Published video “Flattery will get you everywhere 😁 #bingcrosby #bobhope #vintagetv”.
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Bob Hope
Lester Townes "Bob" Hope was a British-born American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours. He appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, starring in 54, including a series of seven Road to ... musical comedy films with Bing Crosby as his partner. He reached his 100th birt…
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entertainment · American entertainer (1903–2003) · comedian · actor · singer · screenwriter · television actor · boxer · radio personality · film actor · television presenter · stage actor · also Bob Hope, Leslie Townes Hope, Leslie Hope, Lester Hope, Packy East, Hope
Born 29 May 1903 · Died 27 July 2003 · Q94081
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2026· 10 entries
Published video “Bob Hope One Ups Bing Crosby | A Bob Hope Comedy Special (1965)”.
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Published video “Jack Benny's Hidden Camera | Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)”.
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Published video “Bob Hope & Donald O'Connor in Classic Vaudeville Sketch | World of Comedy (1976)”.
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Published video “Johnny Carson Spoofs Johnny 😂 #johnnycarson #bobhope #vintagetv”.
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Published video “Animal Co-Stars from Trigger to Lassie | Bob Hope: The World of Comedy (1976)”.
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Published video “The Stars Spoof the Stars with Bob Hope, Johnny Carson & Burt Reynolds | World of Comedy (1976)”.
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Published video “Dean Martin can dance, too 🎩 #bobhope #deanmartin #classictv”.
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Published video “Troop Q&A with Gossip Columnist | The Bob Hope Buick Show (1959)”.
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Published video “Bob Hope Dances with the Stars | Compilation”.
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2022· 1 entry
Yahoo: Bob Hope’s $29 Million LA Home Has a Par-3 Golf Hole Designed by the Comedian Himself
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “EMI Comedy: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope”.
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2003· 10 entries
Hope died of pneumonia at his home in Toluca Lake, California
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Died 2003-07-27.
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The Washington Post: Bob Hope: A Film Collection at 100
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Released album “Hit the Road With Bing and Bob”.
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Released album “Thanks for the Memory”.
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“Brien in an interview that, when asked at the end of his life where he wished to be buried, he said,”
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Released album “The Golden Age of Comedy”.
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Released album “Best of Bob Hope”.
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“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”
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In honor of the entertainer's 100th birthday
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Live Recordings From Bob Hope”.
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Library of Congress Living Legend (2000).
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Where he hugged Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik
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1999· 1 entry
Released album “Thanks for the Memory: The Best of Bob Hope”.
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded Knight Grand Officer of the Order of St. Gregory the Great (1998).
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Five years before his death, a prepared obituary written by the Associated Press was inadvertently released, resulting in Hope's death being announced on the floor of the U
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1997· 3 entries
Released album “The Andrews Sisters with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope”.
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Congress passed a bill that made him an honorary veteran of the Armed Forces
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Hope made his last TV appearance in a 1997 commercial about the introduction of Big Kmart, directed by Penny Marshall
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1995· 1 entry
And received the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award in 1997
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “Hopes for the Holidays”.
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1992· 3 entries
Hope made a guest appearance as himself on the animated Fox series The Simpsons in the episode "Lisa the Beauty Queen" (season 4, episode 4)
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Released album “Bob Hope & Friends: Thanks for the Memories”.
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Hope was honored with the "Lombardi Award of Excellence" from the Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “The Collection - His Golden Greats”.
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1986· 2 entries
Hope remarked, "I just heard that the Statue of Liberty has AIDS, but she doesn't know if she got it from the mouth of the Hudson or the Staten Island Ferry
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“I just heard that the Statue of Liberty has AIDS, but she doesn”
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1985· 1 entry
Was presented with the Life Achievement Award at the Kennedy Center Honors, and in 1998 he was appointed an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “Bob Hope in Hollywood”.
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1983· 1 entry
Though differing claims have been made as to whether the bridge honors Hope himself, his entire family, or his stonemason father who helped in the bridge's construction
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1981· 1 entry
Hope advocated for gun control
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1980· 1 entry
Became the 64th—and only civilian—recipient of the United States Air Force Order of the Sword which recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the enlisted corps
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1978· 2 entries
Putted against the then-two-year-old Tiger Woods in a television appearance with the actor Jimmy Stewart on The Mike Douglas Show
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Hope was invited to dot the "i" in the Ohio State University Marching Band's "Script Ohio" formation, an honor only given to non-band members on 14 occasions from 1936 through 2016
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1977· 2 entries
The Road to the Fountain of Youth, but filming was postponed when Crosby was injured in a fall, and the production was canceled when he suddenly died of heart failure that October
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He, as well as many other comedians, ridiculed her in their routines, but also expressed his disagreement with Bryant: "We're all entitled to our own sexual habits [and] I believe what these people do behind closed doors
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1972· 1 entry
Did make a few cameo film appearances into the 1980s
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1970· 1 entry
CBS released the Raquel Welch television special Raquel
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1969· 2 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Lyndon B. Johnson (1969).
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For his service to the armed forces through the USO
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1968· 2 entries
And voiced his contempt by mocking the show's delay because of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
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The first entertainer to receive the award
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1966).
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1965· 1 entry
Was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (L
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1961· 1 entry
Won Golden Plate Award (1961).
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1960· 5 entries
Awarded Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1960).
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Hope became a part owner of the Riverside International Raceway in Moreno Valley, California, along with Los Angeles Rams co-owner Fred Levy Jr
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Made history in 1995 when Hope teed up for the opening round in a foursome that included presidents Gerald Ford, George H
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Released album “Not So Long Ago”.
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Presented him with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, given each year as part of the Oscars ceremony
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Trustees Award (1959).
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1954· 1 entry
And hosted the Academy Awards 19 times from 1939 through 1977
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1953).
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1952· 1 entry
Released album “Road To Bali (Selections From The Paramount Picture)”.
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1950· 1 entry
Released album “The Quick and the Dead - Volume 1: The Atom Bomb”.
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1946· 1 entry
Bought a small stake in the Cleveland Indians professional baseball team and held it for most of the rest of his life
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1945· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1945).
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1941· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1941).
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At March Field in California, and continued to travel and entertain troops for the rest of World War II, later during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the third phase of the Lebanon Civil War, the latter years of the Ira
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1939· 1 entry
On an 87,000-square-foot (8,083 m2) lot in the Toluca Lake section of Burbank in the San Fernando Valley
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1937· 1 entry
Moved to 10346 Moorpark Street in the Toluca Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, where they would reside until their respective deaths
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1934· 1 entry
Mostly with NBC radio, and switched to television when that medium became popular in the 1950s
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1933· 1 entry
To star as Huckleberry Haines in the Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields musical Roberta
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1929· 1 entry
Hope informally changed his first name to "Bob"
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1925· 1 entry
And found them work with a touring troupe called Hurley's Jolly Follies
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1921· 1 entry
While working as a lineman for a power company, Hope was assisting his brother Jim in clearing trees when a tree fell, striking his face; his injuries required reconstructive surgery, which contributed to his later disti
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1919· 1 entry
Fighting under the name Packy East
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1915· 1 entry
For his impersonation of Charlie Chaplin
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1903· 2 entries
In Eltham, County of London (now part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich), in a terraced house at 44 Craigton Road in Well Hall, where there is now a British Film Institute 'Centenary of British Cinema' commemorative plaq
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Born 1903-05-29.
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