Shane Rimmer

Shane Rimmer was best-known for his vocal role as Scott Tracy in Thunderbirds (1965-1966), Thunderbirds Are Go (1966) and Thunderbird 6 (1968), a role which led to his becoming one of the most prolific performers in the Gerry Anderson canon with further vocal credits on Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons (1967-1968), Joe 90 (1968-1969), The Investigator (1973) and Dick Spanner (1987) and on-screen appearances in UFO (1970-1971) (three episodes), The Protectors (1972-1974) (two episodes) and Space Police (1986). In addition, Rimmer scripted episodes of Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons, Joe 90, The Secret Service (1969), The Investigator and The Protectors, and can be heard in voice-overs in five other episodes of Space:1999. He made his film debut as Captain G.A. “Ace” Owens in Dr. Strangelove (1963) and went on to appear in The Bedford Incident (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), S*P*Y*S (1974), Rollerball (1974), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), The People That Time Forgot (1977), Star Wars (1978), Warlords Of Atlantis (1978), Arabian Adventure (1979), Superman II (1980), The Dogs Of War (1980), Gandhi (1982), Superman III (1983), White Nights (1985), Out Of Africa (1985) and '''Whoops! Apocalypse''' (1986). On television, he has appeared in Compact, Doctor Who, Coronation Street, The Persuaders!, Jason King, Alias Smith And Jones, Return Of The Saint, Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense and Casualty, and the mini-series A Man Called Intrepid, Mistral's Daughter, Master Of The Game, Ellis Island, James A. Michener's Space, Mario Puzo's The Fortunate Pilgrim and The Nightmare Years. More recently, he has been seen as Lt. Colonel Trekker in Lipstick On Your Collar, the villainous E.J. Saggs in Space Truckers (1997), and as President Hoover in the Kreuger mini-series. Rimmer also narrated Fanderson's The UFO Documentary and The Space:1999 Documentary programmes.