Comedian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author. Hope appeared in over 70 films. Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope was born at 44 Craigton Road, Eltham, a suburb of South London,England, on 29 May 1903.
London England 1903
His father William Henry Hope was English and a stonemason from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and his Welsh mother, Avis Townes, was a light opera singer from Barry. They married in April 1891 and lived at 12 Greenwood Street, Barry Wales. Then moving to Bristol and London.
Emigrated
The Hope family emigrated to the United States in 1908 aboard the SS Philadelphia passing through Ellis Island on March 30, 1908, then moving on to Cleveland, Ohio.