Kathryn Grant
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: November 25, 1933
Place of Birth: West Columbia, Texas, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Self
as Elizabeth Lambert
as Self / Narrator
as Self
as actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Herself
as Mrs. Goodwin
as Self / Mama Bear (voice)
as Self - Co-Host
as Self
as Princess Yasminda (voice)
as Jeannie Whirling
as Mary Pilant
as Princess Parisa
as Cecily "Clee" Chouard
as Norah Malaks Rico
as Lt. Betty Bixby
as Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
as Anne Martin
as Jen Vollard
as Honey
as Taini
as Hazel Levering
as Sally Haskins
as Ellie Rhodes
as Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
as Jo-Anne
as Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
as Maxine
as Manicurist (uncredited)
as Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
as Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
as Showgirl (uncredited)
as Self - Mystery Guest