Bob Newhart Net Worth: His $65M Estate, Sitcoms and Homes

Bob Newhart had a net worth of about $65 million when he died on July 18, 2024, according to Celebrity Net Worth (checked September 2026). The comedian was 94. Most of that fortune came from two long-running CBS sitcoms and six decades of stand-up, plus a string of well-timed Los Angeles property sales.

Where Bob Newhart's money came from

Newhart's income came from four sources over a career that ran from 1958 to 2020. No outlet has published his salary for any specific show, so the breakdown below is based on what was sold, reported and certified rather than on pay stubs.

Comedy albums

His first record, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart (1960), went to No. 1 on the Billboard pop album chart and won Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best New Artist. The follow-up, The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!, came out the same year, and the two held the top two chart spots at once, according to Wikipedia. Celebrity Net Worth notes it was the first comedy album to reach No. 1. He kept releasing albums into the 21st century.

Television

Television was the main engine. He starred as Chicago psychologist Bob Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show (1972-1978), which won him a Golden Globe, and then as Vermont innkeeper Dick Loudon on Newhart (1982-1990), which ran eight seasons and earned him three Emmy nominations for lead actor. Two shows with a combined 14 seasons gave him years of star-level pay and a large catalog for reruns. Later guest work kept him on screen: ER, Desperate Housewives, and Professor Proton on The Big Bang Theory from 2013 to 2018, which won him his first Emmy, followed by the same role on Young Sheldon.

Film

His movie credits include Hell Is for Heroes (1962), Catch-22 (1970), In & Out (1997), Elf (2003) and Horrible Bosses (2011). He also voiced Bernard in Disney's The Rescuers (1977) and its 1990 sequel. Fees for these roles were not reported.

Live performance and a radio station

Stand-up tours ran alongside his TV career for decades. He also invested outside show business: in 1995 he was part of an investor group that bought Santa Barbara radio station KKSB, which was later sold to Santa Barbara Broadcasting, per Celebrity Net Worth. The sale price was not disclosed.

Career timeline

George Robert Newhart was born on September 5, 1929, in Oak Park, Illinois. He went by his middle name to avoid being confused with his father, who part-owned a plumbing supply business. He earned a business degree from Loyola University Chicago in 1952, served stateside in the Army during the Korean War, and briefly studied law before working as an accountant and then an advertising copywriter.

Sources: Wikipedia, Celebrity Net Worth and Celebrity Net Worth's property report.

What happened to his estate (2025-2026)

Ginnie Newhart died in April 2023, a year before her husband, so the estate passed to the couple's four children. Two reported sales show what has happened since.

• October 2025 auction. Abell Auction Co. sold more than 300 lots from the Newharts' home, including original scripts from both sitcoms, hand-annotated routines, awards and his 1999 Hollywood Walk of Fame plaque, according to the auction house's announcement. Results were not published in the sources we checked.
• 2026 house sale. The children listed the Century City home at $10.5 million in 2025. It sold for $9.19 million, Architectural Digest reported in spring 2026, citing the New York Post.

Assets: two notable homes

Bel Air. The Newharts bought a 1941 Wallace Neff-designed house on Amapola Lane in 1990 for $4.2 million. It was a French country-style home of 9,169 square feet with five bedrooms, a pool and a pavilion on more than an acre. The couple once sought as much as $22 million for it, but sold in 2016 for $14.5 million to a developer who tore the house down and relisted the empty lot at $25.95 million, according to the Los Angeles Times and Celebrity Net Worth. That left the Newharts with roughly a $10 million gain on paper over 26 years, before costs.

Century City. In 2016 they paid about $6.7 million for a newly built Spanish Revival house of roughly 6,600 square feet in the Enclave at Century Woods, a gated community where his close friend Don Rickles also lived. The house has four bedrooms, an elevator and a top-floor office with city views. He lived there until he died. The $9.19 million sale in 2026 came in above the purchase price but below the $10.5 million asking price (TheRichest, Architectural Digest).

Bob Newhart net worth compared

Newhart's $65 million sits in the middle of the range for sitcom-era comedians covered on Celebclan:

• Ray Romano also turned a stand-up act into a long CBS sitcom, and it is a useful comparison for how TV syndication shapes a comedian's wealth.
• George Lopez followed the same stand-up-to-sitcom route a generation later.
• Eddie Murphy shows the larger fortunes available once a comedian becomes a leading film star, which Newhart never tried to be.

Why the Bob Newhart net worth estimate is uncertain

There is effectively one published estimate: Celebrity Net Worth's $65 million, a figure it has used since at least 2016 and still gives as his worth at death. It is built from public information, not from probate filings, and no court record of his estate's value was reported in the sources we checked.

What supports it: two hit series with 14 seasons combined, decades of rerun and album income, and property sales that are on record. The Bel Air sale alone brought $14.5 million, and the Century City house fetched $9.19 million.

What is missing: his salary on either sitcom, his share of any syndication profits, and what he earned from the radio station investment. Since the property sales happened after his death and went to his children, the $65 million figure should be read as a rough value of his estate in 2024, not current family wealth.