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Bob Newhart

Bob Newhart

Birthday: 1929-09-05 | Place of Birth: Oak Park, Illinois, USA

George Robert Newhart (born September 5, 1929), known professionally as 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 #1 on the Billboard pop music charts—it remains the 20th best-selling album in history. The follow-up album, The Button-Down Mind Strikes Again! was also a massive success, and both albums held the Billboard #1 and #2 spots simultaneously, a feat unequaled until the 1991 release of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II by hard rock band Guns N' Roses. 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 a third sitcom that was short-lived and initially successful but was soon canceled, named Bob. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bob Newhart, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2014
2004
2003
Elf

as    Papa Elf

1998
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie

as    Leonard (voice)

1997
George & Leo

as    George Stoody

1997
In & Out

as    Tom Halliwell

1992
Bob

as    Bob McKay

1990
The Rescuers Down Under

as    Bernard (voice)

1983
The Rescuers

as    Bernard (voice)

1982
Newhart

as    Dick Loudon

1980
Little Miss Marker

as    Regret

1972
The Don Rickles Show

as    Brother-in-law

1972
The Bob Newhart Show

as    Robert Hartley

1971
Decisions! Decisions!

as    John Hobson

1970
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

as    Dr. Mason Hume

1970
Catch-22

as    Maj. Major Major

1968
Hot Millions

as    Willard C. Gnatpole

1960
Insight

as    Marvin