A native of San Francisco, Bob Mills served in the Navy after high school, graduating from San Francisco State University in 1962 and the University of California Hastings Law in 1965. He practiced in Palo Alto, CA for ten years before moving to Hollywood to write for television.
He worked on the "Dinah Shore Show" and the "Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts" before joining Bob Hope as a staff writer in 1977. He traveled the world with Hope for the next seventeen years.
