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Bob Newhart

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Also known as George Robert "Bob" Newhart

American stand-up comedian and actor (1929–2024)

OverviewAI-generated

Bob Newhart (1929–2024) was an American comedian, television actor, film actor, and voice actor. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, he served in the United States Army and was educated at Loyola University Chicago. Newhart was of Irish ethnic descent and spoke English. He was influenced by Irwin Corey and held medical conditions including stuttering and polycythemia.

His career included receiving the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. He also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Newhart authored works such as *I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This* and *Rescuers Read Along Book and Cassette*.

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Person · Open Library

Works
4

Top works

  • I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This! Abridged Low price
  • Rescuers Read Along Book and Cassette
  • I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This
  • I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!

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Film & TV

Acting · Oak Park, Illinois, USA

George Robert Newhart was an American comedian and actor. Newhart was known for his deadpan and stammering delivery style. Beginning his career as a stand-up comedian, he transitioned his career to acting in television.

Known for

  • Bob Newhart: A Legacy of Laughter — Self (archive footage)2024
  • Once Upon a Studio — Bernard (voice) (archive sound)2023
  • Bob and Don: A Love Story — Self2023
  • Dean Martin: King of Cool — Self2021
  • The Holiday Movies That Made Us — Self (archive footage)2020
  • Young Sheldon — Professor Proton2017
  • Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows — Self2016
  • Don Rickles: One Night Only — Self2014
  • The Librarians — Judson2014
  • Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic — Self2013

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
United States
Active from
1929
Active to
2024

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
21,719
Total plays
138,465

Tags

comedystand-upAllstandup comedyquirky

Bob Newhart was born George Robert Newhart in Oak Park, Illinois to George David Newhart and Julia Pauline Burns, both of whom were devout Catholics. A sister, M. Joan Newhart, is a Roman Catholic nun. Newhart is of Irish and German descent. Newhart attended St. Ignatius College Prep and graduated in 1952 from Loyola University, Chicago with a business degree. He was drafted in the U.S. Army, and served stateside during the Korean War until discharged in 1954. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

    · 2009 · cited 59,258x

  2. The Sequence of the Human Genome

    · 2001 · cited 10,205x

  3. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    · 2017 · cited 6,175x

  4. The Complete Genome Sequence of <i>Escherichia coli</i> K-12

    · 1997 · cited 5,922x

  5. <i>Stan</i> : A Probabilistic Programming Language

    · 2017 · cited 5,838x

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Quotes

  • “Abe, you got the speech. ... Abe, you haven't changed the speech have you? ... Oh, Abe. What did you ya change the speech for? ... A couple of minor changes? ... I'll bet. All right, what are they? ... You what? You typed it! Abe, how many times have we told you — on the backs of envelopes. ... I understand it’s harder to read that way, but it looks like you wrote it on the train coming down.”
  • “Humor is a very, very important part of our life. It's not just laughing at a joke, it's an attitude toward life. And as the world gets crazier, it's more important to laugh at it. It's a survival technique.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

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Encyclopedic overview

George Robert Newhart (September 5, 1929 – July 18, 2024) was an American comedian and actor. Newhart was known for his deadpan and stammering delivery style. Beginning his career as a stand-up comedian, he transitioned his career to acting in television. He received three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Peabody Award, a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

Newhart came to prominence in 1960 when his record album of comedic monologues, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, became a bestseller and reached number one on the Billboard pop album chart and won two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year, and Best New Artist. That same year he released his follow-up album, The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! (1960), which was also a success, and the two albums held the Billboard number one and number two spots simultaneously. He later released several additional comedy albums.

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