Bob Newhart
TV Actor — born 1929
Bob Newhart is a stand-up comedian and actor who has starred in various sitcoms.
Bob Newhart is an American stand-up comedian and actor whose deadpan, stammering monologue style and two long-running sitcoms made him one of the most familiar comic voices on American television from the 1960s through the 1990s. He was born George Robert Newhart on September 5, 1929, in Oak Park, Illinois, the son of an Irish-American Catholic family. He served two years in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and graduated from Loyola University Chicago in 1952.
He worked as an accountant and copywriter in Chicago while developing comic telephone monologues with friend Ed Gallagher. After Gallagher left for New York, Newhart continued the routines alone for radio.
His debut album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart was released by Warner Bros. in April 1960. It reached number one on the Billboard chart, won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and made Newhart the first comedian to win that prize; the follow-up The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! won Best Comedy Album the same night in 1961. From 1972 to 1978 he played Chicago psychologist Dr. Robert Hartley on CBS's The Bob Newhart Show, and from 1982 to 1990 he played Vermont innkeeper Dick Loudon on CBS's Newhart, whose final episode revealed the entire series to have been a dream of Dr. Hartley's — one of the most-discussed sitcom finales in American television.
He won an Emmy in 2013 for his guest role as Professor Proton on CBS's The Big Bang Theory after seven previous nominations across his career, and reprised the part for several years. Other film and television work included Catch-22 (1970), In & Out (1997), and three Librarian television movies. He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1993 and received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2002. He died on July 18, 2024, at age 94.
His given name Bob is a rhyming short form of Robert, from the Germanic Hrodebert meaning "bright fame." The pet form Bob developed in medieval England alongside Rob and Robin and has been one of the most common English nicknames since the 19th century.
About the name Bob
Gender: Male · Origin: English
Abbreviation Of Robert.