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Apr 3, 2014 · Bob Hope was an entertainer and comic actor, known for his rapid-fire delivery of jokes and for his success in virtually all entertainment media.
Bob Hope. Actor: The Ghost Breakers. Comedian Bob Hope was born Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, London, England, the fifth of seven sons of Avis (Townes), light opera singer, and William Henry Hope, a stonemason from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. His maternal grandmother was Welsh. Hope moved to Bristol before emigrating with his parents to the USA in 1908. After some years onstage as a dancer ...
Jul 29, 2003 · Bob Hope, comedian, film star, king of the one-liner, entertainer of troops and presidents, and part of the tapestry of American life for nearly three-quarters of a century, has died at the age of ...
Jul 28, 2003 · Bob Hope was an American icon and a tireless morale-booster for servicemen from World War II to the Gulf War. Photo courtesy of Bob Hope Enterprises July 28, 2003 -- Bob Hope's career stretched from the Jazz Age to the era of the V-chip.
Jul 29, 2003 · Bob Hope, the elder statesman of comedy whose extraordinary career spanned vaudeville, Broadway, radio, television, movies, books and makeshift concert platforms in war zones, has died. He was 100.
Jul 28, 2003 · July 28, 2003. Bob Hope, whose mastery of the comic monologue and the topical wisecrack carried him from vaudeville to Broadway musicals and then on to worldwide fame as a radio, film and ...
Jul 29, 2003 · Bob Hope, who has died aged 100, was so much part of the bloodstream of American showbusiness for so long that if there were a Mount Rushmore for comedians he would be among the first to be ...
