Bing Crosby Net Worth

Bing Crosby Net Worth is
$50 Million

Bing Crosby Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby, Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark warm 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 Crosby was a leader in record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses. His early career coincided with technical recording innovations such as the microphone. 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, American 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. He worked for NBC at the time and wanted to record his shows; however, most broadcast networks did not allow recording. This was primarily because the quality of recording at the time was not as good as live broadcast sound quality. 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 recording 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 medium 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 opposite Ingrid Bergman 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 (a star for motion pictures, radio, and audio recording).

Full NameBing Crosby
Net Worth$50 Million
Date Of BirthMay 3, 1903, Tacoma, Washington, United States
DiedOctober 14, 1977, Alcobendas, Spain
Place Of BirthTacoma, Washington, USA
Height5' 7" (1.7 m)
ProfessionSoundtrack, Actor, Producer
EducationGonzaga Preparatory School, Gonzaga University, I'll Be Home for Christmas, White Christmas, Mele Kalikimaka
NationalityAmerican
SpouseKathryn Crosby (m. 1957–1977), Dixie Lee (m. 1930–1952)
ChildrenMary Crosby, Gary Crosby, Nathaniel Crosby, Dennis Crosby, Lindsay Crosby, Phillip Crosby, Harry Crosby
ParentsHarry Lincoln Crosby, Catherine Harrigan, I'll Be Home for Christmas, White Christmas, Mele Kalikimaka
SiblingsBob Crosby, Larry Crosby, Everett Crosby, Ted Crosby, Mary Rose Crosby, Catherine Crosby, I'll Be Home for Christmas, White Christmas, Mele Kalikimaka
AwardsAcademy Award for Best Actor, Grammy Hall of Fame, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Peabody Award, Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, National Board of Review Award for Best Actor, American Music Award of Merit, I'll Be Home for Christmas, White Christmas, Mele Kalikimaka
NominationsGolden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, NME Award for World's Outstanding Popular Singer, NME Award for Favourite US Male Singer, I'll Be Home for Christmas, White Christmas, Mele Kalikimaka
MoviesGoing My Way, High Society, White Christmas, Road to Morocco, Holiday Inn, Road to Singapore, The Country Girl, Road to Bali, Road to Utopia, Road to Zanzibar, Road to Rio, The Road to Hong Kong, The Bells of St. Mary's, Here Comes the Groom, The Emperor Waltz, The Big Broadcast, Pennies from Heaven...
TV ShowsThe Hollywood Palace, The Bing Crosby Show, The Edsel Show
Star SignTaurus
#Trademark
1Baritone voice
2"Crooned" most of the songs he sang.
3Often worked with Bob Hope
4Signature Song: "White Christmas"
5Often played what he referred to as "happy go-lucky fellas" in his movies
#Quote
1[after Hedda Hopper asked if he was considering retirement] Every day, but I'm sure I'll never get caught up with my work in time to do it.
2[at the start of his career] If I'm going to get by in pictures, it's going to be as a singer, with about as much acting as you would expect from a guy standing in front of a microphone.
3[accepting his Oscar] This is the only country in the world where an old broken-down crooner can win an Oscar for acting. It shows that everybody in this country has a chance to succeed. I was just lucky enough to have Leo McCarey take me by the hand and lead me through the picture.
4[on John Boles singing his solo in King of Jazz (1930)] I have often wondered what might have happened to me if I had sung "The Song of the Dawn". It certainly helped Boles - on the strength of it, he got a lot of pictures. I must say, he had a bigger voice and a better delivery for that kind of song than I had. My crooning style wouldn't have been good for such a number, which was supposed to have been delivered a la breve, like "The Vagabond Song". I might have flopped with it. I might have been cut out of "The King of Jazz". I might never have been given another crack at a song in any picture.
5[on Grace Kelly] She's a great lady, with great talent and kind, considerate, friendly with everybody. She was great with the crew and they all loved her.
6[on Fred Astaire] But when you're in a picture with Astaire, you've got rocks in your head if you do much dancing. He's so quick-footed and so light that it's impossible not to look like a hay-digger compared with him.
7[on W.C. Fields] His comedy routines appeared spontaneous and improvised, but he spent much time perfecting them. He knew exactly what he was doing every moment, and what each prop was supposed to do. That My Little Chickadee (1940) way of talking of his was natural.
8[on Judy Garland] There wasn't a thing that gal couldn't do -- except look after herself.
9[on Judy Garland] The most talented woman I ever knew was Judy Garland. She was a great, great comedienne and she could do more things than any girl I ever knew. Act, sing, dance, make you laugh. She was everything. I had a great affection for her. Such a tragedy. Too much work, too much pressure, the wrong kind of people as husbands.
10[on Bob Hope] Hope? He's got more money on him than I have.
11[on Frank Sinatra] He has this tense Sicilian quality while I don't have any tenseness at all and I just hang in there with what I call a dead ass. But Frank gets picked on by people who want to see how tough he is and he usually obliges them with a demonstration. Like all Sicilians, if he is a friend he will always be a friend -- and if he is an enemy, go on hating.
12[in 1954] I don't sing anywhere as good as I used to, and I feel sincerely that it's getting worse. I don't see any purpose in trying to stretch something out that was once acceptable and that now is merely adequate, if that. I don't know what the reason for this condition is, unless it's apathy. I just don't have the interest in singing. I am not keen about it any more. Songs all sound alike to me, and some of them so shoddy and trivial. I don't mean I didn't sing some cheap songs in the old days, but I had such a tremendous interest in singing and was so wrapped up in the work that it didn't matter. I don't know how to diagnose the condition, but it seems to me that possibly this apathy, this lack of desire, when I have to go to a recording session, transmits itself into nervous exhaustion and fatigue.
13[on his phenomenally successful single "White Christmas"] A jackdaw with a cleft palate could have sung it successfully.
14Once or twice I've been described as a light comedian. I consider this the most accurate description of my abilities I've ever seen.
15[his own epitaph] He was an average guy who could carry a tune.
16Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent which is so thin it's almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years.
17[about Elvis Presley] He helped to kill off the influence of me and my contemporaries, but I respect him for that. Because music always has to progress, and no-one could have opened the door to the future like he did.
18Everyone knows I'm just a big, good-natured slob.
19I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the 20th century that have made great strides in reverse.
20[on Frank Sinatra] Frank is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?
#Fact
1Stated in interviews that he was against US involvement in the Vietnam War.
2Maxwell Anderson (at age 61 in 1949) first considered a musical adaptation of "High Tor" for television in 1949. Mid-1954 Bill Paley (CBS) first approached Maxwell Anderson with the intent to produce the play for his newly planned anthology series "The Ford Star Jubilee". During production development, Maxwell Anderson (at age 66) and John Monks Jr. (at age 44; b.1910-2004; 94) adapted the play specifically as a made-for-television musical fantasy in early 1955, with music composed by Arthur Schwartz (at age 54) and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson. Another factor to consider in the relationship and history between Bing Crosby (b.1903-1977; 74) and William S. Paley (b.1901-1990; 89) should be noted: in the mid-1930s, Bill Paley signed and contracted Bing Crosby (at age 32) to be a regular radio performer on his daily-and-weekly CBS radio network schedule. Bing Crosby (at age 51 in 1955) became the leading drive for the "High Tor" project which brought indirectly creative film talents at Paramount Studios where Crosby's Production office was situated. Because Crosby was uncomfortable with the exigencies of live television, performing 90 minutes non-stop in front of a television studio audience, he insisted that it be filmed. Bing Crosby did not want to use the CBS Hollywood Television City studio facility nor the New York Studio 72 stage. Situated adjacent to Paramount Studios is the former RKO-Pathé Film Studio stages. renamed Desilu Studios when husband and wife comedy team Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball acquired the studio to film their CBS television series "I Love Lucy." The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz television "filmed" production unit had pioneered a number of methods, still in use in television production - filming before a live studio audience with a number of cameras; this established the multiple camera filming procedure to produce, edit, and deliver their filmed show to the CBS network. Paramount Studios negotiated with the Desilu studio facilities to utilize the Desilu "I Love Lucy" production unit facility system, their feature-film production crew in staging, filming, editing and delivering the color film musical special to CBS. Network executives considered the use of film an unnecessary extravaganza. Bing Crosby convinced CBS to allow him to cover all additional costs with filming "High Tor". The total cost of the CBS production was $450,000.00, the most expensive television production up to that time, and the first special filmed for broadcast by CBS. Bing Crosby was reportedly paid $375,000.00. The production was filmed during the month of November 1955 on the Desilu Studios' lot-stages with 35mm cameras. Director of photographer Lester Shorr (at age 48,1907-1992; 85) experienced in filming filmed productions for network clients was part of the Hollywood Paramount-Desilu production package. Two Hollywood directors James Neilson (at age 46, 1909-1979; 70) and Franklin J. Schaffner (at age 35, 1920-1989; 69), both had television-film experience with network filmed productions, shared directorial reigns. Discovered in 1948 on stage at UCLA, Paramount signed Nancy Olson (b. 1929) to a studio contract. Nancy Olson (at age 21) as a relatively inexperienced starlet was given the role of a lifetime as script girl Betty Schaefer, who attracts never-do-well writer William Holden (at age 32, 1918-1981; 63) and irks reclusive diva Gloria Swanson (at age 51; 1899-1983; 84) in the towering classic "Sunset Boulevard" (1950). Her pairing with Holden, in fact, went over so well, they were teamed in a succession of Paramount standard features. With these film credentials Nancy Olson (at age 26) was cast in the "High Tor" musical project. Nancy married to renowned lyricist Alan Jay Lerner knew that Julie Andrews (age 20; b. 1935) had been discovered by her husband lyricist Alan Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe having seen Andrews' Broadway debut in the British hit musical "The Boy Friend" (1954-1955, 485 performances). Julie Andrews had been signed to perform the Eliza Doolittle role in their Broadway bound musical "My Fair Lady". Bing Crosby (at age 52) had also seen Julie Andrews in her Broadway debut in "The Boy Friend" and invited her to appear in his television-musical "High Tor". It was Andrews' first work in a Hollywood color film-production, and her American television debut. Hollywood film and Broadway stage performers Hans Conried (age 38; b.1917-1982; 65), Keenan Wynn (age 39; b.1916-1986; 70), Everett Sloane (age 46; b. 1909-1965; 55), John Pickard (age 42; b. 1913-1993; 80), Lloyd Corrigan (age 54; b. 1900-1969; 69) completed the illustrious cast; James Neilson (age 46; 1919-1979; 70) was an established Hollywood film director. Arthur Schwartz, who had also produced films for Columbia Pictures, was a highly successful stage/film composer. The songs Arthur Scwartz composed in collaboration with Maxwell Anderson as lyricist for "High Tor" follow: "Living One Day at a Time"/"When You're in Love" - Bing Cros
3The 1964 CBS Television "Bing Crosby Special" was video taped in color at the NBC Burbank Television Studios on Stage 2, during the last week in August 1963. The New York Producers Nick Vanoff and Bill Harbach brought their production assistants from their New York City production office to Los Angeles to prepare the show's material. Rita Scott supervised the production elements, acting as the Unit Production Manager. The color special was for a CBS TV 'color'' broadcast. CBS' Hollywood Television City had color cameras in moth-balled storage in their facility (stored in the main facilities corridor between the Drapery Department and the main stage midway). CBS did not choose to unwrap their color facilities to video tape the special; nor had available stages to video-tape (record) their network variety special. NBC Burbank had the only operational West Coast color television facility, using RCA Color Cameras and Ampex Video Recording Tape Machines, to record and tape-edit the show. Vanoff and Harbach assembled the production team of writers, music arrangers, designers at the West Coast NBC-Burbank facility to rehearse and tape the variety special. Bing Crosby (at age 61) used his trump card to bring his cast of guest performers together for a 'very very musical special'. The segments were taped without an audience present. Les Brown and his orchestra and crew members were the only audience for the performers. After the production was in "the can," Vanoff, Harbach and Rita Scott remained in Los Angeles developing a television project with Bing Crosby Productions, which became the ABC TV variety show and series "The Hollywood Palace" hosted by Bing Crosby. This ABC TV variety show premiered January 1964, and had a seven season duration until being canceled in January 1970. The Saturday night "The Hollywood Palace" was the ABC network's prestigious answer to CBS's popular Ed Sullivan's Sunday night variety hour.
4Bing Crosby died from a heart attack after playing a round of golf in Spain, on October 14, 1977 at the age of 74. Bing Crosby's electronic solo music recordings, from his 1930's CBS radio days to the end of his life, established Crosby as the most recorded voice in the history of recorded electronic music.
5He appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: Going My Way (1944) and The Greatest Show on Earth (1952).
6Is one of 8 actors who have received an Oscar nomination for their performance as a priest. The others, in chronological order, are: Spencer Tracy for San Francisco (1936) and Boys Town (1938); Charles Bickford for The Song of Bernadette (1943); Barry Fitzgerald for Going My Way (1944); Gregory Peck for The Keys of the Kingdom (1944); Karl Malden for On the Waterfront (1954); Jason Miller for The Exorcist (1973); and Philip Seymour Hoffman for Doubt (2008). Tracy, Crosby and Fitzgerald all won Oscars for their performances.
7Great-grandfather of Luke Gregory Crosby.
8According to "Films in Review's" 1968 career article on the star, Paul Whiteman wanted Crosby to sing "Song of the Dawn" in King of Jazz (1930), but just before filming was to take place, the singer crashed his car on Hollywood Boulevard near the Roosevelt Hotel while driving a "starlet" home, and although no one was hurt, he was sentenced to 60 days for DWI. In his absence, Whiteman had John Boles sing the solo.
