The actor and comedian Bob Newhart has died at the age of 94. He was best known for his roles in Elf and Legally Blonde.
As a child, Bob Newhart used to be a comedian on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Soon after that, he started acting in movies like “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour” and “Catch-22.”
Before he was Papa Elf, he starred in Legally Blonde 2 and voiced Leonard the Polar Bear in the classic holiday animated movie Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
The Hollywood Reporter says Bob died Thursday morning. It has not been said what killed him.
The US Army called up Newhart.
Roman Catholic schools in and around Chicago, such as St. Catherine of Siena Grammar School in Oak Park and St. Ignatius College Prep, where he graduated in 1947, taught Bob Newhart.
He then went to Loyola University Chicago and graduated in 1952 with a bachelor’s degree in business management.
Newhart was drafted into the US Army after high school and worked as a personnel manager during the Korean War until he was released in 1954.
He only went to Loyola University Chicago School of Law for a short time and did not finish his degree. One of the reasons he left was because he was asked to do something unethical during an internship.
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Check out Newhart at different times in his life.
In Oak Park, Illinois, on September 5, 1929, Newhart was born.
Julia Pauline, a housewife with Irish roots, and George David Newhart, who co-owned a plumbing supply business and had both German and Irish roots, had him.
One of Newhart’s grandmothers was from Canada’s St. Catharines.
It was his three sisters who raised him.
Newhart started his TV career with the short-lived NBC variety show The Bob Newhart Show. He became famous as Chicago psychologist Robert Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show.
His next role was as Vermont innkeeper Dick Loudon on Newhart.
In the 1990s, he was in two sitcoms that didn’t last long: Bob and George & Leo.
Some of Newhart’s movie roles are in Catch-22, Cold Turkey, In & Out, and Elf.
In Disney’s animated movies The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under, he also did narration for Bernard.
When Newhart played Professor Proton on The Big Bang Theory from 2013 to 2018, he won his first Primetime Emmy Award.
Bob Newhart became famous when he released the album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart in 1960. It was made up of funny monologues.
As of now, the album is still the 20th best-selling comedy album of all time and went straight to number one on the Billboard pop album chart.
The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!, the album that came after it, was also a hit. At the same time, both albums were at the top of the Billboard chart.