Julie Bishop
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1914-08-30
Day of Death
2001-08-30 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Denver, Colorado, USA
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
Acting
(1964)
Tarzan the Fearless
as Mary Brooks
(1957)
The Big Land
as Kate Johnson
(1955)
Headline Hunters
as Laura Stewart
(1954)
The High and the Mighty
as Lillian Pardee
(1953)
Sabre Jet
as Marge Hale
(1951)
Westward the Women
as Laurie Smith
(1951)
Why Men Leave Home
as Ruth Waldron
(1950)
Sands of Iwo Jima
as Mary
(1949)
Deputy Marshal
as Claire Benton
(1949)
The Threat
as Ann Williams
(1947)
Last of the Redmen
as Cora Munro
(1947)
High Tide
as Julie Vaughn
(1946)
Murder in the Music Hall
as Diane
(1946)
Strange Conquest
as Virginia Sommers
(1946)
Cinderella Jones
as Camille
(1946)
Idea Girl
as Pat O'Rourke
(1945)
Rhapsody in Blue
as Lee Gershwin
(1945)
You Came Along
as Mrs. Taylor
(1944)
Hollywood Canteen
as Junior Hostess (uncredited)
(1943)
Northern Pursuit
as Laura McBain
(1943)
Action in the North Atlantic
as Pearl O'Neill
(1943)
Princess O'Rourke
as Stewardess (uncredited)
(1943)
The Hard Way
as Chorine (Uncredited)
(1942)
Lady Gangster
as Myrtle Reed
(1942)
Busses Roar
as Reba Richards
(1942)
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
as Violet
(1942)
The Hidden Hand
as Rita Channing
(1942)
Escape from Crime
as Molly O'Hara
(1942)
I Was Framed
as Ruth Marshall
(1941)
Steel Against the Sky
as Myrt
(1941)
International Squadron
as Mary Wyatt
(1941)
Back in the Saddle
as Taffy
(1941)
The Nurse's Secret
as Florence Lentz
(1940)
Young Bill Hickok
as Louise Mason (as Jacqueline Wells)
(1940)
The Ranger and the Lady
as Jane Tabor
(1940)
Girl in 313
as Lorna Hobart
(1940)
Her First Romance
as Eileen Strong
(1939)
My Son Is Guilty
as Julia Allen (as Jacqueline Wells)
(1939)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Face of 7th Victim in Newspaper Photo (uncredited)
(1939)
Behind Prison Gates
as Sheila Murray (as Jacqueline Wells)
(1939)
Torture Ship
as Joan Martel
(1939)
The Kansas Terrors
as Maria del Montez
(1939)
My Son Is a Criminal
as Myrna Kingsley (as Jacqueline Wells)
(1938)
Spring Madness
as Mady Platt
(1938)
Little Miss Roughneck
as Mary LaRue (as Jacqueline Wells)
(1938)
The Main Event
as Helen Phillips
(1938)
Flight Into Nowhere
as Joan Hammond
(1938)
When G-Men Step In
as Marjory Drake (as Jacqueline Wells)
(1938)
Highway Patrol
as Jane Brady (as Jacqueline Wells)
(1938)
Flight to Fame
as Barbara Fiske
(1937)
Counsel for Crime
as Ann McIntyre (as Jacqueline Wells)
(1937)
Girls Can Play
as Ann Casey
(1937)
The Frame-Up
as Betty Lindale (as Jacqueline Wells)
(1937)
She Married an Artist
as Betty Dennis
(1937)
Paid to Dance
as Joan Bradley
(1936)
The Bohemian Girl
as Arline as an Adult
(1936)
Night Cargo
as Claire Martineau, alias Marty
(1935)
Square Shooter
as Sally Wayne
(1935)
Coronado
as Barbara Forrest (as Jacqueline Wells)
(1934)
The Black Cat
as Joan Alison
(1934)
Happy Landing
as Janet Curtis
(1934)
The Loudspeaker
as Janet Melrose (as Jacqueline Wells)
(1933)
Tarzan the Fearless
as Mary Brooks
(1933)
Tillie and Gus
as Mary Sheridan (as Jacqueline Wells)
(1933)
Clancy of the Mounted
as Ann Laurie (as Jacqueline Wells)
(1932)
Any Old Port!
as Bride
(1932)
Heroes of the West
as Ann Blaine
(1932)
In Walked Charley
as Jackie
(1932)
You're Telling Me
as Jackie
(1932)
The Knockout
as Jackie (as Jacqueline Wells)
(1931)
Skip the Maloo!
as Miss Benson
(1928)
None But the Brave
as Miss Ireland
(1926)
The Family Upstairs
as Annabelle Heller (as Jaqueline Wells)
(1925)
Classified
as Jeanette
(1925)
The Home Maker
as Helen Knapp
(1924)
Captain Blood
as Little Girl
(1924)
The Good Bad Boy
as Child (uncredited)
(1924)
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
as Child Extra (as Jacqueline Wells)
(1923)
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
as Child (as Jacqueline Wells)
(1923)
Maytime
as Little Girl