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Home/People/Julie Bishop
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Born
Aug 30, 1914Died: Aug 30, 2001
Lived 87 years
Place of Birth
Denver, Colorado, USA
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female

Career Highlights

82
Movies
1
TV Shows
Also Known As
Jaqueline Wells
Diane Duval
Jacqueline Wells
Jacqueline Brown
IMDb Profile

Julie Bishop

Acting

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.
Tarzan the Fearless poster

Tarzan the Fearless

as Mary Brooks
1964
The Big Land poster

The Big Land

as Kate Johnson
1957
Headline Hunters poster

Headline Hunters

as Laura Stewart
1955
The High and the Mighty poster

The High and the Mighty

as Lillian Pardee
1954
Sabre Jet poster

Sabre Jet

as Marge Hale
1953
Westward the Women poster

Westward the Women

as Laurie Smith
1951
Why Men Leave Home poster

Why Men Leave Home

as Ruth Waldron
1951
Sands of Iwo Jima poster

Sands of Iwo Jima

as Mary
1950
The Threat poster

The Threat

as Ann Williams
1949
Deputy Marshal poster

Deputy Marshal

as Claire Benton
1949
High Tide poster

High Tide

as Julie Vaughn
1947
Last of the Redmen poster

Last of the Redmen

as Cora Munro
1947
Murder in the Music Hall poster

Murder in the Music Hall

as Diane
1946
Strange Conquest poster

Strange Conquest

as Virginia Sommers
1946
Cinderella Jones poster

Cinderella Jones

as Camille
1946
Idea Girl poster

Idea Girl

as Pat O'Rourke
1946
You Came Along poster

You Came Along

as Mrs. Taylor
1945
Rhapsody in Blue poster

Rhapsody in Blue

as Lee Gershwin
1945
Hollywood Canteen poster

Hollywood Canteen

as Junior Hostess (uncredited)
1944
Northern Pursuit poster

Northern Pursuit

as Laura McBain
1943