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George Robert "Bob" Newhart (born September 5, 1929) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Noted for his deadpan and slightly stammering delivery, Newhart came to prominence in the 1960s when his album of comedic monologues ''The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart'' was a worldwide bestseller and reached number one on the ''Billboard'' pop album chart—it remains the 20th best-selling comedy album in history.〔Manilla, Ben. "('Button-Down Mind' Changed Modern Comedy )", 2007-10-23.〕 The follow-up album, ''The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!'' was also a massive success, and the two albums held the ''Billboard'' number one and number two spots simultaneously.〔 Newhart later went into acting, starring in two long-running and award-winning situation comedies, first as psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley on the 1970s sitcom ''The Bob Newhart Show'' and then as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the 1980s sitcom ''Newhart''. He also had two short-lived sitcoms in the nineties titled ''Bob'' and ''George and Leo''. Newhart also appeared in film roles such as Major Major in ''Catch-22'' and Papa Elf in ''Elf''. He provided the voice of Bernard in the Walt Disney animated films ''The Rescuers'' and ''The Rescuers Down Under''. In 2004 he played the library head Judson in ''The Librarian'', a character which continued in 2014 to the TV series ''The Librarians''. In 2013, Newhart guest starred in three episodes of ''The Big Bang Theory'', for one of which he won his first Primetime Emmy Award on September 15, 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/16/bob-newhart-finally-gets-his-emmy-award/ )〕 On February 20, 2015, Newhart was honored with the Publicists of the International Cinematographers Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. ==Early life== Newhart was born on September 5, 1929, in Oak Park, Illinois. His parents were Julia Pauline (''née'' Burns; 1900–1993), a housewife, and George David Newhart (1900–1985), a part-owner of a plumbing and heating-supply business. His mother was of Irish descent and his father had Irish, German and English ancestry.〔 One of his grandmothers was from St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Newhart has three sisters, Virginia, Mary Joan (a nun, who taught at the all-girls Carmel High School in Mundelein, Illinois) and Pauline. Newhart was educated at Roman Catholic schools in the Chicago area, including St. Catherine of Siena grammar school in Oak Park, and attended St. Ignatius College Prep (high school), graduating in 1947. He then enrolled at Loyola University of Chicago from which he graduated in 1952 with a bachelor's degree in business management. Newhart was drafted into the United States Army and served in the United States during the Korean War as a personnel manager until being discharged in 1954. Newhart briefly attended Loyola University Chicago School of Law but did not complete a degree, in part, he says, because he was asked to behave unethically during an internship.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bob Newhart」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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