Bob NewhartAmerican television personality, He died this Thursday at the age of 94 at his home in Los Angeles, according to his publicist. Winner of an Emmy Award – in addition to receiving 9 nominations – he was the star of the shows The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart.
Born on September 5, 1929 in a Chicago suburb, Newhart first made his foray into television with the current affairs comedy series, The Bob Newhart Show which lasted only one season in 1961. But he would return to the medium to once again rise to prominence a decade later.
His long-time publicist, Jerry Digneyconfirmed that Newhart died after a short illnessaged 94. He was married to Ginnie Newhart, who passed away last year.
Newhart first came to prominence in 1960 with a pair of number-one comedy albums, despite having never previously performed stand-up comedy. The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart It spent 14 weeks atop the Billboard 200 and remained on that chart for over two years. The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! came about 10 months later and also reached number one. The former won Grammy Awards for Album of the year, Comedy Album of the Year and Best New Artist and included a monologue with Newhart as Abe Lincoln.
His most recent roles
In this century, he had notable appearances in several renowned television shows and films, as he appeared in two sequels. of The Librarian and Horrible Bossesas well as doing arcs on the popular series ER and Desperate Housewives and was invited in The Librarians, NCIS, Hot in Cleveland and other shows.
The most recent, and probably the most recognized role by the current generation, was his performance in the sitcom The Big Bang Theorywhere he played Arthur Jeffriesalso know as Professor Protonthe star of an old children’s science show who is hired to entertain Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Leonard (Johnny Galecki). An instant fan favorite, Newhart appeared in six episodes over five seasons and won her only Emmy in 2013He was also nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series two other times, in 2014 and 2018.
Newhart, friend of Johnny Carson For several years, he was the host of the program The Tonight Show almost 90 times. He appeared in a special of American Masters in 2005 on PBS and the following year it was published Button Down Concerta home video based on their classic routines.
A life dedicated to acting
The comedy The Bob Newhart Show debuted in September 1972. It performed well from the start, finishing in the Top 20 of three networks’ year-end primetime shows in each of its first three seasons, and It was finally extended until 1978. Newhart played Bob Hartley, a successful Chicago psychologist whose deadpan delivery propelled the series.
Newhart received an Emmy nomination for her writing during the show’s first season (it was ranked No. 41 on the WGA’s 2013 list of the 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time) and the series won the Outstanding Achievement Award for a Program in the Field of Humor.
The star would return to television in 1982 with another sitcom, Newhart . This time he played Dick Loudon, a “how-to” book author who took over a long-closed colonial inn in Vermont. The series finished its first season at #12 in prime time and remained in the top 30 for several years. Newhart earned three consecutive Emmy nominations for lead actor in a comedy between 1985 and 1987. He was nominated for 25 Emmy Awards during its eight seasons and 184 episodes, but never won a single statuette.
The end of the series Newhart in May 1990 He is considered one of the best on television. After eight highly-rated seasons, the episode directed by Dick Martin “The Last Newhart” showed how the Vermont town where the series was set was bought by Japanese businessmen who wanted to build a luxury resort. The set was dark at the end, and suddenly Newhart’s character, Bob Hartley, from the 1970s sitcom, wakes up in his Chicago apartment with Pleshette, his wife from that show, by his side. By announcing that he had the strangest dream, Newhart turns the entire show upside down. from Newhart In a wonderful TV trope, Pleshette’s Emily tells him to go back to bed, warning him, “No more Japanese food before bed.”
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Two seasons later, in September 1992, Newhart returned to CBS in a new sitcom, simply titled Bob. This time, he played a temperamental and often bitter comic book writer, a far cry from the lovable, mild-mannered characters that had captivated viewers for two decades. The show did not take off, airing its final episode in late 1993.
Newhart made guest appearances on television comedies such as Murphy Brown and The Simpson and lent his voice to a role in the 1990 animated film The Rescuers Down Under. She returned to the CBS sitcom in 1997, starring alongside Judd Hirsch George & Leo. Newhart played a Martha’s Vineyard bookstore owner whose quiet life is shaken by the arrival of Leo, a small-time Las Vegas thug whose estranged daughter is set to marry George’s son. It lasted only one season with low ratings.
Newhart had big screen roles in Kevin Kline’s 1997 comedy In & Out and the 2003 sequel starring Reese Witherspoon, but his best-known film was Elf also in 2003. He played Papa Elf, the adoptive father of Buddy Hobbs (Will Ferrell), a super-sized human whose elf upbringing leads him on countless adventures when he discovers that he is, in fact, not an elf and that his father (James Caan) is in New York City.
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