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Ed Bishop

Ed Bishop

Actor · 1932 – 2005 · 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.

Movies24

  • Movie8.0

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968 · 12K votes

  • Movie6.6

    You Only Live Twice

    1967 · 2.6K votes

  • Movie7.3

    Lolita

    1962 · 2.3K votes

  • Movie6.4

    Diamonds Are Forever

    1971 · 2.4K votes

  • Movie5.3

    Saturn 3

    1980 · 232 votes

  • Movie7.6

    Threads

    1984 · 438 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Madame Claude

    1977 · 22 votes

  • Movie6.0

    S.O.S. Titanic

    1980 · 43 votes

  • Movie6.0

    The War Lover

    1962 · 36 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Twilight's Last Gleaming

    1977 · 82 votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Bedford Incident

    1965 · 101 votes

  • Movie5.9
  • Movie5.4

    Pets

    1973 · 36 votes

  • Movie4.6

    The Lonely Lady

    1983 · 20 votes

  • Movie5.8

    White Christmas

    1995 · 4 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Whoops Apocalypse

    1986 · 19 votes

  • Movie

    Turnaround

    1987 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Mouse on the Moon

    1963 · 32 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Brass Target

    1978 · 40 votes

  • Movie4.2

    The Desperados

    1969 · 23 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Man in the Middle

    1964 · 25 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Doppelgänger

    1969 · 136 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Hiroshima

    2005 · 60 votes

  • Movie3.0

    Paul Starr

    1964 · 1 votes

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  • TV6.6

    American Playhouse

    1982 · 8 votes

  • TV7.4

    Highlander: The Series

    1992 · 434 votes

  • TV7.2

    Waking the Dead

    2001 · 45 votes

  • TV7.4

    The Saint

    1962 · 136 votes

  • TV7.2

    Theatre 625

    1964 · 5 votes

  • TV7.6

    The Professionals

    1977 · 47 votes

  • TV6.3

    Performance

    1991 · 2 votes

  • TV7.0
  • TV6.1

    The Protectors

    1972 · 14 votes

  • TV7.0

    Thriller

    1973 · 12 votes

  • TV7.7

    UFO

    1970 · 62 votes

  • TV7.1

    Out of the Unknown

    1965 · 8 votes

  • TV6.9

    Star Trek

    1973 · 186 votes

  • TV7.2

    Man in a Suitcase

    1967 · 10 votes

  • TV7.3
  • TV7.5
  • TV6.8
  • TV6.3

    The Adventurer

    1972 · 7 votes

  • TV7.3

    2point4 Children

    1991 · 21 votes

  • TV8.8

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    1951 · 8 votes

  • TV7.7

    Colditz

    1972 · 14 votes

  • TV6.7

    Warship

    1973 · 3 votes

  • TV7.0

    Wilde Alliance

    1978 · 3 votes

  • TV6.9

    Sherlock Holmes

    1964 · 20 votes