Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 30, 1914
Died
Aug 30, 2001
Place of Birth
Denver, Colorado, USA
Credits
83 titles
Julie Bishop
Biography
From Wikipedia Julie Bishop (August 30, 1914 – August 30, 2001) was an American film and television actress. She appeared in over 80 films between 1923 and 1957. Bishop was born Jacqueline Wells and used her birth name professionally through 1941. She also appeared on stage (and in one film) as Diane Duval. She was a child actress, beginning her career in 1923. Early on, she appeared in several Laurel and Hardy films (Any Old Port! and The Bohemian Girl), and she settled on the name by which she is best remembered when offered a contract by Warner Bros. on the condition that she change her name, which was associated with her almost exclusively B-movie appearances through 1941 (amounting to nearly 50 films over 17 years). She chose the name because it matched the monograms on her luggage (she had for a time been married to Walter Booth Brooks III, a writer). She made 16 films at Warners, including a supporting role in 1943's Princess O'Rourke, supporting Olivia de Havilland and Robert Cummings. While filming, she met her second husband, Clarence Shoop, a pilot. She was Humphrey Bogart's leading lady in Action in the North Atlantic (1943), played Ira Gershwin's wife in the biopic Rhapsody in Blue (1945), and closed out her Warners years in 1946's Cinderella Jones. In 1949, Bishop played a down-on-her-luck wife and mother in the Sands of Iwo Jima, opposite John Wayne. She was among several former Wayne co-stars (including Laraine Day, Ann Doran, Jan Sterling, and Claire Trevor) who joined the actor in 1954's aviation drama, The High and the Mighty. Thrice married, Bishop had a son, Steve, a physician and pilot, and a daughter, actress Pamela Susan Shoop, both by her second marriage, Gen. Clarence A. Shoop, a test pilot who flew for Howard Hughes and later became vice president of Hughes Aircraft; they were married from 1944 until his death in 1968. Her first marriage ended in divorce and her third with her death. Julie Bishop died of pneumonia on her 87th birthday, August 30, 2001, in Mendocino, California.
Known For
Filmography
Tarzan the Fearless
Mary Brooks
The Big Land
Kate Johnson
Headline Hunters
Laura Stewart
The High and the Mighty
Lillian Pardee
Sabre Jet
Marge Hale
My Hero
Julie Marshall
Westward the Women
Laurie Smith
Why Men Leave Home
Ruth Waldron
Sands of Iwo Jima
Mary
The Threat
Ann Williams
Deputy Marshal
Claire Benton
High Tide
Julie Vaughn
Last of the Redmen
Cora Munro
Murder in the Music Hall
Diane
Strange Conquest
Virginia Sommers
Cinderella Jones
Camille
Idea Girl
Pat O'Rourke
You Came Along
Mrs. Taylor
Rhapsody in Blue
Lee Gershwin
Hollywood Canteen
Junior Hostess (uncredited)
Northern Pursuit
Laura McBain
Princess O'Rourke
Stewardess (uncredited)
Action in the North Atlantic
Pearl O'Neill
The Hard Way
Chorine (Uncredited)
The Hidden Hand
Rita Channing
Busses Roar
Reba Richards
Escape from Crime
Molly O'Hara
I Was Framed
Ruth Marshall
Lady Gangster
Myrtle Reed
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Violet
Steel Against the Sky
Myrt
International Squadron
Mary Wyatt
The Nurse's Secret
Florence Lentz
Back in the Saddle
Taffy
Her First Romance
Eileen Strong
Young Bill Hickok
Louise Mason (as Jacqueline Wells)
The Ranger and the Lady
Jane Tabor
Girl in 313
Lorna Hobart
My Son Is Guilty
Julia Allen (as Jacqueline Wells)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Face of 7th Victim in Newspaper Photo (uncredited)
Torture Ship
Joan Martel
The Kansas Terrors
Maria del Montez
Behind Prison Gates
Sheila Murray (as Jacqueline Wells)
My Son Is a Criminal
Myrna Kingsley (as Jacqueline Wells)
The Little Adventuress
Helen Gould
Spring Madness
Mady Platt
Flight to Fame
Barbara Fiske
Highway Patrol
Jane Brady (as Jacqueline Wells)
The Main Event
Helen Phillips
Flight Into Nowhere
Joan Hammond