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Bob Dishy
American actor (active 1967–2014) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bob Dishy is an American actor of stage, film, and television.
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Early life and education
Dishy grew up in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. His father, a salesman, was born in Beirut and his mother in Jerusalem. He is of Sephardic Jewish origin.[1]
Dishy first became interested in acting while in fifth grade, when he performed in a student play. After graduating from New Utrecht High School,[1] he majored in drama at Syracuse University, graduating in 1955.[2]
While at Syracuse he performed in student musical productions. He also performed at resorts that maintained resident summer theater companies, Green Mansions in New York and Tamiment in Pennsylvania, that put on new revues every week. He worked alongside Carol Burnett, Woody Allen and Sheldon Harnick.[1]
Upon graduation from Syracuse he was cast as a baseball player in Damn Yankees.[2] His acting career was interrupted by service in the U.S. Army in the late 1950s,[3] during which he toured military bases in a show called Rolling Along in '57 after winning an All-Army Entertainment Contest.[1]
Career
Dishy played Sergeant John J. Wilson, Columbo's polite, respectful assistant in two episodes of Columbo ("Now You See Him" and "The Greenhouse Jungle"); Rose’s titular love interest “Mister Terrific” in an episode of The Golden Girls; and Dr. Schenkman, the marriage counselor for Niles and Maris, in an episode of Frasier. He also appeared in several episodes of Law & Order.
His film appearances include Lovers and Other Strangers (1970), I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now? (1975), The Big Bus (1976), The Last Married Couple in America (1980), First Family (1980), Author! Author! (1982), Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986), Critical Condition (1987), Stay Tuned (1992), Used People (1992), Don Juan DeMarco (1994), Jungle 2 Jungle (1997) and Along Came Polly (2004).
He was a regular on That Was The Week That Was, a weekly satirical series that aired on NBC-TV in 1964–65.
He made his stage debut as a replacement for the ballplayer Rocky in the original run of the hit musical Damn Yankees: a role he reprised ten years later for the TV adaptation. In 1965 Dishy co-starred with Liza Minnelli in the Broadway musical, "Flora, The Red Menace" directed by George Abbott.
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Selected appearances
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- 2025 Étoile as Grandpa Charles Fish
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