 Best remembered now as a star of two hit television shows in the 70s and 80s that bore his name, Newhart launched his career as a stand-up comic in the late 50s. He gained nationwide fame when his routine was captured on vinyl in 1960 as the button-down mind of Bob Newhart, which went on to win a Grammy Award as Album of the Year. In 1982, the comedian launched the TV show Newhart, this time a successful New York writer who decides to reopen a long-closed Vermont inn.