Tish Howard Bio
Tish Howard is an American glamour and nude model. She was born on July 4, 1946, in New York City, New York. Playboy named her its July 1966 Playmate at 19. Her appearance came during the 1960s, as Playboy grew into a major force in American magazine publishing.
Howard has natural breasts, hazel eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 34-23-34.
Tish Howard’s centerfold arrived in the magazine as a study in straightforward portraiture—shot by William Figge and Ed DeLong, the pictures favor a sunlit, unembellished approach that put her composure and camera ease at the center of the frame. The pair’s work allowed the subject’s natural presence to register without artifice, a sensibility that read as modern and quietly confident amid the glossy pages.
That same easy quality carried her into the finals of Playboy’s 1967 Playmate of the Year contest, where she stood alongside fellow 1966 Playmates Susan Denberg and the eventual winner Lisa Baker. Advancing to those finals was one of the clearest public milestones of her short-run visibility in the magazine’s roster.
Contemporary coverage and collectors’ notes point to a brief but noticeable stretch of modeling work after the feature; editors and readers responded to what photographers called a relaxed, camera-friendly presence rather than to staged glamour. That distinction—photographic ease over theatrical pose—helped her images sit comfortably with the magazine’s visual tone at the time.
Today, the Figge–DeLong spreads and her Playmate of the Year finalist credit are the most durable traces of Howard’s public life in print: concise artifacts that capture a particular kind of magazine-era glamour without turning it into an oversized narrative.
