Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
6/11/1932
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 ...
Known For
2001: A Space Odyssey
as Aries-1B Lunar Shuttle Captain
Brass Target
as Col. Stewart
You Only Live Twice
as Hawaii CapCom (uncredited)
Madame Claude
as Smith
Funny Man
as Card Player
Doppelgänger
as David Poulson
The Desperados
as Army Captain (voice)
Whoops Apocalypse
as Wink Persiman (TV interviewer)
Saturn 3
as Harding (uncredited)
Lolita
as Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
Testimony
as American Commentator
Invasion: UFO
as Cmdr. Ed Straker
The Lonely Lady
as Dr. Baker
The Lonely Lady
Unknown Role
Man in the Middle
Unknown Role
The Serpent of Death
as Grant
Diamonds Are Forever
as Klaus Hergersheimer (uncredited)
The Mouse on the Moon
as American Astronaut
The Bedford Incident
as Lieutenant Hacker U.S.N. - Communications
Broken Glass
as Stanton Case