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Bob Dishy | |
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| Born | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Stage, television actor |
| Years active | 1960-2014 |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
Bob Dishy is an American actor of stage, film, and television.
Dishy served in the U.S. Army in the late 1950s, [1] touring military bases in a show called Rolling Along in '57 after winning an All-Army Entertainment Contest. [2]
He 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.
He went on to appear on Broadway and in television in:
| Year | Title |
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| 1960 | From A to Z |
| 1965 | Flora the Red Menace |
| 1967 | The Unknown Soldier and His Wife |
| Something Different | |
| 1968 | The Goodbye People |
| 1969 | A Way of Life |
| 1971 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| That Girl | |
| 1972 | The Creation of the World and Other Business |
| All in the Family | |
| Columbo , episode "The Greenhouse Jungle" | |
| 1974 | An American Millionaire |
| 1976 | Sly Fox |
| Columbo , episode "Now You See Him" | |
| 1978 | Alice |
| 1979 | Murder at the Howard Johnson's |
| 1980 | Barney Miller |
| 1981 | Grownups |
| 1986 | Brighton Beach Memoirs |
| 1988 | The Golden Girls |
| 1989 | Cafe Crown |
| The Tenth Man | |
| 1993 | My Boyfriend's Back |
| 1994 | Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story |
| Don Juan DeMarco | |
| 1998 | Frasier |
| 1999 | The Price |
| 2002 | Morning's at Seven |
| 2004 | Along Came Polly |
| Sly Fox | |
| 2014 | The Angriest Man in Brooklyn |
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