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Bob Hope

Highest Rated: 100% My Favorite Blonde (1942)

Lowest Rated: 12% The Oscar (1966)

Birthday: May 29, 1903

Birthplace: Eltham, England, UK

Over the course of a career that spanned more than 60 years, actor-comedian- humanitarian-noted golf enthusiast Bob Hope came to be regarded as not only a legendary entertainer, but a veritable American institution. Getting his start on the vaudeville circuit of the late 1920s, he eventually broke through on the Broadway stage in such productions as 1933's "Roberta" and 1936's "Red, Hot and Blue." He began hosting his own long-running radio program on NBC the following year and by 1938 had made the jump to Hollywood. Although he would eventually appear in more than 50 feature films, the funnyman with the ski-slope nose would be most remembered for his wise-cracking antics alongside his perfect foil Bing Crosby and their sarong-clad lust object Dorothy Lamour in "Road to Singapore" (1940) and the successful franchise it spawned. In addition to the seven highly popular "Road to " movies, Hope also proved to be a top box office draw as a solo act in comedies like "The Princess and the Pirate" (1944) and "The Paleface" (1948). Beginning in the early 1940s and continuing well into the 1990s, Hope - ever-present golf club in hand - was a welcome comic relief for troops stationed abroad in times of war and peace as he tirelessly toured with the USO during World War II, the Korean and Vietnam wars and beyond. By the time the venerable entertainer reached his 100th year, generations of fans could only express their gratitude with a refrain from Hope's most popular tune, "Thanks for the Memories."

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 74% My Favorite Blonde
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100% 76% Road to Utopia
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100% 77% Road to Rio
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100% 68% Road to Singapore
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100% 64% The Paleface
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91% 80% Son of Paleface
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89% 62% Road to Zanzibar
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89% 88% The Muppet Movie
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88% 77% The Ghost Breakers
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86% 72% Fancy Pants
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Filmography

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Lucy & Desi: A Home Movie 75% 1992 Actor A Masterpiece of Murder 1986 Dan Dolan Actor The Muppet Movie 89% 88% 1979 Ice Cream Vendor Actor Cancel My Reservation 27% 1972 Dan Bartlett Actor, Executive Producer How to Commit Marriage 33% 1969 Frank Benson Actor The Bob Hope Christmas Special 1968 Host The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell 74% 1968 Sgt. Dan O'Farrell Actor Eight on the Lam 71% 1967 Henry Dimsdale Actor The Oscar 12% 29% 1966 Self Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! 40% 1966 Thomas J. `'Tom'` Meade Actor I'll Take Sweden 30% 1965 Bob Holcomb Actor A Global Affair 33% 1964 Frank Larrimore Actor Call Me Bwana 50% 1963 Matt Actor Critic's Choice 37% 1963 Parker Ballantine Actor The Road to Hong Kong 60% 39% 1962 Chester Babcock Actor The Sound of Laughter 1962 Actor Bachelor in Paradise 37% 1961 Adam J. Niles Actor The Facts of Life 60% 1960 Larry Gilbert Actor Alias Jesse James 37% 1959 Milford Farnsworth Actor, Executive Producer Some of Manie's Friends 1959 Actor Paris Holiday 33% 1958 Robert Leslie Hunter Actor Beau James 1957 Mayor James J. "Jimmy" Walker Actor The Iron Petticoat 25% 1956 Major Charles Chuck Lockwood Actor That Certain Feeling 1956 Francis X. Dignan Actor The Seven Little Foys 61% 1955 Eddie Foy Actor
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