William Bishop(1918-1959)
- Actor
William attended grammar and high schools in New York and New Jersey.
Upon graduation, he enrolled at West Virginia University where he
planned to study law and played football and tennis. One summer, his
uncle got him a job at the Suffern County (in New York) Theatre. He
worked with actors
Broderick Crawford,
George Tobias,
José Ferrer and
Kent Smith. After that experience, he
decided to continue with theatre and left college and toured with
"Tobacco Road". He had a brief stint with the Mercury theatre in New
York and then left for Hollywood and was signed to an MGM contract. He
was supposed to have made a movie with
Esther Williams which never came
about. Then it was off to the Army. Discharged in 1946, he spent three
years with Columbia before freelancing. He starred for the entire run
of the TV series
It's a Great Life (1954).
