Shane Rimmer

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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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Batman Begins

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Star Wars

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Dark Shadows

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

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Superman

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Gandhi

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Superman II

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You Only Live Twice

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Spy Game

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Diamonds Are Forever

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The Spy Who Loved Me

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Superman III

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Out of Africa

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Doctor Who

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The Hunger

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Rollerball

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Reds

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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

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A Kid in King Arthur's Court

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Space Truckers

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Pretty Princess

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White Nights

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Space: 1999

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Alien Autopsy

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A Kiss Before Dying

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The Persuaders!

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The Saint

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Scorpio

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Hanover Street

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Thunderbirds

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The Bourne Identity

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The Bedford Incident

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Warlords of Atlantis

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The Holcroft Covenant

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Casualty

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The People That Time Forgot

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Company Business

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Twilight's Last Gleaming

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Thunderbirds Are GO

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Arabian Adventure

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UFO

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Tales of the Unexpected

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Morons from Outer Space

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Thunderbird 6

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Dreamchild

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

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Lipstick on Your Collar

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Mee-Shee: The Water Giant

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The Day the Sky Exploded

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The Human Factor

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Lace

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The Lonely Lady

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Baffled!

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S*P*Y*S

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Whoops Apocalypse

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Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

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A Very British Coup

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Priest of Love

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Crusoe

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Gulag

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The Protectors

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Joe 90

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Oppenheimer

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Mistral's Daughter

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Secret Army

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Dockers

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Van der Valk

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Philip Marlowe, Private Eye

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The Last Days of Patton

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Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

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Return of the Saint

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Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

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BBC Play of the Month

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Alternative 3

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Darkwave: Edge of the Storm

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Roman Holiday

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Filmed in Supermarionation

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Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans

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Thunderbirds: The Anniversary Episodes

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Double Vision

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Dick Spanner

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The Return of Sherlock Holmes

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Reunion at Fairborough

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Nairobi Affair

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Caught in the Act

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Charlie Muffin

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Nasty Habits

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One of the Hollywood Ten

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Doctor Who: The Gunfighters

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Red King, White Knight

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Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'

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Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

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The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

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Space Police

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A Man Called Intrepid

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Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

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Compact

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The Chicago Conspiracy Trial

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A Dangerous Age

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Last Video and Testament

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Professional Foul

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The Billion Dollar Bubble

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This Is Supermarionation

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UFO From Earth to the Moon

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The Fortunate Pilgrim

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Playhouse

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The One and Only Phyllis Dixey

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Breakthrough at Reykjavik

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

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Thunderbirds in Outer Space

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Thunderbirds to the Rescue

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Of Pure Blood

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The Saint: The Software Murders

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Flaming Frontier

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The Investigator

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Countdown to Disaster

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Quiller

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