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George Robert Newhart (September 5, 1929 – July 18, 2024), known professionally as Bob Newhart, was 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.
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George Robert Newhart (September 5, 1929 – July 18, 2024), known professionally as Bob Newhart, was 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.
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The Ed Sullivan Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Grammys
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Saturday Night Live
Hot in Cleveland
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Big Bang Theory
Desperate Housewives
Young Sheldon
Murphy Brown
MADtv
The Librarians
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
The Daily Show
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Golden Globe Awards
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
The Carol Burnett Show
The Emmy Awards
The Simpsons
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Inside Comedy
The Judy Garland Show
Late Night with David Letterman
Captain Nice
What's My Line?
The Don Knotts Show
Committed
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Playboy After Dark
Once Upon a Studio
Horrible Bosses
Hell Is for Heroes
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Insight
Catch-22
In & Out
The Dean Martin Christmas Show
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Elf
The Sports Pages
George & Leo
The Bob Newhart Show
The Rescuers
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The Rescuers Down Under
The Bob Newhart Show
Production Credits
The Bob Newhart Show
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