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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...
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 ...
Jul 29, 2003 · Mon 28 Jul 2003 21.39 EDT. 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...
Jul 29, 2003 · Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles. Tue 29 Jul 2003 03.32 EDT. Bob Hope, comedian, film star, king of the one-liner, entertainer of troops and presidents, and part of the tapestry of American life...
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...
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...
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...