Shane Rimmer

Biography

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

InCom Engineer (uncredited)

Star Wars

Belknap, farm manager

Out of Africa

Captain Daniels

Warlords of Atlantis

Bob Anderson

Mee-Shee: The Water Giant

Arthur Jelinek

The Hunger

CIA Man

The Human Factor

Chairman, Maxine Gray Cosmetics

Company Business

Scott Tracy (voice)

Thunderbird 6

US Colonel

The One and Only Phyllis Dixey

Colonel

Alien Autopsy

Hogan

The People That Time Forgot

Hessler

S*P*Y*S

Scott Tracy (voice)

Thunderbirds Are GO

Ambassador Larry Smith

White Nights

Estate Agent

Spy Game

The Lonely Lady

Bob Grodin

Alternative 3

Lt. Chuck Brogan

Space Police

Tom (uncredited)

Diamonds Are Forever

George Schulz

Breakthrough at Reykjavik

The Chicago Conspiracy Trial

Lisander Stark

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Commissioner Malley

A Kiss Before Dying

Rusty, Team Executive

Rollerball

E. J. Saggs

Space Truckers

Nancy's Father

A Dangerous Age

Mr. Mather

Crusoe

Capt. 'Ace' Owens

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Coach

A Kid in King Arthur's Court

Col. Franklin

Twilight's Last Gleaming

MacAlpine

Reds

Abu

Arabian Adventure

Dick Spanner (voice)

Dick Spanner P.I.: The Case of the Screaming Dame

Joe Szyluk

Reunion at Fairborough

Older Gotham Water Board Technician

Batman Begins

Willoughby

A Man Called Intrepid

Nairobi Affair

Red King, White Knight

Commentator

Gandhi

Naval Transport Commander (uncredited)

Superman

Col. Ronald Bart

Hanover Street

Scott Tracy (voice)

Thunderbirds in Outer Space

US Longshoreman

Dockers

Mr. Marl

Dreamchild

Scott Tracy / Radar Operator (voice)

Thunderbirds to the Rescue

Dr. Hersh

Last Video and Testament

Controller

Superman II

Board Member #1

Dark Shadows

Brod Sarnton

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

Track Announcer

Baffled!

The Colonel

Of Pure Blood

Cmdr. Carter

The Spy Who Loved Me

Chief Immigration Officer

Priest of Love

Anderson

Darkwave: Edge of the Storm

Father

Caught in the Act

Seaman 1st Class - C.I.C.

The Bedford Incident

Stone

Professional Foul

Redneck (Melvin)

Morons from Outer Space

Jay

Gulag

Braley

Charlie Muffin

Dr. Col. Lawrence Ball

The Last Days of Patton

Hawaii Radar Operator (uncredited)

You Only Live Twice

Fred Levin

The Billion Dollar Bubble

Cop in Hotel

Scorpio

Bob Harrison

The Saint: The Software Murders

Self

Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'

Caroline & Lisa's Father

Double Vision

Officer I / C

Nasty Habits

Parnell Thomas

One of the Hollywood Ten

Lt. Miles

The Holcroft Covenant

Hogan

Roman Holiday

Controller #2

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

Seth Harper

Doctor Who: The Gunfighters

Scott Tracy (voice)

This Is Supermarionation

State Policeman

Superman III

Running Bear

Flaming Frontier

John (voice)

The Investigator

Mr. Hughes

Piccolo grande amore

Self

Filmed in Supermarionation

John McLaren (uncredited) (voice)

La morte viene dallo spazio

Marvin Gelber (US Secretary of State)

Whoops Apocalypse

Scott Tracy (voice)

Countdown to Disaster

Self

UFO From Earth to the Moon

Donald Ziegler

I Know What I Meant

Warren Oliver

Only Love