Bob Newhart, the American comedian and actor, dies.
Known for his roles in the Christmas movie Elf and the American comedy The Big Bang Theory, Newhart also had his own show, The Bob Newhart Show.
Jerry Digney, Newhart’s publicist, said Newhart had died at the age of 94 after “a series of brief illnesses.”
Newhart launched his career as a comedian in the late 1950s.
He gained national fame in the US when his routine was captured on vinyl in 1960 as The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, which won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
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Newhart also won best new artist of 1960 and the sequel The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! won best spoken comedy album.
Over the years, Newhart also appeared in several films, usually in comedic roles.
They included Catch 22, In And Out, Legally Blonde 2 and Elf, as the diminutive father of full-sized adopted son Will Ferrell.
His most recent works included Horrible Bosses and the television series The Librarians, as well as The Big Bang Theory and its spin-off series, Young Sheldon.
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His multiple Emmy-nominated sitcoms included Bob and George & Leo.
“I guess they think I’m not acting. That it’s just Bob being Bob,” he said of his failure to win an Emmy.
Newhart continued to appear on television occasionally after his fourth sitcom ended and vowed in 2003 that he would work as long as he could.
“It has been so long, 43 years of my life; [to quit] It would be like something was missing,” he said.
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