9In 1968, Crosby considered doing another "Road" picture, "The Road to Christmas", with Bob Hope and Hayley Mills.
10As early as 1932, Crosby made the list of Top Ten box office stars, which included Mae West, Will Rogers, Wallace Beery, etc.
11Crosby named his first son, Gary Crosby, after friend and fellow Paramount contractee, Gary Cooper.
12Caricatured in the Warner Bros. cartoons "I've Got to Sing a Torch Song", "Hollywood Steps Out", and "What's Up, Doc?" (all as himself), and in "Curtain Razor", "Swooner Crooner" and "The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos" and "Bingo Crosbyana" (all as a bird). Due to the unflattering depiction of him in the last one, he sued Warner Bros.
13His favorite performer was Al Jolson.
14Introduced three Oscar-winning songs: "White Christmas" from Holiday Inn (1942) (Music and Lyrics: Irving Berlin); "Swinging on a Star" from Going My Way (1944) (Music: James Van Heusen. Lyrics: Johnny Burke) and "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" from Here Comes the Groom (1951) (Music: Hoagy Carmichael. Lyrics: Johnny Mercer).
15He was awarded 3 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 1611 Vine Street, for Radio at 6769 Hollywood Boulevard, and for Recording at 6751 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
16After Judy Garland was fired from MGM about 1950, he was one of the first to offer her work on his radio show to help her out of her financial woes. The two had marvelous chemistry as a comedy duo, and many of these audio recordings still survive today.
17Has a street named after him in Iowa City, Iowa.
18In March 1977, after videotaping a concert for CBS to commemorate his 50th anniversary in show business, Crosby backed off the stage into an orchestra pit, rupturing a disc in his back that required a month of hospitalization.
19Inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame in 2007.
20Nearly filed for divorce from his first wife in 1948 because he wanted to marry Joan Caulfield.
21Stagecoach (1966) was his last major film. Though it did not get good reviews, his performance as the drunken doctor was praised. Crosby felt the movies had changed a lot since his heyday, although he let it be known that he was still open to offers.
22In 1969, it was reported that he was worth an estimated $75 million.
23At the time of his death he was considering buying an eighteen hole golf course in Kent, England.
24In the autumn of 1974, having recovered from major lung surgery, Crosby performed a series of concerts at the London Palladium. This was the first time he had sung before a live audience since World War II. He repeated this engagement in 1975, 1976 and 1977. He also began recording new albums at a faster rate than he had since the early 1950s.
25Is portrayed by Alex Fallis in Dash and Lilly (1999).
26His estate was valued at $150 million, making him one of the wealthiest entertainers in Hollywood, along with his friends Bob Hope and Fred MacMurray.
27In 1948 a poll declared Crosby the most admired man in the world, ahead of President Harry S. Truman, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII.
28He is the most electronically recorded voice in history.
29The Met Theater in downtown Spokane, Washington, where he was raised and performed (with the Musicaladers) as a young man in 1925, was renamed the Bing Crosby Theater on December 8, 2006. The Met was built in 1915. Bing was also a giving donor to the city's Gonzaga University.
30Four songs Crosby sang in movies - "Sweet Leilani" (1937), "White Christmas" (1942), "Swinging on a Star" (1944), and "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (1951) - won Oscars.
31Delayed his marriage to Kathryn Grant until 1957 due to his long affair with Grace Kelly.
32Inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1978.
33Was the first person to sing "White Christmas".
34In 1962 Crosby was the first recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
35He is estimated to have sold between 600 million and 900 million records worldwide. Most of these sales were singles.
36Mary Carlisle, who worked with him in films, noticed he was self-conscious about his height, and he wore lifts. Crosby once told Alan Ladd how pleased he was that Ladd was shorter than him at 5'5". Bing maintained he was 5'9", but an office secretary named Nancy Briggs recalled a visit to his home when he wore slippers and she realized he was her height - 5'7".
37A longtime supporter of the Republican Party, Crosby campaigned for Wendell Willkie in the 1940 Presidential election, because he strongly believed President Franklin D. Roosevelt should only serve two terms of office. When Roosevelt was easily re-elected, Crosby vowed never to become publicly involved in partisan politics again.
38He sang on 4,000 radio shows from 1931 to 1962 and was the top-rated radio star for eighteen of those years.
39His last TV appearance was in Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas (1977) which was taped in London and broadcast, after his death, in the USA on 30 November 1977, and in the United Kingdom on 24 December 1977. This show has also been made available on commercial video. It is memorable for Crosby and David Bowie singing a duet.
40In a great many of his films, he played lighthearted comedy and musical roles as a singer or songwriter. His usual casual approach belied the fact that Crosby was a fine dramatic actor, as witnessed by his portrayals in Little Boy Lost (1953), The Country Girl (1954), Man on Fire (1957), and his last major film Stagecoach (1966). He also starred in the television movie Dr. Cook's Garden (1971) and won much critical acclaim for his performance.
41He appeared on approximately 4,000 radio broadcasts, nearly 3,400 of them his own programs, and single-handedly changed radio from a live-performance to a canned or recorded medium by presenting, in 1946, the first transcribed network show on ABC, thereby making that also-ran network a major force.
42On the day of his death he played a full 18 holes of golf, where he scored a respectable 85 and won the match. Walking off the 18th green of the La Moraleja Golf Club, in a suburb of Madrid, Spain, he suffered a massive heart attack. His last words were reported as, "That was a great game of golf, fellas." However, according to the Summer 2001 issue of Club Crosby's BINGANG magazine, he then said, "Let's go have a Coca-Cola." According to his biographer Gary Giddens, Crosby's last words were, "Let's go get a Coke.".
43Between 1915 and 1980 he was the only motion-picture star to rank as the #1 box-office attraction five times (1944-1948). Between 1934 and 1954 he scored in the top ten 15 times.
44In 1960 he received a platinum record as First Citizen of the Record Industry for having sold 200 million discs, a number that doubled by 1980.
45According to ticket sales Crosby is, at 1,077,900,000 tickets sold, the third most popular actor of all time after Clark Gable and John Wayne. He is also, according to Quigley Publishing Company's International Motion Picture Almanac, tied for second on the "All Time Number One Stars List" with three other actors - Clint Eastwood, Tom Hanks and Burt Reynolds. Crosby was the #1 box office attraction for five years, beaten only by Tom Cruise who was #1 for seven years.
46According to the Guinness Book of Records, his "White Christmas" has sold over 100 million copies around the world, with at least 50 million sales as singles.
47He received 23 gold records and was awarded platinum discs for his two biggest selling singles, "White Christmas" in 1960 and "Silent Night" in 1970.
48Is one of only five actors/actresses to have a #1 single and an Oscar for best actor/actress. The others are Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Cher and Jamie Foxx.
49Until the late 1970s he had been listed in the Guinness Book Of World Records as having sold more recordings than any other entertainer.
50His father was of English descent, with many family lines tracing back to New England of the 1600s. His mother's family, which was from New Brunswick, Canada, was of Irish descent.
51He is only one of six performers to be nominated for an Oscar twice for playing the same role in two separate films. He was nominated as Father O'Malley in Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary's (1945). The other five are Peter O'Toole as Henry II in Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968), Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974), Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961) and The Color of Money (1986), Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I in Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), and Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky (1976) and Creed (2015).
52Uncle of Chris Crosby and Cathy Crosby
53At the time of his death in 1977, he was the biggest selling recording artist of all time.
54Became seriously ill around Christmas 1973, with chest pains and respiratory problems. Both Bing and wife Kathryn Grant thought he had lung cancer. In January 1974 he felt so ill he consented to be hospitalized, and a large tumor was found in his left lung. The tumor and three-fifths of the lung were removed, and over the next months he slowly recovered. Since the tumor was benign, it was believed his illness was caused by a fungal infection from a recent safari in Africa.
55Pictured on a 29 cent U.S. commemorative postage stamp in the "Legends of American Music" series, issued September 1st 1994.
56Through the electronics lab he funded, he was heavily involved in the initial development of both audio and video tape recording in the late '40s and early '50s, primarily for use on his own TV and radio projects. One of the very first commercial uses of audio tape in the USA, in fact, was the recording and editing of his radio program on the ABC network around 1946-1948. His early videotape format, however, was quickly obscured by Ampex's industry-standard Quadruplex format.
57Phil Crosby, Jr., Bing's grandson, formed a jazz quartet in the Los Angeles area and is bringing a semi-resurgence of interest in Bing and his music.
58Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 122-124. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
59On October 13, 1977, the day before Crosby's death, independent producer Lew Grade announced that he was reuniting Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour onscreen for the film "Road to the Fountain of Youth," ending several years of speculation at to whether the trio would reunite professionally or not.
60He and his second wife and younger children did TV commercials for Minute Maid orange juice, because he owned considerable stock in the company.
61Refused the role of Columbo due to the fact that he felt that it would interfere with his golf game.
62Star of CBS Radio's "The Bing Crosby Chesterfield Show" (1949-1952). When Chesterfield left, General Electric took over as sponsor for 1953 and 1954.
63In March of 1950, he had his appendix removed.
64Star of CBS Radio's "The Bing Crosby Show" (1954-1956).
65Star of ABC Radio's "Philco Radio Time" (1946-1949).
66Star of NBC Radio's "Kraft Music Hall" (1935-1946).
67During the Vietnam War, a secret code was to have been broadcast informing all US personnel that an immediate evacuation had been ordered. The code was the playing of Crosby's "White Christmas" twice on the Armed Forces Vietnam Network (AFVN), followed by the announcement "The temperature in Hanoi is 105 and rising.".
68"White Christmas" became the bestselling single for more than 50 years until overtaken in 1997 by "Candle in the Wind", Elton John's tribute to the late Princess Diana.
69The balding actor hated having to wear a toupee during filming and specifically looked for scripts that had outdoor scenes where he could wear a hat or bed scenes in which he could wear a nightcap.
70As a young adult he enjoyed carousing and drinking and actually received another nickname: "Binge" Crosby. He once spent two months in jail (weekends only) for DUI after a minor car accident, and surprised and shocked interviewers by advocating that pot be decriminalized.
71Sang on radio at least once a week from 1931 to 1962.
72One of his early inspirations was Louis Armstrong, who returned the admiration. Louis once described Bing's mellow voice as "like gold being poured out of a cup."
73When he married his first wife actress/singer Dixie Lee in 1930, her fame at the time was greater than his. One headline actually read: "Well Known Fox Movie Star Marries Bing Croveny." Dixie eventually retired to raise four sons.
74He was the 20th century's first multi-media entertainer: a star on radio, in movies and in chart-topping recordings. He had 38 No. 1 singles, which surpassed even Elvis Presley and The Beatles.
75Inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1998.
76Opened the Del Mar racetrack in Del Mar, California in 1937 and collected tickets at the turnstile on opening day. Before the start of every day of racing his song "Where the Turf Meets the Surf" is played. This song was written for Del Mar and never sold commercially.
77Was the first choice of "Columbo" creators Richard Levinson and William Link to portray the famed detective.
78Was nicknamed "Bing" after a character named "Bingo" in a comic strip titled "Bingville Bugle."
79Left a clause in his will stating that his sons could not collect their inheritance money until they were 65. They had already been amply taken care of by a trust fund set up by their mother, Dixie Lee, which is truth was totally funded by Bing. All four sons continued to collect monies from that fund until their deaths.
80Interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, USA, in the Grotto section, L119, #1.
81Three things about Bing were frequent sources of jokes in Hollywood: his inability to sire a daughter, prior to the birth of Mary Crosby; his investment in racehorses that rarely won; and his rather bad, almost colorblind, taste in casual clothes. These jokes often made their way into radio and TV shows, movies and, most often, into the comedy routines of Bob Hope.
82From the 1940s to the 1960s he owned 15% of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team. His cameo in Angels in the Outfield (1951) was as part-owner of the team.
83His large ears were pinned back during his early films, until partway through She Loves Me Not (1934).
84Older brother of bandleader Bob Crosby.
85Grandfather of Denise Crosby, L. Chip Crosby Jr. and Gregory Crosby.
86Father, with actress Kathryn Grant, of sons Harry Crosby and Nathaniel Crosby, and of actress Mary Crosby.
87Father, with singer Dixie Lee, of sons Gary Crosby, Phillip Crosby & Dennis Crosby (twins) and Lindsay Crosby. All 4 deceased. Both Dennis and Lindsay died due to suicide.
88His eldest son Gary Crosby was vocal in criticizing Bing's violent ways as a father. He wrote a sensationalist tell-all biography titled "Going My Own Way" in 1983 which was touted as a "Daddy Dearest" about Bing. Though Lindsay Crosby and Dennis Crosby fluctuated between agreeing and disagreeing with Gary's criticisms of their father, Phillip Crosby defended Bing after the book was published. Two of the sons suffered bouts of depression, much as their mother Dixie Lee had, throughout their lives and committed suicide(Lindsay and Dennis, in 1989 and 1991, respectively). Gary died of lung cancer in 1995. Phillip died of a heart attack in 2004, having defended his father to the end. Bing's children from his second marriage, including daughter and actress Mary Crosby, praised him as a kind and loving father in later life.

