Shane Rimmer
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.
Star Wars
(InCom Engineer (uncredited))
Out of Africa
(Belknap, farm manager)
Warlords of Atlantis
(Captain Daniels)
Mee-Shee: The Water Giant
(Bob Anderson)
The Hunger
(Arthur Jelinek)
The Human Factor
(CIA Man)
Company Business
(Chairman, Maxine Gray Cosmetics)
Thunderbird 6
(Scott Tracy (voice))
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
(US Colonel)
Alien Autopsy
(Colonel)
The People That Time Forgot
(Hogan)
S*P*Y*S
(Hessler)
Thunderbirds Are GO
(Scott Tracy (voice))
White Nights
(Ambassador Larry Smith)
Spy Game
(Estate Agent)
The Lonely Lady
Alternative 3
(Bob Grodin)
Space Police
(Lt. Chuck Brogan)
Diamonds Are Forever
(Tom (uncredited))
Breakthrough at Reykjavik
(George Schulz)
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
(Lisander Stark)
A Kiss Before Dying
(Commissioner Malley)
Rollerball
(Rusty, Team Executive)
Space Truckers
(E. J. Saggs)
A Dangerous Age
(Nancy's Father)
Crusoe
(Mr. Mather)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(Capt. 'Ace' Owens)
A Kid in King Arthur's Court
(Coach)
Twilight's Last Gleaming
(Col. Franklin)
Reds
(MacAlpine)
Arabian Adventure
(Abu)
Dick Spanner P.I.: The Case of the Screaming Dame
(Dick Spanner (voice))
Reunion at Fairborough
(Joe Szyluk)
Batman Begins
(Older Gotham Water Board Technician)
A Man Called Intrepid
(Willoughby)
Nairobi Affair
Red King, White Knight
Gandhi
(Commentator)
Superman
(Naval Transport Commander (uncredited))
Hanover Street
(Col. Ronald Bart)
Thunderbirds in Outer Space
(Scott Tracy (voice))
Dockers
(US Longshoreman)
Dreamchild
(Mr. Marl)
Thunderbirds to the Rescue
(Scott Tracy / Radar Operator (voice))
Last Video and Testament
(Dr. Hersh)
Superman II
(Controller)
Dark Shadows
(Board Member #1)
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
(Brod Sarnton)
Baffled!
(Track Announcer)
Of Pure Blood
(The Colonel)
The Spy Who Loved Me
(Cmdr. Carter)
Priest of Love
(Chief Immigration Officer)
Darkwave: Edge of the Storm
(Anderson)
Caught in the Act
(Father)
The Bedford Incident
(Seaman 1st Class - C.I.C.)
Professional Foul
(Stone)
Morons from Outer Space
(Redneck (Melvin))
Gulag
(Jay)
Charlie Muffin
(Braley)
The Last Days of Patton
(Dr. Col. Lawrence Ball)
You Only Live Twice
(Hawaii Radar Operator (uncredited))
The Billion Dollar Bubble
(Fred Levin)
Scorpio
(Cop in Hotel)
The Saint: The Software Murders
(Bob Harrison)
Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'
(Self)
Double Vision
(Caroline & Lisa's Father)
Nasty Habits
(Officer I / C)
One of the Hollywood Ten
(Parnell Thomas)
The Holcroft Covenant
(Lt. Miles)
Roman Holiday
(Hogan)
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
(Controller #2)
Doctor Who: The Gunfighters
(Seth Harper)
This Is Supermarionation
(Scott Tracy (voice))
Superman III
(State Policeman)
Flaming Frontier
(Running Bear)
The Investigator
(John (voice))
Pretty Princess
(Mr. Hughes)
Filmed in Supermarionation
(Self)
The Day the Sky Exploded
(John McLaren (uncredited) (voice))
Whoops Apocalypse
(Marvin Gelber (US Secretary of State))
Space: 1999
(James Kelly)
Thunderbirds
Tales of the Unexpected
(Janet Murdoch)
Dick Spanner
(Dick Spanner)
The Persuaders!
(Harvey Lomax)
UFO
(Lt. Bill Johnson)
The Protectors
(Vickers)
Joe 90
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
Oppenheimer
(Ed Condon)
Compact
Van der Valk
(Lovell J Wallace)
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
(Police Sergeant Warren)
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
(Hersh)
Quiller
(Harry Brent)
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
(Detective Murphy)
Mistral's Daughter
(Harry Klein)
Thunderbirds
(Reactor Control Assistant (voice))
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
(Doorman)
Casualty
(Ed Rhinehart)
Thunderbirds
(Scott Tracy)
The Bourne Identity
(Gen. Conklin)
Return of the Saint
(Falco)
Secret Army
(Canadian Commandant)
Lace
(Press Agent)
Doctor Who
(Seth Harper)
Space: 1999
(Eagle Pilot (voice))
Space: 1999
(Bannion (voice))
The Fortunate Pilgrim
(Reilly)
Space: 1999
(Maintenance Section Voice (voice) (uncredited))
BBC Play of the Month
(Marine Sergeant)
The Saint
(Major Smith)
Lipstick on Your Collar
(Lt. Colonel Trekker)
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
(Farber)
Tales of the Unexpected
(Arthur Beauchamp)
UFO
(CIA Agent)
A Very British Coup
(Secretary of State)
The Protectors
(Zeke)
Playhouse
(Ambassador Bingham)
Thunderbirds: The Anniversary Episodes
(Scott Tracy (voice))
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
(Mason (voice))
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
(Pilot (voice))
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
(Sergeant (voice))
