Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)

English-born American comedian and actor.

* May 29, 1903 Eltham, London, England, UK
 as Leslie Townes Hope
 July 27, 2003 Toluca Lake, California, USA



Books by Bob Hope

Bob Hope
I Never Left Home
New York, 1944

Bob Hope
Have Tux, Will Travel
New York, 1954

Bob Hope and Bob Thomas
The Road to Hollywood
Garden City, N.Y., 1977

Bob Hope and Melville Shavelson
Don't Shoot, It's Only Me
New York, 1990

Books on Bob Hope

James L. Neibaur The Bob Hope Films James L. Neibaur
The Bob Hope Films
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2005

Lawrence J. Quirk Bob Hope Lawrence J. Quirk
Bob Hope, the Road Well-Travelled
New York, 1999

Jenny Curtis Bob Hope Jenny Curtis
Bob Hope
New York, 1999

William Robert Faith
Bob Hope, a life in comedy
New York, 1982

Charles Thompson
Bob Hope
New York, 1981

Joe Morella/Edward Z. Epstein/Eleanor Clark The Amazing Careers of Bob Hope Joe Morella/Edward Z. Epstein/Eleanor Clark
The Amazing Careers of Bob Hope, From Gags to Riches
New Rochelle, N.Y., 1973

Books with substantial mentioning of Bob Hope

David Fantle and Tom Johnson Hollywood heyday David Fantle and Tom Johnson
Hollywood heyday, 75 candid interviews with golden age legends
Jefferson, North Carolina, 2018

Ronald L. Smith
Who's Who in Comedy, Comedians, Comics and Clowns From Vaudeville to Today's Stand-ups
New York, Oxford, 1992

Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan
Movie Characters of Leading Performers of the Sound Era
Chicago and London, 1990

Jeffrey Robinson Teamwork Jeffrey Robinson
Teamwork, The Cinema
London/New York, 1982

Frank Manchel
The Box-Office Clowns, Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen
New York, 1979

James Robert Parish and William T. Leonard with Gregory W. Mank and Charles Hoyt
The Funsters
New Rochelle, New York, 1979

Friederike Mat (ed.) Unsere Filmlieblinge Friederike Mat (ed.)
Unsere Filmlieblinge, Ein Bilderbuch
Wien, München, Düsseödorf, Bozen, 1956

Books with an entry on Bob Hope

Chistine Tomassini, Editor, Jim Craddock and Michael J. Tyrkus , Contributing Editors Magill's Cinema Annual 2004 Chistine Tomassini, Editor, Jim Craddock and Michael J. Tyrkus , Contributing Editors
Magill's Cinema Annual 2004, 23rd Edition. A Survey of the Films of 2003
Detroit..., 2004

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Anthony Slide (ed.) Selected Vaudeville Criticism Anthony Slide (ed.)
Selected Vaudeville Criticism
Metuchen, N.J., & London, 1988

Stanley Appelbaum and James Camner (editors) Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs Stanley Appelbaum and James Camner (editors)
Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs, 361 Portraits from the 1860s to 1950
New York, 1981

Joe Franklin Encyclopedia of Comedians Joe Franklin
Encyclopedia of Comedians
Secaucus, N.J., 1979

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor The American movies reference book Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969

Films

1938
The Big Broadcast of 1938
College Swing
Give Me a Sailor

1939
The Cat and the Canary
Never Say Die

1940
Road to Singapore
The Ghost Breakers

1941
Road to Zanzibar
Caught in the Draft
Louisiana Purchase
Nothing But the Truth

1942
My Favorite Blonde
Road to Morocco
Star-Spangled Rhythm

1943
They Got Me Covered
Show-Business at War
Let's Face It

1944
The Princess and the Pirate

1945
Road to Utopia
Story of G.I. Joe

1946
Monsieur Beaucaire

1947
Variety Girl
My Favorite Brunette
Road to Rio
Where There's Life

1948
The Paleface

1949
The Great Lover
Sorrowful Jones

1950
Fancy Pants
Cassino to Korea

1951
My Favorite Spy
The Lemon Drop Kid

1952
The Greatest Show on Earth
Road to Bali
Off Limits
Son of Paleface
The Story of Will Rogers

1953
Scared Stiff
Here Come the Girls

1954
Casanova's Big Night

1955
The Seven Little Foys

1956
The Iron Petticoat
That Certain Feeling

1957
Beau James
The Heart of Show Business

1958
Paris Holiday
The Geisha Boy

1959
Alias Jesse James
The Five Pennies

1960
The Facts of Life

1961
Bachelor in Paradise

1962
The Road to Hong Kong

1963
Call Me Bwana
Critic's Choice

1964
A Global Affair

1965
I'll Take Sweden

1966
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
The Oscar
Not with My Wife, You Don't!

1967
Eight on the Lam

1968
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell

1969
How to Commit Marriage

1972
Cancel My Reservation

1973
The World at War

1974
Hearts and Minds

1975
Brother Can You Spare a Dime

1979
The Muppet Movie

1981
This Is Elvis

1985
Spies Like Us

1986
A Masterpiece of Murder

1987
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

1994
Forrest Gump
Thats Entertainment! III

1999
The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation

2002
Meine Schwester Maria
The Kid Stays in the Picture

2003
Los Angeles Plays Itself

2013
Lovelace

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