Julie Bishop

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

81

Gender

Female

Birthday

1914-08-30

Deathday

2001-08-30 (87 years old)

Place of Birth

Denver, Colorado, USA

Also Known As

  • Jaqueline Wells
  • Diane Duval
  • Jacqueline Wells
  • Jacqueline Brown

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

The Black Cat
6.7%

The Black Cat

May 7, 1934

Sands of Iwo Jima
6.3%

Sands of Iwo Jima

Jan 1, 1950

Westward the Women
7.0%

Westward the Women

Dec 16, 1951

The Bohemian Girl
6.1%

The Bohemian Girl

Feb 14, 1936

Any Old Port!
7.0%

Any Old Port!

Mar 5, 1932

Hollywood Canteen
7.3%

Hollywood Canteen

Dec 15, 1944

The Threat
5.8%

The Threat

Dec 1, 1949

Princess O'Rourke
6.4%

Princess O'Rourke

Oct 23, 1943

The Hard Way
6.6%

The Hard Way

Jan 13, 1943

Lady Gangster
5.8%

Lady Gangster

Apr 1, 1942

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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
1952
My Hero
1951
Westward the Women as Laurie Smith
1951
Why Men Leave Home as Ruth Waldron
1950
Sands of Iwo Jima as Mary
1949
The Threat as Ann Williams
1949
Deputy Marshal as Claire Benton
1947
High Tide as Julie Vaughn
1947
Last of the Redmen as Cora Munro
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
You Came Along as Mrs. Taylor
1945
Rhapsody in Blue as Lee Gershwin
1944
Hollywood Canteen as Junior Hostess (uncredited)
1943
Northern Pursuit as Laura McBain
1943
Princess O'Rourke as Stewardess (uncredited)
1943
Action in the North Atlantic as Pearl O'Neill
1943
The Hard Way as Chorine (Uncredited)
1942
The Hidden Hand as Rita Channing
1942
Busses Roar as Reba Richards
1942
Escape from Crime as Molly O'Hara
1942
I Was Framed as Ruth Marshall
1942
Lady Gangster as Myrtle Reed
1942
Wild Bill Hickok Rides as Violet
1941
Steel Against the Sky as Myrt
1941
International Squadron as Mary Wyatt
1941
The Nurse's Secret as Florence Lentz
1941
Back in the Saddle as Taffy
1940
Her First Romance as Eileen Strong
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
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
Torture Ship as Joan Martel
1939
The Kansas Terrors as Maria del Montez
1939
Behind Prison Gates as Sheila Murray (as Jacqueline Wells)
1939
My Son Is a Criminal as Myrna Kingsley (as Jacqueline Wells)
1938
Spring Madness as Mady Platt
1938
Flight to Fame as Barbara Fiske
1938
Highway Patrol as Jane Brady (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
Little Miss Roughneck as Mary LaRue (as Jacqueline Wells)
1937
Paid to Dance as Joan Bradley
1937
She Married an Artist as Betty Dennis
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)
1936
The Bohemian Girl as Arline as an Adult
1936
Night Cargo as Claire Martineau, alias Marty
1935
Coronado as Barbara Forrest (as Jacqueline Wells)
1935
Square Shooter as Sally Wayne
1934
Happy Landing as Janet Curtis
1934
The Loudspeaker as Janet Melrose (as Jacqueline Wells)
1934
The Black Cat as Joan Alison
1933
Tillie and Gus as Mary Sheridan (as Jacqueline Wells)
1933
Tarzan the Fearless as Mary Brooks
1933
Clancy of the Mounted as Ann Laurie (as Jacqueline Wells)
1932
Heroes of the West as Ann Blaine
1932
In Walked Charley as Jackie
1932
You're Telling Me as Jackie
1932
Any Old Port! as Bride
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
The Home Maker as Helen Knapp
1925
Classified as Jeanette
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
Maytime as Little Girl
1923
Bluebeard's 8th Wife as Child (as Jacqueline Wells)
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