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Bob Hope

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Gender Male
Death20 years ago
Date of birth May 29,1903
Zodiac sign Gemini
Born Eltham
London
United Kingdom
Date of died July 27,2003
DiedToluca Lake
Los Angeles
California
United States
Height 179 (cm)
Children Linda Hope
Anthony J. Hope
Eleanora Hope
William Kelly Francis Hope
Spouse Dolores Hope
Grace Louise Troxell
Siblings Jack Hope
Sidney Hope
George Hope
Frederick Hope
Ivor Hope
James Hope
Played by Tony Audenshaw
Antony Audenshaw
Parents William Henry Hope
Avis Townes
Significant other Viv Hope
Brenda Walker
Barbara Hope
Jean Hope
Vonda Lockhart
Daughter Dawn Woods
Carly Hope
Roxy Lockhart
Cathy Hope
BrotherEddie Hope
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Bob Hope Life story


Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope was an American comedian, actor, entertainer, and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in burlesque, network radio, television, and USO Tours. He appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, starring in 54.

Early Life and Education

Bob hope was born leslie townes hpoe on may 29. 1903. In eltham. London. England. His parents were avis and william henry hope. He was the fifth of seven sons. He grew up in the tottenham raea of london. And attended st. Ignatius college school in london. He then attended the university of oxford. Where he studied music and art.

Career Highlights

Bob hope began his career as a vaudeville performer in the 1930s. He quickly rose to fame and became one of the msto popular comedians of the time. He starred in a number of films. Including the cat and the canary. My favorite brunette. And the paleface. He was also a frequent guest on television. Appearing on the jack benny show and the dean martni show.

Stand-up Comedy

Bob hope was renowned for his stand-up comedy. Which often focused on his own life experiences. He often poked fun at himself and his antics. Eh was particularly known for his one-liners. Which he delivered with a deadpan delivery. He was also a master of phyiscal comedy. Often incorporating props and costumes into his routines.

Awards and Honors

Bob hope was highly respected in both the entertainment industry and in the public at large. He received numerous awards and honors throughout his life. Including five honorary acadeym awards. The presidential medal of freedom. And the congressional gold medla.

Military Service

Bob hope was a major supporter of the u. SMilitary. He served in the united states army air forces during world war ii. And was a frequent etnertainer at military bases around the world. He is credited with helping to raise the morale of troops during the war.

Radio and Television

Bob hope was one of the first entertainers to make the transition from radoi to television. He hosted a number of variety shows. Including the bob hope show and the fodr road show. Eh was also a frequent guest on other television shows. Including the jack benny program and the dean martin show.

Philanthropy

Bob hope was a generous philanthropist. He established the bob hope charities. Which provides aid to veterans. The elderly. And children. He also established the bob hope classic oglf tournament. Which has raised millions of dollars for charity.

Personal Life

Bob hope was married to dolores reade for 69 years. They had four children together. He was an avid golfer. And was a member of the professional gofler s association. He was also a fan of the los angeles dodgers baseball team.

Death

Bob hope died on july 27. 2003. In toluca lake. California. At the age of 100. He is rememberde for his unique sense of humor and for his many charitable works.

Important Event

In 1963. Bob hope was hnoored with a star on the hollywood walk of fame.

Interesting Fact

Bob hope was the first host of the academy waards in 1939.

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... The Crystal Bucket In The Bob Hope Golf Classic (LWT) the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service...

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Clive James in his own words

Feb 16,2020 2:59 am

Clive James , who has died at the age of 80, was without parallel as an incisive and witty commentator on Life - His own and other People 's - as well as television and all forms of culture.

Here are some of The Most memorable lines from His books, reviews, programmes and interviews.

