Bob Dishy

Bob Dishy is an American actor of stage, film, and television.

Biography

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. His acting career was interrupted by service in the U.S. Army in the late 1950s, during which he toured military bases in a show called Rolling Along in '57 after winning an All-Army Entertainment Contest.

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.

Selected appearances YearTitle 1955 Damn Yankees 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" 1974An 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 1987 Critical Condition 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 A Fish in the Bathtub Frasier 1999 The Price 2002 Morning's at Seven 2004 Along Came Polly Sly Fox 2014 The Angriest Man in Brooklyn 2025 Étoile