Bob Hope biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Bob Hope

Author Name:

Bob Hope

Born As:

Leslie Townes Hope

Other Names:

Bob Hope

Born:

29 May 1903

Died:

27 Jul 2003




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Comedian                          
                                              
The fifth of seven sons. His English father, William Henry Hope, was a stonemason from Weston-super-Mare and his Welsh mother, Avis Townes, was a light opera singer but later had to find work as a cleaning woman. The family lived in Weston-super-Mare, then Whitehall and St. George in Bristol, before moving to Cleveland, Ohio in 1907. Hope became a U.S. citizen in 1920 when he was 17.