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 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
Credits
Star Wars (1977)
as InCom Engineer (uncredited)
Batman Begins (2005)
as Older Gotham Water Board Technician
Superman (1978)
as Naval Transport Commander (uncredited)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
as Capt. 'Ace' Owens
You Only Live Twice (1967)
as Hawaii Radar Operator (uncredited)
Dark Shadows (2012)
as Board Member #1
Superman II (1980)
as Controller
Superman III (1983)
as State Policeman
Space Truckers (1996)
as E. J. Saggs
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
as Tom (uncredited)
Spy Game (2001)
as Estate Agent
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
as Cmdr. Carter
Out of Africa (1985)
as Belknap, farm manager
Gandhi (1982)
as Commentator
The Hunger (1983)
as Arthur Jelinek
White Nights (1985)
as Ambassador Larry Smith
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)
as Controller #2
A Kiss Before Dying (1991)
as Commissioner Malley
Rollerball (1975)
as Rusty, Team Executive
The Dogs of War (1980)
as Dr. Oaks
Reds (1981)
as MacAlpine
Hiroshima (2005)
as James F. Byrnes
Hanover Street (1979)
as Col. Ronald Bart
Arabian Adventure (1979)
as Abu
Dreamchild (1985)
as Mr. Marl
A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995)
as Coach
Alien Autopsy (2006)
as Colonel
The Bedford Incident (1965)
as Seaman 1st Class - C.I.C.
Warlords of Atlantis (1978)
as Captain Daniels
Priest of Love (1981)
as Chief Immigration Officer
Scorpio (1973)
as Cop in Hotel
Only Love (1998)
as Warren Oliver
The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
as Lt. Miles
Gulag (1985)
as Jay
Thunderbird 6 (1968)
as Scott Tracy (voice)
The People That Time Forgot (1977)
as Hogan
S*P*Y*S (1974)
as Hessler
Double Vision (1992)
as Caroline & Lisa's Father
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
as Col. Franklin
Company Business (1991)
as Chairman, Maxine Gray Cosmetics
Crusoe (1989)
as Mr. Mather
Nasty Habits (1977)
as Officer I / C
Pretty Princess (1993)
as Mr. Hughes
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (1985)
as Brod Sarnton
Thunderbirds Are GO (1966)
as Scott Tracy (voice)
Morons from Outer Space (1985)
as Redneck (Melvin)
Year of the Comet (1992)
Actor
One of the Hollywood Ten (2002)
as Parnell Thomas
Alternative 3 (1977)
as Bob Grodin
The Lonely Lady (1983)
Actor
Roman Holiday (1987)
as Hogan
The Last Days of Patton (1986)
as Dr. Col. Lawrence Ball
Whoops Apocalypse (1986)
as Marvin Gelber (US Secretary of State)
Charlie Muffin (1979)
as Braley
Invasion: UFO (1980)
as Lt. Bill Johnson / Alien / CIA Agent
Of Pure Blood (1986)
as The Colonel
The Human Factor (1975)
as CIA Man
Nairobi Affair (1984)
Actor
Caught in the Act (2004)
as Father
Space Police (1986)
as Lt. Chuck Brogan
Red King, White Knight (1989)
Actor
Mee-Shee: The Water Giant (2005)
as Bob Anderson
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987)
as Lisander Stark
Dockers (1999)
as US Longshoreman
The Billion Dollar Bubble (1978)
as Fred Levin
Baffled! (1973)
as Track Announcer
UFO From Earth to the Moon (2016)
as Self
Professional Foul (1977)
as Stone
Doctor Who: The Gunfighters (1966)
as Seth Harper
Flaming Frontier (1958)
as Running Bear
The Saint: The Software Murders (1990)
as Bob Harrison
Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (2000)
as Self
Thunderbirds: Terror In New York City (1965)
as Scott Tracy/Scanners/Washington
Last Video and Testament (1984)
as Dr. Hersh
Thunderbirds in Outer Space (1981)
as Scott Tracy (voice)
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial (1970)
Actor
Thunderbirds to the Rescue (1980)
as Scott Tracy / Radar Operator (voice)
Darkwave: Edge of the Storm (2016)
as Anderson
Breakthrough at Reykjavik (1987)
as George Schulz
Countdown to Disaster (1982)
as Scott Tracy (voice)
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey (1978)
as US Colonel
The Investigator (1973)
as John (voice)
Reunion at Fairborough (1985)
as Joe Szyluk
The Day the Sky Exploded (1958)
as John McLaren (uncredited) (voice)
Filmed in Supermarionation (2014)
as Self
Thunderbirds 60th Anniversary Double Bill - Trapped in the Sky / Terror in New York City (2025)
as Scott Tracy (voice)
A Dangerous Age (1957)
as Nancy's Father
Thunderbirds: Pit of Peril (1965)
as Scott Tracy / Johnny(voice)
Thunderbirds: Trapped in the Sky (1965)
as Scott Tracy / TX 204 Co-pilot (voice)
This Is Supermarionation (2014)
as Scott Tracy (voice)
Dick Spanner P.I.: The Case of the Screaming Dame (2017)
as Dick Spanner (voice)
I Know What I Meant (1974)
as Donald Ziegler
Thunderbirds: City of Fire (1966)
as Scott Tracy (voice)
Thunderbirds: Attack of the Alligators! (1966)
as Scott Tracy (voice)