Bob Dishy
Birth Place: Brooklyn, NY, USA
Latest News on Bob Dishy:
A History of Three-Handers on Broadway (Oct 5, 2025)
An In-Depth History of the Orpheum Theatre (Feb 9, 2025)
Have Any Broadway Plays Ever Closed Before They Opened? (Mar 18, 2023)
A History of Three-Handers on Broadway (Oct 5, 2025)
An In-Depth History of the Orpheum Theatre (Feb 9, 2025)
Have Any Broadway Plays Ever Closed Before They Opened? (Mar 18, 2023)
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STAGE CREDITS
[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1960
Patsy
Enemy
Performer
Child
Fred
Enemy
Fred
Child
Patsy
Performer
Productions
Movies
The Tiger Makes Out
[ 1967 ] Jerry
[ 1967 ] Jerry
I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?
[ 1975 ] Jordan Oliver
[ 1975 ] Jordan Oliver
The Big Bus
[ 1976 ] Dr. Kurtz
[ 1976 ] Dr. Kurtz
The Last Married Couple in America
[ 1980 ] Howard
[ 1980 ] Howard
First Family
[ 1980 ] Vice-President William Shockley
[ 1980 ] Vice-President William Shockley
Author! Author!
[ 1982 ] Morris Finestein
[ 1982 ] Morris Finestein
Brighton Beach Memoirs
[ 1986 ] Jack
[ 1986 ] Jack
Critical Condition
[ 1987 ] Dr. Foster
[ 1987 ] Dr. Foster
Used People
[ 1992 ] Jack
[ 1992 ] Jack
Stay Tuned
[ 1992 ] Murray Seidenbaum
[ 1992 ] Murray Seidenbaum
My Boyfriend's Back
[ 1993 ] Murray The Gravedigger
[ 1993 ] Murray The Gravedigger
Don Juan DeMarco
[ 1994 ] Dr. Paul Showalter
[ 1994 ] Dr. Paul Showalter
Jungle 2 Jungle
[ 1997 ] George Langston
[ 1997 ] George Langston
A Fish in the Bathtub
[ 1998 ] Lou Moskowitz
[ 1998 ] Lou Moskowitz
Judy Berlin
[ 1999 ] Arthur Gold
[ 1999 ] Arthur Gold
Labor Pains
[ 2000 ] Grant
[ 2000 ] Grant
Along Came Polly
[ 2004 ] Irving Feffer
[ 2004 ] Irving Feffer
A Broken Sole
[ 2006 ] Cabbie
[ 2006 ] Cabbie
The Wackness
[ 2008 ] Grandpa Shapiro
[ 2008 ] Grandpa Shapiro
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
[ 2014 ] Frank
[ 2014 ] Frank
TV Shows
A.E.S. Hudson Street
Dr. Friedman
Dr. Friedman
Columbo
Sgt. John J. Wilson, Sergeant Frederic Wilson
Sgt. John J. Wilson, Sergeant Frederic Wilson
Law & Order
Lawrence Weaver
Lawrence Weaver
?toile
[ 2025-2025 ] Grandpa Charles Fish
[ 2025-2025 ] Grandpa Charles Fish
Awards and Nominations
Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2000 - Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Bob Dishy The Price
winner
Drama Desk Awards - 1977 - Outstanding Featured Actor - Play
Bob Dishy, Sly Fox
Tony Awards - 1977 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Bob Dishy, Sly Fox
News
Have Any Broadway Plays Ever Closed Before They Opened?
by Jennifer Ashley Tepper - Mar 18, 2023
This month, the reader question was: Have any Broadway plays ever closed before they opened?
by Jennifer Ashley Tepper - Mar 18, 2023
This month, the reader question was: Have any Broadway plays ever closed before they opened?
Blythe Danner & Bob Dishy to Star in Food For Thought Productions Plays
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 18, 2022
FOOD FOR THOUGHT PRODUCTIONS, now in its 22nd year, will continue celebrating the oft-neglected one-act play and theatre at its best with Award-winning actors, writers and directors, with a tremendously fun production set for its 2022 Season Opener on March 28th.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 18, 2022
FOOD FOR THOUGHT PRODUCTIONS, now in its 22nd year, will continue celebrating the oft-neglected one-act play and theatre at its best with Award-winning actors, writers and directors, with a tremendously fun production set for its 2022 Season Opener on March 28th.
Food for Thought Productions Opens 2022 Season
by Marissa Tomeo - Mar 3, 2022
FOOD FOR THOUGHT PRODUCTIONS, now in its 22nd year, continues to celebrate the oft-neglected one-act play and theatre at its best with award-winning actors, writers and directors in tremendously fun productions set for their 2022 Season Opener on March 28th.
by Marissa Tomeo - Mar 3, 2022
FOOD FOR THOUGHT PRODUCTIONS, now in its 22nd year, continues to celebrate the oft-neglected one-act play and theatre at its best with award-winning actors, writers and directors in tremendously fun productions set for their 2022 Season Opener on March 28th.
Blythe Danner & Bob Dishy to Star in I CAN'T REMEMBER ANYTHING
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 30, 2021
FTP is back with, in her first FFTP appearance, Blythe Danner & Bob Dishy starring in Arthur Miller’s I CAN’T REMEMBER ANYTHING.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 30, 2021
FTP is back with, in her first FFTP appearance, Blythe Danner & Bob Dishy starring in Arthur Miller’s I CAN’T REMEMBER ANYTHING.
