Bob Newhart has passed away at the age of 94. The comedy icon was a legend as a stand-up and on screen, breaking out in the 1960s and continuing to work on recent shows like Young Sheldon.
It's these more recent roles that Newhart is going to be most remembered for by many viewers my age and younger. For us he'll always be kindly Papa Elf in the Christmas movie classic Elf, the tired TV scientist Arthur Jeffries/Professor Proton in The Big Bang Theory, a role which he reprised in Young Sheldon, and (in case you didn’t know) as the voice of Bernard in the Disney animated classic The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under.
