Biography: life and films
Bob Hope was an English actor and producer whose birth name was Leslie Townes Hope. He was born in Eltham, London, England, UK on 29th May 1903 and died in Toluca Lake, California, USA on 27th July 2003, aged 100.His best films as an actor include Elliott Nugent's comedy-thriller The Cat and the Canary (1939), George Marshall's comedy The Ghost Breakers (1940), Nothing But the Truth (1941), Hal Walker's Road to Utopia (1946) and Frederick De Cordova's I'll Take Sweden (1965), and whose best work as a screenwriter include My Favorite Brunette (1947) and Gerd Oswald's Paris Holiday (1958).
Bob Hope appeared in 68 films and scripted 2 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: George Marshall (8 films), Norman Z. McLeod (5), Elliott Nugent (5), Sidney Lanfield (4), David Butler (4), Frank Tashlin (3), Victor Schertzinger (2), Norman Panama (2), Melvin Frank (2), Melville Shavelson (2), Jack Arnold (2), Hal Walker (2), George Archainbaud (2) and (2).
His most frequent genres include: comedy (54 films), comedy-romance (15), Documentary (10), War (9), history (4), Western (4), Biography (4), comedy-thriller (3), Thriller (3), Horror (3), drama (2) and comedy-drama (2).
Our average rating for Bob Hope over all films is: 3.0
Filmography
Key: a = actor; w = writer
College Swing (1938) [a]
Give Me a Sailor (1938) [a]
Thanks for the Memory (1938) [a]
The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938) [a]
Never Say Die (1939) [a]
Some Like It Hot (1939) [a]
The Cat and the Canary (1939) [a]
Road to Singapore (1940) [a]
The Ghost Breakers (1940) [a]
Caught in the Draft (1941) [a]
Louisiana Purchase (1941) [a]
Nothing But the Truth (1941) [a]
Road to Zanzibar (1941) [a]
My Favorite Blonde (1942) [a]
Road to Morocco (1942) [a]
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) [a]
Let's Face It (1943) [a]
They Got Me Covered (1943) [a]
The Princess and the Pirate (1944) [a]
Story of G.I. Joe (1945) [a]
Monsieur Beaucaire (1946) [a]
Road to Utopia (1946) [a]
My Favorite Brunette (1947) [a,w]
Variety Girl (1947) [a]
Where There's Life (1947) [a]
The Paleface (1948) [a]
Sorrowful Jones (1949) [a]
The Great Lover (1949) [a]
Cassino to Korea (1950) [a]
Fancy Pants (1950) [a]
My Favorite Spy (1951) [a]
Road to Bali (1952) [a]
Son of Paleface (1952) [a]
Here Come the Girls (1953) [a]
Off Limits (1953) [a]
Casanova's Big Night (1954) [a]
The Seven Little Foys (1955) [a]
That Certain Feeling (1956) [a]
Beau James (1957) [a]
Paris Holiday (1958) [a,w]
The Geisha Boy (1958) [a]
Alias Jesse James (1959) [a]
The Facts of Life (1960) [a]
Bachelor in Paradise (1961) [a]
The Road to Hong Kong (1962) [a]
Call Me Bwana (1963) [a]
Critic's Choice (1963) [a]
I'll Take Sweden (1965) [a]
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966) [a]
Eight on the Lam (1967) [a]
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968) [a]
How to Commit Marriage (1969) [a]
Cancel My Reservation (1972) [a]
Hearts and Minds (1974) [a]
All This and World War II (1976) [a]
Ken Murray Shooting Stars (1979) [a]
The Muppet Movie (1979) [a]
Ingrid (1984) [a]
The Beach Boys: An American Band (1985) [a]
Liberation (1994) [a]
That Little Monster (1994) [a]
Radio Star - die AFN-Story (1995) [a]
The very best American film comedies
French cinema during the Nazi Occupation
The best of American cinema
