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George Robert Newhart was born on the 5^th September 1929, in Oak Park, Illinois USA, and is of German, Irish and English descent. As Bob Newhart, he is known as an actor and stand-up comedian, whose career began in the early 60s with the release of his comedy album “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart”, which topped the Billboard charts, propelling Bob into the entertainment industry. From that point on, Bob expanded his career and started acting, featuring in several TV shows of his own, such as “The Bob Newhart Show”, “Newhart” and later “George and Leo”.

Have you ever wondered how rich Bob Newhart is? According to sources, it is estimated that Bob Newhart`s overall net worth is $65 million, an amount acquired through his career in the entertainment industry, now spanning almost 60 years, during which he has earned numerous prestigious awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, for his role as Professor Proton in the TV series “The Big Bang Theory” in 2013, and in 2015 Newhart received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to the entertainment industry, and many others.

Newhart is the only male child in a family of four siblings. Regarding his education, Bob attended St. Ignatus College prep school, and the enrolled in Loyola University graduating with his bachelors degree in business management in 1952. Before his career in the entertainment industry began, Newhart spent two years in the USA military, working as a personal manager in the midst of the Korean War, until he was eventually discharged.

Bob spent a short time as an accountant, to which he says he wasn’t suited at all, before in 1958, Bob began recording comedy monologues and sending those recordings to numerous radio stations. He was noticed by a disc jockey, Dan Sorkin, who immediately set up a meeting with Bob and the head of talents at the Warner Bros. Records, which resulted in the release of Bob`s debut comedy album, for which he earned three Grammy Awards, Best Album of the Year, Best New Artist and Best Comedy Performance Award. Bob went on to record several more comedy albums, increasing his net worth to a large degree. Some of the most notable recordings include “The Windmills Are Weakening” (1966), “Bob Newhart Faces Bob Newhart” (1964), “Very Funny Bob Newhart” (1973), among others.

Following the success of his first few album releases, Bob transferred to acting, creating his own TV show “The Bob Newhart Show” for which he was rewarded with a Peabody Award. Other than his own shows, Bob has also been featured as a guest star in numerous TV shows that benefited his net worth, including “ER”, “Desperate Housewives”, and “The Librarians”. Newhart has also appeared on big screens in films such as “Hell is for Heroes”(1962), “Horrible Bosses” (2011), “Elf” (2003), “Little Miss Marker” (1980) and others.

Overall, his career is rather successful, as he has appeared in more than 40 film and TV productions, earning numerous prestigious honors and recognitions. Newhart was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame in 1993, and furthermore, Bob received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999 and in 2002 won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

Regarding his personal life, Bob has been married to Virginia Quinn since 1963, with whom he has four children. The couple live in California. Bob is a Roman Catholic, and is a member of the Good Shepherd Parish and the Catholic Motion Picture Guild.

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Bob Newhart Quick Info

Bob Newhart Trademarks

1. Downplaying his performances
2. Calm, reasonable voice.
3. One-sided conversations
4. Telephone monologues as part of his act
5. Stammering delivery while he talks

