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Harry Crosby
Harry Crosby
	Crosby in 2013
Born	Harry Lillis Crosby III; August 8, 1958 (age 66); Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater	London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art; Fordham University;
Occupation(s)	Investor, actor
Years active	1970–1984 (actor); 1985–2024 (investor)
Spouse	Mihaela Skobe (m. 2003)
Children	2
Parent(s)	Bing Crosby; Kathryn Crosby
Relatives	Mary Crosby (sister) ; Nathaniel Crosby (brother); Gary Crosby (half-brother); Phillip Crosby (half-brother); Dennis Crosby (half-brother); Lindsay Crosby (half-brother); Larry Crosby (uncle); Bob Crosby (uncle); Chris Crosby (cousin); Denise Crosby (half-niece)

Harry Lillis Crosby III (born August 8, 1958) is an American investment banker and former actor, notable as the fifth son of entertainment legend Bing Crosby.

Personal life

Crosby was born at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.^[1] He is the fifth son of actor and singer Bing Crosby, and the eldest from Bing's second marriage to actress Kathryn Crosby. Harry is the elder brother of Mary and Nathaniel Crosby; the younger half-brother of Gary, Dennis, Phillip and Lindsay Crosby; the half-uncle of Denise Crosby; and the nephew of Bob Crosby and Larry Crosby.

Crosby has been in investment banking since 1985 and is a partner at Cranemere. He attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from 1977 to 1980 and received an MBA at Gabelli School of Business of Fordham University.^[2]

Investment banking and private equity

Crosby began his career at Lehman Brothers in 1987, working from associate level to director.

In 1993, he became managing director of the Credit Suisse Financial Sponsors Group, where he established key relationships. He subsequently became group head and managing director of North America Financial Sponsors Group at Merrill Lynch, where he managed clients such as KKR, Carlyle and Bain.^[3]

In 2005, he became general partner at Snow Phipps, a private equity firm specializing in leveraged acquisitions, build-ups, recapitalizations, restructuring, and growth equity investments, of small to middle market companies.^[4] He was involved in the firm's sale of Excel Mining Systems to Orica for approximately $670mn.^[5]

In 2012, he became general partner at Cranemere, investing in middle market private companies in North America, Germany and Austria.^[6] Crosby has also been on a number of other corporate boards, including that of Excel Mining Systems.^[7]

Philanthropy

Crosby has been on philanthropic boards, including the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, a charitable organisation that funds education, health, human services, arts, community and environmental projects.^[8]^[9]

As a trained musician, he is also an active fundraiser and board member of Jazz at Lincoln Center, a major performing arts institution structured as a non-profit organization and housed at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan, New York.^[10] He has worked alongside the likes of Wynton Marsalis, jazz trumpeter and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.^[11]

Film and television

Before his career in banking and private equity, Crosby gained show business experience at an early age by appearing with his father and family on various Christmas television specials from 1965 to 1977 and at the London Palladium in 1976 and 1977. He has appeared in several films and television programs, including The Hollywood Palace, Friday the 13th, Riding for the Pony Express, and The Private History of a Campaign That Failed.^[12]

Filmography

Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Friday the 13th	Bill
1981	The Private History of a Campaign That Failed	Cpl. Ed Stevens	TV movie
1989	Hollow Venus: Diary of a Go-Go Dancer	Cute Rocker
2006	Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film	Himself	Documentary Archive footage
2023	Midnight Bloodshed	Bill	Archive footage
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1966–1968	The Hollywood Palace	Himself (singer)	3 episodes
1970	Bing Crosby's Christmas Show	Himself	TV special
1971	Bing Crosby and the Sounds of Christmas	Himself	TV special
1972	Christmas with the Bing Crosbys	Himself	TV special
1973	Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show	Himself	TV special
1974	Christmas with the Bing Crosby's	Himself	TV special
1975	Merry Christmas, Fred, from the Crosbys	Himself	TV special
1976	Bing Crosby's White Christmas	Himself	TV special
1977	Bing - A 50th Anniversary Gala	Himself	TV special
1977	Bing in Norway	Himself	TV special
1977	Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas	Himself	TV special
1978	Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years	Himself	TV special
1980	Riding for the Pony Express	Albie Foreman	TV pilot
1984	Double Trouble	Steven	Episode: "Heartache"