Food For Thought Productions Finishes 2021 Season With I CAN'T REMEMBER ANYTHING
by Stephi Wild - Nov 23, 2021
FOOD FOR THOUGHT PRODUCTIONS, now in its 21st year, continues celebrating the oft-neglected one-act play and theatre at its best with Award-winning actors, writers and directors, with a tremendously fun production on December 6th, 2021.
by Stephi Wild - Nov 23, 2021
FOOD FOR THOUGHT PRODUCTIONS, now in its 21st year, continues celebrating the oft-neglected one-act play and theatre at its best with Award-winning actors, writers and directors, with a tremendously fun production on December 6th, 2021.
Food For Thought Productions Presents Arthur Miller's I CAN'T REMEMBER ANYTHING
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 2, 2021
Food For Thought Productions, now in its 21st year, continues celebrating the oft-neglected one-act play and theatre at its best with Award-winning actors, writers and directors, with a tremendously fun second production on April 19th, 2021.
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 2, 2021
Food For Thought Productions, now in its 21st year, continues celebrating the oft-neglected one-act play and theatre at its best with Award-winning actors, writers and directors, with a tremendously fun second production on April 19th, 2021.
Food for Thought Productions Announces 2021 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 15, 2021
FOOD FOR THOUGHT PRODUCTIONS, now in its 21st year, will continue celebrating the oft-neglected one-act play and theatre at its best with Award-winning actors, writers and directors, with a tremendously fun opening on March 8th, 2021.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 15, 2021
FOOD FOR THOUGHT PRODUCTIONS, now in its 21st year, will continue celebrating the oft-neglected one-act play and theatre at its best with Award-winning actors, writers and directors, with a tremendously fun opening on March 8th, 2021.
Food For Thought Productions Presents Cady Huffman & Nathan Darrow in MRS. SORKEN and I CAN'T IMAGINE TOMORROW
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 5, 2020
Following its initial successful production in this era of isolation and social distancing - Marilyn Sokol & Bob Dishy in plays by Robert Anderson and Arthur Miller on July 13th - Food For Thought Productions will continue presenting monthly programs of staged readings at its new home of Theatre 80 St. Marks.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 5, 2020
Following its initial successful production in this era of isolation and social distancing - Marilyn Sokol & Bob Dishy in plays by Robert Anderson and Arthur Miller on July 13th - Food For Thought Productions will continue presenting monthly programs of staged readings at its new home of Theatre 80 St. Marks.
Food For Thought Productions Brings Live Theater Back to NYC
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 22, 2020
Food For Thought Productions, the award-winning theatre company, which began life in September 2000, may be the answer to the questiona?"How do you provide live theatre during a time when we are told to isolate and keep a distance?
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 22, 2020
Food For Thought Productions, the award-winning theatre company, which began life in September 2000, may be the answer to the questiona?"How do you provide live theatre during a time when we are told to isolate and keep a distance?
BWW Review: Relive Pioneering Series THE GREAT AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE with New DVD Set
by Jeffrey Walker - Oct 27, 2015
What is the American dream? This question and many others were asked and explored on a ground-breaking public television series from the early 1970s. Combining elements of variety shows and sketch comedy, documentary film, witty animated sequences, and a who's who of pop culture icons, THE GREAT AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE paved the way for future television programming. Years before SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and THE DAILY SHOW, a just before cult classics like THE GROOVE TUBE and KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE offered topical and satirical comedy on film, THE GREAT AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE was pioneering television.
by Jeffrey Walker - Oct 27, 2015
What is the American dream? This question and many others were asked and explored on a ground-breaking public television series from the early 1970s. Combining elements of variety shows and sketch comedy, documentary film, witty animated sequences, and a who's who of pop culture icons, THE GREAT AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE paved the way for future television programming. Years before SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and THE DAILY SHOW, a just before cult classics like THE GROOVE TUBE and KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE offered topical and satirical comedy on film, THE GREAT AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE was pioneering television.
MOZART IN THE JUNGLE Starring Bernadette Peters Ordered To Series By Amazon
by Pat Cerasaro - Mar 12, 2014
A first look at legendary two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway icon Bernadette Peters on the new Amazon pilot MOZART IN THE JUNGLE is now available to view.
by Pat Cerasaro - Mar 12, 2014
A first look at legendary two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway icon Bernadette Peters on the new Amazon pilot MOZART IN THE JUNGLE is now available to view.
I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE Among Warner Archive's New Releases
by Caryn Robbins - Sep 24, 2013
Warner Archive Collection announces New Releases, including Mr. Stewart Goes to Hollywood
by Caryn Robbins - Sep 24, 2013
Warner Archive Collection announces New Releases, including Mr. Stewart Goes to Hollywood
Richard Easton Kicks Off Food For Thought's New Season in THE PATIENT Tonight
by BWW News Desk - Mar 20, 2013
Food For Thought Productions, the award-winning theatre, opens its new season at The Players (16 Gramercy Park South) tonight, March 20th.
by BWW News Desk - Mar 20, 2013
Food For Thought Productions, the award-winning theatre, opens its new season at The Players (16 Gramercy Park South) tonight, March 20th.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How many Broadway shows has Bob Dishy been in?
Bob Dishy has appeared on Broadway in 17 shows.
How many West End shows has Bob Dishy been in?
Bob Dishy has not appeared in the West End.
What awards has Bob Dishy been nominated for?
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for The Price , Outstanding Featured Actor - Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Sly Fox and Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for Sly Fox.
What awards has Bob Dishy won?
Bob Dishy won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Sly Fox.
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