George Robert Newhart (born September 5, 1929) is an American stand-up
comedian and actor noted for his deadpan and slightly stammering
delivery style. Newhart came to prominence in 1960 when his album of
comedic monologues, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, became a
bestseller and reached number one on the Billboard pop album chart; it
remains the 20th-best selling comedy album in history. The follow-up
album, The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!, was also a success, and the
two albums held the Billboard number one and number two spots
simultaneously.Newhart later went into acting, starring as Chicago
psychologist Robert Hartley in The Bob Newhart Show during the 1970s
and then as Vermont innkeeper Dick Loudon on the 1980s series Newhart.
He also had two short-lived sitcoms in the 1990s, Bob and George and
Leo. Newhart had film roles such as Major Major in Catch-22 and Papa
Elf in Elf. He provided the voice of Bernard in the Disney animated
films The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under. In 2004, he played the
library head Judson in The Librarian, a character that continued in
2014 on the TV series The Librarians. In 2013, Newhart made his first
of six guest appearances on The Big Bang Theory as Professor Proton,
for which he received his first Primetime Emmy Award on September 15,
2013.Newhart was born on September 5, 1929 at West Suburban Hospital
in Oak Park, Illinois. His parents were George David Newhart
(1900â€"1985), a part-owner of a plumbing and heating-supply business,
and Julia Pauline (née Burns; 1900â€"1994), a housewife. His mother
was of Irish descent and his father was of Irish and German ancestry.
One of his grandmothers was from St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Newhart has three sisters: Virginia, Mary Joan (a nun who taught at
the all-girls Carmel High School in Mundelein, Illinois and at
Immaculata High School in Chicago), and Pauline.
comedian and actor noted for his deadpan and slightly stammering
delivery style. Newhart came to prominence in 1960 when his album of
comedic monologues, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, became a
bestseller and reached number one on the Billboard pop album chart; it
remains the 20th-best selling comedy album in history. The follow-up
album, The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!, was also a success, and the
two albums held the Billboard number one and number two spots
simultaneously.Newhart later went into acting, starring as Chicago
psychologist Robert Hartley in The Bob Newhart Show during the 1970s
and then as Vermont innkeeper Dick Loudon on the 1980s series Newhart.
He also had two short-lived sitcoms in the 1990s, Bob and George and
Leo. Newhart had film roles such as Major Major in Catch-22 and Papa
Elf in Elf. He provided the voice of Bernard in the Disney animated
films The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under. In 2004, he played the
library head Judson in The Librarian, a character that continued in
2014 on the TV series The Librarians. In 2013, Newhart made his first
of six guest appearances on The Big Bang Theory as Professor Proton,
for which he received his first Primetime Emmy Award on September 15,
2013.Newhart was born on September 5, 1929 at West Suburban Hospital
in Oak Park, Illinois. His parents were George David Newhart
(1900â€"1985), a part-owner of a plumbing and heating-supply business,
and Julia Pauline (née Burns; 1900â€"1994), a housewife. His mother
was of Irish descent and his father was of Irish and German ancestry.
One of his grandmothers was from St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Newhart has three sisters: Virginia, Mary Joan (a nun who taught at
the all-girls Carmel High School in Mundelein, Illinois and at
Immaculata High School in Chicago), and Pauline.
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