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The Bob Newhart Show receives TV Land’s prestigious “Icon Award.”
2006
Bob’s book, “I Shouldn’t Even Be Doing This,” debuts, becomes a best seller and best selling celebrity memoir of the year.
A variety of national media appearances for the book, including the Today show
Emmy magazine features a cast reunion of the “Bob Newhart Show”.
American Masters on PBS dedicates an hour program to Bob’s career.
2007
Newhart is nominated for a 2006 Grammy® award for the spoken word version of his book and appears alongside host Conan O’Brien at the 2006 Emmy® awards, becoming a part of TV history as the man who kept the awards show from running past three hours.
The Librarian 2 debuts on TNT.
Bob regales audiences with anecdotes from a life in show biz, when he speaks in Houston at the Barbara Bush-hosted “A Celebration of Reading.”
Museum of TV & Radio (aka Paley Center) celebrates 35th Anniversary of the “Bob Newhart Show” and the entire cast assembles, including a final public appearance by Suzanne Pleshette.
TV Land stages a “Bob Newhart Show” Marathon.
2008
A “Newhart” cast reunion on the TODAY show, hosted by NBC’s Peter Alexander.
First season of “Newhart” released on DVD.
The veteran television star was featured in a TNT original adventure drama, “The Librarian, Return to King Solomon’s Mines.”
2009
Featured in READERS DIGEST, “How To Be Funnier.”
Nominated for an EMMY.
In April, the NAB, the National Association of Broadcasters, presented the veteran entertainer with its “Hall of Fame” Award at a gala in Las Vegas, the site of some of Newhart’s biggest stand up triumphs, performed alongside friends such as Frank Sinatra.
2010
American CINEMTHEQUE pays tribute, in Los Angeles, features Bob’s starring role in Norman Lear-directed “Cold Turkey”.
GRAMMY MUSEUM tribute top Bob.
Los Angeles Times full page profile.
TV Academy Tribute, “Bob Newhart, 50 Years in Show Business”.
CBS Evening News profiles 20th anniversary of legendary “Newhart” show finale; full page story in Entertainment Weekly magazine.
Paley Center 50th Anniversary” Tribute to Bob’s career.
Emmy®-nominated as “Best Supporting Actor in a Movie or Mini-Series” for his turn in TNT’s “The Librarian.”
2011
Guest stars on CBS’ NCIS opposite Mark Harmon.
Headlines a homecoming concert at the famed CHICAGO THEATRE.
Induction into the Illinois Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
2012
12-hour “Bob Newhart Show” marathon on the Hallmark Channel.
Dedicates the Newhart Family Theatre at Loyola Chicago.
Featured on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” show.
Special Section, VARIETY, saluting Bob’s career.
2013
Bob debuts in a recurring role on the “Big Bang Theory”.
Bob wins his first ever EMMY Award for guest role on ”Big Bang Theory”.
2014
Lester Holt interviews Bob for NBC News.
Bob and Betty White are featured in PEOPLE Magazine’s 40th anniversary edition.
Bob is a featured guest on the “Craig Ferguson Show”.
Featured in PBS’ on-going series “Pioneers of Television”.
2015
Bob receives a “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Publicists Guild of America, alongside Motion Picture Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs.
“The Bob Newhart Show: The Complete Series” released in May in a 19-disc DVD set by the Shout Factory!
Bob Newhart
U.S.
In 2003, Bob Newhart had a guest-star role on three episodes of ER, as an architect who is going blind due to macular degeneration, and commits suicide.
Appears in Elf with Will Ferrell. Newhart, however, needed stronger supporting characters than this series provided. Records, and he is immediately signed to a contract.
Releases his first comedy album, The Button-Down Mind.
The show had excellent writing and a strong supporting cast, and again Newhart’s deadpan, ironic presence was at the center of a universe of eccentric, in some cases truly weird, people. It was exceptionally well written and had well-drawn supporting characters played by talented actors. This calm, controlled style also allowed him to take on some risky subjects (death, for instance) without offending his audience.
Starting from 1970, Bob Newhart began appearing in films, starring in movies such as Vincente Minnelli's "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever," Walter Bernstein's "Little Miss Marker," and Buck Henry's "First Family." He worked alongside acclaimed actors such as Barbara Streisand, Walter Matthau, and Gilda Radner.
In 1982, Newhart returned to CBS with the show "Newhart," which, similar to his previous series, achieved immense success.
In 1992 he starred in Bob, playing cartoonist Bob McKay. The show had a brief run, was revamped, and had another brief run. Bob Hartley had to be understanding of all his patients, no matter how difficult they were; Dick Loudon had to be nice to all his guests, despite any pains they caused him. Served in U.S.
Army, 1952–54.
2005
Makes guest appearances on the popular ABC series Desperate Housewives. Newhart himself was twice nominated for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, for Newhart, but lost both years to Michael J. Fox in Family Ties.)
Throughout the 1960s, Newhart performed with great success in nightclubs and on records, and with less success in films, but he remained familiar to television audiences through frequent guest appearances on The Tonight Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, and other variety programs.
Additionally, Bob Newhart starred in the two-hour autobiographical film "A&E Biography."
Recent Work
In 1995, Newhart released his first personal video recording of classic sketches from his "phone" routines. (Newhart’s subsequent hit series were occasionally nominated for Emmys, but they never won. His appearance went over so well that NBC gave him his first TV series, a comedy/variety program called, like his 1970s sitcom, The Bob Newhart Show.
In the late 1950s, following college, army service, and a few short-term jobs, he appeared to have settled into an accounting career, but his hobby was performing comedy routines on radio. The program also incorporated some of Newhart’s most successful stand-up gimmicks, such as his one-sided telephone conversations.
It is one of the few dramatic roles Newhart has played in his career.
In 1997 he was teamed with a formidable costar, Judd Hirsh (Taxi), in a sitcom titled George and Leo. Newhart played George, a staid, mild-mannered bookstore owner on Martha’s Vineyard whose life is thrown into chaos when Leo, the father of his son’s fiancée and a petty crook from Las Vegas, moves in with him.