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.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:15/04/2022
This Is Supermarionation
Character:Captain Blue (voice)
Release Date:12/10/2014
Hiroshima
Character:Stimson
Release Date:06/08/2005
500!
Character:Padre Jones
Release Date:09/02/2001
2001: The Making of a Myth
Character:Self
Release Date:13/01/2001
Captain Scarlet and the Return of the Mysterons
Character:Captain Blue (voice)
Release Date:31/12/1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure
Character:Sentry
Release Date:26/10/1999
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
Character:Carstairs
Release Date:20/05/1999
Broken Glass
Character:Stanton Case
Release Date:19/10/1996
White Christmas
Character:
Release Date:01/12/1995
Funny Man
Character:Card Player
Release Date:10/06/1994
Calliope
Character:Lewis Belvedere
Release Date:06/02/1994
Nudism: The Inside Story
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/01/1992
Born to Ride
Character:Dr. Tate
Release Date:03/05/1991
The Serpent of Death
Character:Grant
Release Date:06/12/1990
The Candy Show
Character:Geoffrey
Release Date:31/12/1989
Testimony
Character:American Commentator
Release Date:01/11/1988
Judgment in Berlin
Character:Dyson Wilde
Release Date:06/05/1988
Three Wishes for Jamie
Character:Proddy
Release Date:09/03/1987
Turnaround
Character:Gerald
Release Date:12/02/1987
Whoops Apocalypse
Character:Wink Persiman (TV interviewer)
Release Date:06/05/1986
The Fifth Missile
Character:Adm. Stewart Cullinane
Release Date:23/02/1986
Threads
Character:US President (voice) (uncredited)
Release Date:06/08/1985
Restless Natives
Character:Reporter
Release Date:01/06/1985
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
Character:
Release Date:08/05/1985
Wynne and Penkovsky
Character:Alexander
Release Date:01/02/1985
Chocky's Children
Character:Dr. Deacon
Release Date:07/01/1985
The Master of Ballantrae
Character:Pinkerton
Release Date:31/01/1984
The Lonely Lady
Character:Dr. Baker
Release Date:02/10/1983
The Lonely Lady
Character:
Release Date:02/10/1983
Nutcracker
Character:Sam Dozier
Release Date:17/12/1982
London Is Drowning
Character:American reporter
Release Date:27/10/1981
Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
Character:Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Release Date:16/07/1981
Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
Character:Stainless Steel (voice)
Release Date:01/01/1981
Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars
Character:Captain Blue (voice)
Release Date:01/01/1981
Silver Dream Racer
Character:Al Peterson
Release Date:13/06/1980
S.O.S. Titanic
Character:Henry Harris
Release Date:29/02/1980
Saturn 3
Character:Harding (uncredited)
Release Date:15/02/1980
Captain Scarlet vs. The Mysterons
Character:Captain Blue (voice)
Release Date:01/01/1980
Invasion: UFO
Character:Cmdr. Ed Straker
Release Date:01/01/1980
Children of the Gods
Character:Brother Bethlehem
Release Date:06/01/1979
Butch Minds the Baby
Character:Damon Runyon (voice)
Release Date:01/01/1979
Brass Target
Character:Col. Stewart
Release Date:22/12/1978
Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet
Character:Prof. Goonmeyer
Release Date:09/11/1978
Madame Claude
Character:Smith
Release Date:11/05/1977
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Character:Maj. Fox
Release Date:09/02/1977
Into Infinity
Character:TV Announcer
Release Date:09/12/1975
Death in Deep Water
Character:Gang Boss (voice)
Release Date:04/11/1975
Nurse Will Make It Better
Character:Carson
Release Date:11/01/1975
UFO: Radar contact... They're landing!
Character:
Release Date:23/10/1974
Pets
Character:Victor Stackman
Release Date:01/10/1973
The Baron: Mystery Island
Character:Operations Officer
Release Date:20/10/1972
UFO: Take them Alive
Character:Comandante Edward Straker
Release Date:15/08/1972
UFO: Annihilate S.H.A.D.O. Kill Straker...Stop
Character:Com.te Ed Straker
Release Date:23/05/1972
Diamonds Are Forever
Character:Klaus Hergersheimer (uncredited)
Release Date:14/12/1971
UFO: Red alert... Attack on Earth!
Character:Comandante Ed Straker
Release Date:06/09/1971
UFO: Destroy Luna Base!
Character:Comandante Edward Straker
Release Date:18/06/1971
Doppelgänger
Character:David Poulson
Release Date:27/08/1969
The Desperados
Character:Army Captain (voice)
Release Date:28/02/1969
Beach Head
Character:Commandant Tom Decker
Release Date:28/01/1969
2001: A Space Odyssey
Character:Aries-1B Lunar Shuttle Captain
Release Date:02/04/1968
Battle Beneath the Earth
Character:Lt. Cmdr. Vance Cassidy (as Edward Bishop)
Release Date:01/10/1967
You Only Live Twice
Character:Hawaii CapCom (uncredited)
Release Date:13/06/1967
The Bedford Incident
Character:Lieutenant Hacker U.S.N. - Communications
Release Date:11/10/1965
Automania 2000
Character:Narrator
Release Date:12/06/1964
Man in the Middle
Character:
Release Date:27/01/1964
The Mouse on the Moon
Character:American Astronaut
Release Date:07/05/1963
Big City
Character:Narrator (as Edward Bishop)
Release Date:08/04/1963
The War Lover
Character:Vogt
Release Date:25/10/1962
Lolita
Character:Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
Release Date:13/06/1962
Television Appearances
Waking the Dead
Character:Tyler
Space Cadets
Character:Self
The Demon Headmaster
Character:TV Supremo
Highlander: The Series
Character:Edward Banner
Performance
Character:Stanton Case
2Point4 Children
Character:Chet
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
Character:Strasser
Just Good Friends
Character:Vernon
The Mad Death
Character:Tom Siegler
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
Character:District Attorney
Whoops Apocalypse
Character:Jay Garrick
The Kenny Everett Television Show
Character:Various
Take a Letter, Mr Jones
Character:Joe Bradley
Breakaway
Character:Scott Douglas
Kelly Monteith
Character:
Wilde Alliance
Character:Wingman
The Professionals
Character:Dr. Ernest Harbinger
The Professionals
Character:Braddock
1990
Character:
Two's Company
Character:Jack
Quiller
Character:Frank Ilroy
Star Trek
Character:Asmodeus (voice) (uncredited)
Warship
Character:
Thriller
Character:Carson
Thriller
Character:Gang Boss (voice)
Colditz
Character:Lt. Col. Harrity
The Protectors
Character:Colonel John Hunter
The Adventurer
Character:Wayne
UFO
Character:Ed Straker
Strange Report
Character:Moran
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Character:Narrator / Captain Blue (voice)
Man in a Suitcase
Character:
Out of the Unknown
Character:
Sherlock Holmes
Character:
Theatre 625
Character:Padfield
The Saint
Character:George Felson
The Saint
Character:Tony Allard
The Saint
Character:Cy Imberline
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character:Pinkerton
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