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

Dishy grew up in theBensonhurst section ofBrooklyn. His father, a salesman, was born inBeirut and his mother inJerusalem. He is ofSephardic Jewish origin.^[1]

Dishy first became interested in acting while infifth grade, when he performed in a student play. After graduating fromNew Utrecht High School,^[1] he majored in drama atSyracuse University, graduating in 1955.^[2]

While at Syracuse he performed in student musical productions. He also performed at resorts that maintained resident summer theater companies, Green Mansions in New York andTamiment in Pennsylvania, that put on newrevues every week. He worked alongsideCarol Burnett,Woody Allen andSheldon Harnick.^[1]

Upon graduation from Syracuse he was cast as a baseball player inDamn Yankees.^[2] His acting career was interrupted by service in theU.S. Army in the late 1950s,^[3] during which hetoured military bases in a show calledRolling Along in '57 after winning an All-Army Entertainment Contest.^[1]

Dishy played Sergeant John J. Wilson, Columbo's polite, respectful assistant in two episodes ofColumbo ("Now You See Him" and "The Greenhouse Jungle"); Rose’s titular love interest “Mister Terrific” in an episode ofThe Golden Girls; and Dr. Schenkman, the marriage counselor for Niles and Maris, in an episode ofFrasier. He also appeared in several episodes ofLaw & Order.

His film appearances includeLovers 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) andAlong Came Polly (2004).

He was a regular onThat 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 musicalDamn Yankees: a role he reprised ten years later for theTV adaptation. In 1965 Dishy co-starred withLiza Minnelli in the Broadway musical, "Flora, The Red Menace" directed byGeorge Abbott.

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