Ed Bishop
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1932-06-11 (73 years old)
Deathday
2005-06-08
Place of Birth
Brooklyn - New York - USA
Also known As
Edward Bishop
George Victor Bishop
Ed Bishop
Biography
George Victor Bishop (11 June 1932 – 8 June 2005), known professionally as Ed Bishop or sometimes Edward Bishop, was an American actor. He was known for playing Commander Ed Straker in UFO, Captain Blue in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and for voicing Philip Marlowe in a series of BBC Radio adaptations of the Marlowe novels by Raymond Chandler. Bishop made his film acting debut as an ambulance driver in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 movie Lolita. He played an American astronaut going to the Moon in the film The Mouse on the Moon (1963) and also appeared in The Bedford Incident (1965) and Battle Beneath the Earth (1967). He had small speaking ro...
Acting
1968
as Aries-1B Lunar Shuttle Captain
1975
as TV Announcer
1969
as David Poulson
1994
as Lewis Belvedere
1989
as Geoffrey
1983
as Dr. Baker
1986
as Adm. Stewart Cullinane
2001
as Self
1973
as Victor Stackman
1985
as Dr. Deacon
1978
as Prof. Goonmeyer
1980
as Harding (uncredited)
1982
as Sam Dozier
1971
as Klaus Hergersheimer (uncredited)
1981
as Stainless Steel (voice)
2022
as Self (archive footage)
1984
as Pinkerton
1999
as Carstairs
1969
as Army Captain (voice)
1988
as American Commentator
1980
as Captain Blue (voice)
1971
as Cmdr. Ed Straker
1981
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1977
as Smith
1981
as Captain Blue (voice)
1972
as Com.te Ed Straker
1971
as Comandante Edward Straker
1965
as Lieutenant Hacker U.S.N. - Communications
1971
as Comandante Ed Straker
1987
as Proddy
1963
as Narrator (as Edward Bishop)
1977
as Maj. Fox
1962
as Vogt
1985
as Alexander
1972
as Comandante Edward Straker
1983
1992
as Narrator (voice)
1980
as Henry Harris
1979
as Brother Bethlehem
2001
as Padre Jones
1964
as Narrator
1985
as Reporter
1980
as Al Peterson
1996
as Stanton Case
1991
as Dr. Tate
1975
as Carson
1984
as US President (voice) (uncredited)
1994
as Card Player
1978
as Col. Stewart
1967
as Hawaii CapCom (uncredited)
1990
as Grant
1981
as American reporter
1987
as Gerald
1995
1963
as American Astronaut
2014
as Captain Blue (voice)
1967
as Lt. Cmdr. Vance Cassidy (as Edward Bishop)
1975
as Gang Boss (voice)
1986
as Wink Persiman (TV interviewer)
1972
as Operations Officer
1999
as Captain Blue (voice)
1979
as Damon Runyon (voice)
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