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Bob Biswas

Bob Biswas (बॉब बिस्वास) is a 2021 Hindi crime thriller, a spin-off of the Kahaani character, directed by Diya Annapurna Ghosh, starring Abhishek Bachchan as an amnesiac hitman, released on ZEE5 on 3 December 2021.

Bob Carolgees

Bob Carolgees (born 1948, Robert Johnston) is an English ventriloquist, comedian and actor known for Spit the Dog on Tiswas, later Surprise Surprise, Hold Tight, Concentration, and a candle shop.

Bob Chapek

Bob Chapek (Robert Alan Chapek) is an American executive, Disney CEO from February 25, 2020 to November 2022, succeeding and succeeded by Bob Iger; he led Disney through COVID-19, reorganized it around streaming, and was ousted after clashes with creatives and activists.

Bob Christo

Bob Christo (Robert John Christo, 1938-2011) was an Australian civil engineer who became a Bollywood villain, acting in over 200 Hindi films from Abdullah (1980) to Gumraah (1993).

Bob Clark

Bob Clark (Benjamin Robert Clark, 1939/1941–2007) was an American-Canadian film director of Black Christmas, Porky's, and A Christmas Story, who died in a 2007 car crash with his son Ariel.

Bob Crane

Bob Crane (1928–1978), American actor and radio personality, star of Hogan's Heroes as Colonel Hogan; also KNX Los Angeles morning host; murdered in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1978 in a still-unsolved case.

Bob Denver

Bob Denver (Robert Osborne Denver, 1935–2005) was an American comedy actor who played Maynard G. Krebs on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and Gilligan on Gilligan's Island.

Bob Einstein

Bob Einstein (Stewart Robert Einstein, 1942-2019), American Emmy-winning comedy writer, actor, and producer; created stuntman character Super Dave Osborne and played Marty Funkhouser on Curb Your Enthusiasm; brother of Albert Brooks.

Bob Eubanks

Bob Eubanks (Robert Leland Eubanks, born January 8, 1938, Flint, Michigan) is an American radio DJ, concert promoter, and game show host famous for The Newlywed Game, the Beatles' 1964 Hollywood Bowl concert, Card Sharks, and hosting one show in six consecutive decades.

Bob Gale

Bob Gale (Michael Robert Gale, born 1951) is an American Oscar-nominated screenwriter-producer-director, co-creator, co-writer, and co-producer of the Back to the Future trilogy with Robert Zemeckis; also wrote 1941 and Used Cars, and rejects any Part IV.

Bob Grant (actor)

Bob Grant (Robert St Clair Grant) was an English actor and comedian best known as the womanizing bus conductor Jack Harper in the ITV sitcom On the Buses.

Bob Guiney

Bob Guiney (Robert Guiney, born 1971) is an American TV personality, season 1 Bachelorette contestant and Bachelor season 4 lead, later a host, Band from TV singer, and Lincoln Financial executive.

Bob Gunton

Bob Gunton (Robert Patrick Gunton Jr., born 1945) is an American character actor and Vietnam-era Bronze Star recipient. Known for Warden Norton in The Shawshank Redemption, Juan Perón in Broadway's Evita (Tony-nominated), Sweeney Todd, 24's Ethan Kanin, and Daredevil's Leland Owlsley.

Bob Hastings

Bob Hastings (Robert Francis Hastings, 1925–2014), American radio, TV, and voice actor; Lt. Elroy Carpenter on McHale's Navy, Archie Andrews on radio, and the voice of Commissioner Gordon in Batman: The Animated Series.

Bob Hearts Abishola

Bob Hearts Abishola (Bob ♥ Abishola) is a CBS sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Gina Yashere, airing 2019-2024, five seasons, 95 episodes, about a Detroit sock businessman who marries his Nigerian cardiac nurse.

Bob Holness

Bob Holness (1928-2012), British radio and TV presenter, host of ITV's Blockbusters (1983-1995) and its 'Can I have a P please, Bob?' catchphrase; second actor to voice James Bond, in radio's Moonraker.

Bob Hope

Bob Hope (Leslie Townes Hope, 1903–2003) was a British-born American comedian and actor in vaudeville, radio, film (the Road pictures with Bing Crosby), and TV, famous for over 50 years of USO tours entertaining American troops.

Bob Hoskins

Bob Hoskins (Robert William Hoskins, 1942-2014) was a British actor known for The Long Good Friday, Mona Lisa (Cannes and BAFTA winner, Oscar nominee), Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Hook; he died of pneumonia in 2014 after a Parkinson's diagnosis.

Bob Iger

Bob Iger, born Robert Alan Iger in 1951, is an American media executive who was chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company from 2005 to 2020.

Bob Keeshan

Bob Keeshan (1927–2004), American children's TV entertainer; original Clarabell on Howdy Doody, creator and star of Captain Kangaroo on CBS from 1955, later author and children's advocate.

Bob le Flambeur

Bob le flambeur (Bob the Gambler) is Jean-Pierre Melville's 1955 French black-and-white crime film starring Roger Duchesne as an aging Montmartre gambler planning the Deauville casino heist; a key precursor of the French New Wave.

Bob Marley: One Love

Bob Marley: One Love is Paramount Pictures' 2024 biographical drama directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir as Bob Marley. It covers 1976-1978, the Exodus album and One Love Peace Concert, grossing $180,971,146 worldwide.

Bob Morley

Bob Morley (Robert Alfred Morley, born 1984, Kyneton, Victoria) is an Australian actor and director known as Bellamy Blake on The 100 (2014–2020), Drew Curtis on Home and Away, and Aidan Foster on Neighbours; married to co-star Eliza Taylor.

Bob Odenkirk

Bob Odenkirk, born October 22 in Naperville, Illinois, is an American actor, comedian, and writer. Also known as co-creator of HBO's Mr. Show, two-time Emmy-winning writer for SNL and The Ben Stiller Show, star of Better Call Saul, and action lead of Nobody.

Bob Peck

Bob Peck (1945–1999), English stage, television, and film actor from Leeds. Won the 1986 BAFTA for Edge of Darkness as Ronald Craven; played Muldoon in Jurassic Park (1993); nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Bob Peterson (filmmaker)

Bob Peterson (born 1961, Wooster, Ohio) is a Pixar animator, screenwriter, director, and voice actor; co-director and co-writer of Up (2009), Oscar-nominated for Finding Nemo and Up, voice of Dug, Roz, and Geri, and original director of The Good Dinosaur.

Bob Roberts

Bob Roberts (1992) is Tim Robbins's mock-documentary political satire about a wealthy conservative folk singer's corrupt 1990 Pennsylvania U.S. Senate campaign against incumbent Brickley Paiste (Gore Vidal), culminating in a faked assassination attempt.

Bob the Builder

Bob the Builder: British preschool animated franchise created by Keith Chapman for HIT Entertainment, first aired 1998. Stop-motion series with Bob, Wendy, and machines Scoop, Muck, Dizzy, Lofty; catchphrase "Can we fix it? Yes we can!"; 2015 CGI reboot under Mattel.

Bob Trevino Likes It

Bob Trevino Likes It is a 2024 American comedy-drama, Tracie Laymon's debut feature, inspired by her accidentally friending a stranger with her father's name on Facebook. It won SXSW 2024 Grand Jury and Audience Awards and stars Barbie Ferreira and John Leguizamo.

Bob Vila

Bob Vila (Robert Joseph Vila), born in Miami, Florida, is an American contractor and TV host, original host of PBS's This Old House (1979–1989) and later Bob Vila's Home Again, Sears spokesman, author, and 2022 Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement honoree.