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

Personal life Crosby was born at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. 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.

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.

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. He was involved in the firm's sale of Excel Mining Systems to Orica for approximately $670mn.

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

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.

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. He has worked alongside the likes of Wynton Marsalis, jazz trumpeter and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

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.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 1980 Friday the 13th Bill 1981 The Private History of a Campaign That Failed Cpl. Ed Stevens TV movie1989Hollow Venus: Diary of a Go-Go DancerCute Rocker2006Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher FilmHimselfDocumentaryArchive footage2023Midnight BloodshedBillArchive 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"

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