JULIE BISHOP BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
 
Julie Bishop was born on August 30th, 1914 in Denver, Colorado with the birth name Jacqueline Brown.  Her career as an actress began as a child appearing in a number of silent films and many of them Laurel and Hardy films such as, "Any Old Port!" and "The Bohemian Girl".

Her family raised her in Texas but eventually due to her interest in pursuing a full time career as an actress she relocated to Los Angeles, California and by the early 1940's she was signed to a contract with Warner Brothers.

Some of her early film roles included, "Northern Pursuit" (1943) starring Errol Flynn, Tom Tully, Gene Lockhart, Monte Blue, John Ridgely and Helmut Dantine, "Action in the North Atlantic" (1943) starring Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale Sr., Ruth Gordon, Dane Clark and Robert Mitchum in a bit part, "Cinderella Jones" (1946) starring Joan Leslie, Robert Alda, Edward Everett Horton, William Prince and Elisha Cook Jr., "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949) starring John Wayne, John Agar, Forrest Tucker, Richard Jaeckel, Adele Mara, Wally Cassell, James Brown, Richard Webb and Arthur Franz, "The High and the Mighty" (1954) starring John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Robert Stack, Laraine Day, Jan Sterling, Robert Newton, Phil Harris, John Qualen, Paul Fix, David Brian, Sidney Blackmer, Paul Kelly, Regis Toomey, Douglas Fowley, William Schallert and Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and "The Big Land" (1957) starring Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo, John Qualen and Edmond O'Brien.

Along with working as a film actress, Bishop remained appearing in a number of stage productions as well such as, "Hamlet" and "The Merchant of Venice".  Towards the end of her career, she mainly focused on television roles appearing on such series as, "My Hero", "Fireside Theatre", "TV Reader's Digest", "Warner Brothers Presents", "The Bob Cummings Show" and "Ethel Barrymore Theater".  

Julie Bishop married three times throughout her lifetime, first to Walter Booth Brooks III from 1936 through 1939.  She then married Clarence A. Shoop in 1944 and they had two children together and remained married until he passed away in 1968.  Her third husband was William F. Bergin whom she wed in 1968 and they were married until she passed away on August 30th, 2001, her birthday at the age of eighty seven in Mendocino, California after suffering from pneumonia.    

Filmography

1957         The Big Land
1956         Ethel Barrymore Theater 
1956         The Bob Cummings Show
1956         Warner Brothers Presents 
1955         Headline Hunters
1955         TV Reader's Digest 
1954         The High and the Mighty
1954         Fireside Theatre
1953         Sabre Jet
1952-1953     My Hero 
1951         Westward the Women
1951         Secrets of Beauty
1949         Sands of Iwo Jima
1949         The Threat
1949         Deputy Marshal
1947         High Tide
1947         Last of the Redmen
1946         Strange Conquest
1946         Murder in the Music Hall
1946         Cinderella Jones
1946         Idea Girl
1945         You Came Along
1945         Rhapsody in Blue
1943         Northern Pursuit
1943         Princess O'Rourke
1943         Action in the North Atlantic
1943         The Hard Way
1942         The Hidden Hand
1942         Busses Roar
1942         Escape from Crime
1942         I Was Framed
1942         Lady Gangster
1942         Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1941         Steel Against the Sky
1941         International Squadron
1941         The Nurse's Secret
1941         Back in the Saddle
1940         Her First Romance
1940         Young Bill Hickok
1940         The Ranger and the Lady
1940         Girl in 313
1939         My Son Is Guilty
1939         The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939         Torture Ship
1939         The Kansas Terrors
1939         Behind Prison Gates
1939         My Son Is a Criminal
1938         The Little Adventuress
1938         Spring Madness   
1938         Flight to Fame
1938         Highway Patrol
1938         The Main Event
1938         Flight Into Nowhere
1938         When G-Men Step In
1938         Little Miss Roughneck
1937         Paid to Dance
1937         She Married an Artist
1937         Counsel for Crime
1937         Girls Can Play
1937         The Frame-Up
1936         The Bohemian Girl
1936         Night Cargo
1935         Coronado
1935         Square Shooter
1934         Happy Landing
1934         Kiss and Make-Up
1934         The Loudspeaker
1934         The Black Cat
1933         Tillie and Gus
1933         Tarzan the Fearless
1933         Clancy of the Mounted
1932         Lights Out
1932         Heroes of the West
1932         In Walked Charley 
1932         You're Telling Me 
1932         The Knockout 
1932         Any Old Port!
1932         Zwei Ritter ohne Furcht und Tadel
1931         Scareheads
1931         Skip the Maloo!
1926         The Family Upstairs
1926         The Bar-C Mystery
1925         Classified
1925         The Home Maker
1925         The Golden Bed
1924         Captain Blood
1924         Good Bad Boy
1924         Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
1923         Maytime
1923         Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1923         Children of Jazz