Shane Rimmer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Shane Rimmer was a Canadian actor, voice actor and screenwriter, known for providing the voice of Scott Tracy in the British television series Thunderbirds. He has mostly performed in supporting roles, frequently in films and television series filmed in the United Kingdom, having relocated to England in the late 1950s. His appearances include roles in such widely-known films as Dr. Strangelove (1964), Rollerball (1975), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Gandhi (1982), Out of Africa (1985) and Crusoe (1989). More recently he has appeared in Spy Game (2001), and Batman Begins (2005). In the earlier years of his career, there were several uncredited performances, among others for films such as You Only Live Twice (1967), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Star Wars (1977) and Superman II (1980). With the exception of recurring featured cast members he has appeared in more James Bond films than any other actor. Rimmer has a long association with Gerry Anderson. Thunderbirds fans may recognize him as the voice actor behind the character Scott Tracy. He drafted the plotline for the penultimate episode, "Ricochet", which was later turned into a script by Tony Barwick. He also wrote scripts and provided uncredited voices for Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90 and The Secret Service, has made appearances in episodes of Anderson's live-action UFO and The Protectors, has and provided voices for Space: 1999 and has guest-starred in the episode "Space Brain". In later years he starred in the unscreened pilot Space Police (later made into a series with other actors and titled Space Precinct) and provided the voice for Anderson's stop-motion gumshoe Dick Spanner, P.I.. Rimmer and fellow Anderson actor Ed Bishop often joked about how often their professional paths crossed and termed themselves "Rent-a-Yanks". They appeared together as NASA operatives in the opening of You Only Live Twice and as USN sailors in The Bedford Incident as well as touring together in live stage shows, including "Death of a Salesman" in the 1990s. He also appeared in Doctor Who in 1966, and in Coronation Street as two different characters: Joe Donnelli (1968–1970), who held Stan Ogden hostage in No. 5 before committing suicide, and Malcolm Reid (1988), father of Audrey Roberts' son Stephen. He has made many guest appearances in British television series for ITV, including in Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected, and ITC's The Persuaders!. In 1989 Rimmer was reunited with former Gerry Anderson actors Ed Bishop and Matt Zimmerman in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study In Scarlet. Rimmer and Bishop also appeared in the BBC drama-documentary Hiroshima completed not long after Bishop's death in 2005. Note: His official website and travel record on the Immigration & Travel section of Ancestry give his year of birth as 1929. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shane Rimmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1929-05-28

