Robert "Bob" Arthur (June 21, 1921 – March 25, 1997) was a radio personality, a television newscaster and a motion picture actor.
The pair coined the popular term "EGBOK" meaning “everything’s gonna be OK.”[1] As actor, Arthur had roles in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
(1988), True Confessions (1981) and Skin Deep (1989)[2] Born Joseph Arthur Prince in Kansas, Arthur studied journalism in college and began his career in Wichita.
He was an anchorman at KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, New Mexico before coming to Los Angeles in the mid-1960s to work for KTLA/Channel 5.
[3] He retired in 1990, to devote more time to a project setting up care homes for Alzheimer's patients in Long Beach.