Shane Rimmer

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Age

Movies

124

Born: May 28, 1929 – March 29, 2019
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Biography

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 recognise 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, and has 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.

Works

124 films

Star Wars

19778.2

Batman Begins

20057.7

Superman

19787.2

Superman II

19806.8

Dark Shadows

20126.1

You Only Live Twice

19676.6

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

19648.1

Spy Game

20016.9

Out of Africa

19857.2

Diamonds Are Forever

19716.4

Superman III

19835.5

The Spy Who Loved Me

19776.8

The Hunger

19836.7

Gandhi

19827.6

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

20067.4

The Dogs of War

19805.8

White Nights

19856.7

Space Truckers

19965.4

Rollerball

19756.3

Reds

19816.9

Twilight's Last Gleaming

19776.5

Hanover Street

19795.6

A Kid in King Arthur's Court

19955.0

Warlords of Atlantis

19785.7

Dreamchild

19856.6

Alien Autopsy

20065.7

A Kiss Before Dying

19915.6

Arabian Adventure

19795.9

The Bedford Incident

19657.0

The Holcroft Covenant

19855.5

Company Business

19915.3

Scorpio

19736.2

Gulag

19855.4

The People That Time Forgot

19775.3

The Lonely Lady

19834.7

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

19857.3

Alternative 3

19776.4

Priest of Love

19815.0

One of the Hollywood Ten

20026.3

Year of the Comet

19925.8

Only Love

19985.5

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

19876.0

Crusoe

19895.9

The Last Days of Patton

19866.5

The Human Factor

19755.8

Whoops Apocalypse

19865.7

Hiroshima

20057.2

Morons from Outer Space

19854.9

Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'

20007.5

Double Vision

19925.1

Invasion: UFO

19805.7

Thunderbirds: Brink of Disaster

19666.0

Mee-Shee: The Water Giant

20055.5

Pretty Princess

19935.6

Thunderbirds Are GO

19666.4

S*P*Y*S

19745.3

Baffled!

19735.6

Reunion at Fairborough

19855.8

Nairobi Affair

19845.6

The Day the Sky Exploded

19584.3

Red King, White Knight

19896.4

Lee Oswald: Assassin

1966

A Dangerous Age

19576.0

The Chicago Conspiracy Trial

19706.0

Thunderbirds: The Mighty Atom

19656.0

The Billion Dollar Bubble

19787.5

Thunderbirds: End of The Road

19659.0

Thunderbirds: The Duchess Assignment

19668.0

Nasty Habits

19775.0

I Know What I Meant

1974

Thunderbirds: Path of Destruction

19667.0

Thunderbird 6

19685.9

The One and Only Phyllis Dixey

1978

All About 'Thunderbirds'

2008

This Is Supermarionation

20148.0

Filmed in Supermarionation

20147.3

Thunderbirds: Danger at Ocean Deep

1966

Caught in the Act

20045.6

Roman Holiday

19874.7

The Saint: The Software Murders

19909.0

Thunderbirds: Edge of Impact

19657.0

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

2017

Thunderbirds: Day of Disaster

19657.0

Thunderbirds: The Man from MI.5

19667.0

Thunderbirds: Attack of the Alligators!

196610.0

Countdown to Disaster

1982

Breakthrough at Reykjavik

19877.0

Thunderbirds: Vault of Death

19656.0

Charlie Muffin

19796.4

Dockers

19996.8

Thunderbirds in Outer Space

1981

Thunderbirds: Move - And You're Dead

19669.0

Thunderbirds: The Imposters

1966

Thunderbirds: The Cham-Cham

1966

Thunderbirds: Cry Wolf

19667.0

Flaming Frontier

19587.0

Thunderbirds: Pit of Peril

19657.0

Thunderbirds: City of Fire

19668.0

Thunderbirds: Security Hazard

1966

Of Pure Blood

19869.0

Thunderbirds: 30 Minutes After Noon

19656.0

Doctor Who: The Gunfighters

19666.3

Thunderbirds: Atlantic Inferno

1966

Thunderbirds: Martian Invasion

19667.0

Thunderbirds: Trapped in the Sky

1965

UFO From Earth to the Moon

201610.0

Thunderbirds to the Rescue

1980

Thunderbirds: Desperate Intruder

196510.0

Thunderbirds: Operation Crash-Dive

1965

Thunderbirds: Terror In New York City

19659.0

Last Video and Testament

19847.0

Space Police

19864.0

Thunderbirds: The Perils of Penelope

19659.0

Professional Foul

19777.5

Thunderbirds 60th Anniversary Double Bill - Trapped in the Sky / Terror in New York City

202510.0

The Investigator

1973

Darkwave: Edge of the Storm

20164.7

Thunderbirds: Sun Probe

19658.0

Thunderbirds: The Uninvited

19659.0

Dick Spanner P.I.

1987

Thunderbirds: Lord Parker's 'Oliday

1966

Thunderbirds: Alias Mr. Hackenbacker

19666.0

Thunderbirds: Give or Take a Million

19664.0

Thunderbirds: Ricochet

19668.0