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TitleYearStatusCharacter
Christmas in Tattertown1988TV Movie performer: "White Christmas"
The Wonder Years1988TV Series performer - 1 episode
Lady in White1988performer: "DID YOU EVER SEE A DREAM WALKING"
Drei D1988"Accentuate The Positive"
A Bit of Fry and Laurie1987TV Series performer - 1 episode
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story1987TV Movie performer: "I Found a Million Dollar Baby in a Five and Ten Cent Store" - uncredited
Someone to Love1987performer: "Long Ago and Far Away"
Radio Days1987performer: "Pistol Packin' Mama" 1943
The Singing Detective1986TV Mini-Series performer - 2 episodes
Tough Guys1986performer: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge1985performer: "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?"
Cocoon1985performer: "The Second Time Around"
Racing with the Moon1984performer: "Moonlight Becomes You"
A Christmas Story1983performer: "Jingle Bells", "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" uncredited
Frances1982performer: "Love Is So Terrific"
Some Kind of Hero1982performer: "Silver Bells"
Mensen zoals jij en ik1981TV Series performer - 1 episode
Pennies from Heaven1981performer: "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?" 1933
Bye Bye Brasil1980performer: "White Christmas"
19411979performer: "I'll Be Home for Christmas" - uncredited
The Brink's Job1978performer: "Accentuate the Positive"
F.I.S.T.1978performer: "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"
Pennies from Heaven1978TV Mini-Series lyrics - 1 episode
Top of the Pops1977TV Series performer - 3 episodes
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas1977TV Special performer: "The Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth" - uncredited
All You Need Is Love1977TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode
That's Entertainment, Part II1976Documentary performer: "Temptation" 1933, "Now You Has Jazz" 1956 - uncredited
The Man Who Fell to Earth1976performer: "True Love"
Hooray for Hollywood1975Documentary performer: "Snuggled on Your Shoulder"
Brother Can You Spare a Dime1975Documentary lyrics: "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" 1931 - as Crosby / performer: "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" 1931, "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" 1931
That's Entertainment!1974performer: "Going Hollywood" 1933, "Well, Did You Evah" 1939, "True Love" 1956 - uncredited
Paper Moon1973performer: "Just One More Chance" 1931 - uncredited
Dad's Army1970TV Series performer - 1 episode
The Hollywood PalaceTV Series performer - 3 episodes, 1966 - 1969 lyrics - 1 episode, 1966
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell1968performer: "Pennies from Heaven"
The Dean Martin Show1967TV Series performer - 1 episode
Bing Crosby in Dublin1965TV Movie documentary performer: "Molly Malone" uncredited, "Come Back to Erin" uncredited, "Galway Bay" uncredited, "Isle of Innisfree", "MacNamara's Band" uncredited, "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" uncredited
Bob Hope Christmas Show1965TV Movie performer: "Do You Hear What I Hear"
The Bing Crosby Show1965TV Series performer - 1 episode
Robin and the 7 Hoods1964performer: "Mr. Booze", "Don't be a Do-Badder", "Style" - uncredited
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show1963TV Series performer - 1 episode
The Road to Hong Kong1962performer: "Teamwork", "The Road to Hong Kong", "Let's Not Be Sensible"
Pepe1960performer: "Let's Fall In Love", "South of the Border", "Pennies from Heaven" - uncredited
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall1960TV Series lyrics - 1 episode
The Revlon Revue1960TV Series performer - 1 episode
Bing Crosby and Dean Martin Present High Hopes1959TV Special performer: "High Hopes", "Together", "Cheek to Cheek", "By the Old Mill Stream", "My Old Flame", "Old Man River", "You Gotta Start Off Each Day with a Song", "Inka Dinka Doo", "Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey" - uncredited
Say One for Me1959performer: "Say One for Me", "I Couldn't Care Less", "The Secret of Christmas"
The Frank Sinatra Show1957TV Series performer - 1 episode
The Edsel Show1957TV Special lyrics: "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" - uncredited / performer: "Now You Has Jazz", "True Love", "Mexicali Rose", "South of the Border", "Paris in the Spring", "I Love Paris", "Sweet Leilani", "We're Off on the Road to Morocco", "Collegiate", "The Whiffenpoof Song", "September Song", "There's a Long, Long Trail", "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day", "Goody Goody", "I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande", "Nature Boy", "Let's Take an Old-F
The Joker Is Wild1957performer: "June in January" - uncredited
The 29th Annual Academy Awards1957TV Special documentary performer: "True Love"
High Society1956performer: "Little One", "True Love", "I Love You Samantha", "Well, Did You Evah", "Now You Has Jazz" - uncredited
Anything Goes1956performer: "Ya Gotta Give The People Hoke", "You're The Top", "All Through The Night", "A Second Hand Turban And A Crystal Ball", "Blow Gabriel Blow"
The Country Girl1954performer: "Dissertation on the State of Bliss Love and Learn Blues", "The Pitchman / It's Mine, It's Yours", "The Land Around Us", "The Search Is Through"
White Christmas1954"White Christmas", "Sisters", uncredited / performer: "White Christmas", "The Old Man", "Hi Hup", "Heat Wave", "Blue Skies", "Snow", "Minstrel Show", "Mandy", "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep", "What Can You Do With a General?", "Gee! I Wish I Was Back in the Army", "Let Me Sing and I'm Happy" - uncredited
Rear Window1954performer: "To See You Is to Love You" 1952 - uncredited
The Jack Benny Program1954TV Series performer - 1 episode
The Bing Crosby Show1954TV Movie performer: "Y'all Come", "It Had to Be You", "Change Partners", "I Love Paris" - uncredited
Little Boy Lost1953performer: "Mon Coeur est un Violin"
Road to Bali1952performer: "CHICAGO STYLE", "HOOT MON", "TO SEE YOU", "THE MERRY GO RUNAROUND", "The Whiffenpoof Song" uncredited
Just for You1952"The Ol' Spring Fever" / performer: "Call Me Tonight", "A Flight of Fancy", "I'll Si-Si Ya in Bahia", "Just for You", "The Live Oak Tree", "The Ol' Spring Fever", "On the 10:10 From Ten-Ten-Tennessee", "Zing a Little Zong"
Here Comes the Groom1951performer: "MISTO CRISTOFO COLUMBO", "BONNE NUIT -- GOODNIGHT", "YOUR OWN LITTLE HOUSE", "IN THE COOL, COOL, COOL OF THE EVENING"
A Millionaire for Christy1951lyrics: "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You"
Mr. Music1950performer: "Accidents Will Happen", "And You'll Be Home", "Life Is So Peculiar"
Riding High1950performer: "We've Got a Sure Thing" 1950, "Someplace on Anywhere Road" 1950, "Sunshine Cake" 1950, "The Horse Told Me" 1950, "De Camptown Races" 1850, "The Whiffenpoof Song" 1909 - uncredited
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad1949performer: "Ichabod" 1949, "Katrina" 1949, "The Headless Horseman" 1949 - uncredited
Top o' the Morning1949performer: "TOP O' THE MORNING", "WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING" uncredited, "MY BEAUTIFUL KITTY" uncredited, "THE DONOVANS" uncredited, "YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE", "OH, 'TIS SWEET TO THINK" uncredited
Down Memory Lane1949performer: "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day", "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", "Daughter of Peggy O'Neill", "A Little Bit of Heaven", "One More Chance", "I Surrender Dear" / writer: "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day"
Curtain Razor1949Short performer: "April Showers" - uncredited
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court1949performer: "IF YOU STUB YOUR TOE ON THE MOON", "ONCE AND FOR ALWAYS", "BUSY DOING NOTHING"
Road to Rio1947performer: "YOU DON'T HAVE TO KNOW THE LANGUAGE", "BUT BEAUTIFUL", "BATUQUE NIO MORRO" [Jam Session in the Hills]
Variety Girl1947performer: "HARMONY"
The Road to Hollywood1947performer: "I Surrender Dear", "One More Chance", "To Whisper Dear, I Love You", "I Surrender Dear Reprise #1", "Out Of Nowhere", "I Surrender Dear Reprise #2", "One More Chance Reprise", "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams"
Welcome Stranger1947performer: "SMILE RIGHT BACK AT THE SUN", "COUNTRY STYLE", "MY HEART IS A HOBO", "AS LONG AS I'M DREAMING"
Blue Skies1946performer: "I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now", "All by Myself", "I'll See You in C-U-B-A", "A Couple of Song and Dance Men", "You Keep Coming Back Like a Song", "Blue Skies", "The Little Things in Life", "Not for All the Rice in China", "Russian Lullaby", "Everybody Step", "How Deep Is the Ocean?", " Running Around in Circles Getting Nowhere", "Any Bonds Today?", "This Is the Army, Mister Jones", "White Christmas"
Road to Utopia1945"Welcome to My Dream" 1946 / lyrics: "Good Time Charlie" 1946 / performer: "Put It There, Pal" 1946, "It's Anybody's Spring" 1946, "Sunday, Monday or Always" 1943, "Welcome to My Dream" 1946
Hollywood Victory Caravan1945Short performer: "We've Got Another Bond to Buy" - uncredited
Duffy's Tavern1945performer: "Swinging on a Star"
Out of This World1945performer: "Out of this World", "June Comes Around Every Year", "I'd Rather Be Me" uncredited
The All-Star Bond Rally1945Short performer: "Buy a Bond" as Bond Rally Song
