The program earned Newhart the Golden Globe for Best TV Star—Male. Not only that, Newhart hosted Saturday Night Live in 1980 and 1995, and she guest hosted 87 times on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
The Bob Newhart Show, a comedy that aired from 1972 to 1978 and starred him, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, and Howard Borden, was about his role as psychotherapist Bob Hartley.
Between 1982 until 1990, Newhart aired on television as Dick Loudon, an innkeeper and talk show presenter from Vermont. The series’ unexpected ending was named one of the greatest of all time.
He played a suicidal old guy who was despondent and getting blind in three episodes of ER in 2003. For the first time in over 20 years, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for this.
The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice, in which he reprised his role as Judson, earned him another Primetime Emmy nomination in 2009.
