COSBY TO APPEAR IN TV SPY SERIES

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400480011-7
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: November 16, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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,COSBY TO APPEAR
IN TV SPY SERIES
Negro Comic Will Switch to
Suspense Role for N.B.C.
Bill Cosby, the 26-year-ok
Negro comic who went fron
Greenwich Village 'to Eas'
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ment at the Gaslight, Mr Cosby
played the major clubs. Last
year he made about 20 appear-
ances on TV. He is scheduled
to be on "The Andy Williams
Show," "The Jack Paar Show"
"Tonight" and- "The Jimmy
Dean Show."
"If I have any potential as
an actor," Mr. Cosby said. "if
I'm better-than-average, then
I'd like to continue acting in
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doesn't work out, I can always
be a comic."
Basin Street within two years.
will be the co-star of a TV
cs.
Mr. Cosby has been signed
Ito appear opposite Robert Culp
next season . on the National
Broadcasting Company's inter- ,
national intrigue series, "I Spy."
They will play agents of the
Central Intelligence Agency,
whose undercover work takes
them around the world.
In the show, Mr. Culp will
be passing as a tennis bum.
Mr. Cosby will be his trainer
and traveling companion. Ile
will be represented as speak-
ing seven languages. Sheldon
Leonard, the producer, will
begin production in Hong Kong
in March, where one week of
shooting has already been com-
pleted.
"Leonard thought it was time
that a Negro and a white could
play together in a series that
did not have any racial over-
tones," Mr. Cosby said yester-
day. "The public, he believes,
will accept my casting."
Mr. Cosby's night-club ca-
reer began here three summers
ago when Pc was telling topical
jokes at the Gaslight Cafe in
Greenwich Village. Mr. Cosby,
a physical education major at
Temple University, used his
summer employment to polish
his style, collect new material
and earn money for the fall
semester.
After his successful engage-
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