Here Come the Waves1944performer: "That Old Black Magic" uncredited, "Let's Take the Long Way Home" uncredited, "Ac-Cen-Tchu-Ate the Positive" uncredited, "I Promise You" uncredited, "Moonlight Becomes You"
Swooner Crooner1944Short performer: "When My Dream Boat Comes Home", "Trade Winds", "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" - uncredited
Going My Way1944performer: "Swinging on a Star" 1944, "Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral That's an Irish Lullaby" 1914 uncredited, "The Day After Forever" 1944, "Going My Way" 1944, "Silent Night, Holy Night" 1818 uncredited, "Ave Maria Op.52 No.1" 1825 uncredited, "Hail Alma Mater" 1944 uncredited
The Shining Future1944Short performer: "Get On The Road to Victory" - uncredited
Dixie1943performer: "SUNDAY, MONDAY OR ALWAYS"
They Got Me Covered1943lyrics: "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" 1931 - uncredited / performer: "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" 1931 - uncredited
Road to Morocco1942"Moonlight Becomes You" 1942 / performer: " We're Off on the Road to Morocco" 1942, "Ain't Got a Dime to My Name Ho Hum" 1942, "Moonlight Becomes You" 1942
Holiday Inn1942"White Christmas" 1942 / performer: "I'll Capture Your Heart Singing" 1942, "Lazy" 1924, "White Christmas" 1942, "Happy Holiday" 1942, "Come To Holiday Inn" 1942, "Let's Start the New Year Right" 1942, "Abraham" 1942, "Be Careful, It's My Heart" 1942, "Easter Parade" 1933, "Song of Freedom" 1942, "I've Got Plenty to Be Thankful For" 1942, "Hollywood Medley", "Ending Medley"
Star Spangled Rhythm1942performer: "Old Glory"
Birth of the Blues1941performer: "The Birth of the Blues" uncredited, "Memphis Blues" uncredited, "By The Light of the Silvery Moon" uncredited, "Tiger Rag" uncredited, "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie" uncredited, "My Melancholy Baby" uncredited, "The Waiter, and the Porter and the Upstairs Maid", "St. James Infirmary" uncredited
Road to Zanzibar1941"IT'S ALWAYS YOU", "ROCKABYE BABY", uncredited / performer: "ROAD TO ZANZIBAR", "YOU LUCKY PEOPLE, YOU", "AFRICAN ETUDE", "IT'S ALWAYS YOU" - uncredited
Rhythm on the River1940performer: "Only Forever", "Rhythm on the River", "When the Moon Comes Over Madison Square Garden", "What Would Shakespeare Have Said?" - uncredited
If I Had My Way1940performer: "April Played the Fiddle" uncredited, "I Haven't Time To Be A Millionaire", "Meet The Sun Halfway", "The Pessimistic Character With The Crab Apple Face", "If I Had My Way", "Meet The Sun Halfway" reprise
Road to Singapore1940performer: "Too Romantic" 1940, "Sweet Potato Piper" 1940
The Star Maker1939"A Man and His Dreams" / performer: "Jimmy Valentine", "If I Was a Millionaire", "Go Fly a Kite", "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now", "In My Merry Oldsmobile", "An Apple for the Teacher", "Still the Bluebird Sings"
East Side of Heaven1939performer: "East Side of Heaven", "Hang You Heart on a Hickory Limb", "Sing a Song of Sunbeams", "Happy Birthday to You" uncredited
Paris Honeymoon1939performer: "The Funny Old Hills", "You're a Sweet Little Headache", "Joobalai"
Sing, You Sinners1938"I'VE GOT A POCKETFUL OF DREAMS" / performer: "DON'T LET THAT MOON GET AWAY", "I'VE GOT A POCKETFUL OF DREAMS", "LAUGH AND CALL IT LOVE", "SMALL FRY"
Dotor Rhythm1938performer: "On the Sentimental Side", "My Heart Is Taking Lessons"
Double or Nothing1937performer: " You Know It All Smarty", "The Moon Got in My Eyes", "It's the Natural Thing to Do", "All You Want to Do Is Dance" - uncredited
Waikiki Wedding1937"Blue Hawaii" / performer: "Sweet is the Word for You", "Sweet Leilani", "Blue Hawaii", "Nani Ona Pua"
Pennies from Heaven1936performer: "Pennies From Heaven" 1936, "So Do I" 1936, "One Two Button Your Shoe" 1936, "Let's Call a Heart a Heart" 1936, "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" uncredited
Rhythm on the Range1936performer: "I'm an Old Cowhand From the Rio Grande", "I Can't Escape from You", "Empty Saddles", "Roundup Lullaby", "Drink It Down" - uncredited
Anything Goes1936performer: "Sailor Beware", "Moonburn", "My Heart and I", "You're the Top" with new lyrics, "Shanghai-Dee-Ho"
Strike Me Pink1936lyrics: "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" 1931 - uncredited
The Big Broadcast of 19361935performer: "I Wished on the Moon"
Two for Tonight1935performer: "It Takes Two To Make a Bargain", "Without a Word of Warning", "From the Top of Your Head To the Tip of Your Toes"
Mississippi1935performer: "It's Easy to Remember And So Hard to Forget" 1935, "Soon" 1935, "Down by the River" 1935, "Old Folks at Home Swanee River" 1851 - uncredited
Folies Bergère de Paris1935lyrics: "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" 1932 - uncredited
Here Is My Heart1934performer: "June in January", "With Every Breath I Take", "Love Is Just Around the Corner"
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove1934Short performer: "With Every Breath I Take" - uncredited
She Loves Me Not1934performer: "STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER", "I'M HUMMIN', I'M WHISTLIN', I'M SINGIN'", "LOVE IN BLOOM", "AFTER ALL, YOU'RE ALL I'M AFTER" - uncredited
The Big Idea1934Short writer: "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" 1931
Twenty Million Sweethearts1934lyrics: "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" 1931 - uncredited
We're Not Dressing1934performer: "Sailor's Chanty It's a Lie" 1934, "I Positively Refuse to Sing" 1934, "Stormy Weather" 1933, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" 1933, "The Last Round-Up Git Along, Little Dogie, Git Along" 1933 - 1934, 1934, 1934, 1934, 1934, , "May I?", "Goodnight Lovely Little Lady", "She Reminds Me of You", "Love Thy Neighbor", "Once in a Blue Moon", uncredited
Just an Echo1934Short performer: "Just an Echo in the Valley", "You're Beautiful Tonight, My Dear" uncredited
Moon Rock City2017performer: "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?" completed
Going Hollywood1933performer: "Going Hollywood" 1933, "Our Big Love Scene" 1933, "Beautiful Girl" 1933, "Just an Echo in the Valley" 1932, "We'll Make Hay While the Sun Shines" 1933, "After Sundown" 1933, "Temptation" 1933 - uncredited
12 Monkeys2016TV Series performer - 1 episode
Please1933Short lyrics: "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" - uncredited / performer: "Please", "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" uncredited, "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" uncredited
Bates Motel2016TV Series performer - 1 episode
Too Much Harmony1933performer: "Thanks", "The Day You Came Along", "Boo-boo-boo", "Buckin' the Wind"
Agent Carter2015-2016TV Series performer - 2 episodes
College Humor1933performer: "Down the Old Ox Road", "Learn to Croon", "Moon Struck"
Deadpool2016performer: "I'll Be Home For Christmas"
Sing, Bing, Sing1933Short performer: "In My Hide-Away", "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", "Lovable", "Snuggled on Your Shoulder Cuddled in Your Arms" - uncredited
Mike & Mike2013-2015TV Series performer - 7 episodes
Blue of the Night1933Short performer: "My Silent Love", "Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear", "Ev'ry Time My Heart Beats", "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" - uncredited
Dolezal Backstage2015TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode
Hollywood on Parade No. A-41933Documentary short performer: "Down the Old Ox Road"
Sounds of the 80s2015TV Series performer - 1 episode
Wild People1932Short lyrics: "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" 1931 - uncredited
iZombie2015TV Series performer - 1 episode
The Big Broadcast1932performer: "Please", "Here Lies Love", "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day"
Krampus2015/Iperformer: "It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas", "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town"
Hollywood on Parade No. A-21932Short performer: "Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear"
Fallout 42015Video Game performer: "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive", "Pistol Packin' Mama"
Crooner1932writer: "You're Just a Beautiful Melody of Love" - uncredited
Brooklyn2015performer: "Zing a Little Zong"
Billboard Girl1932Short performer: "For You" - uncredited
The Wrong Mans2014TV Series performer - 1 episode
Dream House1932Short performer: "When I Take My Sugar to Tea", "It Must Be True", "Dream House"
Tidsrejsen2014TV Series performer - 4 episodes
One More Chance1931Short performer: "One More Chance", "Wrap your Trouble in Dreams"
Eggnog2014Short performer: "Here Comes Santa Claus"
I Surrender Dear1931Short lyrics: "AT YOUR COMMAND" / performer: "I SURRENDER DEAR", "OUT OF NOWHERE", "AT YOUR COMMAND", "A Little Bit of Heaven Shure They Call It Ireland"
Gotham2014TV Series performer - 1 episode
Confessions of a Co-Ed1931performer: "Out of Nowhere ", "Ya Got Love" - uncredited
Boardwalk Empire2014TV Series performer - 3 episodes
Reaching for the Moon1930performer: "When the Folks High Up Do the Mean Low-Down" - uncredited
Serena2014/I"There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears"
Check and Double Check1930performer: "Three Little Words" 1930 - uncredited
Manhattan2014TV Series performer - 1 episode
King of Jazz1930performer: "Music Has Charms", "My Lord Delivered Daniel" - uncredited
Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned2014TV Movie documentary performer: "I'll Be Home for Christmas"
The Singing Fool1928writer: "From Monday On" - uncredited
The Normal Heart2014TV Movie performer: "I Love You Samantha"
Melodious Moments1928Short writer: "From Monday On" - uncredited
The Butcher2013/IIShort performer: "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"
Call the Midwife2013TV Series performer - 1 episode
Breaking Bad2013TV Series performer - 1 episode
Rock the Casbah2013performer: "The Road to Morocco" - uncredited
Mad Men2013TV Series performer - 1 episode
The Richest Songs in the World2012TV Movie documentary performer: "White Christmas" - uncredited
Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!2012performer: "Jingle Bells"
12 Dogs of Christmas: Great Puppy Rescue2012performer: "Pennies From Heaven"
Ginger & Rosa2012writer: "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You"
No me la puc treure del cap2011TV Series performer - 1 episode
Britain's Favourite Christmas Songs2011TV Movie documentary performer: "Peace on Earth - Little Drummer Boy", "White Christmas"
Doctors2011TV Series performer - 1 episode
Eureka2011TV Series performer - 1 episode
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas2011performer: "White Christmas", "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
Hotel Lux2011performer: "You are my sunshine"
The Big Year2011performer: "Silent Night"
L.A. Noire2011Video Game performer: "My Heart Is A Hobo", "Pistol Packin' Mama"
The Hunters2011performer: "Jingle Bells"
The Music Never Stopped2011performer: "Young At Heart"
Being Erica2010TV Series performer - 1 episode
Christmas Tree of Might2010TV Short performer: "I'll Be Home for Christmas"
Warehouse 132010TV Series performer - 1 episode
Michael Feinstein's American Songbook2010TV Mini-Series documentary performer - 1 episode
Mafia II2010Video Game performer: "BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON", "I'VE GOT A POCKETFUL OF DREAMS", "I HAVEN'T TIME TO BE A MILLIONAIRE", "PENNIES FROM HEAVEN", "THE PESSIMISTIC CHARACTER"
Nanny McPhee Returns2010performer: "The Best Things In Life Are Free"
YellowBrickRoad2010performer: "Mexicali Rose"
Outnumbered2009TV Series performer - 1 episode
Copycats2009TV Series performer - 1 episode
Live from Studio Five2009TV Series performer - 1 episode
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia2009TV Series performer - 1 episode
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me2009TV Movie documentary performer: "The Waiter, the Porter and the Upstairs Maid", "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening", "Happy Feet", "Ol' Man River", "I'm an Old Cowhand", "That Old Black Magic"
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story2009Documentary performer: " Anyone Can See With Half an Eye I'm Crazy Over You", "Pretending"
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression2009Video documentary performer: "I Surrender Dear", "When I Take My Sugar to Tea", "Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear", "Just One More Chance", "Dream House", "For You", "After Sundown", "We'll Make Hay While the Sun Shines", "Once in a Blue Moon", "May I?", "Love Thy Neighbor", "Empty Saddles", "The Merry Go Runaround" - uncredited
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing2009Video documentary performer: "Rhythm on the River", "White Christmas", "Easter Parade", "Only Forever", "Mairzy Doats" - uncredited
The Missing Person2009writer: "I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You"
Banda sonora2008TV Series performer - 1 episode
Chuck2008TV Series performer - 1 episode
Axe Massacre2008Short performer: "Here Comes Santa Claus"
Isa's stepz2008TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Four Christmases2008performer: "White Christmas"
Qwerty2008TV Series performer - 1 episode
True Blood2008TV Series performer - 1 episode
Pride and Glory2008performer: "Winter Wonderland"
I.O.U.S.A.2008Documentary performer: "Road to Victory", "We've Got Another Bond to Buy"
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure2008TV Movie documentary performer: "For You" - uncredited
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical2008Video documentary performer: "When the Folks High Up Do the Mean Low-Down" - uncredited
In Search of Perfection2007TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode
Everybody Hates Chris2007TV Series performer - 1 episode
Cold Case2004-2007TV Series performer - 2 episodes
Martian Child2007performer: "Jingle Bells"
American MastersTV Series documentary 1 episode, 2007 performer - 2 episodes, 2005 - 2007
Run, Fatboy, Run2007performer: "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
Halloween2007performer: "Deck the Halls"
Jugeodo haepi ending2007"White Christmas"
Gilmore Girls2007TV Series performer - 2 episodes
The Simpsons2006TV Series performer - 1 episode
Unaccompanied Minors2006performer: "Silver Bells"
Confetti2006performer: "True Love"
My Name Is Earl2005TV Series performer - 1 episode
Nynne2005performer: "Here Comes Santa Claus"
The Aviator2004performer: "Thanks" 1933, "Some of These Days" 1910
The Five People You Meet in Heaven2004TV Movie performer: "Swinging On A Star"
Enkeli tulessa2004TV Movie performer: "White Christmas"
Surviving Christmas2004performer: "Happy Holidays Beef Wellington Remix"
The Polar Express2004performer: "Here Comes Santa Claus Right Down Santa Claus Lane", "White Christmas"
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls2004performer: "Where the Blue of the Night" / writer: "Where the Blue of the Night"
Fahrenheit 9/112004Documentary performer: "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" 1934
Rosemary Clooney: Singing at Her Best2004Video short performer: "Don't Fence Me In", "I'm an Old Cowhand", "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain When She Comes", "The Crawdad Song", "San Antonio Rose", "Down in the Valley", "On Top of Old Smokey", "You Are My Sunshine"
Arrested Development2003TV Series performer - 1 episode
Big Fish2003performer: "Dinah"
Bad Santa2003performer: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" 1943
Duplex2003performer: "It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas" 1951
Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina2003Documentary performer: "People Will Say We're in Love" 1943 - uncredited
My House in Umbria2003TV Movie performer: "Too Marvelous for Words"
Mwah! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show2003TV Movie documentary performer: "How About You?", "I'd Do Anything", "Teamwork"
Sinatra: The Classic Duets2002TV Movie documentary performer: "September Song" - uncredited
Catch Me If You Can2002performer: "Mele Kalikimaka"
Hollywood Ending2002performer: "Going Hollywood" 1933
Prancer Returns2001Video performer: "WHITE CHRISTMAS"
ChangiTV Mini-Series performer - 1 episode, 2001 writer - 1 episode, 2001
Six Feet Under2001TV Series 1 episode
Bicentennial Man1999performer: "I Found a Million Dollar Baby In a Five and Ten Cent Store"
The Talented Mr. Ripley1999performer: "MAY I?"
End of Days1999performer: "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
Snow Falling on Cedars1999performer: "Would You"
Rituals and Resolutions1999Short performer: "The First Noel"
Jawbreaker1999performer: "Young At Heart"
Vengeance Unlimited1999TV Series performer - 1 episode
That '70s Show1998TV Series performer - 1 episode
The X-Files1998TV Series performer - 1 episode
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg1998Documentary performer: "Goodbye, Mr. Ball, Goodbye"
When Trumpets Fade1998TV Movie performer: "White Christmas"
Never Mind the Buzzcocks1997TV Series performer - 1 episode
Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas1997TV Movie documentary performer: "The Christmas Song"
I Know What You Did Last Summer1997performer: "Beautiful Girl"
The Myth of Fingerprints1997performer: "Don't Be That Way", "Adeste Fidelis O Come All Ye Faithful"
The Locusts1997performer: "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking"
L.A. Confidential1997performer: "Mele Kalikimaka" 1949
Mother Night1996performer: "White Christmas"
Cold Lazarus1996TV Mini-Series performer: "PENNIES FROM HEAVEN"
How to Make an American Quilt1995performer: "Swinging on a Star"
Reckless1995performer: "I'll Be Home for Christmas" 1943
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead1995performer: "AC-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Postive"
Mother1995Video performer: "It's Easy to Remember", "Two Sleepy People"
Trapped in Paradise1994performer: "Do You Hear What I Hear"
Chameleon of Pop: David Bowie Story1993TV Movie documentary performer: "The Little Drummer Boy"
Grumpy Old Men1993performer: "Winter Wonderland"
Beavis and Butt-Head1993TV Series performer - 1 episode
California's Gold1993TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode
Ai monogatari1991TV Mini-Series performer: "White Christmas"
Suite 2151991TV Series performer - 1 episode
29th Street1991performer: "O Holy Night"
Hudson Hawk1991performer: "SWINGING ON A STAR"
Oscar1991performer: "Sweet Georgia Brown"
Avalon1990performer: "Silver Bells"
Designing Women1990TV Series performer - 1 episode
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation1989performer: "Mele Kalikimaka"
When Harry Met Sally...1989performer: "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"
Lost Angels1989performer: "San Fernando Valley" - uncredited

