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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.
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Shane Rimmer Biography / Wiki
| Name | Shane Rimmer |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Date of Birth | 1929-05-28 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 89 |
| Deathday | 2019-03-29 |
Shane Rimmer Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Space Police | Lt. Chuck Brogan | 1986-01-01 | A New York cop is put in charge of a space police precinct and charged with the duty of protecting alien worlds from the evils of organized crime…. |
| The Investigator | John (voice) | 2015-03-30 | The Investigator, a benevolent alien from a distant galaxy, selects an Earth boy and girl, John and Julie, to assist him in his mission to make their … |
| Thunderbird 6 | Scott Tracy (voice) | 1968-08-03 | The International Rescue team is faced with one of its toughest challenges yet, as the revolutionary lighter-than-air craft Skyship One is hijacked wh… |
| Darkwave: Edge of the Storm | Anderson | 2016-09-16 | … |
| The Billion Dollar Bubble | Fred Levin | 1978-06-08 | The Billion Dollar Bubble is a 1976 film made for the BBC series Horizon and directed by Brian Gibson about the story of the two billion dollar insura… |
| This Is Supermarionation | Scott Tracy (voice) | 2014-10-12 | A compilation of the best of Supermarionation in High Definition. Sit back and enjoy some rare treats on a journey through Supermarionationland. Park… |
| Alternative 3 | Bob Grodin | 1977-06-20 | Purporting to be an investigation into the UK’s contemporary “brain drain”, Alternative 3 uncovered a plan to make the Moon and Mars habitable in the … |
| The Saint: The Software Murders | Bob Harrison | 1990-08-04 | From his home in California, Simon’s friend Jack is investigating the deaths of three prominent scientists. Shortly after making an important discover… |
| Warlords of Atlantis | Captain Daniels | 1978-05-01 | Searching for the lost world of Atlantis, Prof. Aitken, his son Charles and Greg Collinson are betrayed by the crew of their expedition’s ship, attrac… |
| Crusoe | Mr. Mather | 1988-06-30 | Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to lea… |
| Caught in the Act | Father | 2004-05-10 | After de-bunking her philandering spouse’s deceptions, Jodie Colter accidentally stumbles onto the murder case of a former homecoming queen. She quick… |
| Professional Foul | Stone | 1977-09-21 | Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to rethink his ideas on ethics when a former student i… |
| Mee-Shee: The Water Giant | Bob Anderson | 2005-01-01 | A New York City oil company troubleshooter is brought to a remote B.C. lake to look for some lost machinery. Cancelling a trip to Disney World with hi… |
| The Human Factor | CIA Man | 1975-11-19 | After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible…. |
| The People That Time Forgot | Hogan | 1977-07-06 | A sequel to The Land That Time Forgot. Major Ben McBride organises a mission to the Antarctic wastes to search for his friend (Doug McClure) who has b… |
| Space Truckers | E. J. Saggs | 1996-03-01 | John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions b… |
| A Dangerous Age | Nancy’s Father | 1957-09-09 | Teenage lovers are continually thwarted in their attempts to get married…. |
| Reunion at Fairborough | Joe Szyluk | 1985-05-12 | World War II vets travel to England for a reunion at their old base. Stars Judi Trott, Barry Morse, Red Buttons, Deborah Kerr, Shane Rimmer, Robert Mi… |
| Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill | Brod Sarnton | 1985-12-15 | Eustace and Dorrie Edgehill have decided to leave Samola, a British protectorate in the Pacific. After the failure of his latest harebrained scheme, n… |
| Double Vision | Caroline & Lisa’s Father | 1992-12-02 | A beautiful medical student travels to London to investigate the mysterious murder of her identical twin sister. Taking on her sister’s identity, she … |
| Last Video and Testament | Dr. Hersh | 1984-09-12 | Rich old businessman suspects his much younger wife of cheating on him. When his weak heart forces him to have a risky surgery he leaves a videotaped … |
| Hanover Street | Col. Ronald Bart | 1979-05-18 | Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot…. |
| Charlie Muffin | Braley | 1979-12-11 | Charlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy network in England. However, a new Director with new ideas t… |
| The Chicago Conspiracy Trial | 1970-10-04 | A BBC-produced docudrama based on trial transcripts and aired in the United Kingdom in October 1970… | |
| S*P*Y*S | Hessler | 1974-09-05 | Two CIA bunglers (Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould) botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination…. |
| Gulag | Jay | 1985-01-13 | Mickey Almon is a sports star turned reporter covering the athletics in Moscow. Framed by the KGB and forced to confess that he was spying for America… |
| Roman Holiday | Hogan | 1987-12-28 | Remake of the 1953 original. Princess Elysa is touring Rome, and decides to get “out and about” away from her normal life. She meets with an American … |
| Rollerball | Rusty, Team Executive | 1975-06-25 | In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy tho… |
| Of Pure Blood | The Colonel | 1986-10-19 | A mother investigating her son’s mysterious death finds much more than she bargained for. Casting director Alicia Browning (Remick) takes leave of her… |
| Thunderbirds are GO | Scott Tracy (voice) | 1966-12-15 | Zero-X, a manned exploration mission crashes during lift-off on its maiden flight. Two years later an investigative committee finally concludes sabota… |
| White Nights | Ambassador Larry Smith | 1985-11-22 | After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch an… |
| Flaming Frontier | Running Bear | 1958-08-01 | Army officer whose parents are white and Indian tries to avert an Indian war…. |
| Out of Africa | Belknap, farm manager | 1985-12-20 | Out of Africa tells the story of the life of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life … |
| Company Business | Chairman, Maxine Gray Cosmetics | 1991-09-06 | An aging agent is called back by “the Company” to run a hostage trade of a Soviet spy for an American agent…. |
