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September 5, 1929
George Robert Newhart, known as Bob, is born in Oak Park, Illinois to George David Newhart and Julia Pauline Burns. He is one of four children.
1952
Graduates from Loyola University in Chicago with a business degree in management.
Drafted into the U.S. Army and serves during the Korean War until 1954.
1955
Gets a job as an accountant at the United States Gypsum Company.
1958
Becomes a copywriter at Fred Niles Films Company.
Begins recording comedy routines with Ed Gallagher. The two friends muse themselves by making long, antic phone calls to each other, which they record as audition tapes for comedy jobs.
1959
A Chicago disc jockey introduces Newhart to the head of talent at Warner Bros. Records, and he is immediately signed to a contract.
Releases his first comedy album, The Button-Down Mind. Becomes the first comedy album to reach the top of the album charts, and earns Newhart three Grammy Awards (album of the year, best new artist, best comedy performance: spoken word).
Invited to perform on the Emmy Awards telecast.
1961
Moves to Los Angeles.
Stars in his own variety show. The Bob Newhart Show is critically acclaimed and wins an Emmy as the best comedy series of 1961-62, but is canceled after one season due to low ratings.
1962
Releases The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back.
Appears in Hell Is For Heroes with Steve McQueen.
Receives an Emmy and a George Foster Peabody Award for The Bob Newhart Show.
1963
Marries Virginia Quinn. They have four children, Robert, Timothy, Jennifer and Courtney.
1964
Releases Bob Newhart Faces Bob Newhart.
Appears on the TV show The Entertainers with Carol Burnett and Caterina Valente.
1965
Releases Windmills are Weakening.
1967
Releases This Is It.
1968
Appears in Hot Millions with Peter Ustinov.
1970
Appears in On a Clear Day with Barbra Streisand, and Catch 22 with Alan Arkin.
1971
Releases The Best of Bob Newhart.
Appears in Cold Turkey with Dick Van Dyke.
1972
Wins critical and popular acclaim as Chicago psychologist Dr. Bob Hartley in The Bob Newhart Show.
1973
Releases Very Funny Bob Newhart.
1975
Receives the Sword of Loyola Award.
1977
Is the voice of “Bernard the Mouse” in the cartoon movie The Rescuers.
1978
Voluntarily ends The Bob Newhart Show after six successful seasons.
1982
Returns with a new TV series, Newhart, in which he plays Dick Loudon, a New York writer of “how-to” books who decides to open an inn in Vermont.
1988
Appears in First Family with Gilda Radner.
1990
Appears in The Rescuers Down Under.
Voluntarily ends Newhart.
1991
Appears in made-for-TV movie The Entertainers.
1992
Stars in the sitcom Bob, playing cartoonist Bob McKay. The show has a brief run, is revamped, but ends in 1993.
1993
Inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame.
1997
Appears in the Kevin Kline comedy In and Out.
Co-stars in George and Leo, which goes off the air in 1998.
1998
Is the voice of “Polar Bear” in the cartoon movie, Rudolph.
1999
Receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2001
Releases Something Like This.
2002
Wins the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
2003
Appears in Legally Blond 2: Red, White and Blue with Reese Witherspoon.
Appears in Elf with Will Ferrell.
2004
TV Land unveils a statue of Newhart on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago, depicting Dr. Robert Hartley sitting in an armchair next to an empty couch.
Receives an Emmy nomination for dramatic acting turn on the NBC drama, ER.
2005
Makes guest appearances on the popular ABC series Desperate Housewives.
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!
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