Joey Bishop

Comedian Joey Bishop in an October 1963 file photo. Bishop, the stone-faced comedian who found success in night clubs, television and movies but became most famous as a member of Frank Sinatra's boisterous Rat Pack, died at his home, on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007, of multiple causes. He was 89.

From left, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop star in the 1960 Warner Brothers' movie, "Ocean's Eleven." Bishop was the group's last surviving member: Lawford died in 1984, Davis Jr. in 1990, Martin in 1995, and Sinatra in 1998. Bishop died Oct. 18 at age 89.

Joey Bishop, left, and Frank Sinatra confer on stage before Sinatra's opening performance at the Sands Hotel, in Las Vegas, June 10, 1961. Reviewers often claimed that Bishop played a minor role in Sinatra's pack, but Sinatra knew otherwise. He termed the comedian "the Hub of the Big Wheel," with Bishop coming up with some of the best one-liners and beginning many jokes with his favorite phrase, "Son of a gun!"

Members of the "Rat Pack," from left, Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Joey Bishop, perform at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas Jan. 20, 1960.

Regis Philbin, left, rehearses routines with Joey Bishop on the set of "The Joey Bishop Show" at the ABC TV studio in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on Sept. 15, 1967. The show was cancelled after two seasons. Bishop later became a familiar guest figure in TV variety shows and as sub for vacationing talk show hosts, filling in for Johnny Carson 205 times.

Comedian Joey Bishop yells to the gallery during the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic golf tournament in Palm Desert, Calif., on Jan. 16, 1986. Bishop, the stone-faced comedian who found success in nightclubs, television and movies but became most famous as a member of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack, died Wednesday night of multiple causes at his home in Newport Beach, Calif., at 89.

Comedian Joey Bishop leaves the Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Beverly Hills, Calif., on May 20, 1998, after a funeral mass for Frank Sinatra. Bishop was born Joseph Abraham Gottlieb in the Bronx, N.Y., in 1918. In 1941, he married Sylvia Ruzga, who died in 1999 from lung cancer; they had one son, Larry Bishop.