Bob Newhart, the Grammy-winning stand-up comic and sitcom star who led 'The Bob Newhart Show' and 'Newhart,' has died at 94.
After winning a Grammy for "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart," he went on to lead "The Bob Newhart Show" and "Newhart."Editor at Large for Entertainment Weekly, host of Outlander Live! on EW Radio, and Mark Harmon enthusiast. Yes, I know the guacamole is extra., one of television's most revered comedic actors of all time, died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles after a series of short illnesses. He was 94.Born in Oak Park, Ill.
He went on to help emcee onNewhart's big break as an actor came in 1972, when he was cast as psychologist Robert "Bob" Hartley on the workplace comedy. For six seasons, Newhart was the perennial straight man next to bonkers clients like the neurotic Elliot Carlin and knitter Lillian Bakerman . His work on the show earned him three Emmy nominations., this time playing a New York writer named Dick who runs a rural Vermont inn with his wife, Joanna .
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