Bob Newhart

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1929-09-05

Deathday 2024-07-18 (94 years old)

Place of Birth Oak Park, Illinois, USA

Bob Newhart

Biography

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.

Known For

Actor

2024
Bob Newhart: A Legacy of Laughter

as Himself (Archive Footage)

2023
Once Upon a Studio

as Bernard (voice) (archive footage)

2020
The Holiday Movies That Made Us

as Self (archive footage)

2017
Young Sheldon

as Professor Proton

2014
The Librarians

as Judson

2012
2011
Five

as Dr. Roth

2011
Horrible Bosses

as Lou Sherman

2010
Conan

as Self

2010
Hot in Cleveland

as Bob Sr.

2007
2007
The Big Bang Theory

as Arthur Jeffries

2005
Committed

as Blinky

2004
Desperate Housewives

as Morty Flickman

2003
Elf

as Papa Elf

2003
NCIS

as Dr. Walter Magnus

2001
The Sports Pages

as Doc Waddems

1997
In & Out

as Tom Halliwell

1997
George & Leo

as George Stoody

1997
The View

as Self

1996
1995
MADtv

as Self - Special Guest

1994
ER

as Ben Hollander

1993
1992
Bob

as Bob McKay

1991
The Entertainers

as Todd Wilson

1990
The Rescuers Down Under

as Bernard (voice)

1989
The Simpsons

as Bob Newhart (voice)

1988
Murphy Brown

as Dr. Bob Hartley

1982
Newhart

as Robert Hartley

1982
Newhart

as Dick Loudon

1980
First Family

as President Manfred Link

1980
1980
Marathon

as Walter Burton

1977
The Rescuers

as Bernard (voice)

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

1974
Thursday's Game

as Marvin Ellison

1974
Dinah!

as Self

1972
The Bob Newhart Show

as Robert Hartley

1972
The Don Rickles Show

as Brother-in-law

1971
Decisions! Decisions!

as John Hobson

1971
Cold Turkey

as Merwin Wren

1970
Catch-22

as Maj. Major Major

1968
Hot Millions

as Willard C. Gnatpole

1968
The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

1967
Captain Nice

as Lloyd Larchmont

1964
The Hollywood Palace

as Self - Comedian

1962
Hell Is for Heroes

as James E. Driscoll

1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Gerald Swinney

1960
Insight

as Marvin

1960
Insight

as God

1950
1950
What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

1949
1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Writer