Bob Newhart
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Newhart in 2002
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| Birth name | George Robert Newhart |
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September 5, 1929 Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. |
| Medium | Stand-up, film, television |
| Nationality | American |
| Years active | 1958–present |
| Genres | Deadpan, satire |
| Subject(s) | American culture, American politics |
| Influences | Jack Benny, Robert Benchley, H. Allen Smith, James Thurber, Max Shulman, Shelley Berman |
| Influenced | Ellen DeGeneres,Lewis Black,Norm Macdonald,David Steinberg,Ray Romano,Tom Rhodes,Conan O'Brien, Jay Leno, Chris Rush,Jim Parsons |
| Spouse | Virginia Quinn (m. 1963) |
| Children | 4 |
| Website | www |
George Robert "Bob" Newhart (born September 5, 1929) 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 The Bob Newhart Show during the 1970s and then as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the 1980s series 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. In 2004 he played the library head Judson in The Librarian, a character which continued in 2014 to the TV series The Librarians. In 2013, Newhart made his first of four guest appearances on The Big Bang Theory, for which he received his first Primetime Emmy Award on September 15, 2013.
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