Can You Name The Greatest Films Of These Living Legends?

Bob Newhart – Age 94

Bob Newhart is one part actor and the other part stand-up comedian, with him being very successful in both. He started working as a writer in the late ’50s and was catapulted to fame when he released his first comedy album in 1960, titled The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart.

It is the first-ever comedy album that was #1 on the Billboard, and it won the Grammy too. Newhart’s acting career soon picked up, in the ’60s, and he was in Hell Is for Heroes, Hot Millions, and more. To this day, Newhart’s most famous roles are in Newhart, ER, Elf, and The Big Bang Theory. He currently stars on Young Sheldon.

Gene Hackman – Age 93

Gene Hackman is a two-time Academy Award-winning actor, whose career lasted from 1956 to 2004. He won one Oscar for his role n The French Connection and another for Unforgiven. Heckman was also nominated three more times for roles in Bonnie and Clyde, I Never Sang for My Father, and Mississippi Burning.

Although Heckman did retire in 2004, after a role in Welcome to Mooseport, he did briefly come back to narrate two TV documentary movies in 2016 and 2017. He’s turned to a career as a novelist and has published several books, some as a co-author, and two as a solo writer titled Payback at Morning Peak and Pursuit.

Tippi Hedren – Age 93

Tippi Hedren was already on the covers of Glamour and Life before the late Alfred Hitchcock, the famous filmmaker, discovered her and cast her in Marnie and The Birds. Hedren won a Golden Globe for the latter. Roles in Satan’s Harvest, Tiger by the Tail, and Chaplin’s A Countess from Hong Kong followed.

Hedren was also in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, was a regular on The Bold and the Beautiful, and many more. In the new Millenium, Hedren was seen in Fashion House, Return to Babylon, and most recently in The Ghost and the Whale in 2017.

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