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  1. Apr 3, 2014 · Bob Hope was a British-born American entertainer and comic actor known for his jokes and one-liners, as well as his success in the entertainment industry and his decades of overseas tours to...

  2. 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 ...

  3. Mar 27, 2024 · Bob Hope's career in entertainment spanned three quarters of a century, and he continued to be active in television, at charity events, and on the golfing green well into his later years. In 1999, Hope donated his personal papers, radio and television programs, scripts, and his treasured Joke File to the Library of Congress and the people of ...

  4. Jul 28, 2003 · Bob Hope, Master of the One-Liner, Dead at 100. Listen to an NPR special, Remembering Bob Hope, hosted by NPR's Susan Stamberg. Listen to Morning Edition audio. View a photo gallery of Bob Hope and...

  5. 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...

  6. Jul 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 television star of...

  7. Nov 24, 2014 · Interview Highlights. On how Bob Hope was the first comedian to acknowledge he had writers. He talked about his writers. He used them, of course; when the jokes didn't go over, he would use ...

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