American actor and comedian Bob Newhart has died at the age of 94. After a short illness, he passed away at his home in Los Angeles. He was considered one of the most influential comedians of his time. In recent years, he was known for his guest roles on such series as Big Bang Theory And the movie Eleven.

Newhart made his big break in the 1960s, after leaving his “boring office job” as an accountant in the late 1950s. His then-boss had already said he wasn’t cut out for the job. Perhaps this had something to do with the fact that Newhart’s motto when reviewing his annual accounts was, “This is probably right.” His boss’s words were, in his own words, “the best advice I ever got.”

He decided to write comedy sketches with a colleague, which earned him radio appearances and eventually a contract with Warner Bros. The Chicago native excelled at his telephone monologue, patiently conducting phone conversations with a non-existent partner.

He achieved national fame when his drawings were released on vinyl in 1960. Bob Newhart’s Bottom Mind Button He won a Grammy Award for Comedy Album of the Year. He later had major success on television with bob newhart show (seventies), Newhart (eighties) and Bob (1990s) and hundreds of episodes were produced.

A hallmark of his entire career is the way his characters stutter. Newhart later said that even though it wasn’t played, it was really the way he spoke. A TV producer once asked him to stop because all the stuttering was making episodes run too long. “I said, ‘No, this stuttering helped me buy a house in Beverly Hills,'” Newhart wrote in his memoir.

Newhart has been nominated for an Emmy nine times, the first in 1962. He had to wait half his life to get one of those nominations. In 2013 he received a statuette for his guest role as Professor Proton. Big Bang TheoryHe also played guest roles in other popular series such as: Air And desperate housewives.

Newhart has also appeared on the big screen in films such as very bad managers (2011), Eleven, Legally Blonde 2 (2003), little lady marker (1980) and Catch 22 (1970).

Although he had a long television and film career, it was his early years that shaped him most. “When I think back to when I started doing stand-up comedy, all I remember is laughter,” Newhart once said. “That’s one of the best voices in the world.”