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 Kubricks 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 Andersons Supermarionation puppet series, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967), and appeared in Andersons science-fiction film Doppelgänger (1969). Perhaps his most prominent screen role was that of Commander Ed Straker in Andersons science-fiction series UFO (1970–71). Bishops 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 Twilights 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 childrens television series Chockys 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 Doyles 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 Bishops last TV projects.

Filmes indisponível de Ed Bishop

2001: A Space Odyssey

Aries-1B Lunar Shuttle Captain

Filme 1968

Into Infinity

TV Announcer

Filme 1975

Doppelgänger

David Poulson

Filme 1969

Calliope

Lewis Belvedere

Filme 1994

The Candy Show

Geoffrey

Filme 1989

The Lonely Lady

Dr. Baker

Filme 1983

2001: The Making of a Myth

Self

Filme 2001

Pets

Victor Stackman

Filme 1973

Chocky's Children

Dr. Deacon

Filme 1985

Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet

Prof. Goonmeyer

Filme 1978

Saturn 3

Harding (uncredited)

Filme 1980

Diamonds Are Forever

Klaus Hergersheimer (uncredited)

Filme 1971

Stainless Steel and the Star Spies

Stainless Steel (voice)

Filme 1981

Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted

Self (archive footage)

Filme 2022

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

Carstairs

Filme 1999

Captain Scarlet vs. The Mysterons

Captain Blue

Filme 1980

Invasion: UFO

Cmdr. Ed Straker

Filme 1971

Rise and Fall of Idi Amin

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Filme 1981

Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars

Captain Blue

Filme 1981

UFO... annientare S.H.A.D.O. Stop. Uccidete Straker...

Com.te Ed Straker

Filme 1972

UFO - Distruggete base Luna!

Comandante Edward Straker

Filme 1971

UFO - Contatto radar... stanno atterrando!

Filme 1974

UFO - Allarme rosso... Attacco alla Terra!

Comandante Ed Straker

Filme 1971

Three Wishes for Jamie

Proddy

Filme 1987

Big City

Narrator (as Edward Bishop)

Filme 1963

Man in the Middle

Filme 1964

Wynne and Penkovsky

Alexander

Filme 1985

UFO - Prendeteli vivi

Comandante Edward Straker

Filme 1972

The Lonely Lady

Filme 1983

Turnaround

Filme 1987

Nudism: The Inside Story

Narrator (voice)

Filme 1992

Children of the Gods

Brother Bethlehem

Filme 1979

500!

Padre Jones

Filme 2001

Automania 2000

Narrator

Filme 1964

Restless Natives

Reporter

Filme 1985

Broken Glass

Stanton Case

Filme 1996

Born to Ride

Dr. Tate

Filme 1991

Nurse Will Make It Better

Carson

Filme 1975

Threads

US President (voice) (uncredited)

Filme 1984

Funny Man

Card Player

Filme 1994

You Only Live Twice

Hawaii CapCom (uncredited)

Filme 1967

The Serpent of Death

Grant

Filme 1990

London Is Drowning

American reporter

Filme 1981

Turnaround

Gerald

Filme 1987

White Christmas

Filme 1995

The Mouse on the Moon

American Astronaut

Filme 1963

This Is Supermarionation

Captain Blue (voice)

Filme 2014

Battle Beneath the Earth

Lt. Cmdr. Vance Cassidy (as Edward Bishop)

Filme 1967

Death in Deep Water

Gang Boss (voice)

Filme 1975

Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story

Filme 1985

The Baron: Mystery Island

Operations Officer

Filme 1972

Série de TV indisponível de Ed Bishop

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Narrator / Captain Blue (voice)

Tv 1967

Out of the Unknown

Tv 1965

Colditz

Lt. Col. Harrity

Tv 1972

Star Trek

Asmodeus (voice) (uncredited)

Tv 1973

Whoops Apocalypse

Jay Garrick

Tv 1982

The Protectors

Colonel John Hunter

Tv 1972

The Saint

George Felson

Tv 1962

Space Cadets

Self

Tv 1997

1990

Tv 1977

Warship

Tv 1973

Man in a Suitcase

Tv 1967

Sherlock Holmes

Tv 1964

Quiller

Frank Ilroy

Tv 1975

The Adventurer

Wayne

Tv 1972

The Mad Death

Tom Siegler

Tv 1983

Two's Company

Jack

Tv 1975

Kelly Monteith

Tv 1979

Highlander: The Series

Edward Banner

Tv 1992

The Saint

Tony Allard

Tv 1962

The Saint

Cy Imberline

Tv 1962