Bing Crosby filmography
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This is a filmography for the American singer and actor, Bing Crosby
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Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
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Films
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| 1930 | The King of Jazz King of Jazz King of Jazz is a 1930 motion picture starring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra. The film's title was taken from Whiteman's controversial, self-conferred appellation... |
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| 1930 | Reaching for the Moon | Bing | |
| 1931 | Confessions of a Co-Ed | vocalist | as a member of "The Rhythm Boys The Rhythm Boys The Rhythm Boys were a male singing trio consisting of Bing Crosby, Harry Barris and Al Rinker. Crosby and Rinker began performing together in 1925 and were recruited by Paul Whiteman in late 1926. Pianist/singer/songwriter Barris joined the team in 1927. They made a number of recordings with the... " |
| 1931 | One More Chance | ||
| 1932 | Dream House | Bing Fawcett | |
| 1932 | Bing Hornsby | ||
| 1933 | Blue of the Night | Jack Smith | |
| 1933 | College Humor | Professor Frederick Danvers | |
| 1933 | Too Much Harmony | Eddie Bronson | |
| 1933 | Please | Howard Jones | |
| 1933 | Going Hollywood Going Hollywood Going Hollywood is an American black-and-white musical film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Marion Davies and Bing Crosby, written by Donald Ogden Stewart, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film tells the story of Sylvia , a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love... |
Billy Williams | |
| 1934 | Just an Echo | ||
| 1934 | We're Not Dressing We're Not Dressing We're Not Dressing is a 1934 screwball comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, Burns and Allen, Ethel Merman, and Ray Milland. Based on the 1902 J. M. Barrie play, The Admirable Crichton, the movie was directed by Norman Taurog.-Synopsis:... |
Stephen Jones | |
| 1934 | She Loves Me Not | Paul Lawton | |
| 1934 | Here Is My Heart | J. (Jasper) Paul Jones | |
| 1935 | Mississippi' | Tom Grayson | |
| 1935 | Two for Tonight Two for Tonight Two for Tonight is a 1935 musical comedy film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Frank Tuttle, produced by Douglas MacLean. The film stars Bing Crosby and Joan Bennett. The music is by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel.-Cast:... |
Gilbert Gordon | |
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| 1935 | Millions in the Air | singing voice for Paul Newlan Paul Newlan Paul Emory Newlan was an American film and TV character actor from Plattsburgh, New York. He was best known for his role as Captain Grey on the NBC police series M Squad and for his roles in films including The Americanization of Emily and The Slender Thread.-Career:Newlan appeared in dozens of... |
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| 1936 | Anything Goes | Billy Crocker | |
| 1936 | Rhythm on the Range Rhythm on the Range Rhythm on the Range is a 1936 Paramount Pictures musical film directed by Norman Taurog.-Plot:Doris Halliday is the daughter of wealthy banker Robert Halliday. She is about to marry a man she doesn't love, so the family will become richer... |
Jeff Larabee | |
| 1936 | Pennies from Heaven Pennies from Heaven (1936 film) Pennies from Heaven is a 1936 musical comedy film starring Bing Crosby and featuring Louis Armstrong in a supporting role. The movie was directed by Norman Z. McLeod and the screenplay was written by Jo Swerling from a story by William Rankin based on the novel The Peacock Feather by Katherine... |
Larry Poole | |
| 1937 | Waikiki Wedding Waikiki Wedding Waikiki Wedding is a 1937 musical film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Bing Crosby. Bing plays the part of Tony Marvin, a PR man charged with extolling the virtues of Hawaii. The female lead is Shirley Ross.... |
Tony Marvin | |
| 1937 | Double or Nothing Double or Nothing (1937 film) Double or Nothing is a 1937 musical comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Martha Raye, Andy Devine, Mary Carlisle, William Frawley, Samuel S. Hinds, and Frances Faye. The most famous song from the film is "The Moon Got In My Eyes".-Plot synopsis:... |
'Lefty Boylan' | |
| 1938 | Dr. Rhythm | Dr. Bill Remsen | |
| 1938 | Sing You Sinners Sing You Sinners (1938 film) Sing You Sinners is a 1938 black-and-white American musical comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray, Donald O'Connor, and Ellen Drew. The movie was written by Claude Binyon and directed by Wesley Ruggles... |
