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 adap ... tations 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.
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| Organization | Category | Movie |
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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
as Narrator / Captain Blue (voice)
Episodes: 32
First Aired: Sep 29, 1967
UFO
as Cmdr. Ed Straker
Episodes: 26
First Aired: Sep 16, 1970
Whoops Apocalypse
as Jay Garrick
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Mar 14, 1982
The Saint
as George Felson
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Oct 04, 1962
The Kenny Everett Television Show
as Various
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Feb 25, 1982
The Mad Death
as Tom Siegler
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Jul 16, 1983
Waking the Dead
as Tyler
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jun 18, 2001
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
as Strasser
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Feb 08, 1987
Colditz
as Lt. Col. Harrity
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 19, 1972
Star Trek
as Asmodeus (voice) (uncredited)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 08, 1973
The Protectors
as Colonel John Hunter
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 29, 1972
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Pinkerton
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 24, 1951
Quiller
as Frank Ilroy
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 29, 1975
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
as District Attorney
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 16, 1983
Thriller
as Carson
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 14, 1973
The Adventurer
as Wayne
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 29, 1972
2Point4 Children
as Chet
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 03, 1991
Two's Company
as Jack
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 06, 1975
Highlander: The Series
as Edward Banner
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 03, 1992
The Saint
as Tony Allard
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 04, 1962
The Saint
as Cy Imberline
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 04, 1962
The Professionals
as Dr. Ernest Harbinger
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 30, 1977
The Professionals
as Braddock
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 30, 1977
Strange Report
as Moran
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1969
UFO
as Comandante Ed Straker
Episodes: 0
First Aired: Sep 16, 1970
Out of the Unknown
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 04, 1965
Space Cadets
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 15, 1997
1990
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 18, 1977
Warship
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 07, 1973
Man in a Suitcase
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 27, 1967
Sherlock Holmes
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 17, 1964
The Kenny Everett Television Show
as Guest
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 25, 1982
Kelly Monteith
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 15, 1979
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