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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 Crewe

Bob Crewe (Stanley Robert Crewe) was an American record producer and songwriter famous for hits with The Four Seasons, including "Sherry" and "Big Girls Don't Cry."

Bob Crosby

Bob Crosby (George Robert Crosby, 1913-1993), American swing and Dixieland bandleader and vocalist, younger brother of Bing Crosby, led the Bob Crosby Orchestra and the Bob Cats, recording "South Rampart Street Parade" and "Big Noise from Winnetka."

Bob cut

Bob cut: a haircut cut to one perimeter line between the ear or jaw and the shoulders, also called bob haircut. First credited to Antoine de Paris (1909), iconic in the 1920s flapper era; variations include blunt, A-line, French, Italian, and lob.

Bob Daisley

Bob Daisley is an Australian bass guitarist and songwriter who performed with Rainbow and Black Sabbath. He wrote lyrics and played on Ozzy Osbourne's early albums.

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 Dylan

Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman (1941, Duluth, Minnesota), American singer-songwriter, 2016 Nobel Literature laureate; also known as Blind Boy Grunt, Elston Gunn; key albums Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks.

Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings

Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings is a 14-CD, 148-track Columbia/Legacy box set released June 7, 2019, companion to Scorsese's Netflix film, collecting all five professionally recorded 1975 first-leg concerts, rehearsals, and rarities.

Bob Dylan (album)

Bob Dylan (1962) is Bob Dylan's debut album on Columbia, recorded in November 1961 with producer John Hammond and released March 19, 1962. Its 13 tracks are mostly folk and blues covers, with only Talkin' New York and Song to Woody original; weak sales earned it the nickname Hammond's Folly. Distinct from the 1973 album Dylan.

Bob Dylan discography

The Bob Dylan discography catalogs the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's recordings: 39 studio albums from 1962 to 2023, plus live albums, compilations, and the Bootleg Series, with over 125 million records sold.

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits is Dylan's first compilation album, released by Columbia on March 27, 1967, with ten hits from 1963-1966 including Like a Rolling Stone; five-times platinum, his best-selling US record.

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 Elliott (comedian)

Bob Elliott (Robert Brackett Elliott, 1923-2016), American comedian and actor, half of the deadpan radio and TV satire duo Bob and Ray with Ray Goulding; creator of Wally Ballou and Biff Burns, Piels Beer pitchman, father of Chris Elliott.

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 Evans Restaurants

Bob Evans Restaurants is an American family-dining chain founded in Rio Grande, Ohio; sold to Golden Gate Capital in 2017 and acquired by 4×4 Capital in February 2026, separate from Post Holdings' Bob Evans grocery brand.

Bob Ezrin

Bob Ezrin is a Canadian record producer known for Alice Cooper's Love It to Death and Billion Dollar Babies, Kiss's Destroyer, Lou Reed's Berlin, and co-producing Pink Floyd's The Wall (1979), plus later work with post-Waters Pink Floyd and Deep Purple.

Bob Forrest

Bob Forrest (born 1961), also known as frontman of Thelonious Monster and The Bicycle Thief, is an LA singer-songwriter turned chemical dependency counselor on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.

Bob Fosse

Bob Fosse (1927–1987), American choreographer and director of Chicago, Cabaret, and Pippin; creator of a signature jazz style with bowler hats, turned-in knees, and finger snaps; won Oscar, Tony, and Emmy in 1973.

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 Gaudio

Bob Gaudio (born 1942, Bronx, New York) is an American songwriter, keyboardist, and producer, founding member and principal songwriter of the Four Seasons, writer of "Sherry" and "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)," and Broadway composer of Jersey Boys.

Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof (Robert Frederick Xenon Geldof), Irish singer born 1951 in Dublin, frontman of the Boomtown Rats, co-founder of Band Aid and organizer of Live Aid 1985.

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 Hite

Bob "The Bear" Hite (1943-1981), American blues singer and harmonica player, co-founder and frontman of Canned Heat, famed for his 78 rpm record collection, Woodstock, and Hooker 'n Heat.

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.