Joe Beebe | |
| 1939 | Paris Honeymoon | 'Lucky' Lawton | |
| 1939 | East Side of Heaven | Denny Martin | |
| 1939 | Larry Earl | ||
| 1940 | Road to Singapore Road to Singapore Road to Singapore is a 1940 Paramount Pictures film starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, and Bob Hope, which marked the debut of the long-running and popular "Road to …" series of pictures spotlighting the trio.-Plot:... |
Joshua 'Josh' Mallon V | |
| 1940 | If I Had My Way If I Had My Way If I Had My Way is a 1940 musical comedy film starring Bing Crosby and Gloria Jean. The film was directed by David Butler.-Plot:Buzz Blackwell, Fred Johnson and Axel Swenson are construction workers who are building a bridge. They are good friends and Buzz and Axel even help Fred raising his... |
Buzz Blackwell | |
| 1940 | Rhythm on the River Rhythm on the River Rhythm on the River is a 1940 musical comedy film starring Bing Crosby and Mary Martin as ghostwriters whose songs are credited to a composer played by Basil Rathbone. James V... |
Bob Sommers | |
| 1941 | Road to Zanzibar Road to Zanzibar Road to Zanzibar is a 1941 Paramount Pictures comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, and marked the second picture in the popular "Road to …" series made by the trio.... |
Chuck Reardon | |
| 1941 | Birth of the Blues | Jeff Lambert | |
| 1942 | My Favorite Blonde My Favorite Blonde My Favorite Blonde is a 1942 American comedy film starring Bob Hope and Madeleine Carroll.The movie depicts a vaudeville performer who gets mixed up with British and German secret agents in the days just before America enters World War II.-Cast:... |
Man outside union hall | uncredited cameo appearance |
| 1942 | Road to Morocco Road to Morocco Road to Morocco is an 1942 American comedy film about two fast-talking guys tossed up on a desert shore and sold into slavery to a beautiful princess... |
Jeff Peters | |
| 1942 | Holiday Inn Holiday Inn (film) Holiday Inn is a 1942 American musical film starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, with music by Irving Berlin. The film has twelve songs written expressly for the film, the most notable being "White Christmas"... |
Jim Hardy | |
| 1943 | They Got Me Covered | music box | voice only, uncredited |
| 1943 | Dixie Dixie (film) Dixie is a 1943 Technicolor biographical film of American songwriter Daniel Decatur Emmett, starring Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. The movie is a musical directed by A. Edward Sutherland.The movie was only a moderate success and received mixed reviews... |
Daniel Decatur Emmett | |
| 1944 | Going My Way Going My Way Going My Way is a 1944 film directed by Leo McCarey. It is a light-hearted musical comedy-drama about a new young priest taking over a parish from an established old veteran . Crosby sings five songs in the film. It was followed the next year by a sequel, The Bells of St. Mary's. This picture was... |
Father Chuck O'Malley | Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Actor Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry... |
| 1944 | The Princess and the Pirate The Princess and the Pirate The Princess and the Pirate is a 1944 American comedy film released by Samuel Goldwyn, starring Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo. This was the only appearance in a Goldwyn film by Paramount Pictures star Hope.-Plot:... |
Commoner on king's ship | uncredited cameo appearance |
| 1944 | Here Come the Waves | Johnny Cabot | |
| 1945 | Out of This World | singing voice for Eddie Bracken Eddie Bracken Edward Vincent "Eddie" Bracken was an American actor.-Life and career:Bracken was born in Astoria, New York, the son of Catherine and Joseph L. Bracken. Bracken performed in vaudeville at the age of nine and gained fame with the Broadway musical Too Many Girls in a role he reprised for the 1940... |
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| 1945 | Father Chuck O'Malley | Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Actor Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry... |
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| 1946 | Road to Utopia Road to Utopia Road to Utopia, filmed in 1943 but not released until 1946, is the fourth film of the "Road to …" series starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.-Plot:After the credits we see Sal and Chester Hooton, an old married couple... |
Duke Johnson/Junior Hooton | |
| 1946 | Blue Skies Blue Skies (film) Blue Skies is a 1946 Hollywood musical Technicolor comedy film, released by Paramount Pictures and starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Joan Caulfield, Olga San Juan and Billy De Wolfe, with music, lyrics and story by Irving Berlin; most of the songs were recycled from earlier works. The film was... |
