Bob Hope
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (born May 29, 1903 in Eltham , United Kingdom , † July 27, 2003 in Toluca Lake , California ) was an American comedian , actor and entertainer .
biography
Hope was born the fifth of seven sons to William Henry Hope and his wife Avis Townes. The family moved to Cleveland , Ohio in 1907 . In 1920, Bob Hope became a US citizen.
Before he became an actor , he was a professional boxer under the pseudonym Packey East . He became known by several Broadway - musicals , and with appearances in radio and television and in films . Between 1941 and 1991 he played (with Jack Lemaire, among others ) during the wars with American participation in front of US soldiers and became one of the most popular troop supervisors .
His favorite hobby was playing golf . He may be the only person who has played a game with all US presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George Bush . In 1983 Hope was even inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame for his services to golf . He was also the recipient of the Medal for Merit , one of the highest honors in the United States.
In the Guinness Book of Records Hope is listed because of its more than 1,500 awards as "most honored entertainer". Among them are five Oscars , which, however, were not given to him because of his acting achievements, but all of them on an honorary basis. He is represented on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with four stars - in the categories of film, television, radio and theater.
With his wife Dolores , who was also over 100 years old, he was married for 69 years from February 19, 1934 until his death. With her he had four adopted children (two sons and two daughters). Hope died at the age of 100 years at a pneumonia . His grave is in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in the San Fernando Valley , Los Angeles County .
Honors
A US Navy cargo ship has been named in honor of the entertainer since 1998 . From December 2003 was the airport of Burbank north named Los Angeles also after him; however, this was reversed in May 2016.
The asteroid of the main outer belt (2829) Bobhope is named after him.
Filmography (selection)
- 1938: The Big Broadcast of 1938
- 1938: College Swing
- 1938: Give Me a Sailor
- 1938: Thanks for the Memory
- 1939: Never Say Die
- 1939: Rhythm Romance
- 1939: Some Like It Hot
- 1939: Inheritance at midnight (The Cat and the Canary)
- 1940: The Road to Singapore (Road to Singapore)
- 1940: The Ghost Breakers
- 1941: The Road to Zanzibar (Road to Zanzibar)
- 1941: Caught in the Draft
- 1941: Nothing But the Truth
- 1941: Louisiana Purchase
- 1942: Beloved Spy (My Favorite Blonde)
- 1942: Road to Morocco (Road to Morocco)
- 1942: Star Spangled Rhythm
- 1943: They Got Me Covered
- 1943: Let's Face It
- 1944: The Princess and the Pirate (The Princess and the Pirate)
- 1946: The Road to Utopia (Road to Utopia)
- 1946: With brush and sword (Monsieur Beaucaire)
- 1947: Detective with Small Flaws (My Favorite Brunette)
- 1947: Where There's Life
- 1947: The Road to Rio (Road to Rio)
- 1948: His angel with the two pistols (The Paleface)
- 1949: The Vanquished Miser (Sorrowful Jones)
- 1949: The Great Lover
- 1950: The Count of Mexico (Fancy Pants)
- 1951: The Lemon Drop Kid
- 1951: Spies, Love and the Fire Brigade (My Favorite Spy)
- 1952: Pale Face Junior (Son of Paleface)
- 1952: The Road to Bali (Road to Bali)
- 1953: Entry prohibited (Off Limits)
- 1953: Scared Stiff cameo
- 1953: Here Come the Girls
- 1954: The skirt-hunter of Venice (Casanova's Big Night)
- 1955: Komödiantenkinder (The Seven Little Foys)
- 1956: I'm Marrying My Wife (That Certain Feeling)
- 1956: The Iron Petticoat
- 1957: Beau James
- 1958: Wrong Money and Real Curves (Paris Holiday)
- 1959: One shot and 50 dead (aka Jesse James)
- 1959: Five Pennies (The Five Pennies)
- 1960: Such an Affair (The Facts of Life)
- 1961: Bachelor in Paradise (Bachelor in Paradise)
- 1962: The Road to Hong Kong (The Road to Hong Kong)
- 1963: Don't do that, Angelika (Critic's Choice)
- 1963: Bob on Safari (Call Me Bwana)
- 1964: State affairs (A Global Affair)
- 1965: Sweden - Just for love (I'll Take Sweden)
- 1966: Completely wrongly connected (Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!)
- 1967: Eight on the Lam
- 1968: Where can you get beer at the front, please? (The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell)
- 1969: How to Commit Marriage
- 1972: Mr. Bartlett's Vacation (Cancel My Reservation)
- 1979: Muppet Movie (Cameo)
- 1985: Spies Like Us ( Spies Like Us ; Cameo)
- 1989: Golden Girls (1 episode, cameo)
Quotes
"As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn't been touched by the war and blew it to hell."
"As soon as the war was over, we looked for the only point on earth that had remained untouched by the war and drove it to hell."
(after the nuclear weapons tests of Operation Crossroads in Bikini Atoll in 1946)
literature
- Ramin Rowghani: The authenticity of the comedy: Bob Hope died at the age of 100. In: People and Media. Journal for Cultural and Communication Psychology, Berlin, 2003.
Web links
- Bob Hope in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography on bobhope.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Bob Hope
- ↑ burbankairport.com: History of Bob Hope Airport ( Memento of July 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ Bye bye, Bob Hope: Airfield rebrands as Hollywood Burbank Airport The Burbank Leader, May 3, 2016, accessed January 4, 2017.
- ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed September 15, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1948 PK. Discovered 1948 Aug. 9 by EL Johnson at Johannesburg. ”
- ↑ Bikini Atoll Reference Facts ; As of March 28, 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hope, Bob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hope, Leslie Townes (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American comedian , actor, and entertainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eltham, UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 2003 |
| Place of death | Toluca Lake, California , USA |