What is Bob Bell?
[[File:Bob Bell.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Bell as Bozo the Clown in 1968]] '''Robert Lewis Bell''' (January 18, 1922 &ndash; December 8, 1997), better known as '''Bob Bell''', was an American actor. He was famous for his role as [[Bozo the Clown]] on ''[[The Bozo Show]]''.<ref name=Baseball>{{cite web|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-06-08/sports/0506080170_1_bob-bell-clown-trevor-bell/2|title=The late Bob Bell, a.k.a. Bozo the Clown, would have been proud: His grandson Trevor Bell was drafted by the Angels on Tuesday|author=Haugh, David|date=8 June 2005|publisher=Chicago Tribune|access-date=26 February 2011|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035927/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-06-08/sports/0506080170_1_bob-bell-clown-trevor-bell/2|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was born in [[Flint, Michigan]], but raised in [[Deerfield, Illinois]]. Bell died at his home in [[Lake San Marcos, California]] on December 8, 1997 from [[congestive heart failure]], aged 75.<ref name=WGN>{{cite web |url=http://wgntv.com/bell.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981205133533/http://www.wgntv.com/bell.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 December 1998 |title=Bob Bell, the first 'Bozo the Clown' on WGN-TV, Dies |date=8 December 1997 |publisher=WGN-TV |access-date=29 June 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-12-09/news/9712090145_1_clown-hall-bob-bell-mr-bell/2|title=Beloved Entertainer Bob `Bozo' Bell, 75|author=Kaiser, Robert L.|date=9 December 1997|publisher=Chicago Tribune|access-date=26 February 2011|archive-date=7 July 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707192941/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-12-09/news/9712090145_1_clown-hall-bob-bell-mr-bell/2|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://famousclowns.org/bozo-the-clown/bob-bell-1922-1997-wgn-tv%E2%80%99s-bozo-the-clown-the-world%E2%80%99s-most-famous-clown/ Bozo the Clown - biography of Bob Bell, WGN-TV's Bozo the Clown] * {{IM