Johnny Adams | |
| 1947 | My Favorite Brunette My Favorite Brunette My Favorite Brunette is a 1947 movie spoofing movie detectives and the film noir style. Starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, it also features Lon Chaney, Jr... |
Harry | uncredited cameo appearance |
| 1947 | Welcome Stranger | Dr. James 'Jim' Pearson | |
| 1947 | Variety Girl Variety Girl Variety Girl is an all-star movie musical produced by Paramount Pictures. Numerous Paramount contract players and directors make cameos or perform songs, with particularly large amounts of screen time featuring Bing Crosby... |
himself | one of several featured performers in musical sequences |
| 1947 | Road to Rio Road to Rio Road to Rio is a 1947 comedy film, directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby as Scat Sweeney, Bob Hope as "Hot Lips" Barton, and Dorothy Lamour as Lucia Maria de Andrade. It was the fifth of the "Road to …" series.-Plot:... |
Scat Sweeney | |
| 1948 | Virgin Smith | ||
| 1949 | Hank Martin | ||
| 1949 | Top o' the Morning | Joe Mulqueen | |
| 1949 | Narrator, Ichabod, Brom Bones | segment, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" | |
| 1950 | Riding High | Dan Brooks | |
| 1950 | Mr. Music | Paul Merrick | |
| 1951 | Here Comes the Groom Here Comes the Groom Here Comes the Groom is a 1951 musical romantic comedy film starring Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman. Directed and produced by Frank Capra, the film was released by Paramount Pictures.-Plot:... |
Peter 'Pete' Garvey | Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| 1951 | Angels in the Outfield Angels in the Outfield (1951 film) Angels in the Outfield is a 1951 American black-and-white film starring Paul Douglas and Janet Leigh, directed by Clarence Brown, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer... |
uncredited cameo appearance | |
| 1952 | uncredited cameo appearance | ||
| 1952 | Son of Paleface Son of Paleface Son of Paleface , is a western comedy film and sequel to The Paleface , directed by Frank Tashlin and written by Tashlin, Joseph Quillan and Robert L. Welch. It stars Bob Hope, Jane Russell and Roy Rogers.-Plot:... |
uncredited cameo appearance | |
| 1952 | Just for You | Jordan Blake | |
| 1952 | Road to Bali Road to Bali Road to Bali is a 1952 comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. It was released by Paramount Pictures and is the sixth of the seven Road to … movies... |
George Cochran | |
| 1953 | Scared Stiff | uncredited cameo appearance | |
| 1953 | Little Boy Lost Little Boy Lost Little Boy Lost is a 1953 Paramount Pictures black-and-white drama motion picture starring Bing Crosby. Others in the cast include Claude Dauphin, Christian Fourcade, Gabrielle Dorziat, and Nicole Maurey.... |
Bill Wainwright | |
| 1954 | White Christmas White Christmas (film) White Christmas is a 1954 Technicolor musical film starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye that features the songs of Irving Berlin, including the titular "White Christmas"... |
Bob Wallace | |
| 1954 | Frank Elgin | National Board of Review Award for Best Actor National Board of Review Award for Best Actor An incomplete list of the winners of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Award for Best Actor :-1940s:-1950s:-1960s:-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:... Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Actor Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry... |
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| 1956 | Showdown at Ulcer Gulch | Influential man | |
| 1956 | Anything Goes Anything Goes (1956 film) Anything Goes is a 1956 musical film adapted from the Cole Porter, Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse stage production of the same title. The book was drastically rewritten for the second film version, also by Paramount, released in 1956... |
Bill Benson | |
| 1956 | High Society | C. K. Dexter-Haven | |
| 1957 | uncredited vocal performance | ||
| 1957 | Man on Fire | Earl Carleton | |
| 1958 | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | narrator | |
| 1959 | Alias Jesse James Alias Jesse James Alias Jesse James is a Bob Hope western comedy movie. A highlight for fans of Westerns of that era happens during the gun fight climax at the end of the movie that features a number of cameos by movie and television personalities Alias Jesse James (1959) is a Bob Hope western comedy movie. A... |
uncredited cameo appearance | |
