Jim Bishop(1907-1987)

Writer

Jim Bishop was born on 21 November 1907 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He was a writer, known for Ford Star Jubilee (1955), El valle de los caídos (1963) and F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980). He was married to Elizabeth Kelly Stone, Elinor Margaret Dunning and Elinore Margaret Dunning. He died on 26 July 1987 in Delray Beach, Florida, USA.

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Ford Star Jubilee

7.0

TV Series

Writer

El valle de los caídos

Short

Writer

1963

F.D.R.: The Last Year

6.8

TV Movie

Writer

1980

The Day Lincoln Was Shot

7.2

TV Movie

Writer

1998

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Writer

The Day Lincoln Was Shot
7.2
TV Movie
- book
- 1998
F.D.R.: The Last Year
6.8
TV Movie
- book "FDR's Last Year"
- 1980
The Day Christ Died
5.9
TV Movie
- book
- 1980
El valle de los caídos
Short
- Writer
- 1963
Ford Star Jubilee
7.0
TV Series
- book
- 1956

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Born
- November 21, 1907
- Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Died
- July 26, 1987
- Delray Beach, Florida, USA
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Other works
Biography: "The Golden Ham: The Candid Biography of Jackie Gleason", about comic actor Jackie Gleason (1916 - 1987)
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- 1 Article

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Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 105-106. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

Quotes
I don't think of myself as a historian. A reporter, maybe. What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd just rather write a good story.

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