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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 James (musician)
Bob James (born December 25, 1939, Marshall, Missouri) is an American jazz keyboardist, composer, arranger, and producer, also known as Robert McElhiney James. Known for CTI's One (1974), "Angela" (Taxi theme), Tappan Zee Records, hip-hop sampling legacy, and co-founding smooth jazz group Fourplay.
Bob Kane
Bob Kane (born Robert Kahn, 1915–1998) was an American comic-book artist who co-created Batman with writer Bill Finger, debuting in Detective Comics #27 in 1939.
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 Kulick
Bob Kulick (Robert J. Kulick, 1950-2020), American session guitarist and Grammy-winning producer; uncredited Kiss studio player, Lou Reed's Coney Island Baby, Meat Loaf, W.A.S.P., SpongeBob's 'Sweet Victory', Triple H's 'The Game'.
Bob Layton
Bob Layton (born 1953), American comic book artist, writer, and editor; reinvented Marvel's Iron Man with David Michelinie, created Hercules: Prince of Power, co-founded Valiant Comics, and co-created War Machine and The Huntress.
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 Lee Swagger
Bob Lee Swagger is Stephen Hunter's fictional ex-Marine sniper, first in Point of Impact (1993). Twelve novels (1993–2022), adapted as the film and TV series Shooter; father Earl and son Ray Cruz have their own books.
Bob Mackie
Bob Mackie (Robert Gordon Mackie, 1939/1940–2026), American costume and fashion designer, the 'Sultan of Sequins,' known for dressing Cher and Carol Burnett, nine Emmys, a 2019 Tony for The Cher Show, and the Bob Mackie Barbie line.
Bob Marley
Bob Marley (Robert Nesta Marley, 1945–1981), Jamaican reggae pioneer and leader of the Wailers; Tuff Gong founder, Island Records star, Exodus author, survived 1976 assassination attempt, Order of Merit recipient.
Bob Marley and the Wailers discography
Bob Marley and the Wailers discography: catalog of the reggae band (also called Bob Marley & The Wailers), covering nine Island studio albums (1973–1980, plus Confrontation 1983), early ska-era releases, Live! (1975), the 56-week UK hit Exodus (1977), and Legend (1984), the best-selling reggae album of all time, through posthumous releases into the 2020s.
Bob Marley Museum (music)
The Bob Marley Museum is a museum in Kingston, Jamaica, at the house where Bob Marley lived and recorded from 1975 until his death in 1981.
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 McGrath
Bob McGrath, born Robert Emmett McGrath, was an American singer and actor best known as an original Sesame Street cast member, playing music teacher Bob from 1969 until 2016.
Bob Merrill
Bob Merrill (Henry Robert Merrill Levan, 1921-1998), American songwriter and Broadway composer-lyricist of "Doggie in the Window" and Funny Girl's "People"; composed on a toy xylophone without reading music.
Bob Mizer
Bob Mizer (Robert Henry Mizer, 1922–1992) was an American photographer who founded the Athletic Model Guild in 1945 and the pioneering gay magazine Physique Pictorial in 1951.
Bob Monkhouse
Bob Monkhouse (1928–2003), English comedian, writer and game-show host of The Golden Shot, Celebrity Squares and Family Fortunes; also gag writer for Bob Hope and author of Crying with Laughter.
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 Mortimer
Bob Mortimer (Robert Renwick Mortimer, born 1959), English comedian and writer, half of Vic and Bob, ex-solicitor; works include Shooting Stars, Gone Fishing, Last One Laughing UK, and The Satsuma Complex.
Bob Mould
Bob Mould (born 1960, Malone, New York) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter; Hüsker Dü co-founder (1979), Sugar frontman (Copper Blue, 1992), and solo artist with 15 albums from Workbook (1989) to Here We Go Crazy (2025).
Bob Neuwirth
Bob Neuwirth (Robert John Neuwirth, 1939–2022) was an American singer-songwriter, painter, and producer, Dylan confidant, co-writer of Janis Joplin's "Mercedes Benz," and Rolling Thunder Revue organizer.
Bob Newhart
Bob Newhart, born George Robert Newhart, was an American comedian and actor whose deadpan telephone routines led to sitcom stardom in The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart.
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 Rock
Bob Rock, full name Robert Jens Rock, is a Canadian musician, sound engineer, and record producer born in 1954, known for Metallica's 1991 album and Mötley Crüe's Dr. Feelgood.
Bob Ross
Bob Ross (Robert Norman Ross, 1942–1995), American painter and host of PBS's The Joy of Painting (1983–1994), taught wet-on-wet oil landscape painting; Air Force master sergeant, Bob Ross Inc. co-founder, posthumous streaming and auction phenomenon.
Bob Saget
Bob Saget (Robert Lane Saget, 1956–2022), American comedian, actor, and host; Danny Tanner on Full House and Fuller House, original America's Funniest Home Videos host, How I Met Your Mother narrator, blue stand-up comic; died January 9, 2022, in Orlando from an accidental head injury.