Silent Movie Actress Bishop Dies

MENDOCINO, Calif. (AP) - Julie Bishop, an actress whose career stretched from silent films to the early days of television, has died. She was 87.

Bishop died of pneumonia in Mendocino on Aug. 30, her 87th birthday, said her daughter, Pamela Shoop Sweeney.

Bishop, who also acted under the name of Diane Duval and her birth name of Jacqueline Wells, appeared in 84 movies, beginning with the silent film ``Children of Jazz'' in 1923 and ending with ``The Big Land'' starring Alan Ladd in 1957.

Bishop appeared with Humphrey Bogart in the early World War II film ``Action in the North Atlantic,'' with John Wayne in ``Sands of Iwo Jima,'' and with Bob Cummings in the television series ``My Hero'' in the early 1950s. She also acted in films starring Clara Bow, Mary Pickford, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry.

Bishop was a licensed private pilot, an accomplished painter and was active in charitable work, beginning with entertaining soldiers at the Hollywood Canteen during World War II.

She is survived by her third husband, William Bergin, a daughter, a son, and a grandson.

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