Bob Newhart

TV Actor

Bob Newhart was born in Oak Park, Illinois, United States on September 5th, 1929 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 94, Bob Newhart biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
George Robert Newhart, Bob
Date of Birth
September 5, 1929
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Oak Park, Illinois, United States
Age
94 years old
Zodiac Sign
Virgo
Networth
$65 Million
Profession
Actor, Comedian, Film Actor, Television Actor, Voice Actor
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Bob Newhart Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 94 years old, Bob Newhart has this physical status:

Height
168cm
Weight
68kg
Hair Color
Gray
Eye Color
Blue
Build
Average
Measurements
Not Available
Bob Newhart Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
St. Catherine of Siena Grammar School, St. Ignatius College Prep, Loyola University Chicago
Bob Newhart Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Virginia Quinn
Children
4
Dating / Affair
Michèle Girardon, Virginia “Ginnie” Quinn (1963-Present)
Parents
George David Newhart, Julia Pauline
Siblings
Virginia (Younger Sister), Mary Joan (Younger Sister) (A nun who taught at the all-girls Carmel High School in Mundelein, Illinois and at Immaculata High School in Chicago), Pauline (Younger Sister)
Other Family
George Michael Newhart (Paternal Grandfather), Emma F. O’Connor (Paternal Grandmother), John Joseph Burns (Maternal Grandfather), Laura Aloysius Shea (Maternal Grandmother), Paul Brittain (Nephew) (Actor, Comedian)
Bob Newhart Career

After the war, Newhart worked for United States Gypsum as an accountant. He later said that his motto, "That's close enough", and his habit of adjusting petty cash imbalances with his own money showed he did not have the temperament to be an accountant.

In 1958, Newhart became an advertising copywriter for Fred A. Niles, a major independent film and television producer in Chicago. There, he and a co-worker entertained each other with long telephone calls about absurd scenarios, which they later recorded and sent to radio stations as audition tapes. When the co-worker ended his participation by taking a job in New York, Newhart continued the recordings alone, developing this type of routine.

Dan Sorkin, a disc jockey at a radio station who later became the announcer-sidekick on Newhart's NBC series, introduced Newhart to the head of talent at Warner Bros. Records. The label signed him in 1959, only a year after it was formed, based solely on those recordings. Newhart expanded his material into a stand-up routine he began to perform at nightclubs.

Newhart became famous mostly on the strength of his audio releases, in which he played a solo "straight man". Newhart's routine was to portray one end of a conversation (usually a phone call), playing the comedic straight man and implying what the other person was saying.

His 1960 comedy album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart was the first comedy album to make number one on the Billboard charts. It won the 1961 Grammy Award for Album of the Year and peaked at number two in the UK Albums Chart. Newhart also won Best New Artist.

Newhart told a 2005 interviewer for PBS's American Masters that his favorite stand-up routine is "Abe Lincoln vs. Madison Avenue", which appears on this album. In the routine, a slick promoter has to deal with Lincoln's reluctance to agree to efforts to boost his image. Chicago TV director and future comedian Bill Daily, who was Newhart's castmate on The Bob Newhart Show, suggested the routine to him. Newhart became known for an intentional stammer, in service to his unique combination of politeness and disbelief at what he was supposedly hearing. Newhart has used the delivery throughout his career.

A follow-up album, The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back, was released six months later and won Best Comedy Performance – Spoken Word that year. Subsequent comedy albums include Behind the Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart (1961), The Button-Down Mind on TV (1962), Bob Newhart Faces Bob Newhart (1964), The Windmills Are Weakening (1965), This Is It (1967), Best of Bob Newhart (1971), and Very Funny Bob Newhart (1973). Years later, he released Bob Newhart Off the Record (1992), The Button-Down Concert (1997), and Something Like This (2001), an anthology of his 1960s Warner Bros. albums.

On December 10, 2015, publicist and comedy album collector Jeff Abraham revealed that a "lost" Newhart track from 1965 about Paul Revere existed on a one-of-a-kind acetate, which he owns. The track made its world premiere on episode 163 of the Comedy on Vinyl podcast.

Newhart's success in stand-up led to his own short-lived NBC variety show in 1961, The Bob Newhart Show. The show lasted only a single season, but it earned Newhart a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and a Peabody Award. The Peabody Board cited him as:

In the mid-1960s, Newhart was one of the initial three co-hosts of the variety show The Entertainers (1964), with Carol Burnett and Caterina Valente, appeared on The Dean Martin Show 24 times and on The Ed Sullivan Show eight times. He appeared in a 1963 episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, "How to Get Rid of Your Wife"; and on The Judy Garland Show. Newhart guest-hosted The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 87 times, and hosted Saturday Night Live twice, in 1980 and 1995. In 1964, he appeared at the Royal Variety Performance in London, before Queen Elizabeth II.

In addition to stand-up comedy, Newhart became a dedicated character actor. This led to other series, such as Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Captain Nice, two episodes of Insight, and It's Garry Shandling's Show. He reprised his role as Dr. Bob Hartley on Murphy Brown, appeared as himself on The Simpsons, and played a retired forensic pathologist on NCIS.

Newhart guest-starred on three episodes of ER, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as on Desperate Housewives and a role on NCIS as Ducky's mentor and predecessor, who was discovered to have Alzheimer's disease. In 2013, he also appeared on Committed and in an episode of the sixth season of The Big Bang Theory, for which he was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award, and which led to subsequent appearances in its seventh, ninth, and eleventh seasons.

Although primarily a television star, Newhart has been in a number of popular films, beginning with the 1962 war story Hell Is for Heroes. In 1968, Newhart played an annoying software specialist in the film Hot Millions. His films include 1970's Alan Jay Lerner musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, the 1971 Norman Lear comedy Cold Turkey, Mike Nichols's war satire Catch 22, the 1977 Disney animated feature The Rescuers and its 1990 sequel The Rescuers Down Under as the voice of Bernard, and the Will Ferrell holiday comedy Elf (2003).

Newhart played the President of the United States in the comedy First Family (1980). He appeared as a beleaguered school principal in In & Out (1997). He made a cameo appearance as a sadistic but appreciative CEO at the end of the comedy Horrible Bosses (2011).

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Amanda Holden and Jamie Theakston recreate iconic Christmas movie scenes

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 15, 2022
The presenters, both 51, had been pushed by Heart earlier this month to perform the films out on a green screen in one take and were able to perform out the scenes in front of a green screen in one take and no rehearsals. Amanda Woods (Cameron Diaz) from The Holiday, Cindy Lou Who from How The Grinch Stole Christmas and Bridget Jones' Diary, Amanda Woods (Renée Zellweger) from Bridget Jones' Diary is one of Amanda Woods' Channelled Characters. In the meantime, Jamie appeared in festive films such as Scrooge from A Christmas Carol, The Snowman from the film of the same name, and Buddy's adoptive father Bob Newhart (James Caan) from Elf.
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