| Joey Bishop  AKA Joseph Abraham Gottlieb
Born: 3-Feb-1918
Birthplace: Bronx, NY
Died: 17-Oct-2007
Location of death: Newport Beach, CA
Cause of death: Natural Causes
Remains: Cremated (ashes scattered at sea)
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Comic, Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Rat Pack member Joey Bishop grew up in South Philadelphia, and started his comedy career doing vaudeville. Still known as Joey Gottlieb, he was briefly in a comedy group that called itself "The Bishop Trio", named for the group's driver. When the act broke up, Bishop kept the name for himself.
His sitcom, The Joey Bishop Show, ran from 1961-65, with Bishop playing a showbiz schmooze-type who (in the second season) became host of a TV talk show. When he hosted a talk show in real life, also called The Joey Bishop Show (1967-69), his sidekick and comic foil was the young Regis Philbin. As a running gag, Bishop routinely needled Philbin on the air, but the gags ended when Regis stalked off the set during a live broadcast, and stayed away for several days.
Bishop seems generally the least-remembered member of the Rat Pack, five cool stars and pals of the 1950s and 60s (the other four were Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Peter Lawford). He appeared in the Rat Pack movies Oceans Eleven (1960) and Sergeants Three (1962). He said or did something that annoyed Sinatra (it's unclear exactly what) and was booted from the pack while their next film, (Robin and the Seven Hoods), was in pre-production.
Father: Jacob Gottlieb
Mother: Anna Gottlieb
Wife: Sylvia Ruzga (m. 1941, d. 1999)
Son: Larry Bishop
High School: (dropped out at age 16)
Rat Pack
TELEVISION
The Joey Bishop Show Joey Barnes (1961-65)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Mad Dog Time (8-Nov-1996)
Betsy's Wedding (22-Jun-1990)
The Delta Force (14-Feb-1986)
Valley of the Dolls (15-Dec-1967) · MC at Telethon
Who's Minding the Mint? (26-Sep-1967)
A Guide for the Married Man (25-May-1967)
Texas Across the River (26-Oct-1966) · Kronk
Johnny Cool (2-Oct-1963) · Used Car Salesman
Sergeants 3 (10-Feb-1962)
Pepe (21-Dec-1960) · Himself
Ocean's Eleven (10-Aug-1960) · "Mushy" O'Connors
Onionhead (1-Oct-1958) · Gutsell
The Naked and the Dead (6-Aug-1958) · Roth
The Deep Six (15-Jan-1958) · Ski Krokowski
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