Shane Rimmer

Shane Rimmer

Birthday: 1929-05-28

Deathday: 2019-03-29

Place of birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Also known as: Shane Lance Deacon

imdb_id: nm0727300

Biography:

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.

Played in movies:

UFO From Earth to the Moon

Score: 10.0

Star Wars

Score: 8.2

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

Score: 8.1

This Is Supermarionation

Score: 8.0

Batman Begins

Score: 7.7

Gandhi

Score: 7.6

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

Score: 7.4

Filmed in Supermarionation

Score: 7.3

Out of Africa

Score: 7.2

Superman

Score: 7.2

Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'

Score: 7.0

The Billion Dollar Bubble

Score: 7.0

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

Score: 7.0

A Man Called Intrepid

Score: 7.0

Spy Game

Score: 6.9

The Bedford Incident

Score: 6.9

Reds

Score: 6.9

The Spy Who Loved Me

Score: 6.8

Superman II

Score: 6.7

White Nights

Score: 6.7

Dreamchild

Score: 6.7

The Hunger

Score: 6.7

You Only Live Twice

Score: 6.6

Dockers

Score: 6.5

Diamonds Are Forever

Score: 6.4

Twilight's Last Gleaming

Score: 6.4

The Last Days of Patton

Score: 6.4

Thunderbirds Are GO

Score: 6.3

Rollerball

Score: 6.3

Scorpio

Score: 6.1

Dark Shadows

Score: 6.1

Doctor Who: The Gunfighters

Score: 6.0

Professional Foul

Score: 6.0

Last Video and Testament

Score: 6.0

Red King, White Knight

Score: 6.0

The Chicago Conspiracy Trial

Score: 6.0

Crusoe

Score: 5.9

Alternative 3

Score: 5.9

Arabian Adventure

Score: 5.8

Thunderbird 6

Score: 5.8

Warlords of Atlantis

Score: 5.8

The Human Factor

Score: 5.7

Alien Autopsy

Score: 5.6

Whoops Apocalypse

Score: 5.6

A Kiss Before Dying

Score: 5.6

Hanover Street

Score: 5.6

Pretty Princess

Score: 5.5

Superman III

Score: 5.5

The Holcroft Covenant

Score: 5.5

One of the Hollywood Ten

Score: 5.5

Charlie Muffin

Score: 5.5

Gulag

Score: 5.5

Caught in the Act

Score: 5.5

Only Love

Score: 5.4

Space Truckers

Score: 5.4

The People That Time Forgot

Score: 5.3

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Score: 5.2

S*P*Y*S

Score: 5.2

Company Business

Score: 5.2

Mee-Shee: The Water Giant

Score: 5.2

Priest of Love

Score: 5.0

Baffled!

Score: 5.0

A Dangerous Age

Score: 5.0

A Kid in King Arthur's Court

Score: 5.0

Double Vision

Score: 4.8

Nairobi Affair

Score: 4.8

Reunion at Fairborough

Score: 4.8

Morons from Outer Space

Score: 4.8

Darkwave: Edge of the Storm

Score: 4.7

Nasty Habits

Score: 4.6

The Lonely Lady

Score: 4.5

Roman Holiday

Score: 4.2

The Day the Sky Exploded

Score: 4.1

Space Police

Score: 4.0

I Know What I Meant

Score: 0.0

Countdown to Disaster

Score: 0.0

The Investigator

Score: 0.0

Flaming Frontier

Score: 0.0

The Saint: The Software Murders

Score: 0.0

Of Pure Blood

Score: 0.0

Thunderbirds to the Rescue

Score: 0.0

Thunderbirds in Outer Space

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

Breakthrough at Reykjavik

Score: 0.0

The One and Only Phyllis Dixey

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

A Very British Coup

Score: 7.9

Doctor Who

Score: 7.9

UFO

Score: 7.7

UFO

Score: 7.7

The Persuaders!

Score: 7.6

Secret Army

Score: 7.5

Thunderbirds

Score: 7.5

Thunderbirds

Score: 7.5

Thunderbirds

Score: 7.5

The Saint

Score: 7.3

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Score: 7.2

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Score: 7.2

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Score: 7.2

Lace

Score: 7.1

Lipstick on Your Collar

Score: 7.1

Space: 1999

Score: 7.1

Space: 1999

Score: 7.1

Space: 1999

Score: 7.1

Space: 1999

Score: 7.1

Joe 90

Score: 7.1

Playhouse

Score: 7.0

Return of the Saint

Score: 7.0

Thunderbirds: The Anniversary Episodes

Score: 6.8

Tales of the Unexpected

Score: 6.7

Tales of the Unexpected

Score: 6.7

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

Score: 6.7

Oppenheimer

Score: 6.7

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

Score: 6.7

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye

Score: 6.6

The Bourne Identity

Score: 6.4

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

Score: 6.4

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

Score: 6.3

Mistral's Daughter

Score: 6.3

Dick Spanner

Score: 6.3

Casualty

Score: 6.1

Van der Valk

Score: 5.8

The Protectors

Score: 5.6

The Protectors

Score: 5.6

BBC Play of the Month

Score: 5.0

The Fortunate Pilgrim

Score: 5.0

Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans

Score: 4.8

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

Score: 4.3

Compact

Score: 3.0

Quiller

Score: 0.0