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Bob Newhart, Dean of the Deadpan Delivery, Dies at 94
Bob Newhart is dead. The TV comedy legend was 94.
Bob Newhart, the beloved stand-up performer whose droll, deadpan humor showcased on two critically acclaimed CBS sitcoms vaulted him into the ranks of history’s greatest comedians, died Thursday morning. The Chicago legend, who won Grammy Awards for album of the year and best new artist for his 1960 breakthrough record The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, died at his Los Angeles home after a series of short illnesses, his longtime publicist, Jerry Digney, announced. He was offered a spate of sitcoms but turned them down, returning to nightclubs and sharpening his acting skills with TV guest spots and film work, beginning with Don Siegel’s Hell Is for Heroes(1962), starring Steve McQueen, and then in other movies like Hot Millions(1968), Mike Nichols’ Catch-22(1970) and Norman Lear‘s Cold Turkey(1971).
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