Ed Bishop
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 11, 1932
- Died
- June 8, 2005 (aged 72)
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Target: Captain Black!
Movie · as Captain Blue (voice)
Spectrum is 20: The Death and Life of New Captain Scarlet
Movie · as Captain Blue (archive audio) / Himself (archive footage)
Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
This Is Supermarionation
Movie · as Captain Blue (voice)
Hiroshima
Movie · as Stimson
2001: The Making of a Myth
Movie · as Self
500!
Movie · as Padre Jones
Waking the Dead
TV · as Tyler · 2 eps
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
Movie · as Carstairs
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure
Movie · as Sentry
Captain Scarlet and the Return of the Mysterons
Movie · as Captain Blue (voice)
Space Cadets
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Broken Glass
Movie · as Stanton Case
The Demon Headmaster
TV · as TV Supremo · 4 eps
White Christmas
Movie
Calliope
Movie · as Lewis Belvedere
Funny Man
Movie · as Card Player
Nudism: The Inside Story
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Highlander: The Series
TV · as Edward Banner · 1 ep
Born to Ride
Movie · as Dr. Tate
2Point4 Children
TV · as Chet · 1 ep
Performance
TV · as Stanton Case · 1 ep
The Serpent of Death
Movie · as Grant
Chancer
TV · as Elmer · 1 ep
The Candy Show
Movie · as Geoffrey
Testimony
Movie · as American Commentator
Judgment in Berlin
Movie · as Dyson Wilde
Three Wishes for Jamie
Movie · as Proddy
Turnaround
Movie · as Gerald
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
TV · as Strasser · 2 eps
The Fifth Missile
Movie · as Adm. Stewart Cullinane
Whoops Apocalypse
Movie · as Wink Persiman (TV interviewer)
Worlds Beyond
TV · as Mr Hitchcock · 1 ep
Chocky's Children
Movie · as Dr. Deacon
Wynne and Penkovsky
Movie · as Alexander
Restless Natives
Movie · as Reporter
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
Movie
Chocky's Children
TV · as Dr. Deacon · 6 eps
The Master of Ballantrae
Movie · as Pinkerton
Threads
Movie · as US President (voice) (uncredited)
The Lonely Lady
Movie · as Dr. Baker
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
TV · as District Attorney · 1 ep
Just Good Friends
TV · as Vernon · 1 ep
The Mad Death
TV · as Tom Siegler · 1 ep
The Baker Street Boys
TV · as Marvin · 2 eps
Nutcracker
Movie · as Sam Dozier
Whoops Apocalypse
TV · as Jay Garrick · 6 eps
The Kenny Everett Television Show
TV · as Various · 3 eps
American Playhouse
TV · as General Tom Farrell · 1 ep
Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
Movie · as Stainless Steel (voice)
Amin: The Rise and Fall
Movie · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars
Movie · as Captain Blue (voice)
London Is Drowning
Movie · as American reporter
Take a Letter, Mr Jones
TV · as Joe Bradley · 1 ep
Saturn 3
Movie · as Harding (uncredited)
Captain Scarlet vs. The Mysterons
Movie · as Captain Blue (voice)
Invasion: UFO
Movie · as Cmdr. Ed Straker
S.O.S. Titanic
Movie · as Henry Harris
Silver Dream Racer
Movie · as Al Peterson
Breakaway
TV · as Scott Douglas · 6 eps
Oppenheimer
TV · as General Tom Farrell · 1 ep
Children of the Gods
Movie · as Brother Bethlehem
Butch Minds the Baby
Movie · as Damon Runyon (voice)
Kelly Monteith
TV · 1 ep
Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet
Movie · as Prof. Goonmeyer
Brass Target
Movie · as Col. Stewart
Wilde Alliance
TV · as Wingman · 1 ep
Life at Stake
TV · as Jim Lovell · 1 ep
Madame Claude
Movie · as Smith
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Movie · as Maj. Fox
1990
TV · 1 ep
The Professionals
TV · as Dr. Ernest Harbinger, Braddock · 1 ep
The Day After Tomorrow: Into Infinity
Movie · as TV Announcer
Nurse Will Make It Better
Movie · as Carson
Death in Deep Water
Movie · as Gang Boss (voice)
Quiller
TV · as Frank Ilroy · 1 ep
Two's Company
TV · as Jack · 1 ep
UFO: Radar contact... They're landing!
Movie
Pets
Movie · as Victor Stackman
Star Trek
TV · as Asmodeus (voice) (uncredited) · 1 ep
Warship
TV · 1 ep
Thriller
TV · as Carson, Gang Boss (voice) · 1 ep
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
TV · as The Millionaire · 1 ep
UFO: Annihilate SHADO... Kill Straker...
Movie · as Commander Ed Straker
UFO: Take Them Alive
Movie · as Commander Ed Straker
The Baron: Mystery Island
Movie · as Operations Officer
Colditz
TV · as Lt. Col. Harrity · 1 ep
The Protectors
TV · as Colonel John Hunter · 1 ep
The Adventurer
TV · as Wayne · 1 ep
Diamonds Are Forever
Movie · as Klaus Hergersheimer (uncredited)
UFO: Destroy Luna Base!
Movie · as Commander Ed Straker
UFO: Red alert... Attack on Earth!
Movie · as Commander Ed Straker
UFO
TV · as Ed Straker · 26 eps
Doppelgänger
Movie · as David Poulson
The Desperados
Movie · as Army Captain (voice)
Beach Head
Movie · as Commandant Tom Decker
Strange Report
TV · as Moran · 1 ep
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
TV · as David Beeston · 1 ep
W. Somerset Maugham
TV · as Edward Barnard · 1 ep
2001: A Space Odyssey
Movie · as Aries-1B Lunar Shuttle Captain
The Portrait of a Lady
TV · as Caspar Goodwood · 4 eps
You Only Live Twice
Movie · as Hawaii CapCom (uncredited)
Battle Beneath the Earth
Movie · as Lt. Cmdr. Vance Cassidy (as Edward Bishop)
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
TV · as Narrator / Captain Blue (voice) · 32 eps
Man in a Suitcase
TV · 1 ep
The Bedford Incident
Movie · as Lieutenant Hacker U.S.N. - Communications
Out of the Unknown
TV · as Commandant Tom Decker · 1 ep
The Troubleshooters
TV · as Mr. Kramer · 1 ep
Man in the Middle
Movie
Automania 2000
Movie · as Narrator
Paul Starr
Movie · as Paul Starr (voice)
Sherlock Holmes
TV · 1 ep
Theatre 625
TV · as Padfield · 1 ep
Big City
Movie · as Narrator (as Edward Bishop)
The Mouse on the Moon
Movie · as American Astronaut (as Edward Bishop)
The War Lover
Movie · as Vogt
Lolita
Movie · as Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
The Saint
TV · as George Felson, Tony Allard, Cy Imberline · 3 eps
Armchair Theatre
TV · as Karl · 1 ep
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Pinkerton · 1 ep