Bob McGrath(1932-2022)

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Bob McGrath was born on 13 June 1932 in Ottawa, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Sesame Street (1969), Follow That Bird (1985) and Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie (1988). He was married to Ann Logan Sperry. He died on 4 December 2022 in New Jersey, USA.

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TV Series

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TV Movie

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TV Movie

Sesame Street
8.1
TV Series
- performer: "The People In Your Neighborhood", "A Sibling"
- performer: "At Your Library"
- performer: "People in Your Neighborhood" ...
- 1969–1990
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
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TV Movie
- performer: "Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?", "Sing Your Synonyms"
- 1988
Sesame Street: Sing Along
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Video
- performer: "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt", "Stand Up and Pinch Your Nose", "The Alphabet Song", "Cheer Up", "Old McDonald Had a Farm", "What's the Name of That Song?" (uncredited)
- 1987
Sesame Street: I'm Glad I'm Me
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Video
- performer: "The Ankle, the Shoulder, and the Knee"
- 1986
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
7.3
TV Movie
- performer: "It's the Thought That Counts", "Christmas Morning", "Tomorrow", "If Just One Person Believes In You" (uncredited)
- 1978
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
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TV Movie
- performer: "True Blue Miracle", "Keep Christmas With You"
- 1978

Official site
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Born
- June 13, 1932
- Ottawa, Illinois, USA
Died
- December 4, 2022
- New Jersey, USA(stroke)
Spouse
- Ann Logan SperryJune 14, 1958 - December 4, 2022 (his death, 5 children)
Other works
For many years was a host of the Telemiracle telethons hosted in Saskatchewan, Canada beginning in the mid-1970s.
Publicity listings
- 2 Articles

Trivia
His two favorite Sesame Street moments are the sequence from "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street" that spoofs "The Gift of the Magi" and the scene from the 1983 episode in which the adults explained Mr. Hooper's death to Big Bird.

Quotes
[on 'Sesame Street] It's nothing short of an extraordinary show. When I got hired, I started thinking, 'Hmmm, I'm not really an actor. I wonder what I'm going to be doing?' It was interesting. I kept saying, 'Who am I supposed to be?' I told my wife, 'They're not going to pay me just for going in and being myself for 130 shows'. They did make me the music teacher. I come out of that background, and I'd taught music to kids before. Finally they said, 'We don't want you to be anybody but yourself'. And that was pretty much true of anyone in the original cast and those they hired later.