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Bob Newhart

Known for
The Rescuers Down Under (1990), The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004), Newhart (1982), The Bob Newhart Show (1972)

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Bob Newhart is an actor best known for The Rescuers Down Under, The Librarian: Quest for the Spear and Newhart.

22 Interesting Facts About Bob Newhart

  1. #003

    His wife, Ginny Newhart, came up with the idea for The Last Newhart (1990), the final episode of Newhart (1982), in which the entire 1982 series was a dream of Dr. Bob Hartley from The Bob Newhart Show (1972).

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    Before finding success in comedy venues in the 1960s, Bob worked as an accountant at a firm in Chicago. He hated every minute of it.

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  3. #007

    He is a co-owner of a Hollywood restaurant along with actor Dustin Hoffman.

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  4. #008

    He smoked heavily for years until doctors ordered him to quit (1985).

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    Before becoming a successful comedian, he was a copywriter for Fred A. Niles, one of Chicago's leading independent film and television producers.

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  6. #011

    In his youth, his idols were Robert Benchley, Jack Benny and Fred Allen.

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    He appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) 8 times.

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  8. #016

    He appeared six times as Professor Proton (also known as Arthur Jeffries) in seasons 6, 7, 9, 11 and 12 of The Big Bang Theory (2007).

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  9. #018

    He appeared on The Dean Martin Show (1965) 24 times.

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  10. #020

    Bob Newhart released 10 comedy albums.

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  11. #021

    After smoking so much, he was hospitalized for a nosebleed and then for polycythemia, but he recovered shortly afterward [September 3, 1985].

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  12. #022

    As a small child he always wanted to be called Bob, so he dropped his first two names, George Robert, to rename himself Bob Newhart.

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  13. #025

    Former The Bob Newhart Show (1972) and Newhart (1982) co-stars Marcia Wallace, Bill Daily, Tom Poston, William Sanderson, Julia Duffy and Peter Scolari all appeared as guest stars in the same 1997 episode of George & Leo (1997).

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  14. #027

    He is best known to the public for his roles as Dr. Robert 'Bob' Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show (1972) and Dick Loudin on Newhart (1982).

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  15. #028

    Before becoming a successful comedian, he worked as a delivery man at a meat market.

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  16. #029

    He lived with his family until his twenties.

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  17. #030

    Before becoming a successful comedian, he worked many jobs in downtown Chicago, from pinspotter to office clerk.

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  18. #031

    He was a big fan of both shows: I Love Lucy (1951) and The Milton Berle Show (1966).

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  19. #032

    His friends: Tom Poston, Suzanne Pleshette, Mary Frann, Marcia Wallace, Peter Bonerz, Julie London, Buck Henry, Bill Daily, Bill Bixby, Jane Curtin, Don Rickles, Olympia Dukakis, Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, José Ferrer, Jack Riley, Bernard Fox, Richard Benjamin, Tim Conway, Dick Martin, John Fiedler, Eva Gabor, Tony Randall, Mary Tyler Moore, Bill Cosby and Conan O'Brien.

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  20. #034

    He was cremated at the crematorium of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills. The urn was later buried next to his wife's urn (Bright Eternity section, Map #H62, Lot 7685, Single Ground Range Space 2).

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  21. #035

    After spending 22 winters in Chicago, Illinois, he joined the Sixth Army in San Francisco, California.

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  22. #037

    He attended Bill Bixby's funeral in 1993.

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