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Biography #2 (for Elf)

Bob Newhart is best known for his highly successful televisions series, The Bob Newhart Show, which debuted in 1972 on CBS, marking the beginning of a six-year run. In 1982 he returned to CBS with Newhart, playing a New York, do-it-yourself book author turned Vermont innkeeper. Together The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart ran a total of 15 years.

He recently co-starred in MGM's Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, the sequel to the highly successful Legally Blonde. His other feature film credits include his co-starring role in Paramount's smash hit comedy, In and Out, for producer Scott Rudin and director Frank Oz, with Kevin Kline and Tom Selleck; Hell Is For Heroes with Steve McQueen; On A Clear Day You Can See Forever with Barbara Streisand; Catch 22 with Jon Voight; Little Miss Marker with Walter Matthau; Hot Millions with Peter Ustinov; Cold Turkey with Dick Van Dyke; Thursday's Game with Gene Wilder; and First Family with Gilda Radner.

On television, Newhart appears this season on three episodes of the acclaimed NBC series, E.R, playing a doctor who is developing macular degeneration.

Newhart's last television project was the Showtime film The Sports Pages, a dark comedy directed by Richard Benjamin that was an anthology of tales taken from the world of sports. Bob also starred opposite Kelsey Grammer in the tale How Doc Waddems Finally Broke a 100.

Bio courtesy New Line Cinema for "Elf" (26-Oct-2003)