Ed Bishop

Ed Bishop

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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1932-06-11
Place of Birth: Brooklyn - New York - USA
Also Known As: Edward Bishop , George Victor Bishop

Movies List of Ed Bishop

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2001: A Space Odyssey

1968 Movie
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Into Infinity

1975 Movie
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Doppelgänger

1969 Movie
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Calliope

1994 Movie
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The Candy Show

1989 Movie
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The Lonely Lady

1983 Movie
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The Fifth Missile

1986 Movie
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Pets

1973 Movie
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Chocky's Children

1985 Movie
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Saturn 3

1980 Movie
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Nutcracker

1982 Movie
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Diamonds Are Forever

1971 Movie
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The Desperados

1969 Movie
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Testimony

1988 Movie
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Invasion: UFO

1971 Movie
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Madame Claude

1977 Movie
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The Bedford Incident

1965 Movie
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Big City

1963 Movie
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The War Lover

1962 Movie
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Man in the Middle

1964 Movie
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Wynne and Penkovsky

1985 Movie
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UFO - Prendeteli vivi

1972 Movie
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The Lonely Lady

1983 Movie
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Turnaround

1987 Movie
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S.O.S. Titanic

1980 Movie
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Children of the Gods

1979 Movie
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500!

2001 Movie
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Automania 2000

1964 Movie
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Restless Natives

1985 Movie
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Silver Dream Racer

1980 Movie
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Broken Glass

1996 Movie
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Born to Ride

1991 Movie
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Threads

1984 Movie
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Funny Man

1994 Movie
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Brass Target

1978 Movie
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You Only Live Twice

1967 Movie
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The Serpent of Death

1990 Movie
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London Is Drowning

1981 Movie
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Turnaround

1987 Movie
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White Christmas

1995 Movie
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The Mouse on the Moon

1963 Movie
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Death in Deep Water

1975 Movie
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Whoops Apocalypse

1986 Movie