1. Robert Limb AO, OBE was an Australian-born entertainment pioneer, comedian, band leader and musician and legend of radio, television and theatre of the 1960s and 1970s, he founded the film and TV production company NLT Productions, with Jack Neary and Les Tinker.
Bobby Limb was born in Adelaide, South Australia and entered a show business career beginning in 1941, at the age of 17, when he became a saxophone player with various dance bands around his home city of Adelaide.
Bobby Limb appeared in the satirical radio program The Idiot Weekly in 1958 and 1959, alongside such players as Spike Milligan, Ray Barrett and John Bluthal and John Ewart but was better known for his own radio, and later TV shows.
Bobby Limb switched with his program from TCN Channel 9 to TEN10 in exactly the same timeslot on Friday nights.
Bobby Limb married fellow entertainer Dawn Lake in 1953, and often appeared with her.
Bobby Limb promoted and supported young musicians, such as the group Human Nature.
Bobby Limb supported Diabetes Australia, and founded the Bobby Limb Foundation to help sufferers of diabetes.
On 11 September 1999, Bobby Limb died of cancer, a condition he had previously suffered and apparently beaten.
At Limb's funeral, the former Whitlam government minister Doug McClelland said that Bobby Limb was to the Australian entertainment industry what Sir Donald Bradman was to cricket, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was to aviation, Dame Joan Sutherland was to opera, and Dr Victor Chang was to surgery.
Bobby Limb's enduring popularity was based on a solid 'middle-of-the-road' musical format, knock-about comedy, and a 'something for the whole family' style wholesomeness.
Bobby Limb remained a hit with older Australian audiences but his later appearances were almost entirely off-screen, held at various live venues around the nation, like clubs and theatres, often in connection with charity fund-raising.
In 1983, following many professional and personal problems, Bobby Limb became a born-again Christian.
Bobby Limb won a total of 11 Logie Awards, including the 1964 Gold Logie, awarded to the Most Popular Personality on Australian Television.
Bobby Limb won a Mr Show Business award in the USA.