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American stand-up comedy legend Bob Newhart, whose deadpan delivery style earned him numerous awards, has died at the age of 94.
The star of TV series The Bob Newhart Show, Newhart passed away at home after a series of short illnesses, his publicist said in a statement provided to the BBC on Thursday.
Newhart became a stand-up comic after starting his career as an accountant in Chicago. He went on to guest-host Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show 87 times.
More recently, he starred in classic Christmas film Elf and The Big Bang Theory.
The son of a plumber in a suburb of Chicago, Newhart graduated with a business degree from Loyola University in 1952.
He served in the Army for two years during the Korean War then enrolled in a graduate law school before dropping out.