Bill Cosby Archives

The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)

Rating: ★

Dec 20, 2001Pacts with the Devil/Disney Comedy

Dreary Disney live-action comedy that casts Bill Cosby as The Devil who tasks a hapless Elliott Gould with trying to find redemption by getting three innocents to sell their souls

Director: Steven Hilliard Stern

Actors: Bill Cosby, Elliott Gould, Susan Anspach

Category: Fantasy

20 December 200127 January 2026 by Roog

Leonard Part 6 (1987)

Rating: ★★

Sep 4, 2003Gonzo Spy Comedy

Bill Cosby was massive on tv during the 1980s but when he tried to move to film it resulted in this bizarre flop of a gonzo spy comedy starring Cosby as a retired agent forced to return to the field

Director: Paul Weiland

Actors: Bill Cosby, Tom Courtenay, Gloria Foster, Victoria Rowell, …

Category: Science Fiction

4 September 200323 June 2026 by Roog

Ghost Dad (1990)

Rating: ★

May 1, 1999Man Returns as a Ghost Comedy

Riding high on the success of The Cosby Show, Bill Cosby flopped on cinema screens with this comedy where he appears as a father who returns as a ghost to sort out his children's lives

Director: Sidney Poitier

Actors: Bill Cosby, Ian Bannen, Denise Nicholas, Barry Corbin, …

Category: Fantasy

1 May 199925 October 2025 by Roog

The Meteor Man (1993)

Rating: ★

Nov 1, 2000Black Superhero

Robert Townsend directs and stars as the screen's first Black superhero in this comedy take on the superhero film

Director: Robert Townsend

Actors: Robert Townsend, Eddie Griffin, Robert Guillaume, James Earl Jones, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 November 200028 March 2023 by Roog

Fat Albert (2004)

Rating: ★

Aug 15, 2017Cartoon Characters Enter the Real World

One of a spate of films of the 90s/00s that adapted animated tv series in live-action – in this case Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. Here all we get is the animated characters emerging into the real world for slapstick inanity

Director: Joel Zwick

Actors: Kenan Thompson, Kyla Pratt, Dania Ramirez, Bill Cosby

Category: Fantasy

15 August 201721 October 2025 by Roog