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Shane Rimmer (born 1929) is a Canadian actor and voice actor, probably best known as the voice of Scott Tracy in the British television series Thunderbirds (1965-66).

Career [edit]
Film [edit]
Rimmer has appeared mainly in supporting roles - especially in films and television series produced in the United Kingdom, having emigrated to England in the late 1950s, initially performing as a cabaret singer before auditioning for Thunderbirds.
His appearances include roles in such 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, Rimmer gave 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.
Television [edit]
Rimmer has a long-running association with TV producer Gerry Anderson. Thunderbirds fans may recognise him as the voice actor behind the character of Scott Tracy. He drafted the story for the penultimate episode of the series, "Ricochet" (1966), which was later turned into a script by Tony Barwick. He also wrote scripts and provided uncredited voices for Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967-68), Joe 90 (1968-69) and The Secret Service (1969), appeared in episodes of Anderson's live-action UFO (1970) and The Protectors (1972-74), provided voices for Space: 1999 (1975-77), and guest-starred in the Space: 1999 episode "Space Brain" (1976). In later years he starred in the unscreened 1983 pilot Space Police (later adapted as a full series with other actors and re-branded Space Precinct in the 1990s) and provided the voice for Anderson's stop-motion gumshoe Dick Spanner, P.I. (1986-87).
Rimmer and fellow Anderson actor Ed Bishop often joked about how their professional paths frequently crossed and called themselves "Rent-a-Yanks". They appeared together as NASA operatives in the opening of You Only Live Twice (1967) and as USN sailors in The Bedford Incident (1965) as well as touring together in live stage shows, including Death of a Salesman in the 1990s.
Other work [edit]
Rimmer also appeared in Doctor Who in 1966, and in Coronation Street as two characters: Joe Donnelli (1968-1970), who held the character of Stan Ogden hostage 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 Bishop and another Anderson veteran, Matt Zimmerman, during production of a 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, which was completed not long after Bishop's death in 2005.
In 2012 he recorded a reading of Donald Cotton's classic Doctor Who novelisation The Gunfighters for release in February 2013. (Rimmer had played 'Snake Eyes' Harper in the original BBC TV production.)
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