George Robert Newhart is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Newhart came to prominence in 1960 when his album of comedic monologues, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, became a bestseller. He later went into acting, starring as Chicago psychologist Robert Hartley in The Newhart Show during the 1970s and then as Vermont innkeeper Dick Loudon on the 1980s series Newhart. In 2004, he played the library head Judson in The Librarian, a character that continued in 2014 on the TV series The Librarians. He provided the voice of Bernard in the Disney animated films The Rescuers and The Rescueers Down Under.
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George Robert Newhart is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Newhart came to prominence in 1960 when his album of comedic monologues, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, became a bestseller. He later went into acting, starring as Chicago psychologist Robert Hartley in The Newhart Show during the 1970s and then as Vermont innkeeper Dick Loudon on the 1980s series Newhart. He also had two short-lived sitcoms in the 1990s, Bob and George and Leo. In 2013, Newhart made his first of six guest appearances on The Big Bang Theory as Professor Proton, for which he received his first Primetime Emmy Award on September 15, 2013. In 2004, he played the library head Judson in The Librarian, a character that continued in 2014 on the TV series The Librarians. He provided the voice of Bernard in the Disney animated films The Rescuers and The Rescueers Down Under. He is of Irish descent and his father was of Irish and German ancestry. One of his grandmothers was from St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He graduated from Loyola University of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in business management in 1952. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War as a personnel manager until being discharged in 1954. He has three sisters: Virginia, Mary Joan, and Pauline. He lives in Chicago with his wife and three children. He and his wife have a son and a daughter, both of whom are active members of the Chicago Cubs baseball team.
They have three grandchildren and one great-grandchild, who lives in New York City. His son has a son who is a professional golfer and a grandson who plays for the New York Mets. His daughter has a daughter who is also a professional soccer player. He had a son with a wife who is active in the Chicago Blackhawks baseball team and a step-son who plays the Chicago Bulls hockey team. He currently lives with his husband and two daughters in Chicago, Illinois, and has three step-daughters. He was married to his third wife, Barbara, for more than 20 years and has one son with his fourth wife, Jennifer, who was born in 1961. In 2008, he had a daughter with his fifth wife, Laura. He now has a stepson, Michael, with whom he has two sons, Michael and Michael Jr., and a son, Michael Jr. with his second wife, Michaela, who has two daughters, Laura and Laura Jr. With his wife, he has one step-daughter, Laura, and one son, David, who is in his third year of college. In 2009, he announced his retirement from acting. In 2010, he began a second career as a stand up comedian. In 2011, he released a second comedy album, which was a success. In 2012, he starred in the film Elf. In 2014, he appeared in the movie Elf, alongside co-stars Robert De Niro and Amy Adams.
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