| 1959 | Say One for Me | Father Conroy | |
| 1960 | Let's Make Love Let's Make Love Let's Make Love is a 1960 musical comedy film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by George Cukor and produced by Jerry Wald from a screenplay by Norman Krasna, Hal Kanter and Arthur Miller... |
uncredited cameo appearance | |
| 1960 | High Time High Time (film) High Time is a 1960 collegiate comedic film, directed by Blake Edwards and starring Bing Crosby. The film is told from the perspective of a middle-aged man who enters the world of a new generation of postwar youth... |
Harvey Howard | |
| 1960 | Pepe Pepe (film) Pepe is a 1960 film starring Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno in the title role, directed by George Sidney. A multitude of cameo appearances attempted to replicate the success of Mario Moreno's American debut, notably Around the World in Eighty Days, produced by Mike Todd in 1956.The film failed to... |
uncredited cameo appearance | |
| 1962 | Harry Turner | ||
| 1964 | Robin and the 7 Hoods Robin and the 7 Hoods Robin and the 7 Hoods is a 1964 American musical film that transplants the Robin Hood legend to a 1930s Chicago gangster setting. Directed by Gordon Douglas and produced by Frank Sinatra, with a screenplay by David R. Schwartz, the movie stars members of the Rat Pack as well as Bing Crosby, Peter... |
Allen A. Dale | |
| 1966 | Stagecoach Stagecoach (1966 film) Stagecoach is a 1966 American film, a remake of the 1939 John Ford western Stagecoach. Slim Pickens replaced Andy Devine as the driver, Alex Cord played the Ringo Kid , Ann-Margret succeeded Claire Trevor as the prostitute Dallas, and Bing Crosby played Thomas Mitchell's Oscar-winning part as the... |
Doc Josiah Boone | |
| 1972 | Cancel My Reservation | uncredited cameo performance | |
| 1974 | That's Entertainment! That's Entertainment! That's Entertainment! is a 1974 compilation film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to celebrate its 50th anniversary. It was followed by two sequels and a related film called That's Dancing!.... |
himself as featured presenter |
Short subjects
- Two Plus Fours (1930)
- I Surrender Dear (1931)
- One More Chance (1931)
- Dream House (1932)
- Billboard Girl (1932)
- Hollywood on Parade (1932)
- Hollywood on Parade No. 11 (1933)
- Blue of the Night (1933)
- Sing, Bing, Sing (1933)
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933)
- Please (1933)
- Just an Echo (1934)
- Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove (1934)
- Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 5 (1937)
- Don't Hook Now (1938)
- Hollywood Handicap (1938)
- Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 4 (1938)
- Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 9 (1939)
- Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Recreations (1940)
- Swing with Bing (1940)
- Angels of Mercy (1941)
- Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play (1941)
- Show Business at WarShow Business at WarShow Business at War is a short film made in 1943 to tout the United States film industry's contribution to the war effort. Several studios collaborated on the production and approximately 70 stars, producers, directors and studio executives appeared in it....
(1943) - Road to Victory (1944)
- The All-Star Bond Rally (1945)
- Hollywood Victory Caravan (1945)
- Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Celebrations (1945)
- Screen Snapshots: Famous Fathers and Sons (1946)
- Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Happy Homes (1949)
- Alberta Vacation (1950)
- You Can Change the World (1951)
- Crusade for Prayer (1952)
- Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Mothers and Fathers (1955)
- Showdown at Ulcer Gulch (1956) (voice)
- Bing Presents Oreste (1956)
- The Heart of Show Business (1957)
- Just One More Time (1974)
Television
- The Bing Crosby Show (1954)
- The Edsel ShowThe Edsel ShowThe Edsel Show is an hour-long television special broadcast live on CBS in the United States on October 13, 1957, intended to promote Ford Motor Company's new Edsel cars...
(1957) - Bing Crosby in London (1961)
- The Bing Crosby ShowThe Bing Crosby ShowThe Bing Crosby Show is a 28-episode situation comedy television program starring crooner, film star, iconic phenomenon, and businessman Bing Crosby and actress Beverly Garland as a middle-aged couple, Bing and Ellie Collins, rearing two teenaged daughters during the early 1960s...
(ABC, 1964–1965) - Bing Crosby in Dublin (1965)
- Goldilocks (1971) (voice)
- Dr. Cook's Garden (1971)
- Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire: A Couple of Song and Dance Men (1975)
- The Bell Telephone Jubilee (1976)