Gary Crosby (actor)

Gary Evan Crosby ( born June 15, 1933, Los Angeles, † 24 August 1995 in Burbank, California ) was an American actor, who was temporarily active as a jazz singer.

Life

The eldest son of the actor, singer and entertainer Bing Crosby, who had been named after his friend Gary Cooper made ​​his feature film debut, at the age of eight years in Star Spangled Rhythm.

At 16, he performed regularly with his father in the radio show, The Bing Crosby Show on. This was followed by joint recordings such as Play a Simple ( by Irving Berlin), On Moonlight Bay.

Nevertheless, the relationship between Gary Crosby and his father was not harmonious, but marked by constant tensions. He began to drink and broke at age 21 to study at Stanford University in order to accept a contract with CBS Radio. When he was just in 1956 with Louis Armstrong on tour in Australia, he received his draft notice and had to do his military service in the near Frankfurt am Main.

In 1958 he was awarded a movie contract with 20th Century Fox Studios, where he played in light comedies such as Holiday For Lovers, Mardi Gras and A Private 's Affair similar mounted rollers as before his father. For a short time he tried a stage show, but the moderate success was only granted with his brothers, Dennis, Lindsay and Philip Crosby. Two of the brothers, Dennis and Lindsay, later committed suicide.

1962 Gary Crosby joined in Los Angeles as an entertainer, where he met his future wife, the dancer Barbara Corsentino. He fought successfully his alcohol problems and got back propagated offers for film and television productions, so in addition to Elvis Presley in Girl Happy.

1983 Gary Crosby published his autobiography under the title Going My Own Way, in which a negative image of the patriarch Bing recorded.

Filmography

Discography

• Gary Crosby Big Band, with Ack and Jerry van Rooyen, Bob Cooper, Bud Shank, Attila Zoller, Gary Peacock and Ruud Pronk ( Decca, 1958)