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Bob Newhart, Comedy Icon, Dies at 94

Bob Newhart, the genteel comic whose TV series “The Bob Newhart Show” and “Newhart” were huge hits throughout the 1970s and '80s, died Thursday.

Surprisingly, his first Emmy win didn’t come until 2013, when he won for a guest acting spot on “The Big Bang Theory.” He appeared in six episodes of the hit sitcom. Newhart worked in movies (“Hot Millions,”“On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,” “Catch-22,” “Cold Turkey”), guested regularly on television and appeared in Las Vegas for the next several years before his hit sitcoms. Newhart was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame in 1993, and the comic won the second Mark Twain Prize for Humor, presented by the Kennedy Center, in 2002.

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