This Is Bob Hope...
2017During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the entertainer’s life through his personal archives and clips from his classic films.
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Bob Hope
as Self (archive footage)
Billy Crystal
as Narrator (voice)
Woody Allen
as Self
Dick Cavett
as Self
Leonard Maltin
as Self
Conan O'Brien
as Self
Margaret Cho
as Self
Linda Hope
as Self
Bing Crosby
as Self (archive footage)
Lucille Ball
as Self (archive footage)
George Burns
as Self (archive footage)
Gracie Allen
as Self (archive footage)
Phyllis Diller
as Self (archive footage)
Dorothy Lamour
as Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
as Self (archive footage)
James Cagney
as Self (archive footage)
Johnny Carson
as Self (archive footage)
Rosemary Clooney
as Self (archive footage)
Jerry Colonna
as Self (archive footage)
Sammy Davis Jr.
as Self (archive footage)
Aretha Franklin
as Self (archive footage)
Betty Grable
as Self (archive footage)
Harry James
as Self (archive footage)
Frances Langford
as Self (archive footage)
Fred MacMurray
as Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Maxwell
as Self (archive footage)
Ethel Merman
as Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
as Self (archive footage)
Janis Paige
as Self (archive footage)
Diana Ross
as Self (archive footage)
Tom Selleck
as Self
Brooke Shields
as Self
Connie Stevens
as Self
James Stewart
as Self (archive footage)
Lana Turner
as Self (archive footage)
Paulette Goddard
as actress in 'The Ghost Breakers' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Anthony Quinn
as actor in 'The Ghost Breakers' (archive footage) (uncredited)