Bob Newhart Quotes

• [When asked to star in The Bob Newhart Show (1972)]: My manager, I was surprised was one of the founders of MTM Enterprises, by Mary Tyler Moore and Grant Tinker, and Mary’s show was such a big hit. He came to me and said, ‘Would you like to do a sitcom?’ I was traveling on the road a lot, so, the sitcom I could stay home, and said, yeah!
• I am also huddling with creative advisers and studying the possibility of calling it The.
• The fact they’re not there anymore is not a reflection on the actors. It’s just that viewers didn’t like it. You went, ‘What the hell was that?’
• [In 1989]: My theory is, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I tried to capitalized on the values that made the show work. I have to be nice to my guests at the hotel, as I had to do with my patients, even when they’re bugging me. And the home-life part seemed to work. I don’t want ever to ride the show into the ground. It has been good to me.
• [In 1988]: I check to see what jokes we left out and what works and what doesn’t.
• [on his popularity while playing the fifty-something Dick Loudin on Newhart]: Our series was the perfect example of how much fun episodic television can be. We’ve had a wonderful cast, great writers and the spirit of family which made coming to work a pleasure.
• [When he came this close to quitting Newhart (1982), after 4 seasons]: I thought I was finished. Even dramatic shows were exemplified by kid stuff like ‘Wonder Woman’. I thought to myself that with this kind of junk aimed at the 12-year-old audience, how could there be a place for me?
• [In 1986]: Look at what we have now. We’ve got Bill Cosby and ‘Moonlighting,’ and who knows, maybe ‘Newhart’ helped start it all.
• [In 1983]: Am I shy? Yeah, I guess you could say that. I see myself in my son, Timmy, who is 15. Rob, my older boy, is 19, and he is normal, outgoing teenager. But Timmy is quiet, the way I was growing up. I sued to be able to amuse myself. I’d sit alone and think of things that would make me laugh.
• [As to why The Bob Newhart Show (1972) got canceled]: Because Bob Newhart didn’t want to do it anymore. I said so the previous year, but nobody believed me. I’d had it. I felt burned out. It was more mental than anything. I kept saying, ‘Didn’t we do the same show in the second season?’
• [Of all the ingredients of Newhart (1982)]: It started coming together last year when I was performing at an old, refurbished vaudeville theater in Seattle and staying at a small hotel of the same era nearby. I’d sit in the lobby for several days watching people walk in and out; salesmen, newlyweds, Shriners, etc., plus the people who lived and worked there permanently fascinated me. When I got back to L.A., I discussed it with my manager, Artie Price – who also heads MTM – and he put me in touch with Barry Kemp, who had done great writing on ‘Taxi’. He came back a few weeks later and asked what I thought of setting the show at a historic inn in Vermont, then put it down on paper. The words jumped off the page and I couldn’t wait to shoot it.
• [on turning 60 in 1989]: I don’t worry about it. I still feel 30, except when I try to run. But it goes by so damn fast. We lost a very dear friend recently. And all I can say about life is, ‘Oh, God, enjoy it.’
• [on playing another character that was not Dr. Bob Hartley]: I think you’re lucky when you realize what you are. Spencer Tracy always played Spencer Tracy. I’m not putting myself into that category, but, to the same extent, the part of me that was Bob Hartley is in my new character, Dick Loudin. If you make fine bone china and you’re recognized as the best in the world, you don’t suddenly announce you’re going to make automobiles. We see it so much in this business. We’re so self-destructive. If you really do something well, you should stick to it.
