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Legendary actor and comedian Bob Newhart was born on this day in history<\/a>, Sept. 5, 1929.<\/p>\n

George Robert Newhart in Oak Park, Illinois<\/a>, born into a middle-class family, did not pursue fame until later in life, said his website.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He studied accounting at Loyola University in Chicago, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 1952, said Encyclopedia Britannica.<\/p>\n

He then served in the U.S. Army for two years. He later attended Loyola University Chicago School of Law, but did not graduate \u2014 he quit a required internship because an employer demanded “unethical” behavior from him, according to IMDB.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Newhart worked an office job<\/a> and acted on the side, said Encyclopedia Britannica.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was the office job that actually led to his break into stardom. Bored at work, Newhart began creating improvised characters on the phone with a friend, Ed Gallagher. The two of them then developed comedy routines<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It was suggested that they record and syndicate them. They did and were imminently unsuccessful,” said Newhart’s website.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Ed, an advertising executive, was offered a job in New York and accepted it, leaving Bob with the difficult job of going it alone.”<\/p>\n

Through a friend who worked as a disc jockey, Newhart was introduced to the head of Warner Brothers Records.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Newhart eventually signed with Warner Brothers.<\/p>\n

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“Bob Newhart was nearly 30 years old and working as an accountant in Chicago when he struck comic gold with his first comedy album,” said his website.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That first album, titled “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart,” was released in 1960.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To say it was a smash hit would be an understatement: It was the first comedy album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard album chart.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the 1961 Grammy Awards<\/a>, it won Best Album of the Year, while Newhart won Best New Artist.<\/p>\n

A follow-up album, “The Button Down Mind Strikes Back,” won Best Comedy Performance \u2014 Spoken Word.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Newhart is the only comedian to win Best New Artist, and “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart” is the only comedy album to win Album of the Year, said the Grammy Awards website.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Having experienced success in recording, Newhart then pivoted to television and film.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“His early TV effort, the \u2018Bob Newhart Variety Show,\u2019 earned an Emmy and a Peabody Award and was quickly followed by the television success of \u2018The Bob Newhart Show\u2019 (1972\u20131978) and ‘Newhart’ (1982\u20131990),” said his website.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Newhart continued acting in various films<\/a> and television shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2013, Newhart won an Emmy for his role as “Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series” for playing Professor Proton on season six of the show “The Big Bang Theory.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

This was his first personal Emmy Award win<\/a> after seven nominations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Newhart received a standing ovation after he was announced as the winner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In his speech, Newhart joked he was going to need “a little more time” than others, as this was his “seventh shot at this.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Wiping back tears, he thanked his wife, Ginnie, and his four children. “I just love this, thank you very much,” said Newhart.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Newhart and Ginnie were married from 1963 until her death in April 2023, said The Hollywood Reporter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among Newhart’s many movie roles are the animated film “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie” (1998), the comedy “Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde” (2003), and the Christmas film “Elf” (2003).\u00a0<\/p>\n

In his 2006 personal memoir<\/a>, “I Shouldn’t Even Be Doing This! And Other Things That Strike Me as Funny,” Newhart’s famous deadpan comedy delivery is on full display throughout the pages.<\/p>\n

Early on in the book, Newhart related how he came up with the title of his book \u2014 which wasn’t easy for him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And then there was the writing.<\/p>\n

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“The biggest problem of all was when I was halfway finished [writing] the book. I began to get nervous because deep in the process of writing a book about myself, I didn’t have one of the primary ingredients,” he related.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I wasn’t feeling cathartic,” he went on. “I’ve read enough of these kinds of books and seen enough authors promote them on talk shows to know that they are always cathartic.”<\/p>\n

“So I sent the book to a specialist in recognizing catharsis and asked him if what he read could be considered cathartic.<\/p>\n

“‘No, it’s self-pity,’ he said. \u2018But I like the title.\u2019”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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