Bob newhart cause of death
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September 5, 1929
George Robert Newhart, known as Bob, is born in Oak Park, Illinois to George David Newhart and Julia Pauline Burns. He is one of four children.
1952
Graduates from Loyola University in Chicago with a business degree in management.
Drafted into the U.S. Army and serves during the Korean War until 1954.
1955
Gets a job as an accountant at the United States Gypsum Company.
1958
Becomes a copywriter at Fred Niles Films Company.
Begins recording comedy routines with Ed Gallagher. The two friends muse themselves by making long, antic phone calls to each other, which they record as audition tapes for comedy jobs.
1959
A Chicago disc jockey introduces Newhart to the head of talent at Warner Bros. Records, and he is immediately signed to a contract.
Releases his first comedy album, The Button-Down Mind. Becomes the first comedy album to reach the top of the album charts, and earns Newhart three Grammy Awards (album of the year, best new artist, best comedy performance: spoken word).
Invited to perform on t
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Bob Newhart was born George Robert Newhart in Oak Park, Illinois to George David Newhart and Julia Pauline Burns, both of whom were devout Catholics. A sister, M. Joan Newhart, is a Roman Catholic nun. Newhart is of Irish and German descent.
Newhart attended St. Ignatius College Prep and graduated in 1952 from Loyola University, Chicago with a business degree. He was drafted in the U.S. Army, and served stateside during the Korean War until discharged in 1954.
After the war he got a job as an accountant for United States Gypsum. He later claimed that his motto, "That's close enough", shows he didn't have the temperament to be an accountant. He also claimed to have been a clerk in the unemployment office who made $60 a week but who quit upon learning weekly unemployment benefits were $55 a week and "they only had to come in to the office one day a week to collect it". In 1958 he became an advertising copywriter for Fred A. Niles, a major independent film and television producer in Chicago. It was at the company that he and a coworker would entertain
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Bob Newhart
George Robert Newhart (September 5, 1929 – July 18, 2024) was an American actor and stand up comedian. He performed on many televisionsitcoms. One of them was his self-titled sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and other one Newhart. He also appeared in the Christmas comedy movie Elf.
In 2011, Newhart made a cameo in the movie Horrible Bosses, and in 2013 he guest starred in an episode of The Big Bang Theory, for which he won his very first acting Emmy Award on September 15, 2013.[1]
Newhart was born in Oak Park, Illinois on September 5, 1929. He was raised in Chicago, Illinois. Newhart studied at Loyola University at Chicago. He served in the United States Army before his acting career began. Newhart married Virginia "Ginnie" Quinn in 1963. She died in 2023.[2] They had four children.
Newhart died on July 18, 2024 at his home in Los Angeles, California at the age of 94.[3]
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