William Bishop

William Bishop

Birthday: 1918-07-16

Place of Birth: Oak Park, Illinois, USA

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Paxton Bishop (July 16 1918 - October 3 1959) was an American television and movie actor from Oak Park, Illinois. He was best known for his role as Steve Connors on the 1950's NBC comedy series It's a Great Life[1] and for his roles in films including Harriet Craig, The Killer That Stalked New York and in numerous B-Movies and westerns such as The Tougher They Come, Gun Belt, The Basketball Fix, Cripple Creek and Wyoming Renegades. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Bishop (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

The Frogmen
The Frogmen

The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect o...

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The Killer That Stalked New York
The Killer That Stalked New York

In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels t...

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Coroner Creek
Coroner Creek

A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée's death....

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The Boss
The Boss

A crusading politician falls prey to the temptations of power....

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Short Cut to Hell
Short Cut to Hell

A hitman is found out because he was paid off in traceable stolen money. On the run, he kidnaps the...

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Young Ideas
Young Ideas

A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor....

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Harriet Craig
Harriet Craig

A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family....

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The Basketball Fix
The Basketball Fix

A college basketball star collaborrates with organized crime and becomes involved in 'point shaving....

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The Studebaker Story
The Studebaker Story

The history of the Studebaker family, their success at making wagons and the company's venture into ...

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The White Squaw
The White Squaw

A Swedish settler starts a war when he tries to drive Dakotas off their Wyoming reservation....

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Breakdown
Breakdown

A boxer (William Bishop) jailed for murder proves his girlfriend's (Ann Richards) wealthy father and...

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Anna Lucasta
Anna Lucasta

A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tri...

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Overland Pacific
Overland Pacific

A railroad investigator discovers that there's more than meets the eye to a series of reported India...

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Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek

It's 1893 and gold is being smuggled out of the country. Instead of stealing gold bars, the outlaws ...

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Lorna Doone
Lorna Doone

An English farmer leads a village uprising against their corrupt landlords....

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The Walking Hills
The Walking Hills

A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley....

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Port Said
Port Said

Travel author Leslie Sears arrives in Cairo, Egypt, to meet with Greg Stewart, an old war buddy who ...

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The Texas Rangers
The Texas Rangers

It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorio...

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The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail

In 1846, a reporter for the New York Herald joins a wagon train bound for the Oregon Territory. He h...

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Song of the Thin Man
Song of the Thin Man

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club....

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Adventures in Silverado
Adventures in Silverado

Author Robert Louis Stevenson takes a trip to Napa Valley, California, in 1880 and gets involved in ...

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Thunderhoof
Thunderhoof

Two men, one woman and one horse get into trouble....

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The Raiders
The Raiders

A rancher who has staked a claim during the California gold rush goes after the gang of murderous cl...

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The Phantom Stagecoach
The Phantom Stagecoach

A stagecoach is plagued by robberies, but it takes an undercover Wells Fargo agent to discover that ...

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Seeing Hands
Seeing Hands

This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities ...

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Top Gun
Top Gun

A gunslinger returns to his hometown to warn of an impending outlaw gang attack, but he's met with h...

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The Tougher They Come
The Tougher They Come

Set in a rugged Northwest logging camp, this drama follows the exploits of the lumberjack who inheri...

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Gun Belt
Gun Belt

Gunfighter Billy Ringo decides to hang up his guns, buy a ranch and marry Arlene Reach. His brother ...

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Wyoming Renegades
Wyoming Renegades

Brady Sutton returns from three years in prison and tries to go straight. One a member of the Butch ...

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The Untamed Breed
The Untamed Breed

A cowboy sets out to capture an escaped Brahma bull that is terrorizing local ranchers. Based on a s...

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Black Eagle
Black Eagle

Black Eagle is based on The Passing of Black Eagle, a short story by O. Henry. William Bishop stars ...

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The Redhead from Wyoming
The Redhead from Wyoming

A saloonkeeper sides with the sheriff for justice after she's framed for rustling....

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Lost Angel
Lost Angel

Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest sto...

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Slightly French
Slightly French

A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "Fren...

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The Romance of Rosy Ridge
The Romance of Rosy Ridge

A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest....

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A Guy Named Joe
A Guy Named Joe

A cocky U.S. Army Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female...

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Cry 'Havoc'
Cry 'Havoc'

The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn't what they expected. A ...

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Swing Fever
Swing Fever

Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers....

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Swing Shift Maisie
Swing Shift Maisie

Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in...

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The Star Wagon
The Star Wagon

An inventor, pondering on how he might differently have arranged his life, invents a time machine an...

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