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.
Fotos
Películas (72)
Target: Captain Black!
2026 · Captain Blue (voice)
Spectrum is 20: The Death and Life of New Captain Scarlet
2026 · Captain Blue (archive audio) / Himself (archive footage)
Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted
2022 · Self (archive footage)
This Is Supermarionation
2014 · Captain Blue (voice)
Hiroshima
2005 · Stimson
500!
2001 · Padre Jones
2001: The Making of a Myth
2001 · Self
Captain Scarlet and the Return of the Mysterons
1999 · Captain Blue (voice)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure
1999 · Sentry
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
1999 · Carstairs
Broken Glass
1996 · Stanton Case
White Christmas
1995
Funny Man
1994 · Card Player
Calliope
1994 · Lewis Belvedere
Nudism: The Inside Story
1992 · Narrator (voice)
Born to Ride
1991 · Dr. Tate
The Serpent of Death
1990 · Grant
The Candy Show
1989 · Geoffrey
Testimony
1988 · American Commentator
Judgment in Berlin
1988 · Dyson Wilde
Three Wishes for Jamie
1987 · Proddy
Turnaround
1987 · Gerald
Whoops Apocalypse
1986 · Wink Persiman (TV interviewer)
The Fifth Missile
1986 · Adm. Stewart Cullinane
Restless Natives
1985 · Reporter
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
1985
Wynne and Penkovsky
1985 · Alexander
Chocky's Children
1985 · Dr. Deacon
Threads
1984 · US President (voice) (uncredited)
The Master of Ballantrae
1984 · Pinkerton
The Lonely Lady
1983 · Dr. Baker
Nutcracker
1982 · Sam Dozier
London Is Drowning
1981 · American reporter
Amin: The Rise and Fall
1981 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
1981 · Stainless Steel (voice)
Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars
1981 · Captain Blue (voice)
Silver Dream Racer
1980 · Al Peterson
S.O.S. Titanic
1980 · Henry Harris
Saturn 3
1980 · Harding (uncredited)
Captain Scarlet vs. The Mysterons
1980 · Captain Blue (voice)
Invasion: UFO
1980 · Cmdr. Ed Straker
Children of the Gods
1979 · Brother Bethlehem
Butch Minds the Baby
1979 · Damon Runyon (voice)
Brass Target
1978 · Col. Stewart
Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet
1978 · Prof. Goonmeyer
Madame Claude
1977 · Smith
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977 · Maj. Fox
The Day After Tomorrow: Into Infinity
1975 · TV Announcer
Death in Deep Water
1975 · Gang Boss (voice)
Nurse Will Make It Better
1975 · Carson
UFO: Radar contact... They're landing!
1974
Pets
1973 · Victor Stackman
The Baron: Mystery Island
1972 · Operations Officer
UFO: Take Them Alive
1972 · Commander Ed Straker
UFO: Annihilate SHADO... Kill Straker...
1972 · Commander Ed Straker
Diamonds Are Forever
1971 · Klaus Hergersheimer (uncredited)
UFO: Red alert... Attack on Earth!
1971 · Commander Ed Straker
UFO: Destroy Luna Base!
1971 · Commander Ed Straker
Doppelgänger
1969 · David Poulson
The Desperados
1969 · Army Captain (voice)
Beach Head
1969 · Commandant Tom Decker
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 · Aries-1B Lunar Shuttle Captain
Battle Beneath the Earth
1967 · Lt. Cmdr. Vance Cassidy (as Edward Bishop)
You Only Live Twice
1967 · Hawaii CapCom (uncredited)
The Bedford Incident
1965 · Lieutenant Hacker U.S.N. - Communications
Automania 2000
1964 · Narrator
Man in the Middle
1964
Paul Starr
1964 · Paul Starr (voice)
The Mouse on the Moon
1963 · American Astronaut (as Edward Bishop)
Big City
1963 · Narrator (as Edward Bishop)
The War Lover
1962 · Vogt
Lolita
1962 · Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
Series (48)
Waking the Dead
2001 · Tyler
Space Cadets
1997 · Self
The Demon Headmaster
1996 · TV Supremo
Highlander: The Series
1992 · Edward Banner
Performance
1991 · Stanton Case
2Point4 Children
1991 · Chet
Chancer
1990 · Elmer
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
1987 · Strasser
Worlds Beyond
1986 · Mr Hitchcock
Chocky's Children
1985 · Dr. Deacon
Just Good Friends
1983 · Vernon
The Mad Death
1983 · Tom Siegler
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
1983 · District Attorney
The Baker Street Boys
1983 · Marvin
Whoops Apocalypse
1982 · Jay Garrick
The Kenny Everett Television Show
1982 · Various
American Playhouse
1982 · General Tom Farrell
Take a Letter, Mr Jones
1981 · Joe Bradley
Oppenheimer
1980 · General Tom Farrell
Breakaway
1980 · Scott Douglas
Kelly Monteith
1979
Life at Stake
1978 · Jim Lovell
Wilde Alliance
1978 · Wingman
The Professionals
1977 · Dr. Ernest Harbinger, Braddock
1990
1977
Two's Company
1975 · Jack
Quiller
1975 · Frank Ilroy
Star Trek
1973 · Asmodeus (voice) (uncredited)
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973 · The Millionaire
Warship
1973
Thriller
1973 · Carson, Gang Boss (voice)
Colditz
1972 · Lt. Col. Harrity
The Protectors
1972 · Colonel John Hunter
The Adventurer
1972 · Wayne
UFO
1970 · Ed Straker
Strange Report
1969 · Moran
W. Somerset Maugham
1969 · Edward Barnard
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · David Beeston
The Portrait of a Lady
1968 · Caspar Goodwood
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
1967 · Narrator / Captain Blue (voice)
Man in a Suitcase
1967
Out of the Unknown
1965 · Commandant Tom Decker
The Troubleshooters
1965 · Mr. Kramer
Sherlock Holmes
1964
Theatre 625
1964 · Padfield
The Saint
1962 · George Felson, Tony Allard, Cy Imberline
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Karl
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Pinkerton