• [In 1982]: But I wanted to do something different. Sometimes you have to get away from something to appreciate it. It’s like getting out of the Army. It’s all laughs now but when I was in the Army, I was never so glad to get away from something. They had the wrong serial number on my discharge papers. I was afraid to tell them, afraid they’d hold me up.
• [In 1980]: You must realize that I’m supposed to run a marathon in this picture. That’s more than 26 miles.
• [When asked about the death of his former co-star and best friend, Suzanne Pleshette, in 2008]: Her laugh. Her laugh. We just left, we just had a great time. We all loved each other and respected each other and we got paid for it.
• [In 1975]: I remember once when I emceed ‘The Tonight Show’ in New York, I arrived with my manager’s son. After a while, they asked, ‘When are the rest of your people coming?’ I had to say, ‘This is it.’
• [In 1974]: There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I’ll cry.
• [on his popularity while playing the forty-something Dr. Robert Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show]: I really don’t know what makes a comedian. I think it’s a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.
• You may not think I’m a sex symbol, but I became a father at the age of 48. Now young people think of me as a mini-folk hero because it’s difficult for them to believe a man of my age is sexually active.
• [on the cancellation of Newhart (1982)]: I don’t have a show anymore. I don’t have a check coming in every week. This is important to me, I got to score a million tonight or it could all be over.
• [on the cancellation of The Bob Newhart Show (1972)]: I could see what was coming in situation comedy and I didn’t want to be a part of it. If we’d gone another year, they’d have had a guy and two girls living in the apartment above us, a Martian living on the same floor next door to three girl detectives. The floor below us would have been occupied by a fraternity and a sorority.
• It worked for Jack Benny. He certainly had the secret for career longevity: surround yourself with funny people. I guess I’ll just never learn to live like a star. Jack Lord was born that way; I just can’t get the hang of it.
• [In 1979]: Television series are like the stock market. There’s room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs. If we’d tried to milk another year out of the series, we’d have wound up with a pig.
• [In 1976]: As far as gambling, just ask any of the dealers in the Las Vegas casinos and they’ll tell you that woman can’t play blackjack. They can’t add up the cards fast enough.
• [Referring to his 1961 variety show]: It won an Emmy, a Peabody Award and a pink slip from NBC. All in the same year.
• [In 1973]: I’ve been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I’m just another slightly amusing accountant.
• [In 1972]: The reason I’m a psychologist is based in part on my telephone routines. Much of my humor comes out of reaction to what other people are saying. A psychologist is a man who listens, who is sympathetic.
• [Who made his reputation and fortune as a monologist]: I like the humor to come out of character. When you’re going for a joke, you’re stuck out there if it doesn’t work. There’s nowhere to go. You’ve done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you’re out on the end of the plank.
• [on quitting The Bob Newhart Show (1972) at the end of the fifth season, before CBS wouldn’t allow him to do that]: This is no ploy, no device for negotiation. I am absolutely sincere about leaving the series at the end of production this year and CBS has been notified.
• Women are more emotional. They do get flustered. Which is not to say that men are better than they. It’s simply the way it is.
• Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart Important Facts

