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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 11, 1932
Died
June 8, 2005
Place of Birth
Brooklyn - New York - USA
Also Known As
- Edward Bishop
- George Victor Bishop
Ed Bishop
0.7 Popularity
Biography
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
6.0
Self (archive footage)
Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted
2022
8.0
Captain Blue (voice)
This Is Supermarionation
2014
7.2
Stimson
Hiroshima
2005
7.2
Tyler
Waking the Dead
2001
4.2
Padre Jones
500!
2001
6.5
Self
2001: The Making of a Myth
2001
0.0
Captain Blue (voice)
Captain Scarlet and the Return of the Mysterons
1999
5.8
Sentry
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure
1999
6.4
Carstairs
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
1999
🎬
7.5
Self
Space Cadets
1997
Credits
Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted
as Self (archive footage)
2022
6.0
This Is Supermarionation
as Captain Blue (voice)
2014
8.0
Hiroshima
as Stimson
2005
7.2
Waking the Dead
as Tyler
2001
7.2
500!
as Padre Jones
2001
4.2
2001: The Making of a Myth
as Self
2001
6.5
Captain Scarlet and the Return of the Mysterons
as Captain Blue (voice)
1999
0.0
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure
as Sentry
1999
5.8
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
as Carstairs
1999
6.4
🎬
Space Cadets
as Self
1997
7.5
Broken Glass
as Stanton Case
1996
0.0
The Demon Headmaster
as TV Supremo
1996
6.5
White Christmas
1995
5.8
Funny Man
as Card Player
1994
4.7
Calliope
as Lewis Belvedere
1994
7.0
Highlander: The Series
as Edward Banner
1992
7.4
🎬
Nudism: The Inside Story
as Narrator (voice)
1992
0.0
Performance
as Stanton Case
1991
6.0
2Point4 Children
as Chet
1991
7.2
Born to Ride
as Dr. Tate
1991
4.6
The Serpent of Death
as Grant
1990
2.8
🎬
The Candy Show
as Geoffrey
1989
0.0
Testimony
as American Commentator
1988
4.5
Three Wishes for Jamie
as Proddy
1987
6.0
Turnaround
as Gerald
1987
0.0
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
as Strasser
1987
3.8
Whoops Apocalypse
as Wink Persiman (TV interviewer)
1986
5.6
The Fifth Missile
as Adm. Stewart Cullinane
1986
4.8
Restless Natives
as Reporter
1985
6.7
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
1985
4.0
Wynne and Penkovsky
as Alexander
1985
0.0
Chocky's Children
as Dr. Deacon
1985
5.3
Threads
as US President (voice) (uncredited)
1984
7.6
The Master of Ballantrae
as Pinkerton
1984
6.0
The Lonely Lady
as Dr. Baker
1983
4.4
The Lonely Lady
1983
4.4
Just Good Friends
as Vernon
1983
6.6
The Mad Death
as Tom Siegler
1983
6.0
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
as District Attorney
1983
6.6
Nutcracker
as Sam Dozier
1982
2.0
Whoops Apocalypse
as Jay Garrick
1982
7.2
The Kenny Everett Television Show
as Various
1982
7.0
London Is Drowning
as American reporter
1981
0.0
Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1981
7.2
Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars
as Captain Blue (voice)
1981
1.0
Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
as Stainless Steel (voice)
1981
1.0
Silver Dream Racer
as Al Peterson
1980
5.1
S.O.S. Titanic
as Henry Harris
1980
5.9
Saturn 3
as Harding (uncredited)
1980
5.3
🎬
Breakaway
as Scott Douglas
1980
0.0
Invasion: UFO
as Cmdr. Ed Straker
1980
5.6
Captain Scarlet vs. The Mysterons
as Captain Blue (voice)
1980
0.0
🎬
Kelly Monteith
1979
6.0
🎬
Children of the Gods
as Brother Bethlehem
1979
0.0
🎬
Butch Minds the Baby
as Damon Runyon (voice)
1979
6.0
Brass Target
as Col. Stewart
1978
5.4
Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet
as Prof. Goonmeyer
1978
6.0
Wilde Alliance
as Wingman
1978
5.5
The Professionals
as Dr. Ernest Harbinger
1977
7.5
The Professionals
as Braddock
1977
7.5
1990
1977
6.0
Madame Claude
as Smith
1977
4.8
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Maj. Fox
1977
6.4
Into Infinity
as TV Announcer
1975
3.7
Death in Deep Water
as Gang Boss (voice)
1975
0.0
Two's Company
as Jack
1975
7.0
🎬
Quiller
as Frank Ilroy
1975
0.0
Nurse Will Make It Better
as Carson
1975
7.0
UFO: Radar contact... They're landing!
1974
6.0
Pets
as Victor Stackman
1973
5.2
Star Trek
as Asmodeus (voice) (uncredited)
1973
6.8
Warship
1973
5.5
Thriller
as Carson
1973
6.6
Thriller
as Gang Boss (voice)
1973
6.6
🎬
The Baron: Mystery Island
as Operations Officer
1972
7.0
Colditz
as Lt. Col. Harrity
1972
7.3
The Protectors
as Colonel John Hunter
1972
5.8
The Adventurer
as Wayne
1972
5.5
UFO: Take them Alive
as Comandante Edward Straker
1972
0.0
UFO: Annihilate S.H.A.D.O. Kill Straker...Stop
as Com.te Ed Straker
1972
5.0
Diamonds Are Forever
as Klaus Hergersheimer (uncredited)
1971
6.4
UFO: Red alert... Attack on Earth!
as Comandante Ed Straker
1971
6.0
UFO: Destroy Luna Base!
as Comandante Edward Straker
1971
6.5
UFO
as Ed Straker
1970
7.7
Strange Report
as Moran
1969
6.5
Doppelgänger
as David Poulson
1969
6.2
The Desperados
as Army Captain (voice)
1969
3.9
🎬
Beach Head
as Commandant Tom Decker
1969
0.0
2001: A Space Odyssey
as Aries-1B Lunar Shuttle Captain
1968
8.1
Battle Beneath the Earth
as Lt. Cmdr. Vance Cassidy (as Edward Bishop)
1967
4.6
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
as Narrator / Captain Blue (voice)
1967
7.4
Man in a Suitcase
1967
7.0
You Only Live Twice
as Hawaii CapCom (uncredited)
1967
6.6
The Bedford Incident
as Lieutenant Hacker U.S.N. - Communications
1965
7.0
Out of the Unknown
1965
7.0
🎬
Automania 2000
as Narrator
1964
6.8
Sherlock Holmes
1964
6.6
Theatre 625
as Padfield
1964
7.2
Man in the Middle
1964
6.5
The Mouse on the Moon
as American Astronaut
1963
6.1
Big City
as Narrator (as Edward Bishop)
1963
7.0
The War Lover
as Vogt
1962
6.0
The Saint
as George Felson
1962
7.4
The Saint
as Tony Allard
1962
7.4
The Saint
as Cy Imberline
1962
7.4
Lolita
as Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
1962
7.3
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Pinkerton
1951
8.6