Joey Bishop was born on February 3, 1918 in The Bronx, New
York.
Joseph Abraham Gottlieb is Joey Bishop birth name.
Since 1941 Joey Bishop has been married to Sylvia Ruzga since
1941, their son Larry Bishop is an actor-turned-director he
was in KILL BILL VOL 2 and MAD DOG TIME.
MAD DOG TIME was written and directer by Larry Bishop he
also played the role of Nick in the movie. Larry's dad Joey
Bishop played MR. Gottlieb oddly enought his character was
Bishops brith name.
Joey Bishop and the other members of the Rat Pack were not
aloud to attend Marilyn Monroe's funeral, they were banned
by Joe DiMaggio.
In the 1998 TV Movie THE RAT PACK Joey Bishop is portrayed
by Bobby Slayton. Then in 1992 Bishop was portrayeed again
by Shelly Lipkin in SINATRA.
Joey Bishop was part of the hit movie OCEAN'S ELEVEN, it
was a great movie but i think it has been given most of its
publicity from the group known as The Rat Pack another claim
to fame movie was SERGEANTS 3 in 1962 including again Bishop
and The Rat Pack which includied Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin,
Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford.
Starting out and being credited as Joey Gottlieb is were
Joey Bishop worked in vaudeville with comedy act including
his brother at the time, later Joey joined a comedy group
called The Bishop Trio.
After The Bishop Trio broke up and went there separate way,
Joey kept the name of the group for himself changing his name
to Joey Bishop.
In the early 1960's Joey Bishop has his own TV series playing
Joey Barnes in THE JOEY BISHOP SHOW he was the host of the
series, at this time his co-host was Regis Philbin.
For the next season of THE JOEY BISHOP SHOW, they added characters
one of them being Abby Dalton playing the wife Ellie. Pulling
out all the stops Joey Bishop had several up and coming stars
on his show like Bill Bixby and Marlo Thomas.
A talk show favorite Joey Bishop was on WHAT'S MY LINE? several
time, he was also on THE TINIGHT SHOW WITH JOHNNY CARSON an
amazing 177 times. Having other guest spot on shows like THE
STEVE ALLEN SHOW and THE JACK PAAR SHOW.
Joey Bishop's other notable credits include...
