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 Paree, Paree (1934) short film The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938) with W. C. Fields and Martha Raye College Swing (1938) with George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, and Betty Grable Give Me a Sailor (1938) with Martha Raye and Betty Grable Thanks for the Memory (1938) with Shirley Ross Never Say Die (1939) with Martha Raye and Andy Devine Some Like It Hot (1939; AKA Rhythm Romance) with Shirley Ross and Gene Krupa The Cat and the Canary (1939) with Paulette Goddard Road to Singapore (1940) with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour The Ghost Breakers (1940) with Paulette Goddard Road to Zanzibar (1941) with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour Caught in the Draft (1941) with Eddie Bracken Nothing But the Truth (1941) with Paulette Goddard Louisiana Purchase (1941) with Vera Zorina and Victor Moore My Favorite Blonde (1942) with Madeleine Carroll Road to Morocco (1942) with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) with Bing Crosby and Paramount Pictures all-star cast Combat America (1943) (short documentary film)[1] They Got Me Covered (1943) with Dorothy Lamour Show Business at War (1943) (short documentary film) Let's Face It (1943) with Betty Hutton The Princess and the Pirate (1944) with Virginia Mayo and Walter Brennan The Story of G.I. Joe (1945) (voice on radio program; uncredited) Road to Utopia (1946) with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour Monsieur Beaucaire (1946) with Joan Caulfield My Favorite Brunette (1947) with Dorothy Lamour, Lon Chaney, Jr. and Peter Lorre Variety Girl (1947) with Bing Crosby and Paramount Pictures all-star cast Where There's Life (1947) with William Bendix Road to Rio (1947) with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour The Paleface (1948) with Jane Russell Sorrowful Jones (1949) with Lucille Ball The Great Lover (1949) with Rhonda Fleming Fancy Pants (1950) with Lucille Ball My Favorite Spy (1951) with Hedy Lamarr The Lemon Drop Kid (1951) with Marilyn Maxwell

The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) (cameo) Son of Paleface (1952) with Jane Russell and Roy Rogers Road to Bali (1952) with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour Off Limits (1953) with Mickey Rooney and Marilyn Maxwell Scared Stiff (1953) (cameo) Here Come the Girls (1953) with Arlene Dahl and Rosemary Clooney Casanova's Big Night (1954) with Joan Fontaine and Basil Rathbone The Seven Little Foys (1955) with James Cagney as George M. Cohan That Certain Feeling (1956) with Eva Marie Saint and George Sanders The Iron Petticoat (1956) with Katharine Hepburn Beau James (1957) with Vera Miles and Alexis Smith Paris Holiday (1958) with Fernandel, Anita Ekberg, Martha Hyer, and Preston Sturges The Geisha Boy (1958) (cameo; appears on TV) Alias Jesse James (1959) with Rhonda Fleming and many cameos The Five Pennies (1959) (cameo) The Facts of Life (1960) with Lucille Ball Bachelor in Paradise (1961) with Lana Turner The Road to Hong Kong (1962) with Bing Crosby and Joan Collins Critic's Choice (1963) with Lucille Ball and Rip Torn Call Me Bwana (1963) with Anita Ekberg A Global Affair (1964) with Michele Mercier and Yvonne De Carlo I'll Take Sweden (1965) with Tuesday Weld The Oscar (1966) (cameo) Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966) with Elke Sommer Not With My Wife, You Don't! (1966) (cameo) Eight on the Lam (1967) with Phyllis Diller and Jonathan Winters The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968) with Phyllis Diller How to Commit Marriage (1969) with Jackie Gleason Cancel My Reservation (1972) with Eva Marie Saint and Ralph Bellamy The Muppet Movie (1979) (cameo) Spies Like Us (1985) (cameo) A Masterpiece of Murder (1986) with Don Ameche (TV)[2] The Simpsons (1992) – Himself; voice A Century of Cinema (1994) (Documentary) That Little Monster (1994) 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

1. Turner Classic Movies: Combat America
2. Turner Classic Movies: A Masterpiece of Murder (aka A Nice, Pleasant, Deadly Weekend in Palm Springs and A Nice, Pleasant Deadly Weekend)
3. "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.