• Especially when he didn’t want to play the father role on Newhart (1982), he indeed played the “surrogate father” role on television.
• Received his first Emmy nomination in 1962. He did not win until 2014, 52 years later, for playing Arthur “Professor Proton” Jeffries in The Big Bang Theory (2007) episode The Big Bang Theory: The Proton Displacement (2013).
• Made several appearances as Professor Proton in Big Bang Theory season 7.
• Acting mentor and friends of Julia Duffy and Peter Scolari.
• As he (born 1929) got older, his sitcom wives got successively younger. In The Bob Newhart Show (1972), Suzanne Pleshette (born 1937) was eight years younger. In Newhart, Mary Frann (born 1943) was fourteen years younger. And in Bob (1992), Carlene Watkins (born 1952) was twenty-three years younger.
• Attended the funeral of Bill Bixby in 1993.
• Was a fan of both shows: I Love Lucy (1951) and The Milton Berle Show (1966).
• Is a big boxing fan.
• Friends with: Tom Poston, Suzanne Pleshette, Mary Frann, Marcia Wallace, Peter Bonerz, Julie London, Buck Henry, Bill Daily, Bill Bixby, Jane Curtin, Don Rickles, Olympia Dukakis, Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, José Ferrer, Jack Riley, Bernard Fox, Richard Benjamin, Tim Conway, Dick Martin, John Fiedler, Eva Gabor and Tony Randall.
• Best known by the public for his starring roles as Dr. Robert ‘Bob’ Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show (1972) and as Dick Loudin on Newhart (1982).
• He attended the Sixth Army in San Francisco, California, after spending 22 winters in Chicago.
• Best friend of Suzanne Pleshette from 1971-2008.
• His former The Bob Newhart Show (1972) and Newhart (1982), co-stars, Marcia Wallace, Bill Daily, Tom Poston, William Sanderson, Julia Duffy and Peter Scolari, had all guest-starred on the same episode of George & Leo (1997) in 1997.
• As a little boy, he always wanted to be called Bob, hence, he dropped his first two names George Robert to rechristen the name of Bob Newhart.
• Uncle of Paul Brittain.
• Began his contract career as a comedian for Warner Bros. Records in 1959.
• Before he was a successful comedian, he became an advertising copywriter for Fred A. Niles, a major independent film and television producer in Chicago.
• Had released 10 comedy albums.
• Was stationed at Camp Roberts in San Luis, Obispo, California, in 1952.
• Lived with his parents until he was in his twenties.
• Before he was a successful comedian, he had a lot of jobs from a pinspotter to an office boy in Downtown Chicago.
• Was hospitalized with a nosebleed, followed by polycythemia, after all that smoking, but soon recovered. [3 September 1985].
• Was a heavy smoker for years, until he was ordered by doctors to stop in 1985.
• Before he was a successful comedian, he used to work as a delivery boy for a meat market.
• Is the best and closest friend of the late Suzanne Pleshette, and spoke at her funeral, alongside another ex-The Bob Newhart Show (1972) co-star and best friend, Marcia Wallace, on 24 January 2008. Both Pleshette and Wallace co-starred in The Bob Newhart Show (1972) with him.
• An only son.
• Graduated from Loyola University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management.
• Drafted in the U.S. Army and served stateside during Korean War until he was honorably discharged in 1954.
• His parents were Julia Pauline Burns, who was a housewife, and George David Newhart, who was part-owner of a plumbing and heating-supply business.
• His idols when he was young were Robert Benchley, Jack Benny and Fred Allen.
• Graduated from St. Ignatius College Preparatory School in Chicago, Illinois, in 1947.
• The oldest of four children.
• Good friend of Don Rickles.
• His paternal grandfather was of German, and some English, ancestry. Bob’s three other grandparents were all of Irish origin (including his paternal grandmother, who was born in Canada).
• Was considered for the role of Andy Stone in Casino (1995).
• Every television series he starred in has his name in the title: The Bob Newhart Show (1961), The Bob Newhart Show (1972), Newhart (1982), Bob (1992), and George & Leo (1997) (George is his real first name, Robert is his middle name).
• Nominated for a 2007 Grammy Award in the best spoken word album category for his album I Shouldn’t Even Be Doing This!.
• He was awarded a Kennedy Centre Mark Twain Prize for comedy.
• Like Bill Cosby, Newhart has the ability to be funny without resorting to profanity. The closest Newhart comes is in his bit “The Driving Instructor,” in which he comments, “…I don’t suppose it is so damn funny”.
• Son-in-law of actor Bill Quinn.
• Appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show” (a.k.a. The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)) 8 times.
• Appeared on The Dean Martin Show (1965) 24 times.
• Guest hosted The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) 87 times.
• His wife, Ginny Newhart, came up with the idea for Newhart: The Last Newhart (1990) (the last episode of Newhart (1982)), in which the entire 1982 series was all a dream of “Dr. Bob Hartley” of The Bob Newhart Show (1972).
• He has a sister (Sister M. Joan Newhart) who is a nun.
• Father of Robert William Newhart, Courtney Newhart, Timothy Newhart and Jennifer Newhart.
• His 1960 comedy album The Buttoned-Down Mind of Bob Newhart went to #1 on the charts, beating out Elvis Presley and The Sound of Music original Broadway cast album. The album won three Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for 1960.
• Prior to hitting his success on the comedy circuits in the 1960s, Bob worked as an accountant for a Chicago firm. He hated every minute of it.
• Newhart insisted that there never be any children for his character to be the father of in each of his television series. “I told the creators I didn’t want any children, because I didn’t want it to be a show about ‘How stupid Daddy is, but we love him so much, let’s get him out of the trouble he’s gotten himself into.'” In the sixth year of Newhart’s CBS series, The Bob Newhart Show (1972), the writers wrote a script in which Emily Hartley was pregnant. When Newhart was asked his opinion of the script, he said, “It’s very funny. Who are you going to get to play Bob?”.

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