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.
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its...
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You Only Live Twice
as Hawaii CapCom (uncredited)A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two...
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Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a...
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Threads
as US President (voice) (uncredited)Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of...
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S.O.S. Titanic
as Henry HarrisThe Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
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Doppelgänger
as David PoulsonA planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of...
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The Bedford Incident
as Lieutenant Hacker U.S.N. - CommunicationsDuring a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior...
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Maj. FoxA renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM...
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Saturn 3
as Harding (uncredited)In the future, Earth is overcrowded and the population relies on distant bases to be fed. In the...
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Madame Claude
as SmithBased on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network...
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Brass Target
as Col. StewartGeneral George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. ...
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Man in the Middle
as uncreditedIn a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American...
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The Desperados
as Army Captain (voice)A Confederate and his sons become postwar marauders and face another son who left them, in Texas.
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The Mouse on the Moon
as American AstronautSequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in...
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The War Lover
as VogtBuzz Rickson is a dare-devil World War II bomber pilot with a death wish. Failing at everything...
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The Lonely Lady
as Dr. BakerA young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.
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The Lonely Lady
as uncreditedA young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.
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as ReporterTwo lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks...
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Invasion: UFO
as Cmdr. Ed StrakerThe Earth is threatened by an alien race who kidnap and kill humans and even animals and use...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure
as SentryIndy and his girlfriend, Nancy Stratemeyer, whose father created the Nancy Drew mystery series,...
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Silver Dream Racer
as Al PetersonDavid Essex stars as Nick Freeman, a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother,...
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Pets
as Victor StackmanNaive, but brash and sultry teenage runaway Bonnie finds herself lost and adrift in America. The...
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The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
as CarstairsWhen her doctor recommends that a widow pursue her unfulfilled life ambitions, he doesn't...
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The Serpent of Death
as GrantAn archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it.
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Funny Man
as Card PlayerWhen Max Taylor wins the ancestral home of Callum Chance in a game of Poker, little does he...
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Born to Ride
as Dr. TateThe US Army has decided to modernize its cavalry, so Colonel James E. Devers is ordered by a...
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Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.
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Testimony
as American CommentatorThe story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career...
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The Fifth Missile
as Adm. Stewart CullinaneThe crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is...
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2001: The Making of a Myth
as SelfThe making of Stanley Kubrick's classic space epic, presented by James Cameron, including unseen...
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Nutcracker
as Sam DozierA Russian ballet dancer defects from the USSR, emigrates to England, and joins a ballet company...
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Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
as uncreditedThe true story of Bill Johnson, the first US men's skiing gold medal winner, whose Olympics...
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Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet
as Prof. GoonmeyerA drama documentary of the life and death of the poet Dylan Thomas, who died in New York 25...
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Three Wishes for Jamie
as ProddyAdapted from Charles O'Neal's 1949 book, this follows the lighthearted adventures of a late 19th...
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Battle Beneath the Earth
as Lt. Cmdr. Vance Cassidy (as Edward Bishop)Government officials discover a horrible plot: the Chinese are tunneling their way to the United...
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Broken Glass
as Stanton CaseAdaptation of Arthur Miller's play set in Brooklyn 1938, focusing on the marriage of Sylvia and...
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Turnaround
as GeraldMagicians grandson and his girlfriend and their friends are victimized by a bike gang of her...
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Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted
as Self (archive footage)Gerry Anderson’s successful career spanned 60 years. Released a decade after his death, this...
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Into Infinity
as TV AnnouncerThe spaceship Altares, with a photon drive capable of accelerating it to the speed of light,...
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Whoops Apocalypse
as Wink Persiman (TV interviewer)When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous...
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UFO... annientare S.H.A.D.O. Stop. Uccidete Straker...
as Com.te Ed Straker
Big City
as Narrator (as Edward Bishop)A glimpse of London in 1963, viewing monuments, buildings, parks, museums, and the bustling life...
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500!
as Padre JonesWhile world religious leaders gather for a top secret meeting in La Spezia, the Reverend Jones,...
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Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars
as Captain Blue (voice) (archive footage)A compilation of four episodes from the Supermarionation series Captain Scarlet and the...
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Nurse Will Make It Better
as CarsonA woman is hired to care for a young paraplegic girl at her father's estate. Unbeknownst to...
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This Is Supermarionation
as Captain Blue (voice)A compilation of the best of Supermarionation in High Definition. Sit back and enjoy some rare...
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Death in Deep Water
as Gang Boss (voice)A former hitman hides out in a remote fishing village but his secret soon begins to surface.
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The Master of Ballantrae
as PinkertonThe Master of Ballantrae is a 1984 TV movie based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis...
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White Christmas
as uncreditedDorothy has a grand adventure in Weatherland with her brother Peter and Scratcher the dog....
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Chocky's Children
as Dr. DeaconA year has passed since Matthew said goodbye to his alien friend, and in the summer holidays he...
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London Is Drowning
as American reporterA fictional look at what might happen if the Thames were to flood before completion of the...
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Wynne and Penkovsky
as AlexanderThe true story of Greville Wynne, the British businessman who doubled as a spy on his trips to...
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Captain Scarlet vs. The Mysterons
as Captain Blue (voice) (archive footage)A compilation of four episodes from the Supermarionation series Captain Scarlet and the...
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The Saint
as George FelsonSimon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...
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The Saint
as Tony AllardSimon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...
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The Saint
as Cy ImberlineSimon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...
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Highlander: The Series
as Edward BannerDuncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's...
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Waking the Dead
as TylerA detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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The Professionals
as Dr. Ernest HarbingerThe lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...
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The Professionals
as BraddockThe lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...
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The Protectors
as Colonel John HunterThe Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It...
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Out of the Unknown
as uncreditedOut of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by...
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Thriller
as CarsonThriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is...
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The Adventurer
as WayneThe Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran...
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UFO
as Comandante Ed StrakerA secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.
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UFO
as Cmdr. Ed StrakerA secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.
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The Kenny Everett Television Show
as VariousSketch comedy show starring Kenny Everett.
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The Kenny Everett Television Show
as GuestSketch comedy show starring Kenny Everett.
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Star Trek
as Asmodeus (voice) (uncredited)The animated adventures of Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and the crew of the Starship Enterprise.
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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
as Narrator / Captain Blue (voice)Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British...
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Man in a Suitcase
as uncreditedAccused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name,...
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Colditz
as Lt. Col. HarrityColditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened...
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Warship
as uncreditedWarship was a popular British television drama series produced by the BBC between 1973 and 1977....
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Sherlock Holmes
as uncreditedSherlock Holmes is a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television...
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Two's Company
as JackTwo's Company is a British television situation comedy series that ran from 1975-79. Produced by...
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2Point4 Children
as ChetThey're just your average family. Stressed mum Bill, daft dad Ben, and two troublesome teens....
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Quiller
as Frank IlroyQuiller is a British drama television . Quiller is the alias of a fictional spy created by...
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Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
as District AttorneyPhilip Marlowe, Private Eye is a British mystery series that aired on ITV in the United Kingdom...
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1990
as uncreditedThe series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's...
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Strange Report
as MoranStrange Report is a British television Adam Strange, a retired Home Office criminologist,...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as PinkertonHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
as StrasserAnn, a former chorus girl marries above herself into a rich society family, but her...
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Whoops Apocalypse
as Jay GarrickWhoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 British sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made...
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The Mad Death
as Tom SieglerA French visitor to Scotland smuggles her cat into the country, sparking a terrifying outbreak...
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