

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.
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Self (archive footage)
2005
Stimson
2001
Tyler
2001
1999
Captain Blue (voice)
1999
1997
Self
1996
TV Supremo
1995
Unknown
1994
Card Player
1992
Edward Banner
1992
Narrator (voice)
1991
Stanton Case
1991
Chet
1991
Dr. Tate
1990
Grant
1988
American Commentator
1987
Strasser
1986
Wink Persiman (TV interviewer)
1986
Adm. Stewart Cullinane
1985
Reporter
1985
Dr. Deacon
1984
US President (voice) (uncredited)
1983
Dr. Baker
1983
Unknown
1983
Vernon
1983
Tom Siegler
1983
Tom Siegler
1983
District Attorney
1982
Jay Garrick
1982
1981
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1981
Captain Blue (voice)
1980
Al Peterson
1980
Henry Harris
1980
Harding (uncredited)
1980
Scott Douglas
1980
Captain Blue (voice)
1980
Cmdr. Ed Straker
1979
Unknown
1979
Damon Runyon (voice)
1978
Col. Stewart
1978
Wingman
1977
Braddock
1977
Dr. Ernest Harbinger
1977
Unknown
1977
Smith
1977
Maj. Fox
1975
TV Announcer
1975
Gang Boss (voice)
1975
Jack
1975
Frank Ilroy
1974
1973
Victor Stackman
1973
Asmodeus (voice) (uncredited)
1973
Unknown
1973
Gang Boss (voice)
1973
Carson
1972
Lt. Col. Harrity
1972
Colonel John Hunter
1972
Wayne
1972
Comandante Edward Straker
1972
Com.te Ed Straker
1971
Klaus Hergersheimer (uncredited)
1971
Comandante Ed Straker
1971
Comandante Edward Straker
1970
Cmdr. Ed Straker
1970
Cmdr. Ed Straker
1969
Moran
1969
David Poulson
1969
Army Captain (voice)
1969
Commandant Tom Decker
1968
Aries-1B Lunar Shuttle Captain
1967
Lt. Cmdr. Vance Cassidy (as Edward Bishop)
1967
Narrator / Captain Blue (voice)
1967
Unknown
1967
Hawaii CapCom (uncredited)
1965
Lieutenant Hacker U.S.N. - Communications
1965
Unknown
1964
Unknown
1964
Padfield
1964
Unknown
1963
American Astronaut
1962
Vogt
1962
Cy Imberline
1962
George Felson
1962
Tony Allard
1962
Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
1951
Pinkerton
Edward Bishop
George Victor Bishop