Effective period / Period of releases: 1907 - 1910

Australian singer (basso cantata), musician, actor, music director/conductor (stage/radio), producer (stage/radio), entrepreneur, troupe manager.

Humphrey Bishop built his reputation as a singer touring England and South Africa before taking his own company on tour through the East in 1915. He came to Australia in late-1916 and left seven months later for South Africa and another tour of the East with a company comprising mostly local artists. After returning to Australia in 1920 Bishop established himself as one of Australasia’s pre-eminent high-class variety and music theatre showmen, touring his companies extensively throughout the region up until the early 1930s. He began his association with radio in 1924 and turned to the medium full-time in 1932 with the newly-established Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). He was still hosting his Cavalcade for 2CH as late as 1955.