- Born
- Died
- Birth nameRobert Emmett McGrath
- Nickname
- Bobby
- Bob McGrath was born on June 13, 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 December 4, 2022 in New Jersey, USA.
- SpouseAnn Logan Sperry(June 14, 1958 - December 4, 2022) (his death, 5 children)
- 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.
- Has five children
- Toured Japan singing Irish folk music in Japanese.
- He also appeared on a 1966 broadcast of "To Tell the Truth" and sang a version of "Danny Boy" in Japanese.
- Appeared on the 20 February 1967 episode of "I've Got a Secret" as an Irish tenor whose recordings were popular only in Japan.
- [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.
- [on performing as 'Bobu Magulas', a teen idol in Japan during the 1960s] Those were wonderful days, the last thing I ever thought would happen. Things were going imaginably well with that whole teen market, between concerts and commercials.
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