Robert "Bob" Lane Saget - Temple University

Stand up comedian, actor, television host and director, Robert Lane Saget, best known as Bob Saget, was born to Benjamin (8/28/1917-1/30/07) and Rosalyn "Dolly" (2/12/1925-2/15/14) Saget in 1956 Father Benjamin was a supermarket exec and mother Rosalyn was a hospital administrator. While Bob grew up in Encino CA, he moved back to PA and graduated form high school there in 1975. He intended to become a doctor but his high school English teacher encourage him to pursue acting, which he thankfully did While he graduated from Temple University and he intended to attend grad school, he quit grad school after a few days: this is what he said about that in 1990 " "I was a cocky, overweight twenty-two-year-old. Then I had a gangrenous appendix taken out, almost died, and I got over being cocky or overweight." Saget talked about his burst appendix on Anytime with Bob Kushell and said that it happened on the Fourth of July, at the UCLA Medical Center, and that they at first just iced the area for seven hours before taking it out and finding that it had become gangrenous." What happened next became well-known: He was a stand-up comedian and a beloved actor, as well as a voice-over actor. Along the way, he married Sherri Kramer (in 1982) and they had daughters Aubrey, Lara, and Jennifer. He and Sherri divorced in 1997. In 2018, he married Kelly Rizzo (host of Eat Travel Rock TV) and they were married until his passing. On January 9 2020, while in the middle of a stand-up tour when he was found dead in his room at the Ritz-Carlton near Orlando FL. You can scroll down to read more about the circumstances and tributes by other show business luminaries.