1. Phillip Lang Crosby was an American actor and singer.
21 Facts About Phillip Crosby
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Phillip Crosby was one of the four sons of Bing Crosby and Dixie Lee; the others were his older brother Gary, his twin brother Dennis, and his younger brother Lindsay.
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Phillip Crosby graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose in June 1952 and went on to Washington State College at Pullman with his twin brother Dennis for a three-year animal husbandry course.
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When he was 21 in 1955, Phillip Crosby inherited $200,000 from his late mother's trust.
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That same year, Phillip Crosby began his national service with the Army and was posted to West Germany in February 1956 to join his twin.
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Phillip and Dennis had an amusing linking role on the Bing Crosby Show aired on ABC-TV on March 2,1959.
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However, after one of their performances at El Morocco in December 1959, the boys fought among themselves and Gary Phillip Crosby left the group.
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Phillip, Dennis, and Lindsay continued without Gary and they were given useful exposure on the Bing Crosby Show seen on ABC-TV on February 29,1960.
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On television, the Phillip Crosby Brothers starred on several high-profile shows such as Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall, The Ed Sullivan Show and of course the Bing Phillip Crosby Show.
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The Phillip Crosby Brothers act folded when Lindsay Phillip Crosby had a breakdown in July 1962 in Juarez, Mexico.
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Phillip Crosby guest-starred on The Bob Hope Christmas Special on January 17,1964.
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Around this time, Phillip Crosby was one of the original investors in a chain of Mexican restaurants and he accepted what was at the time a generous offer to buy him out.
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The chain went on to become the huge Taco Bell organization and Phillip Crosby would have made a fortune if he stayed in.
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Phillip Crosby appeared on The Bob Hope Vietnam Christmas Show on January 18,1968, The Hollywood Palace show on March 23,1968, and April 5,1969 and The Ed Sullivan Show on June 15,1969.
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Phillip Crosby gave his final performance at an Elk's Club party in Burbank in 1983.
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Gary Phillip Crosby wrote a book called Going My Own Way, alleging emotional and physical abuse by his father.
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Phillip Crosby refuted this and he gave an interview to Neil Blincow of The Globe in 1999 stating:.
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Phillip Crosby [Gary] knew it [the book Going My Own Way] would generate a lot of publicity and that was the only way he could get his ugly, no-talent face on television and in the newspapers.
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Phillip Crosby wanted to make money and knew that humiliating our father and blackening his name was the only way he could do it.
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Phillip Crosby supported Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election.
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Phillip Crosby died on January 13,2004, in Woodland Hills, California from a heart attack, aged 69.