Shane Rimmer
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.
Known for
Doctor Who
Seth Harper
Star Wars
InCom Engineer (uncredited)
The Saint
Major Smith
Casualty
Ed Rhinehart
Space: 1999
James Kelly
Space: 1999
Eagle Pilot (voice)
Space: 1999
Bannion (voice)
Space: 1999
Maintenance Section Voice (voice) (uncredited)
Batman Begins
Older Gotham Water Board Technician
Playhouse
Ambassador Bingham
BBC Play of the Month
Marine Sergeant
UFO
Bill Johnson
UFO
CIA Agent
Tales of the Unexpected
Janet Murdoch
Tales of the Unexpected
Arthur Beauchamp
The Persuaders!
Harvey Lomax
Thunderbirds
Thunderbirds
Reactor Control Assistant (voice)
Thunderbirds
Scott Tracy
Gandhi
Commentator
Van der Valk
Lovell J Wallace
Superman
Naval Transport Commander (uncredited)
Compact
Spy Game
Estate Agent
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
Dark Shadows
Board Member #1
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
You Only Live Twice
Hawaii Radar Operator (uncredited)
Theatre 625
Corporal Girtin
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Mason (voice)
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Pilot (voice)
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Sergeant (voice)
Return of the Saint
Falco
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Capt. 'Ace' Owens
Secret Army
Canadian Commandant
Hanover Street
Col. Ronald Bart
Scorpio
Cop in Hotel
Company Business
Chairman, Maxine Gray Cosmetics
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Police Sergeant Warren
Space Truckers
E. J. Saggs
Only Love
Warren Oliver
Nasty Habits
Officer I / C
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
Farber
The Investigator
John (voice)
Diamonds Are Forever
Tom (uncredited)
The Spy Who Loved Me
Cmdr. Carter
The Protectors
Vickers
The Protectors
Zeke
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
Hersh
Superman II
Controller
Alien Autopsy
Colonel
Professional Foul
Stone
White Nights
Ambassador Larry Smith
The Bourne Identity
General Conklin
Rollerball
Rusty, Team Executive
Charlie Muffin
Braley
Crusoe
Mr. Mather
Out of Africa
Belknap, farm manager
Mistral's Daughter
Harry Klein
Gulag
Jay
Whoops Apocalypse
Marvin Gelber (US Secretary of State)
Superman III
State Policeman
Lace
Press Agent
Dockers
US Longshoreman
Alternative 3
Bob Grodin
Thunderbirds: The Anniversary Episodes
Scott Tracy (voice)
Thunderbird 6
Scott Tracy (voice)
Baffled!
Track Announcer
The Holcroft Covenant
Lt. Miles
The Fortunate Pilgrim
Reilly
Hiroshima
James F. Byrnes
Roman Holiday
Hogan
Reds
MacAlpine
Priest of Love
Chief Immigration Officer
The Lonely Lady
Red King, White Knight
A Kiss Before Dying
Commissioner Malley
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
Detective Murphy
The Hunger
Arthur Jelinek
Dreamchild
Mr. Marl
S*P*Y*S
Hessler
A Kid in King Arthur's Court
Coach
One of the Hollywood Ten
Parnell Thomas
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Controller #2
A Man Called Intrepid
Willoughby
The Bedford Incident
Seaman 1st Class - C.I.C.
This Is Supermarionation
Scott Tracy (voice)
Oppenheimer
Ed Condon
The Human Factor
CIA Man
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Col. Franklin
The Dogs of War
Dr. Oaks
Warlords of Atlantis
Captain Daniels
Joe 90
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
Doorman
Quiller
Harry Brent
Last Video and Testament
Dr. Hersh
A Very British Coup
Secretary of State
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Brod Sarnton
Dick Spanner
Dick Spanner
The People That Time Forgot
Hogan
Lipstick on Your Collar
Lt. Colonel Trekker
Arabian Adventure
Abu
Pretty Princess
Mr. Hughes
Mee-Shee: The Water Giant
Bob Anderson
I Know What I Meant
Donald Ziegler
Thunderbirds Are GO
Scott Tracy (voice)
Invasion: UFO
Lt. Bill Johnson / Alien / CIA Agent
Doctor Who: The Gunfighters
Seth Harper
Morons from Outer Space
Redneck (Melvin)
The Last Days of Patton
Dr. Col. Lawrence Ball
Of Pure Blood
The Colonel
Caught in the Act
Father
Year of the Comet
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Lisander Stark
Double Vision
Caroline & Lisa's Father
Breakthrough at Reykjavik
George Schulz
The Billion Dollar Bubble
Fred Levin
Thunderbirds in Outer Space
Scott Tracy (voice)
Reunion at Fairborough
Joe Szyluk
Nairobi Affair
Thunderbirds to the Rescue
Scott Tracy / Radar Operator (voice)
Flaming Frontier
Running Bear
Filmed in Supermarionation
Self
The Day the Sky Exploded
John McLaren (uncredited) (voice)
The Saint: The Software Murders
Bob Harrison
A Dangerous Age
Nancy's Father
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
US Colonel
Space Police
Lt. Chuck Brogan
Thunderbirds: Terror In New York City
Scott Tracy/Scanners/Washington
Thunderbirds: Trapped in the Sky
Scott Tracy/TX 204 Co-pilot (voice)
UFO From Earth to the Moon
Self
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Thunderbirds 60th Anniversary Double Bill - Trapped in the Sky / Terror in New York City
Scott Tracy (voice)
Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'
Self
Darkwave: Edge of the Storm
Anderson
Countdown to Disaster
Scott Tracy (voice)
Dick Spanner P.I.: The Case of the Screaming Dame
Dick Spanner (voice)