Ed Bishop
1932-06-11 ( 92 years old ) in Brooklyn - New York - USA

George Victor Bishop (11 June 1932 – 8 June 2005), known professionally as Ed Bishop or sometimes Edward Bishop, was an American actor. He was known for playing Commander Ed Straker in UFO, Captain Blue in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and for voicing Philip Marlowe in a series of BBC Radio adaptations of the Marlowe novels by Raymond Chandler. Bishop made his film acting debut as an ambulance driver in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 movie Lolita. He played an American astronaut going to the Moon in the film The Mouse on the Moon (1963) and also appeared in The Bedford Incident (1965) and Battle Beneath the Earth (1967). He had small speaking roles in the James Bond films You Only Live Twice (1967) and Diamonds Are Forever (1971), but was not included in the film credits for either. He appeared in a second Kubrick film, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), in which he played the Captain of the Aries 1B Moon shuttle. The role initially featured dialogue but this was later cut from his scenes. Bishop appeared in various film and television projects created by producer Gerry Anderson. He provided narration, in addition to the voice of Captain Blue, for Anderson's Supermarionation puppet series, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967), and appeared in Anderson's science-fiction film Doppelgänger (1969). Perhaps his most prominent screen role was that of Commander Ed Straker in Anderson's science-fiction series UFO (1970–71). Bishop's dark hair was initially dyed blond for the role, though he eventually wore a blond wig instead. In later years, he appeared in films such as Twilight's Last Gleaming, Saturn 3, Silver Dream Racer, and The Lords of Discipline. He provided vocal work for the 1974 animated TV series of Star Trek, and appeared as Lieutenant Colonel Harrity in the final episode of the British World War II prisoner-of-war drama Colditz. In the 1980s, he made several appearances on The Kenny Everett Television Show, Whoops Apocalypse (he also appeared in the subsequent film), and had a role in the children's television series Chocky's Children. He continued to act on film, TV and radio, usually in British and European productions, and was a frequent guest at science fiction conventions. He and fellow Anderson actor Shane Rimmer (a Canadian actor who often worked in the UK) joked about how frequently their professional paths crossed and termed themselves "Rent-a-yank". They appeared together as NASA operatives in the opening of You Only Live Twice and as United States Navy sailors in The Bedford Incident, as well as the 1983 film of the Harold Robbins novel The Lonely Lady. In 1989, Bishop was reunited with Rimmer and another Anderson actor, Matt Zimmerman, in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet. He and Rimmer also toured together in theatre shows, including Death of a Salesman in the 1990s, and they both appeared in the BBC drama-documentary Hiroshima (2005), one of Bishop's last TV projects.

Movies

Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted 2022-04-15
This Is Supermarionation 2014-10-12
500! 2001-02-09
2001: The Making of a Myth 2001-01-13
Captain Scarlet and the Return of the Mysterons 1999-12-31
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure 1999-10-06
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax 1999-05-20
Broken Glass 1996-10-19
White Christmas 1995-12-01
Funny Man 1994-06-10
Calliope 1994-02-06
Nudism: The Inside Story 1992-01-01
Born to Ride 1991-05-03
The Serpent of Death 1990-12-06
The Candy Show 1989-12-31
Testimony 1988-11-01
Three Wishes for Jamie 1987-03-09
Turnaround 1987-02-12
Whoops Apocalypse 1986-05-06
The Fifth Missile 1986-02-23
Restless Natives 1985-06-01
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story 1985-05-08
Wynne and Penkovsky 1985-02-01
Chocky's Children 1985-01-07
Threads 1984-09-23
The Master of Ballantrae 1984-01-31
The Lonely Lady 1983-10-02
The Lonely Lady 1983-10-02
Nutcracker 1982-12-17
London Is Drowning 1981-10-27
Rise and Fall of Idi Amin 1981-07-16
Stainless Steel and the Star Spies 1981-01-01
Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars 1981-01-01
Silver Dream Racer 1980-06-13
S.O.S. Titanic 1980-02-29
Saturn 3 1980-02-15
Captain Scarlet vs. The Mysterons 1980-01-01
Children of the Gods 1979-01-06
Brass Target 1978-12-22
Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet 1978-11-09
Madame Claude 1977-05-11
Twilight's Last Gleaming 1977-02-09
Into Infinity 1975-12-09
Death in Deep Water 1975-11-04
Nurse Will Make It Better 1975-01-11
UFO Contatto radar... Stanno atterrando! 1974-10-23
Pets 1973-10-01
The Baron: Mystery Island 1972-10-20
UFO - Prendeteli vivi 1972-08-15
UFO... annientare S.H.A.D.O. Stop. Uccidete Straker... 1972-05-23
Diamonds Are Forever 1971-12-14
Invasion: UFO 1971-09-06
UFO - Allarme rosso... Attacco alla Terra! 1971-09-06
UFO - Distruggete base Luna! 1971-06-18
Doppelgänger 1969-08-27
The Desperados 1969-02-28
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968-04-02
Battle Beneath the Earth 1967-10-01
You Only Live Twice 1967-06-13
The Bedford Incident 1965-10-11
Automania 2000 1964-06-12
Man in the Middle 1964-01-27
The Mouse on the Moon 1963-05-07
Big City 1963-04-08
The War Lover 1962-10-25

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