Bob Newhart
Comedian, TV Actor
1929 –
Who is Bob Newhart?
George Robert "Bob" Newhart is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Noted for his deadpan and slightly stammering delivery, Newhart came to prominence in the 1960s when his album of comedic monologues The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart was a worldwide bestseller and reached number one on the Billboard pop album chart—it remains the 20th best-selling comedy album in history. The follow-up album, The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! was also a massive success, and the two albums held the Billboard number one and number two spots simultaneously.
Newhart later went into acting, starring in two long-running and prize-winning situation comedies, first as psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley on the 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and then as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the 1980s sitcom Newhart. He also had two short-lived sitcoms in the nineties titled Bob and George and Leo. Newhart also appeared in film roles such as Major Major in Catch-22 and Papa Elf in Elf. He provided the voice of Bernard in the Walt Disney animated films The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under. One of his most recent roles is the library head Judson in The Librarian. In 2011, Newhart made a cameo in the film Horrible Bosses, and in 2013 he guest starred in two episodes of The Big Bang Theory, for one of which he won his first Primetime Emmy Award on September 15, 2013.
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- Born
- Sep 5, 1929
Oak Park - Also known as
- George Robert Newhart
- Newhart, Bob
- George Robert "Bob" Newhart
- Bob
- Charlie Everybody
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Ginny Newhart
(1963/01/12 - )
- Ginny Newhart
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- German American
- Irish American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Loyola University Chicago
- St. Ignatius College Prep
- Loyola Law School
- Lived in
- Oak Park
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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