
Shane Rimmer
Acting
1929-05-28 - Present
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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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Credits

SupermanasNaval Transport Commander (uncredited)

Star WarsasInCom Engineer (uncredited)

Batman BeginsasOlder Gotham Water Board Technician

Superman IIasController

Superman IIIasState Policeman

Dark ShadowsasBoard Member #1

Diamonds Are ForeverasTom (uncredited)

You Only Live TwiceasHawaii Radar Operator (uncredited)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombasCapt. 'Ace' Owens

Superman II: The Richard Donner CutasController #2

The Spy Who Loved MeasCmdr. Carter

GandhiasCommentator

Spy GameasEstate Agent

Out of AfricaasBelknap, farm manager

The HungerasArthur Jelinek

RedsasMacAlpine

RollerballasRusty, Team Executive

White NightsasAmbassador Larry Smith

Space TruckersasE. J. Saggs

A Kid in King Arthur's CourtasCoach

A Kiss Before DyingasCommissioner Malley

The People That Time ForgotasHogan

Hanover StreetasCol. Ronald Bart

ScorpioasCop in Hotel

Warlords of AtlantisasCaptain Daniels

Arabian AdventureasAbu

The Bedford IncidentasSeaman 1st Class - C.I.C.

Twilight's Last GleamingasCol. Franklin

CrusoeasMr. Mather

Alien AutopsyasColonel

The Holcroft CovenantasLt. Miles

Priest of LoveasChief Immigration Officer

Company BusinessasChairman, Maxine Gray Cosmetics

The Lonely Ladyas

The Last Days of PattonasDr. Col. Lawrence Ball

A Man Called IntrepidasWilloughby

Mee-Shee: The Water GiantasBob Anderson

Whoops ApocalypseasMarvin Gelber (US Secretary of State)

The One and Only Phyllis DixeyasUS Colonel

Pretty PrincessasMr. Hughes

One of the Hollywood TenasParnell Thomas

DreamchildasMr. Marl

Red King, White Knightas

The Human FactorasCIA Man

Baffled!asTrack Announcer

Caught in the ActasFather

Double VisionasCaroline & Lisa's Father

Thunderbirds Are GOasScott Tracy (voice)

The Return of Sherlock HolmesasLisander Stark

Only LoveasWarren Oliver

Morons from Outer SpaceasRedneck (Melvin)

Nairobi Affairas

Thunderbird 6asScott Tracy (voice)

Charlie MuffinasBraley

Nasty HabitsasOfficer I / C

This Is SupermarionationasScott Tracy (voice)
The Chicago Conspiracy Trialas

S*P*Y*SasHessler

Of Pure BloodasThe Colonel

Roman HolidayasHogan

Filmed in SupermarionationasSelf

Thunderbirds to the RescueasScott Tracy / Radar Operator (voice)

GulagasJay

The Day the Sky ExplodedasJohn McLaren (uncredited) (voice)

Mr. and Mrs. EdgehillasBrod Sarnton

DockersasUS Longshoreman

Reunion at FairboroughasJoe Szyluk

Doctor Who: The GunfightersasSeth Harper

The Saint: The Software MurdersasBob Harrison

Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'asSelf

Flaming FrontierasRunning Bear
Breakthrough at ReykjavikasGeorge Schulz

The InvestigatorasJohn (voice)

The Billion Dollar BubbleasFred Levin

Professional FoulasStone

Thunderbirds in Outer SpaceasScott Tracy (voice)
A Dangerous AgeasNancy's Father

Last Video and TestamentasDr. Hersh

Alternative 3asBob Grodin

Countdown to DisasterasScott Tracy (voice)

Darkwave: Edge of the StormasAnderson

Space PoliceasLt. Chuck Brogan

UFO From Earth to the MoonasSelf
I Know What I MeantasDonald Ziegler

Dick Spanner P.I.: The Case of the Screaming DameasDick Spanner (voice)