
The Hollywood Clowns
(archive footage)
1979
Bing Crosby Color Christmas Show
Self (host)
1965Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show'
Self - Vocalist (archive footage)
1992
Biography: Bob Hope: America's Entertainer
Self (archive footage)
2003
Christmas with Crosby & Kate
Himself
1966
Riding High
Dan Brooks
1950
The Bing Crosby Show
Self
1954
Big Night Out: The Peggy Lee Show
1961
Mississippi
Tom Grayson
1935
High Tor
Van Van Dorn
1956High Tor
Executive Producer
1956
Songs That Won the War
Himself (Archive)
1994
The March of Time
Self
1930
College Humor
Professor Frederick Danvers
1933
The Edsel Show
Self
1957
The Shining Future
Self
1944
Classic Comedy Teams
Self (archive footage)
1986
Bing Crosby: Live In Mysen, Norway
Himself
1977
"All -Singing All-Dancing" Before And After
Self - (archive footage)
2006
Blue of the Night
Bing Crosby / Jack Smith
1931
The Star Maker
Larry Earl
1939
Good King Wenceslas
Songs
1996
Sing, You Sinners
Joe Beebe
1938
Hollywood Victory Caravan
Bing Crosby
1945
Calder
Music
1966
Two for Tonight
Gilbert Gordon
1935
Jolson Sings Again
Himself (voice) (uncredited)
1949
Cinerama's Russian Adventure
Narrator (voice)
1966
Bing Crosby: Legends in Concert
Self
2004Bing Crosby: Legends in Concert
Director
2004
Doctor Rhythm
Dr. Bill Remsen
1938Screen Actors
Self (uncredited)
1950Don't Hook Now
Self
1943
Sing, Bing, Sing
Bing
1933
Two Plus Fours
Bing
1930
The Bing Crosby Show
Himself
1962
Please
Howard Jones
1933
Too Much Harmony
Eddie Bronson
1933
Showbiz Ballyhoo
Self (archive footage)
1982
Hollywood Ghosts & Gravesites
Self (archive footage)
2003
The Grand Olympics
Himself
1961Swing with Bing
Himself
1940
I Surrender Dear
Bing Crosby
1931Legendary Christmas Entertainers
Self
2005Road to Home
Self
1945
One More Chance
Bing Bangs
1931Dream House
Bing Fawcett (Plumber)
1932