Actor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Just One More Time1974ShortBing Crosby (uncredited)
Cancel My Reservation1972Bing Crosby (uncredited)
Dr. Cook's Garden1971TV MovieDr. Leonard Cook
Swing Out, Sweet Land1970TV MovieMark Twain
The Danny Thomas Hour1967TV SeriesCharlie Castle
Stagecoach1966Doc Josiah Boone
The Bing Crosby Show1964-1965TV SeriesBing Collins
Robin and the 7 Hoods1964Allen A. Dale
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre1963TV Series
The Road to Hong Kong1962Harry Turner
The DuPont Show of the Week1961TV SeriesNarrator
Pepe1960Bing Crosby
High Time1960Harvey Howard
Say One for Me1959Father Conroy
Alias Jesse James1959Bing (uncredited)
The Christophers1958TV Series
Man on Fire1957Earl Carleton
The Phil Silvers Show1957TV SeriesBing Crosby
Bing Presents Oreste1956ShortBing Crosby
Showdown at Ulcer Gulch1956ShortInfluential Man
High Society1956C. K. Dexter-Haven
Anything Goes1956Bill Benson
Ford Star Jubilee1956TV SeriesVan Van Dorn
Lux Video Theatre1955TV SeriesLux Video Theatre Guest
The Country Girl1954Frank Elgin
White Christmas1954Bob Wallace
Little Boy Lost1953Bill Wainwright
Scared Stiff1953Skeleton (uncredited)
Road to Bali1952George Cochran
Just for You1952Jordan Blake
Son of Paleface1952Driver (uncredited)
The Greatest Show on Earth1952Spectator (uncredited)
Here Comes the Groom1951Peter 'Pete' Garvey
Angels in the Outfield1951Bing Crosby (uncredited)
Mr. Music1950Paul Merrick
Riding High1950Dan Brooks
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad1949Relating the Story of Ichabod Crane (voice)
Top o' the Morning1949Joe Mulqueen
Jolson Sings Again1949Bing Crosby (voice, uncredited)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court1949Hank Martin
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow1949ShortNarrator (voice)
The Emperor Waltz1948Virgil Smith
Road to Rio1947Scat Sweeney
Variety Girl1947Bing Crosby
Welcome Stranger1947Dr. James 'Jim' Pearson
My Favorite Brunette1947Harry (uncredited)
Blue Skies1946Johnny Adams
Rough But Hopeful1946ShortBing Crosby
The Bells of St. Mary's1945Father Chuck O'Malley
Road to Utopia1945Duke Johnson Junior Hooton
Hollywood Victory Caravan1945ShortBing Crosby
Duffy's Tavern1945Bing Crosby
Out of This World1945Herbie Fenton (singing voice, uncredited)
Here Come the Waves1944Johnny Cabot
The Princess and the Pirate1944Margaret's Sweetheart (uncredited)
The Road to Victory1944ShortBing Crosby (uncredited)
Going My Way1944Father Chuck O'Malley
The Shining Future1944ShortBing Crosby (uncredited)
Dixie1943Daniel Decatur Emmett
Don't Hook Now1943ShortBing Crosby
They Got Me Covered1943Music Box (voice, uncredited)
Road to Morocco1942Jeff Peters
Holiday Inn1942Jim Hardy
My Favorite Blonde1942Man Outside Union Hall (uncredited)
Star Spangled Rhythm1942Bing Crosby - 'Old Glory' Number
Birth of the Blues1941Jeff Lambert
Road to Zanzibar1941Chuck
Rhythm on the River1940Bob Sommers
If I Had My Way1940Buzz Blackwell
Road to Singapore1940Joshua 'Josh' Mallon V
The Star Maker1939Larry Earl
East Side of Heaven1939Denny Martin
Paris Honeymoon1939'Lucky' Lawton
Sing, You Sinners1938Joe Beebe
Hollywood Handicap1938ShortBing Crosby
Dotor Rhythm1938Dr. Bill Remsen
Double or Nothing1937'Lefty' Boylan
Waikiki Wedding1937Tony Marvin
Pennies from Heaven1936Larry Poole
Rhythm on the Range1936Jeff Larabee
Anything Goes1936Billy Crocker
The Big Broadcast of 19361935Bing
Two for Tonight1935Gilbert Gordon
Mississippi1935Tom Grayson
Here Is My Heart1934J. (Jasper) Paul Jones
She Loves Me Not1934Paul Lawton
We're Not Dressing1934Stephen Jones
Just an Echo1934ShortBing
Going Hollywood1933Bill Williams
Please1933ShortHoward Jones
Too Much Harmony1933Eddie Bronson
College Humor1933Professor Frederick Danvers
Sing, Bing, Sing1933ShortBing
Blue of the Night1933ShortBing Crosby aka Jack Smith
The Big Broadcast1932Bing Hornsby
Billboard Girl1932ShortBing
Dream House1932ShortBing Fawcett - Plumber
One More Chance1931ShortBing Bangs
I Surrender Dear1931ShortBing
Confessions of a Co-Ed1931Bing (as The Rhythm Boys)
Reaching for the Moon1930Bing
Two Plus Fours1930ShortBing (as The Rhythm Boys)
King of Jazz1930Trio Singer (as The Rhythm Boys)