| Filmed in Supermarionation | Self | 2014-10-11 | The definitive documentary about the iconic television series developed by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and their production companies (AP Films and Cent… |
| The Hunger | Arthur Jelinek | 1983-04-29 | Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life, but John, her companion for centuries, suddenly discovers that he is getting old minute by minute… |
| Dreamchild | Mr. Marl | 1985-10-04 | Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll’s classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book’s inspiration) a… |
| Dockers | US Longshoreman | 1999-07-10 | Jimmy McGovern’s depiction of the mid 90s Liverpool dockers strike. Featuring script contributions from Irvine Welsh and the real dockers themselves… |
| The Day the Sky Exploded | John McLaren (uncredited) (voice) | 1958-09-04 | Scientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collison course with Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed…. |
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Capt. ‘Ace’ Owens | 1964-01-29 | After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diploma… |
| Nasty Habits | Officer I / C | 1977-01-28 | In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way … |
| The Lonely Lady | 1983-10-02 | A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of “making it” in Hollywood…. | |
| The Last Days of Patton | Dr. Col. Lawrence Ball | 1986-12-15 | As a result of General George S. Patton’s (George C. Scott) decision to use former Nazis to help reconstruct post-World War II Germany (and publicly d… |
| A Kiss Before Dying | 1991-04-26 | Infatuated with the idea of becoming rich, college student Jonathan Corliss secretly dates Dorothy Carlsson to gain the approval of her wealthy father… | |
| Baffled! | Track Announcer | 1972-12-17 | Tom Kovack is a hard-nosed race car driver until a sudden supernatural vision causes a near-fatal crash while he’s hurtling down the backstretch at 14… |
| The Bedford Incident | Seaman 1st Class | 1965-10-11 | During a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Th… |
| The Holcroft Covenant | Lt. Miles | 1985-09-20 | A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to find it…. |
| Doctor Who: The Gunfighters | Seth Harper | 1966-05-21 | Arriving in the town of Tombstone, the First Doctor finds himself involved with gunmen out to kill Doc Holliday…… |
| Pretty Princess | Mr. Hughes | 1993-01-01 | A princess from a Nordic European country is obligated to marry the boy her family chose. She escapes and discovers love in the arms of a beautiful sw… |
| A Kid in King Arthur’s Court | Coach | 1995-08-11 | A Southern California kid named Calvin Fuller is magically transported to the medieval kingdom of Camelot through a crack in the ground caused by an e… |
| Dark Shadows | Board Member #1 | 2012-05-09 | Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find … |
| Inside ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ | 2000-01-01 | A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film “Diamonds are Forever”… | |
| Spy Game | Estate Agent | 2001-11-18 | On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in… |
| Superman III | State Policeman | 1983-06-17 | Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yield… |
| Alien Autopsy | Colonel | 2006-04-07 | Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947…. |
| Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut | Controller #2 (archive footage) | 2006-11-02 | Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are … |
| Superman II | Controller | 1980-12-04 | Three escaped criminals from the planet Krypton test the Man of Steel’s mettle. Led by General Zod, the Kryptonians take control of the White House an… |
| Scorpio | Cop in Hotel | 1973-04-11 | Cross is an old hand at the CIA who often teams up with Frenchman Jean “Scorpio†Laurier, a gifted freelance operative. After their last mission t… |
| Whoops Apocalypse | Marvin Gelber (US Secretary of State) | 1986-05-06 | When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world’s most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the count… |
| Batman Begins | Older Gotham Water Board Technician | 2005-06-10 | Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable t… |
| You Only Live Twice | Hawaii Radar Operator (uncredited) | 1967-06-13 | A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the c… |
| One of the Hollywood Ten | Parnell Thomas | 2002-06-07 | Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s…. |
| The Spy Who Loved Me | Cmdr. Carter | 1977-07-07 | Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as Jame… |
| Gandhi | Commentator | 1982-11-30 | In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian … |
| Morons from Outer Space | Redneck (Melvin) | 1985-03-29 | The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. Dur… |
| Reds | MacAlpine | 1981-12-25 | An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical co… |
| Priest of Love | Chief Immigration Officer | 1981-10-11 | Following the banning and burning of his novel, “The Rainbow,” D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When… |
| Diamonds Are Forever | Tom (uncredited) | 1971-12-13 | Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who’s guilty. The missio… |
| Star Wars | InCom Engineer (uncredited) | 1977-05-25 | Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker an… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Investigator | Story | 2015-03-30 | The Investigator, a benevolent alien from a distant galaxy, selects an Earth boy and girl, John and Julie, to assist him in his mission to make their … |
| Writer | Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century … | ||
| Writer | The Secret Service is a British children’s espionage television series, made by Century 21 for ITC Entertainment and broadcast on Associated Televisio… | ||
| Writer | Joe 90 is a 1960s British science-fiction television series following the adventures of a nine-year-old child, Joe McClaine, who starts a double life … | ||
| Writer | The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson’s second TV series using live actors as o… | ||
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