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Bill Cosby was born on the 12th of July in 1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This actor is best known as a TV star from The Cosby Show. The famous actor, Bill Cosby, was brought up just by his mother. They lived in grinding poverty and Cosby always wanted to escape his rundown Philadelphia neighborhood. He managed to do this when he dropped out of high school and joined the navy. Bill Cosby has a diploma that he earned via correspondence course. Bill Cosby got a bachelors degree from Temple University, and a PhD in education that he got from the University of Massachusetts. The comedian is considered to be one of the most famous and admired entertainers in the United States. Bill Cosby is popular for his warmth and wit onstage as well as off. He began his career making comedy albums and working clubs and finally moved into television. Sheldon Leonard, a well known producer, signed Bill Cosby to play with Robert Culp in a TV espionage series called I Spy that would later become a hit and helped Bill Cosby to earn an Emmy. Actually that was the time when the fellowship between Culp and Cosby deepened. A bit later Bill Cosby signed an excellent deal with NBC assuring a two-year run of his without any dependence on its ratings. The program was called The Bill Cosby Show and it first appeared on the TV screens in the early 1970s. Bill Cosby was one of the most vivid characters on the The Electric Company television show for children for its first two seasons. The actor also created the humorous cartoon series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids that were educational in their nature and told the small viewers about a group of young friends growing in the city. Bill Cosby appeared in various films, however he hasnt received praise of his television work.

His Little Bill was a series for preschoolers and appeared on Nickelodeon in the year 1999. The popular program was renewed next year in November. A bit later Bill's agenda included the new book publication. In 2001 Cosby signed a deal with 20th Century Fox. That was done in order to develop a live-action feature film having the famous Fat Albert character in it. Fat Albert was the character from his cartoon series in 70s. The film was released in theaters in December, 2004.

Bill Cosby always claims that he was strongly influenced by such masters of jazz as Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Charlie Mingus. It was their musical example that Bill Cosby learned to emulate in comedy their skills to take an idea and then find new and innovative ways to express the same theme.