Want to know the best Bob Newhart movies? How about the worst Bob Newhart movies? Curious about Bob Newhart box office grosses or which Bob Newhart movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Bob Newhart movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well, you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Bob Newhart (1929-2024) was an American actor and comedian. Although Newhart is best known for his television work, he has been appearing in movies since the 1960s. His IMDb page shows over 45 acting credits since 1960. This page will rank Bob Newhart movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition.
Bob Newhart Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Bob Newhart Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies any way you want.
- Sort Bob Newhart movies by his co-stars
- Sort Bob Newhart movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Bob Newhart movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Bob Newhart movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Bob Newhart movie received.
- Sort Bob Newhart movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Bob Newhart
1. George Robert Newhart was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1929.
2. Prior to hitting his success on the comedy circuits in the 1960s, Bob Newhart worked as an accountant for a Chicago firm. He hated every minute of it.
3. Bob Newhart’s 1960 comedy album The Buttoned-Down Mind of Bob Newhart went to #1 on the charts, beating out Elvis Presley and The Sound of Music original Broadway cast album. The album won three Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for 1960.
4. Every television series he starred in has his name in the title: The Bob Newhart Show (1961), The Bob Newhart Show (1972), Newhart (1982), Bob (1992), and George & Leo (1997) (George is his real first name, Robert is his middle name).
5. Bob Newhart received his first Emmy® nomination in 1962. He did not win until 2014, 52 years later, for playing Arthur “Professor Proton” Jeffries in The Big Bang Theory (2007) episode The Big Bang Theory: The Proton Displacement (2013).
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I loved Bob Newhart. I know he was 94, but I am sad. RIP
Right there with you Flora. Seems Bob Newhart has been a star all of my life. Sad news. RIP Mr. Newhart.