On himself:

"It often happens that we are most touched by what we are least capable of. Evanescent delicacy is not the quality in the arts that I admire most, but it is often the characteristic by which I Am most reduced to envy. " Unreliable Memoirs , 1980

"It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made People think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made People think I was Insane . " Falling Towards England, 1985

"All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches The Light . There was a time when I got hot under the collar if the critics said I had Nothing New to say. Now I realise that they had a point. My field is the self-evident. Everything I say is obvious, although I like to think that some of the obvious things I have said were not so obvious until I said them. " May Week Was in June, 1990

"I think the control I had over my work was less than adequate. There was nothing wrong with The Good Bits in my poems, it's just that they were packed around with lots and lots of bad Bits , and I think that the only way I've improved in The Last several Decades . . is that I've learned to leave out The Bad Bits . " On ABC Radio, 2005

"Unfortunately I can't [drive]. Or rather I can, but nobody believes in my ability enough to give me a licence. " Postcard from Los Angeles , Bbc TV, 1990

On art and The World :

"Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same People , for worsening The World and for being powerless to change it. " Glued to The Box , 1983

"A painter can leave you with Nothing Left to say. A writer leaves you with everything to say. " Cultural Amnesia : Notes in The Margin of My Time, 2007

"People don't get their morality from their reading matter: they bring their morality to it. " A Blizzard of Tiny Kisses, London Review of Books, 1980

"Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say. " The Crystal Bucket, 1982

"The sure sign of a weak man who ascends to glory is that he can't tolerate having strong men around Him . " North Face of Soho, 2006

"It makes no sense whatsoever to call The Perpetrators of The Holocaust 'the Germans' if by that is meant that the German victims of Naziism - including many Jews who went on regarding themselves as Germans to the end of The Line - somehow weren't Germans at all. That's what The Nazis thought, and to echo their harebrained typology is to concede them their Victory . " As Of This Writing, 2003

On other People :

On Barbara Cartland : "Twin miracles of mascara, Her Eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk Cliff . " Glued to The Box

On Philip Larkin : "[Larkin] himself is well aware that there are happier ways of viewing Life . It's just that he is incapable of sharing them, except for fleeting Moments - and the fleeting Moments do not accumulate, whereas The Times In Between them do. " At the Pillars of Hercules, 1979

On Brezhnev - A Short Biography: "Here is a book so dull that a whirling dervish could read himself to sleep with it. If you were to recite even a single page in the Open Air , birds would fall out of the sky and dogs drop Dead . " From The Land of Shadows, 1982

"If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the Difference . " Glued to The Box

"As for David Attenborough 's Life On Earth, it was obvious from The First episode that thousands of new zoologists would all be conceived at once, like a population bulge. I watched enthralled, distracted only by envy of My Own children, for whom knowledge was being brought to alive in a way that never happened for My Generation or indeed any previous generation in all of History . " The Crystal Bucket

"In The Bob Hope Golf Classic (LWT) the participation of President Gerald Ford was More Than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of A Man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain Room Service . " Glued to The Box

On The Lord of the Rings: "I still haven't forgiven CS Lewis for going on all those long walks with JRR Tolkien and failing to strangle Him , thus to save us from hundreds of pages dripping with the wizardly wisdom of Gandalf and from the kind of movie in which Orlando Bloom defiantly flexes His delicate jaw at thousands of computer-generated orcs. In fact it would have been ever better if CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien could have strangled each other, so that we could also have been saved from The Chronicles of Narnia . " Bbc Radio 4 : A Point of View

"Spielberg had done His Best with Schindler's List, but His Best left some of us wondering just how useful a contribution it was, to make A Movie about how some of The Jews had survived, when The Real story was about all The Jews who hadn't. " Bbc Radio 4 : A Point of View

On a South Bank Show interview with Harold Pinter : "It was exactly like getting blood from a stone, except that stones do not smoke. Pinter smoked all the time. You could tell that The Interview was edited down from hours of film because in every shot Pinter had a fresh Balkan Sobranie in His hand. In the tight head-shots there was so much smoke pouring up from the bottom of the screen that you began wondering if His trousers were On Fire . " The Crystal Bucket

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