Acting · West Columbia, Texas, USA · Born November 25, 1933
Kathryn Crosby (November 25, 1933 - September 20, 2024) was an American actress and singer who also performed under the stage-name Kathryn Grant. Born Olive Kathryn Grandstaff in Houston, Texas, she graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1955. Two years later she became Bing Crosby's second wife. The couple had three children, Harry, Mary Frances, and Nathaniel. She appeared as a guest star on her husband's 1964–1965 ABC sitcom The Bing Crosby Show. She largely retired after their marriage, but did have a featured role in the courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder. She also played the part of "Mama Bear" alongside her husband and children in Goldilocks and starred with Jack Lemmon in Operation Mad Ball in 1957. In the mid-1970s, she hosted The Kathryn Crosby Show, a 30-minute local talk-show on KPIX-TV in San Francisco. Husband Bing appeared as a guest occasionally. After Bing Crosby's death in 1977, she took on a few smaller roles and the lead in the short-lived 1996 Broadway musical State Fair. For 16 years ending in 2001, Crosby hosted the Crosby National Golf Tournament at Bermuda Run Country Club in Bermuda Run, North Carolina. A nearby bridge carrying U.S. Route 158 over the Yadkin River is named for Crosby. On November 4, 2010, Crosby was seriously injured in an automobile accident in the Sierra Nevada that killed her 85-year-old husband, Maurice William Sullivan.
MovieBing Crosby: Rediscovered
2014
as Self
MovieQueen of the Lot
2010
as Elizabeth Lambert
MovieBing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials
2010
as Self
The Tony Danza Show
2004
as Self
MovieA Bing Crosby Christmas
1998
as Self / Narrator
MovieThe Magic of Bing Crosby
1991
as Self
MoviePreminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
as actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieBing Crosby: The Christmas Years
1978
as Herself
MovieThe Initiation of Sarah
1978
as Mrs. Goodwin
MovieBing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
1977
as Self
MovieBing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
1973
MovieGoldilocks
1970
as Self / Mama Bear (voice)
TVThe Bing Crosby Show
1964
TVThe Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self - Co-Host
TVBen Casey
1961
Movie1001 Arabian Nights
1959
as Princess Yasminda (voice)
MovieThe Big Circus
1959
as Jeannie Whirling
MovieAnatomy of a Murder
1959
as Mary Pilant
A Princess for Magoo
1959
MovieThe 7th Voyage of Sinbad
1958
as Princess Parisa
MovieGunman's Walk
1958
as Cecily "Clee" Chouard
MovieThe Brothers Rico
1957
as Norah Malaks Rico
MovieOperation Mad Ball
1957
as Lt. Betty Bixby
MovieThe Night the World Exploded
1957
as Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
MovieThe Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957
as Anne Martin
MovieMister Cory
1957
as Jen Vollard
MovieThe Wild Party
1956
as Honey
MovieReprisal!
1956
as Taini
MovieStorm Center
1956
as Hazel Levering
MovieUnchained
1955
as Sally Haskins
MovieThe Phenix City Story
1955
as Ellie Rhodes
Movie5 Against the House
1955
as Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
MovieCell 2455 Death Row
1955
as Jo-Anne
MovieTight Spot
1955
as Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
TVFather Knows Best
1954
as Maxine
MovieLiving It Up
1954
as Manicurist (uncredited)
MovieRear Window
1954
as Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
MovieCasanova's Big Night
1954
as Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
MovieSo This Is Love
1953
as Showgirl (uncredited)
TVWhat's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
