Shane Rimmer

Acting · 0.8 popularity

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

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

19648.1

Dark Shadows

20126.1

You Only Live Twice

19676.6

Superman III

19835.5

Out of Africa

19857.2

Diamonds Are Forever

19716.4

The Spy Who Loved Me

19776.8

Spy Game

20016.9

The Hunger

19836.7

Gandhi

19827.6

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

20067.4

White Nights

19856.7

Space Truckers

19965.4

The Dogs of War

19805.8

Reds

19816.9

Hanover Street

19795.6

Alien Autopsy

20065.7

Rollerball

19756.3

Twilight's Last Gleaming

19776.5

A Kid in King Arthur's Court

19955.0

A Kiss Before Dying

19915.6

Dreamchild

19856.6

Warlords of Atlantis

19785.7

Arabian Adventure

19795.9

The Bedford Incident

19657.0

Company Business

19915.3

Scorpio

19736.2

The People That Time Forgot

19775.3

The Holcroft Covenant

19855.5

Alternative 3

19776.4

Gulag

19855.4

Crusoe

19895.9

The Lonely Lady

19834.7

Priest of Love

19815.0

Year of the Comet

19925.8

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

19857.3

Only Love

19985.5

One of the Hollywood Ten

20026.3

Double Vision

19925.1

Hiroshima

20057.2

The Last Days of Patton

19866.5

Whoops Apocalypse

19865.7

Invasion: UFO

19805.7

The Human Factor

19755.8

Thunderbirds Are GO

19666.4

Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'

20007.5

S*P*Y*S

19745.3

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

19876.0

Thunderbirds: The Duchess Assignment

19668.0

Mee-Shee: The Water Giant

20055.5

Morons from Outer Space

19854.9

Baffled!

19735.6

The Billion Dollar Bubble

19787.5

Thunderbirds: Brink of Disaster

19666.0

The Day the Sky Exploded

19584.3

Reunion at Fairborough

19855.8

Pretty Princess

19935.6

Red King, White Knight

19896.4

Lee Oswald: Assassin

1966

All About 'Thunderbirds'

2008

Thunderbirds: Day of Disaster

19657.0

Nairobi Affair

19845.6

Nasty Habits

19775.0

The Chicago Conspiracy Trial

19706.0

Thunderbirds: Danger at Ocean Deep

1966

Thunderbirds: The Cham-Cham

1966

Thunderbird 6

19685.9

Thunderbirds: Path of Destruction

19667.0

Thunderbirds: End of The Road

19659.0

Thunderbirds: 30 Minutes After Noon

19656.0

I Know What I Meant

1974

A Dangerous Age

19576.0

Thunderbirds: Cry Wolf

19667.0

Filmed in Supermarionation

20147.3

Roman Holiday

19874.7

Thunderbirds: The Man from MI.5

19667.0

Thunderbirds: Vault of Death

19656.0

Charlie Muffin

19796.4

Caught in the Act

20045.6

This Is Supermarionation

20148.0

Thunderbirds to the Rescue

1980

Professional Foul

19777.5

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

2017

The One and Only Phyllis Dixey

1978

Thunderbirds: The Imposters

1966

The Saint: The Software Murders

19909.0

Thunderbirds: The Mighty Atom

19656.0

Countdown to Disaster

1982

Thunderbirds: Edge of Impact

19657.0

Thunderbirds: Attack of the Alligators!

196610.0

Thunderbirds: Desperate Intruder

196510.0

Thunderbirds: Pit of Peril

19657.0

UFO From Earth to the Moon

201610.0

Flaming Frontier

19587.0

Thunderbirds: City of Fire

19668.0

Dockers

19996.8

Thunderbirds in Outer Space

1981

Breakthrough at Reykjavik

19877.0

Doctor Who: The Gunfighters

19666.3

Thunderbirds: Atlantic Inferno

1966

Thunderbirds: Trapped in the Sky

1965

Thunderbirds: Terror In New York City

19659.0

Thunderbirds: Move - And You're Dead

19669.0

Of Pure Blood

19869.0

Space Police

19864.0

Thunderbirds: Security Hazard

1966

Last Video and Testament

19847.0

The Investigator

1973

Darkwave: Edge of the Storm

20164.7

Thunderbirds: Operation Crash-Dive

1965

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

202510.0

Thunderbirds: Martian Invasion

19667.0

Thunderbirds: Sun Probe

19658.0

Thunderbirds: The Perils of Penelope

19659.0

Thunderbirds: The Uninvited

19659.0

Dick Spanner P.I.

1987

Thunderbirds: Give or Take a Million

19664.0

Thunderbirds: Lord Parker's 'Oliday

1966

Thunderbirds: Alias Mr. Hackenbacker

19666.0

Thunderbirds: Ricochet

19668.0