Died: 2019-03-29

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1957	A Dangerous Age	Nancy's Father	50
2	1958	Flaming Frontier	Running Bear	0
3	1958	The Day the Sky Exploded	John McLaren (uncredited) (voice)	41
4	1964	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	Capt. 'Ace' Owens	81
5	1965	The Bedford Incident	Seaman 1st Class - C.I.C.	69
6	1966	Doctor Who: The Gunfighters	Seth Harper	60
7	1966	Thunderbirds Are GO	Scott Tracy (voice)	63
8	1967	You Only Live Twice	Hawaii Radar Operator (uncredited)	66
9	1968	Thunderbird 6	Scott Tracy (voice)	58
10	1970	The Chicago Conspiracy Trial		60
11	1971	Diamonds Are Forever	Tom (uncredited)	64
12	1973	Baffled!	Track Announcer	50
13	1973	Scorpio	Cop in Hotel	61
14	1973	The Investigator	John (voice)	0
15	1974	I Know What I Meant	Donald Ziegler	0
16	1974	SPY*S	Hessler	52
17	1975	Rollerball	Rusty, Team Executive	63
18	1975	The Human Factor	CIA Man	57
19	1977	Nasty Habits	Officer I / C	46
20	1977	Twilight's Last Gleaming	Col. Franklin	64
21	1977	Star Wars	InCom Engineer (uncredited)	82
22	1977	Alternative 3	Bob Grodin	59
23	1977	The People That Time Forgot	Hogan	53
24	1977	The Spy Who Loved Me	Cmdr. Carter	68
25	1977	Professional Foul	Stone	60
26	1978	Warlords of Atlantis	Captain Daniels	57
27	1978	The Billion Dollar Bubble	Fred Levin	70
28	1978	The One and Only Phyllis Dixey	US Colonel	0
29	1978	Superman	Naval Transport Commander (uncredited)	71
30	1979	A Man Called Intrepid	Willoughby	70
31	1979	Hanover Street	Col. Ronald Bart	56
32	1979	Arabian Adventure	Abu	58
33	1979	Charlie Muffin	Braley	55
34	1980	Thunderbirds to the Rescue	Scott Tracy / Radar Operator (voice)	0
35	1980	Superman II	Controller	67
36	1981	Thunderbirds in Outer Space	Scott Tracy (voice)	0
37	1981	Priest of Love	Chief Immigration Officer	50
38	1981	Reds	MacAlpine	69
39	1982	Countdown to Disaster	Scott Tracy (voice)	0
40	1982	Gandhi	Commentator	76
41	1983	The Hunger	Arthur Jelinek	67
42	1983	Superman III	State Policeman	55
43	1983	The Lonely Lady		45
44	1984	Nairobi Affair		48
45	1984	Last Video and Testament	Dr. Hersh	60
46	1985	Gulag	Jay	55
47	1985	Morons from Outer Space	Redneck (Melvin)	47
48	1985	Reunion at Fairborough	Joe Szyluk	48
49	1985	The Holcroft Covenant	Lt. Miles	55
50	1985	Dreamchild	Mr. Marl	67
51	1985	White Nights	Ambassador Larry Smith	67
52	1985	Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill	Brod Sarnton	70
53	1985	Out of Africa	Belknap, farm manager	72
54	1986	Space Police	Lt. Chuck Brogan	40
55	1986	Whoops Apocalypse	Marvin Gelber (US Secretary of State)	56
56	1986	Of Pure Blood	The Colonel	0
57	1986	The Last Days of Patton	Dr. Col. Lawrence Ball	64
58	1987	The Return of Sherlock Holmes	Lisander Stark	52
59	1987	Breakthrough at Reykjavik	George Schulz	0
60	1987	Roman Holiday	Hogan	42
61	1988	Crusoe	Mr. Mather	58
62	1989	Red King, White Knight		60
63	1990	The Saint: The Software Murders	Bob Harrison	0
64	1991	A Kiss Before Dying	Commissioner Malley	56
65	1991	Company Business	Chairman, Maxine Gray Cosmetics	52
66	1992	Double Vision	Caroline & Lisa's Father	48
67	1993	Pretty Princess	Mr. Hughes	56
68	1995	A Kid in King Arthur's Court	Coach	49
69	1996	Space Truckers	E. J. Saggs	54
70	1998	Only Love	Warren Oliver	54
71	1999	Dockers	US Longshoreman	65
72	2000	Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'	Self	70
73	2001	Spy Game	Estate Agent	69
74	2002	One of the Hollywood Ten	Parnell Thomas	55
75	2004	Caught in the Act	Father	55
76	2005	Batman Begins	Older Gotham Water Board Technician	77
77	2005	Mee-Shee: The Water Giant	Bob Anderson	52
78	2006	Alien Autopsy	Colonel	56
79	2006	Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut	Controller #2	73
80	2012	Dark Shadows	Board Member #1	61
81	2014	Filmed in Supermarionation	Self	73
82	2014	This Is Supermarionation	Scott Tracy (voice)	80
83	2016	Darkwave: Edge of the Storm	Anderson	47
84	2016	UFO From Earth to the Moon	Self	100
85	2017	Dick Spanner P.I.: The Case of the Screaming Dame	Dick Spanner (voice)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1957	Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans	Farber	48
2	1962	Compact		30
3	1962	The Saint	Major Smith	73
4	1963	Doctor Who	Seth Harper	79
5	1965	Thunderbirds		75
6	1965	Thunderbirds	Reactor Control Assistant (voice)	75
7	1965	Thunderbirds	Scott Tracy	75
8	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Marine Sergeant	50
9	1967	Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons	Mason (voice)	72
10	1967	Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons	Pilot (voice)	72
11	1967	Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons	Sergeant (voice)	72
12	1968	Joe 90		71
13	1970	UFO	Lt. Bill Johnson	76
14	1970	UFO	CIA Agent	76
15	1971	The Persuaders!	Harvey Lomax	76
16	1972	Van der Valk	Lovell J Wallace	58
17	1972	The Protectors	Vickers	56
18	1972	The Protectors	Zeke	56
19	1973	Orson Welles' Great Mysteries	Police Sergeant Warren	67
20	1974	Playhouse	Ambassador Bingham	70
21	1975	Quiller	Harry Brent	0
22	1975	Space: 1999	James Kelly	71
23	1975	Space: 1999	Eagle Pilot (voice)	71
24	1975	Space: 1999	Bannion (voice)	71
25	1975	Space: 1999	Maintenance Section Voice (voice) (uncredited)	71
26	1977	Secret Army	Canadian Commandant	75
27	1978	Return of the Saint	Falco	70
28	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Janet Murdoch	67
29	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Arthur Beauchamp	67
30	1980	Oppenheimer	Ed Condon	67
31	1983	Philip Marlowe, Private Eye	Detective Murphy	66
32	1983	Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime		61
33	1984	Lace	Press Agent	71
34	1984	Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense	Hersh	64
35	1984	Mistral's Daughter	Harry Klein	63
36	1986	Casualty	Ed Rhinehart	61
37	1987	The Two Mrs. Grenvilles	Doorman	43
38	1987	Dick Spanner	Dick Spanner	63
39	1988	The Fortunate Pilgrim	Reilly	50
40	1988	The Bourne Identity	General Conklin	64
41	1988	A Very British Coup	Secretary of State	79
42	1993	Lipstick on Your Collar	Lt. Colonel Trekker	71
43	2003	Seven Wonders of the Industrial World		66
44	2016	Thunderbirds: The Anniversary Episodes	Scott Tracy (voice)	68

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