Bob Hope filmography

Bob Hope in The Ghost Breakers trailer

This is a selection of films and television appearances by British-American comedian and actor Bob Hope. Although Hope began his career in 1919 with a brief stint as a boxer, Hope began his acting career in 1925 in various vaudeville acts and stage performances, before making his film debut in 1934's Going Spanish. Hope would continue to act, in addition to stand-up comedy USO performances for American military personnel stationed overseas, until his retirement from show business in 1997.

Going Spanish (1934) (short film) as Bob
Paree, Paree (1934) (short film) as Peter
The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938) (with W. C. Fields and Martha Raye) as Buzz Fielding
College Swing (1938) (with George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, and Betty Grable) as Bud Brady
Give Me a Sailor (1938) (with Martha Raye and Betty Grable) as Jim Brewster
Thanks for the Memory (1938) (with Shirley Ross) as Steve Merrick
Never Say Die (1939) (with Martha Raye and Andy Devine) as John Kidley
Some Like It Hot (1939; AKA Rhythm Romance) (with Shirley Ross and Gene Krupa) as Nicky Nelson
The Cat and the Canary (1939) (with Paulette Goddard) as Wally Campbell
Road to Singapore (1940) (with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour) as Ace Lannigan
The Ghost Breakers (1940) (with Paulette Goddard) as Larry Lawrence
Road to Zanzibar (1941) (with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour) as Fearless
Caught in the Draft (1941) (with Eddie Bracken) as Don Bolton
Nothing But the Truth (1941) (with Paulette Goddard) as Steve Bennett
Louisiana Purchase (1941) (with Vera Zorina and Victor Moore) as Jim Taylor
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) (with Bing Crosby and Paramount Pictures all-star cast) as Bob Hope - Master of Ceremonies
My Favorite Blonde (1942) (with Madeleine Carroll) as Larry Haines
Road to Morocco (1942) (with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour) as Orville 'Turkey' Jackson / Aunt Lucy
Combat America (1943) (short documentary film)^[1]
They Got Me Covered (1943) (with Dorothy Lamour) as Robert Kittredge
Show Business at War (1943) (short documentary film)
Let's Face It (1943) (with Betty Hutton) as Jerry Walker
The Princess and the Pirate (1944) (with Virginia Mayo and Walter Brennan) as Sylvester the Great
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945) (voice on radio program; uncredited)
Road to Utopia (1946) (with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour) as Chester Hooton
Monsieur Beaucaire (1946) (with Joan Caulfield) as Monsieur Beaucaire
My Favorite Brunette (1947) (with Dorothy Lamour, Lon Chaney, Jr. and Peter Lorre) as Ronnie Jackson
Variety Girl (1947) (with Bing Crosby and Paramount Pictures all-star cast) as Bob Hope
Where There's Life (1947) (with William Bendix) as Michael Joseph Valentine
Road to Rio (1947) (with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour) as Hot Lips Barton
The Paleface (1948) (with Jane Russell) as 'Painless' Peter Potter
Sorrowful Jones (1949) (with Lucille Ball) as Humphrey 'Sorrowful' Jones
The Great Lover (1949) (with Rhonda Fleming) as Freddie Hunter
Fancy Pants (1950) (with Lucille Ball) as Humphrey
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951) (with Marilyn Maxwell) as Sidney Milburn aka The Lemon Drop Kid
My Favorite Spy (1951) (with Hedy Lamarr) as Peanuts White / Eric Augustine
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) as Spectator (cameo, uncredited)
Son of Paleface (1952) (with Jane Russell and Roy Rogers) as Peter Potter Jr.
Road to Bali (1952) (with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour) as Harold Gridley
Off Limits (1953) (with Mickey Rooney and Marilyn Maxwell) as Wally Hogan
Scared Stiff (1953) as Skeleton (cameo, uncredited)
Here Come the Girls (1953) (with Arlene Dahl and Rosemary Clooney) as Stanley Snodgrass
Casanova's Big Night (1954) (with Joan Fontaine and Basil Rathbone) as Pippo Popolino
The Seven Little Foys (1955) (with James Cagney as George M. Cohan) as Eddie Foy
That Certain Feeling (1956) (with Eva Marie Saint and George Sanders) as Francis X. Dignan
The Iron Petticoat (1956) (with Katharine Hepburn) as Major Charles "Chuck" Lockwood
Beau James (1957) (with Vera Miles and Alexis Smith) as Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker
Paris Holiday (1958) (with Fernandel, Anita Ekberg, Martha Hyer, and Preston Sturges) as Robert Leslie Hunter
The Geisha Boy (1958) (cameo; appears on TV) as Himself (on TV) (uncredited)
Alias Jesse James (1959) (with Rhonda Fleming and many cameos) as Milford Farnsworth
The Five Pennies (1959) as Himself - Leaving Brown Derby Restaurant (uncredited) (cameo)
The Facts of Life (1960) (with Lucille Ball) as Larry Gilbert
Bachelor in Paradise (1961) (with Lana Turner) as Adam J. Niles
The Road to Hong Kong (1962) (with Bing Crosby and Joan Collins) as Chester Babcock
Critic's Choice (1963) (with Lucille Ball and Rip Torn) as Parker Ballantine
Call Me Bwana (1963) (with Anita Ekberg) as Matt
A Global Affair (1964) (with Michele Mercier and Yvonne De Carlo) as Frank Larrimore
I'll Take Sweden (1965) (with Tuesday Weld) as Bob Holcomb
The Oscar (1966) as Himself (cameo, uncredited)
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966) (with Elke Sommer) as Thomas J. 'Tom' Meade
Not With My Wife, You Don't! (1966) as Himself - USO Christmas Show (cameo, uncredited)
Eight on the Lam (1967) (with Phyllis Diller and Jonathan Winters) as Henry Dimsdale
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968) (with Phyllis Diller) as Sgt. Dan O'Farrell
How to Commit Marriage (1969) (with Jackie Gleason) as Frank Benson
Cancel My Reservation (1972) (with Eva Marie Saint and Ralph Bellamy) as Dan Bartlett
The Muppet Movie (1979) as Ice Cream Vendor (cameo)
Spies Like Us (1985) as Himself (cameo)
A Masterpiece of Murder (1986) (with Don Ameche (TV))^[2]as Dan Dolan
The Simpsons (1992) – Himself; voice
A Century of Cinema (1994) (Documentary)
That Little Monster (1994) as Himself (voice)
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997) (Documentary)

Box office ranking

For a number of years Hope was ranked as one of the most popular stars in the world:

1941 – 4th (US)^[3]
1942 – 5th (US)
1943 – 2nd (US)
1944 – 3rd (US)
1945 – 7th (US)
1946 – 5th (US)
1947 – 6th (US)
1948 – 5th (US)
1949 – 1st (US)
1950 – 2nd (US), 1st (UK)
1951 – 6th (US), 1st (UK)
1952 – 5th (US), 1st (UK)
1953 – 8th (US)

References

↑ Turner Classic Movies: Combat America
↑ Turner Classic Movies: A Masterpiece of Murder (aka A Nice, Pleasant, Deadly Weekend in Palm Springs and A Nice, Pleasant Deadly Weekend)
↑ "Filmdom Ranks Its Money-Spinning Stars Best At Box-Office.". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 30 March 1950. p. 12. Retrieved 4 October 2014.

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