Producer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Mean Dog Blues1978executive producer
Terror in the Wax Museum1973producer
High Time1960executive producer
The Bing Crosby Show1959TV Series executive producer
Ford Star Jubilee1956TV Series executive producer - 1 episode
Abie's Irish Rose1946executive producer
The Great John L.1945executive producer

Music Department

TitleYearStatusCharacter
FalconCast: Christmas Special2014stock music
Millions in the Air1935singing voice: Paul Newlan

Thanks

TitleYearStatusCharacter
A Capri Christmas2011Short special thanks
Evocator2009Short grateful acknowledgment
Paper Moon1973special thanks

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Today1976TV SeriesHimself
Bing Crosby's White Christmas1976TV SpecialHimself - Host
Stars on Sunday1975-1976TV SeriesHimself
From Montreal, the Bob Hope Olympic Benefit1976TV MovieHimself
The Rich Little Show1976TV SeriesHimself
The Bell Telephone Jubilee1976TV Movie documentaryHimself - Host
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1975-1976TV SeriesHimself
V.I.P.-Schaukel1976TV Series documentaryHimself
Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire: A Couple of Song and Dance Men1975TV Special documentaryHimself
The Mike Douglas Show1975TV SeriesHimself - Vocalist / Actor
Dinah!1975TV SeriesHimself
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television1975TV SpecialHimself
Parkinson1972-1975TV SeriesHimself
Top of the Pops1975TV SeriesHimself
That's Entertainment!1974Himself - Co-Host / Narrator / Clip from 'Going Hollywood'
A Tribute to Roberto1973TV MovieHimself
The World of Sport Fishing1972DocumentaryHimself
Flip1971-1972TV SeriesHimself
Bing Crosby and His Friends1972TV SpecialHimself
The Great Radio Comedians1972TV Movie documentaryHimself
Bing Crosby and the Sounds of Christmas1971TV MovieHimself
Laugh-In1970-1971TV SeriesHimself
Monsanto Presents Mancini1971/IIITV SpecialSinger
The Carol Burnett Show1969-1971TV SeriesHimself
The Dean Martin Show1967-1971TV SeriesHimself / Himself - Guest
The David Frost Show1971TV SeriesHimself
Ver-r-r-ry Interesting1971TV SpecialHimself
The Bob Hope Special1971TV MovieHimself
The Johnny Cash Show1971TV SeriesHimself - Singer
The Pearl Bailey Show1971TV SeriesHimself
Bing Crosby - Cooling It1970TV SpecialHimself
Goldilocks1970TV ShortHimself, Papa Bear
The Bob Hope Show1955-1970TV SeriesHimself / Himself - Special Guest / Himself - Guest
The Hollywood Palace1964-1970TV SeriesHimself - Host
The 27th Annual Golden Globes Awards1970TV SpecialHimself - Presenter
Bing Crosby and Carol Burnett: Together Again for the First Time1969TV MovieHimself - Performer
The Jackie Gleason Show1967-1969TV SeriesHimself
Bing Crosby's Washington State1968Documentary shortHimself - Narrator (voice)
Bing Crosby Special: Making Movies1968TV MovieHimself - Host / Sheriff Noon
The Bing Crosby Show1968TV MovieHimself
The Ed Sullivan Show1953-1968TV SeriesHimself / Singer / Himself; filmed interview and in 1933 clip.
The Joey Bishop Show1967TV SeriesHimself
The Eamonn Andrews Show1965-1967TV SeriesHimself
Golf's Golden Years1967ShortHimself - Commentator
One Night Stands1967TV Movie documentaryHimself - Narrator
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre1966TV SeriesHimself - Guest
The Andy Williams Show1966TV SeriesHimself
Danny Thomas Special: On the Road to Lebanon1966TV SpecialHimself
Cinerama's Russian Adventure1966DocumentaryHimself - Narrator (voice)
Bing Crosby in Dublin1965TV Movie documentaryHimself - Host / Singer
Bob Hope Christmas Show1965TV MovieHimself
Late Night Line-Up1965TV SeriesHimself
The Bell Telephone Hour1964TV SeriesHimself - Singer
The Bing Crosby Show1964TV SpecialHimself
Bob Hope Comedy Special1963TV SpecialHimself
The Bing Crosby Show1959-1963TV SeriesHimself - Host / Himself
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show1963TV SeriesHimself
Picture Parade1962TV Series documentaryHimself
The Bing Crosby Show1961TV SpecialHimself
Big Night Out1961TV SeriesHimself
Let's Make Love1960Himself (uncredited)
The Revlon Revue1960TV SeriesHimself
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall1960TV SeriesHimself
Menschen, Hoffnungen, Medaillen1960DocumentaryHimself
Bing Crosby and Dean Martin Present High Hopes1959TV SpecialHimself - Singer
The Bing Crosby Special1959TV MovieHimself - Host
The All-Star Christmas Show1958TV MovieHimself - Host
The Bing Crosby Special1958TV SpecialHimself - Host
Bing Crosby and His Friends1958TV SpecialHimself - Host
The Frank Sinatra Show1957TV SeriesHimself
The Edsel Show1957TV SpecialHimself - Host / Performer
The Heart of Show Business1957ShortHimself, Narrator
The 29th Annual Academy Awards1957TV Special documentaryHimself - Performer
Lineup for Today: Ted Williams and Friend1957Documentary shortHimself
Ford Star Jubilee1956TV SeriesHimself - Special Appearance
This Is Your Life1956TV Series documentaryHimself
Hollywood Mothers and Fathers1955Documentary shortHimself
The Christophers1955TV SeriesHimself - Presenter
The 27th Annual Academy Awards1955TV SpecialHimself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Leading Role & Presenter: Music Awards
The Red Skelton Hour1955TV SeriesHimself / Award for Best Actor
Person to Person1954TV Series documentaryHimself
The Bing Crosby Special1954TV MovieHimself - Host
The Jack Benny Program1954TV SeriesHimself
The Bing Crosby Show1954TV MovieHimself - Host / Performer
The Ford 50th Anniversary Show1953TV MovieHimself
I Married Joan1953TV SeriesHimself
The Colgate Comedy Hour1953TV SeriesHimself
Crusade for Prayer1952Short documentaryBing Crosby
Olympic Fund Telethon1952TV SpecialHimself - Host
Red Cross Fund Program1951TV MovieHimself
The Frank Sinatra Show1951TV SeriesHimself
Screen Actors1950Documentary shortHimself (uncredited)
You Can Change the World1950Documentary shortHimself
Alberta Vacation1950Documentary shortBing Crosby
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Happy Homes1949Documentary shortHimself
Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 10: Famous Fathers and Sons1946Documentary shortHimself
Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 4: Hollywood Celebrations1945Documentary shortHimself
The All-Star Bond Rally1945ShortHimself
Show-Business at War1943Documentary shortBing Crosby (uncredited)
Angels of Mercy1941Documentary shortBing Crosby
Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play1941Documentary shortHimself
Swing with Bing1940ShortHimself
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No 6: Hollywood Recreations1940Documentary shortHimself
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 91939Documentary shortHimself, Horse Owner
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 41938Documentary shortHimself
Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 51937Documentary shortHimself
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove1934ShortHimself
Hollywood on Parade1934/IIDocumentary shortHimself (uncredited)
Hollywood on Parade No. 111933ShortHimself
Hollywood on Parade No. A-91933ShortHimself (uncredited)
Hollywood on Parade No. A-41933Documentary shortHimself (uncredited)
Hollywood on Parade No. A-21932ShortHimself
The March of Time1930Himself
The Barbara Walters Summer Special1977-1978TV SeriesHimself
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas1977TV SpecialHimself
Paul Anka ... Music My Way1977TV SpecialHimself - Cameo
All You Need Is Love1977TV Series documentaryHimself

