Bob Hope filmography
This is a selection of films and television appearances by British-American comedian and actor Bob Hope. Hope, a former boxer, began his acting career in 1925 in various vaudeville acts and stage performances
Hope's feature film debut came in The Big Broadcast of 1938.. He retired in 1998.
Filmography
Film shorts
Going Spanish as BobParee, Paree as PeterCalling All Tars Double Exposure The Old Grey Mayor Soup for Nuts Watch the Birdie Shop Talk Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 6 Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4 Don't Hook Now Show Business at War Combat America Strictly G.I. The All-Star Bond Rally Hollywood Victory Caravan March of Time Volume 14, No. 1: Is Everybody Listening? Weekend in Hollywood Screen Actors You Can Change the World Screen Snapshots: Memorial to Al Jolson Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Invisible Man Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Beauty Showdown at Ulcer Gulch The Heart of Show Business Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Star Night- ''Rowan & Martin at the Movies''
Theatrical features
The Big Broadcast of 1938 as Buzz FieldingCollege Swing as Bud BradyGive Me a Sailor as Jim BrewsterThanks for the Memory as Steve MerrickNever Say Die as John KidleySome Like It Hot as Nicky NelsonThe Cat and the Canary as Wally CampbellRoad to Singapore as Ace LanniganThe Ghost Breakers as Larry LawrenceRoad to Zanzibar as FearlessCaught in the Draft as Don BoltonNothing But the Truth as Steve BennettLouisiana Purchase as Jim TaylorStar Spangled Rhythm as Bob Hope - Master of CeremoniesMy Favorite Blonde as Larry HainesRoad to Morocco as Orville 'Turkey' Jackson / Aunt LucyThey Got Me Covered as Robert KittredgeLet's Face It as Jerry WalkerThe Princess and the Pirate as Sylvester the GreatThe Story of G.I. Joe Road to Utopia as Chester HootonMonsieur Beaucaire as Monsieur BeaucaireMy Favorite Brunette as Ronnie JacksonVariety Girl as Bob HopeWhere There's Life as Michael Joseph ValentineRoad to Rio as Hot Lips BartonThe Paleface as 'Painless' Peter PotterSorrowful Jones as Humphrey 'Sorrowful' JonesThe Great Lover as Freddie HunterFancy Pants as HumphreyThe Lemon Drop Kid as Sidney Milburn aka The Lemon Drop KidMy Favorite Spy as Peanuts White / Eric AugustineThe Greatest Show on Earth as Spectator Son of Paleface as Peter Potter Jr.Road to Bali as Harold GridleyOff Limits as Wally HoganScared Stiff as Skeleton Here Come the Girls as Stanley SnodgrassCasanova's Big Night as Pippo PopolinoThe Seven Little Foys as Eddie FoyThat Certain Feeling as Francis X. DignanThe Iron Petticoat as Major Charles "Chuck" LockwoodBeau James as Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' WalkerParis Holiday as Robert Leslie HunterThe Geisha Boy as himself Alias Jesse James as Milford FarnsworthThe Five Pennies as himself - Leaving Brown Derby Restaurant The Facts of Life as Larry GilbertBachelor in Paradise as Adam J. NilesThe Road to Hong Kong as Chester BabcockCritic's Choice as Parker BallantineCall Me Bwana as MattA Global Affair as Frank LarrimoreI'll Take Sweden as Bob HolcombThe Oscar as himself Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! as Thomas J. 'Tom' MeadeNot with My Wife, You Don't! as himself - USO Christmas Show Eight on the Lam as Henry DimsdaleThe Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell as Sgt. Dan O'FarrellHow to Commit Marriage as Frank BensonCancel My Reservation as Dan BartlettThe Muppet Movie as Ice Cream Vendor Spies Like Us as himself A Masterpiece of Murder as Dan DolanVoice roles and documentaries
The Simpsons – Himself; voiceA Century of Cinema That Little Monster as himselfBox office ranking
For a number of years Hope was ranked as one of the most popular stars in the world:- 1941 – 4th
- 1942 – 5th
- 1943 – 2nd
- 1944 – 3rd
- 1945 – 7th
- 1946 – 5th
- 1947 – 6th
- 1948 – 5th
- 1949 – 1st
- 1950 – 2nd, 1st
- 1951 – 6th, 1st
- 1952 – 5th, 1st
- 1953 – 8th