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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.

Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted
as Self (archive footage)

This Is Supermarionation
as Captain Blue (voice)

Hiroshima
as Stimson

Waking the Dead
as Tyler

500!
as Padre Jones

2001: The Making of a Myth
as Self

Captain Scarlet and the Return of the Mysterons
as Captain Blue (voice)

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure
as Sentry

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
as Carstairs
Space Cadets
as Self

Broken Glass
as Stanton Case

The Demon Headmaster
as TV Supremo

White Christmas

Funny Man
as Card Player

Calliope
as Lewis Belvedere

Highlander: The Series
as Edward Banner
Nudism: The Inside Story
as Narrator (voice)

Performance
as Stanton Case

2Point4 Children
as Chet

Born to Ride
as Dr. Tate

The Serpent of Death
as Grant
The Candy Show
as Geoffrey

Testimony
as American Commentator

Judgment in Berlin
as Dyson Wilde

Three Wishes for Jamie
as Proddy

Turnaround
as Gerald

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
as Strasser

Worlds Beyond
as Mr Hitchcock

Whoops Apocalypse
as Wink Persiman (TV interviewer)

The Fifth Missile
as Adm. Stewart Cullinane

Threads
as US President (voice) (uncredited)

Restless Natives
as Reporter

Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story

Wynne and Penkovsky
as Alexander

Chocky's Children
as Dr. Deacon

The Master of Ballantrae
as Pinkerton

The Lonely Lady
as Dr. Baker

Just Good Friends
as Vernon

The Mad Death
as Tom Siegler

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
as District Attorney

Nutcracker
as Sam Dozier

Whoops Apocalypse
as Jay Garrick

The Kenny Everett Television Show
as Various

London Is Drowning
as American reporter

Take a Letter, Mr Jones
as Joe Bradley

Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
as Stainless Steel (voice)

Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars
as Captain Blue (voice)

Silver Dream Racer
as Al Peterson

S.O.S. Titanic
as Henry Harris

Saturn 3
as Harding (uncredited)
Breakaway
as Scott Douglas

Captain Scarlet vs. The Mysterons
as Captain Blue (voice)

Invasion: UFO
as Cmdr. Ed Straker
Kelly Monteith
Children of the Gods
as Brother Bethlehem
Butch Minds the Baby
as Damon Runyon (voice)

Brass Target
as Col. Stewart

Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet
as Prof. Goonmeyer
Life at Stake
as Jim Lovell