Archive Footage

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Dolezal Backstage2015TV Series documentaryHimself
Sounds of the 80s2015TV SeriesHimself
My Music: Songbook Standards - As Time Goes By2015TV Movie
Welcome to the Basement2015TV SeriesHimself
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All2015TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself
American Masters1989-2014TV Series documentaryHimself
And the Oscar Goes To...2014TV Movie documentaryHimself
Guth2013TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself
Michael Feinstein's American Songbook2010-2013TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself
Michael Bublé: Home for the Holidays2012TV MovieHimself (uncredited)
10 Things You Don't Know About2012TV Series documentaryHimself
My Music: When Irish Eyes Are Smiling2010TV MovieHimself
The Legendary Bing Crosby2010TV Movie documentaryHimself
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me2009TV Movie documentaryHimself
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression2009Video documentaryHimself
Banda sonora2008TV SeriesBob Wallace / Himself
WWE Tribute for the Troops2008TV SpecialHimself (uncredited)
I.O.U.S.A.2008DocumentaryHimself
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure2008TV Movie documentaryHimself
Video on Trial2007TV SeriesHimself
Legends2007TV Series documentaryHimself
The Legendary Crooners2007Video documentaryHimself
Jack Taylor of Beverly Hills2007DocumentaryHimself
World of Robin Hood2006TV Movie documentaryAllen A. Dale (uncredited)
Nick & Jessica's Family Christmas2004TV MovieHimself
Broadway: The American Musical2004TV Mini-Series documentaryBilly Crocker
Rosemary Clooney: Singing at Her Best2004Video shortHimself
Andy Williams: My Favorite Duets2004TV Movie documentaryHimself
Seabiscuit: Racing Through History2003Video documentary shortHimself (uncredited)
True Love2003/IVideo shortHimself
The Nick at Nite Holiday Special2003TV MovieHimself
Christmas from Hollywood2003Video documentaryHimself
Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina2003DocumentaryHimself (uncredited)
The True Story of Seabiscuit2003TV Movie documentaryHimself
Mayor of the Sunset Strip2003DocumentaryHimself
Great Performances2003TV SeriesHimself
Bob Hope at 1002003TV Movie documentaryHimself (uncredited)
Mwah! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show2003TV Movie documentaryHimself
Sinatra: The Classic Duets2002TV Movie documentaryHimself
America's Favorite Funnyman2002Video short
World of Comedy2002Video
Biography1993-2001TV Series documentaryHimself
Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song2001TV Series documentaryHimself
Top of the Pops: The True Story2001TV Movie documentaryHimself
Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond2000TV Short documentaryHimself
'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney2000Video documentary shortBob Wallace (uncredited)
ABC 2000: The Millennium1999TV Movie documentary
Save Our History1999TV Series documentaryHimself
Nancherrow1999TV SeriesHimself
Television: The First Fifty Years1999Video documentaryHimself
A Bing Crosby Christmas1998Video documentaryHimself - Host
Mighty Mo: The Many Lives of the USS Missouri1998TV Movie documentaryHimself
Bob Hope: Celebrity Bloopers1997Video documentaryHimself
Never Mind the Buzzcocks1997TV SeriesHimself
Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas1997TV Movie documentaryBob Wallace (uncredited)
Judy Garland's Hollywood1997Video documentary
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's1997DocumentaryHimself (uncredited)
50,000,000 Joe Franklin Fans Can't Be Wrong1997DocumentaryHimself
Bob Hope: Hollywood's Brightest Star1996Video documentaryHimself
Barbara Walters: 20 Years at ABC1996TV Movie documentaryHimself
Kelsey Grammer Salutes Jack Benny1995TV Movie documentaryHimself
Pioneers of Primetime1995TV Movie documentaryHimself
50 Years of Funny Females1995TV Movie documentaryHimself
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies1995TV Movie documentaryHimself
100 Years at the Movies1994TV Short documentaryHimself
Television's Christmas Classics1994TV SpecialHimself
Sinatra Duets1994TV SpecialHimself
Songs That Won the War1994TV Movie documentaryHimself (sings)
That's Entertainment! III1994DocumentaryPerformer in Clip from 'High Society' (uncredited)
Chameleon of Pop: David Bowie Story1993TV Movie documentaryHimself
Bob Hope's Bag Full of Christmas Memories1993TV SpecialHimself
Bob Hope: The First 90 Years1993TV Movie documentaryHimself
The Carol Burnett Show: A Reunion1993TV Movie documentaryHimself
California's Gold1993TV Series documentaryHimself
The First Annual Comedy Hall of Fame1993TV MovieHimself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1992TV SeriesHimself
Legends of Comedy1992TV Movie documentary
Memories of 1970-19911991TV Series documentaryHimself
The Magic of Bing Crosby1991VideoHimself
Hollywood on Parade1990Video documentaryHimself
That's Black Entertainment1990DocumentaryHimself
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of Our Time1990TV Movie documentaryHimself
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues1988Video documentaryHimself
Entertaining the Troops1988DocumentaryHimself
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC1988TV SpecialHimself
Classic Comedy Teams1986Video documentaryHimself
Going Hollywood: The '30s1984Documentary
Bob Hope's Unrehearsed Antics of the Stars1984DocumentaryHimself
Showbiz Goes to War1982TV Movie
Disney's Halloween Treat1982Video
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color1955-1982TV SeriesNarrator (edited from: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)
Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter1982TV Movie documentaryActor - 'Road to Hong Kong' (uncredited)
Red Skelton: A Comedy Scrapbook1981Video documentaryHimself
Margret Dünser, auf der Suche nach den Besonderen1981TV Movie documentaryHimself
Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-19721980TV Movie documentaryHimself
The Hollywood Clowns1979Video documentary
Steve & Eydie Celebrate Irving Berlin1978TV SpecialHimself
The Road to Eltham1978TV MovieHimself
Bing Crosby: His Life and Legend1978TV Movie documentaryHimself
The 50th Annual Academy Awards1978TV SpecialHimself - Memorial Tribute
The Carol Burnett Show1978TV SeriesHimself
Stars on Sunday1977TV SeriesHimself
Top of the Pops1977TV SeriesJim Hardy / Himself
Texaco Presents Bob Hope in a Very Special Special: On the Road with Bing1977TV Special
All You Need Is Love1977TV Series documentaryHimself
The Mike Douglas Show1976TV SeriesHimself - Actor / Vocalist
Bob Hope's World of Comedy1976TV MovieHimself
That's Entertainment, Part II1976DocumentaryClip from 'Going Hollywood'
It's Showtime1976DocumentaryHimself (uncredited)
Brother Can You Spare a Dime1975Documentary
Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals1974TV MovieHimself
Tuesday's Documentary1974TV Series documentaryHimself
The World at War1973TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself
The All Talking, All Singing, All Dancing Show1973TV MovieHimself
The Dick Cavett Show1972TV SeriesHimself
Happy Days1970TV Series
The Movie Orgy1968DocumentaryHimself - Unidentified Program (uncredited)
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell1968Film Clip (uncredited)
Hollywood My Home Town1965DocumentaryHimself
Wayne and Shuster Take an Affectionate Look At...1965TV Series documentaryVarious
Hollywood and the Stars1963TV SeriesHimself
The Sound of Laughter1963DocumentaryBing Fawcett - Plumber
The Ed Sullivan Show1954-1963TV SeriesHimself / Sketch Actor
The DuPont Show of the Week1961TV SeriesHimself
Lifetime of Comedy1960
The Colgate Comedy Hour1955TV SeriesBob Wallace
Off Limits1952Bing Crosby (uncredited)
Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians1952Documentary short
The Cinematographer1951Documentary shortHimself - film clip from 'Road to Rio' (uncredited)
Moments in Music1950Documentary shortClip Character (uncredited)
Down Memory Lane1949Character in Sennett Shorts
The Road to Hollywood1947Character in Sennett Shorts

Won Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1970Personal AwardPeabody Awards
1962Golden LaurelLaurel AwardsSpecial Award

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1960Cecil B. DeMille AwardGolden Globes, USA
1960Star on the Walk of FameWalk of FameMotion PictureOn 8 February 1960. At 1611 Vine Street.
1960Star on the Walk of FameWalk of FameRecordingAwarded February 8, 1960 at 6751 Hollywood Blvd.
1960Star on the Walk of FameWalk of FameRadioAwarded February 8, 1960 at 6769 Hollywood Blvd.
1954NBR AwardNational Board of Review, USABest ActorThe Country Girl (1954)
1949Most Popular Male StarPhotoplay Awards
1948Most Popular Male StarPhotoplay Awards
1947Most Popular Male StarPhotoplay Awards
1946Most Popular Male StarPhotoplay Awards
1945OscarAcademy Awards, USABest Actor in a Leading RoleGoing My Way (1944)
1945Most Popular Male StarPhotoplay Awards

Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1961Golden LaurelLaurel AwardsTop Male Star15th place.
1960Golden LaurelLaurel AwardsTop Male Star12th place.
1959Golden LaurelLaurel AwardsTop Male Star12th place.
1958Golden LaurelLaurel AwardsTop Male Star10th place.
1955OscarAcademy Awards, USABest Actor in a Leading RoleThe Country Girl (1954)
1952Golden GlobeGolden Globes, USABest Actor - Comedy or MusicalHere Comes the Groom (1951)
1946OscarAcademy Awards, USABest Actor in a Leading RoleThe Bells of St. Mary's (1945)

2nd Place Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1944NYFCC AwardNew York Film Critics Circle AwardsBest ActorGoing My Way (1944)

3rd Place Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1960Golden LaurelLaurel AwardsTop Male Musical PerformanceSay One for Me (1959)

Known for movies

Source
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