The crossword solution for the term 'Bishop in 'ALIEN' films, for short' is DROID, a five-letter word. Bishop was an ANDROID character in the 1979 science fiction horror film ALIEN and its 1986 sequel Aliens. He was portrayed by actor Lance Henriksen and was a synthetic life form created by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. The term 'DROID' is a shortened version of 'ANDROID' and is often used to refer to any artificial being in science fiction.