Shane Rimmer
Known for Acting · 131 credits
- Born
- 1929-05-28
- Died
- 2019-03-29
- Place of birth
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Also known as
- Shane Lance Deacon
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.
Known For
TV Shows (40)
Doctor Who
1963
as Seth Harper
Casualty
1986
as Ed Rhinehart
The Saint
1962
as Major Smith
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Marine Sergeant
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Janet Murdoch / Arthur Beauchamp
Playhouse
1974
as Ambassador Bingham
Theatre 625
1964
as Corporal Girtin
Space: 1999
1975
as James Kelly / Eagle Pilot (voice) / Bannion (voice) / Maintenance Section Voice (voice) (uncredited)
The Persuaders!
1971
as Harvey Lomax
Compact
1962
Secret Army
1977
as Canadian Commandant
The Protectors
1972
as Vickers / Zeke
UFO
1970
as Bill Johnson / CIA Agent
Thunderbirds
1965
as Reactor Control Assistant (voice) / Scott Tracy
Van der Valk
1972
as Lovell J Wallace
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
1967
as Mason (voice) / Pilot (voice) / Sergeant (voice)
Return of the Saint
1978
as Falco
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
1984
as Hersh
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
1957
as Farber
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
as Police Sergeant Warren
The Bourne Identity
1988
as General Conklin
Lace
1984
as Press Agent
Mistral's Daughter
1984
as Harry Klein
Quiller
1975
as Harry Brent
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
1983
Oppenheimer
1980
as Ed Condon
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
1983
as Detective Murphy
Joe 90
1968
as Kelly (voice)
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
1987
as Doorman
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Paul
Lipstick on Your Collar
1993
as Lieutenant Colonel Trekker
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
2003
as William Kingsley
The Fortunate Pilgrim
1988
as Reilly
Thunderbirds: The Anniversary Episodes
2020
as Scott Tracy (voice)
Stanley and the Women
1991
as Morton Fendig
Second Verdict
1976
as Harold Giles Hoffman
A Very British Coup
1988
as Secretary of State
A Man Called Intrepid
1979
as Willoughby
Dick Spanner
1987
as Dick Spanner
The Rose Medallion
1981
as Sgt Ed Kusborski
Movies (91)
Star Wars
1977
as InCom Engineer (uncredited)
Batman Begins
2005
as Older Gotham Water Board Technician
Superman
1978
as Naval Transport Commander (uncredited)
Dark Shadows
2012
as Board Member #1
You Only Live Twice
1967
as Hawaii Radar Operator (uncredited)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964
as Capt. 'Ace' Owens
Superman II
1980
as Controller
The Spy Who Loved Me
1977
as Cmdr. Carter
Diamonds Are Forever
1971
as Tom (uncredited)
Out of Africa
1985
as Belknap, farm manager
Spy Game
2001
as Estate Agent
Superman III
1983
as State Policeman
Gandhi
1982
as Commentator
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
as Controller #2
Rollerball
1975
as Rusty, Team Executive
The Hunger
1983
as Arthur Jelinek
White Nights
1985
as Ambassador Larry Smith
Reds
1981
as MacAlpine
Hanover Street
1979
as Col. Ronald Bart
Space Truckers
1996
as E. J. Saggs
A Kiss Before Dying
1991
as Commissioner Malley
Alien Autopsy
2006
as Colonel
Scorpio
1973
as Cop in Hotel
The Dogs of War
1980
as Dr. Oaks
Crusoe
1989
as Mr. Mather
Hiroshima
2005
as James F. Byrnes
A Kid in King Arthur's Court
1995
as Coach
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977
as Col. Franklin
The Bedford Incident
1965
as Seaman 1st Class - C.I.C.
The Lonely Lady
1983
Warlords of Atlantis
1978
as Captain Daniels
Arabian Adventure
1979
as Abu
Company Business
1991
as Chairman, Maxine Gray Cosmetics
Year of the Comet
1992
Nairobi Affair
1984
The Holcroft Covenant
1985
as Lt. Miles
Pretty Princess
1993
as Mr. Hughes
Only Love
1998
as Warren Oliver
The People That Time Forgot
1977
as Hogan
Whoops Apocalypse
1986
as Marvin Gelber (US Secretary of State)
Double Vision
1992
as Caroline & Lisa's Father
Red King, White Knight
1989
Morons from Outer Space
1985
as Redneck (Melvin)
S*P*Y*S
1974
as Hessler
The Last Days of Patton
1986
as Dr. Col. Lawrence Ball
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
1978
as US Colonel
Thunderbirds Are GO
1966
as Scott Tracy (voice)
Priest of Love
1981
as Chief Immigration Officer
The Human Factor
1975
as CIA Man
Nasty Habits
1977
as Officer I / C
Roman Holiday
1987
as Hogan
Mee-Shee: The Water Giant
2005
as Bob Anderson
One of the Hollywood Ten
2002
as Parnell Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
1985
as Brod Sarnton
Baffled!
1973
as Track Announcer
Dreamchild
1985
as Mr. Marl
Invasion: UFO
1980
as Lt. Bill Johnson / Alien / CIA Agent
The Billion Dollar Bubble
1978
as Fred Levin
Caught in the Act
2004
as Father
Alternative 3
1977
as Bob Grodin
Gulag
1985
as Jay
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987
as Lisander Stark
Professional Foul
1977
as Stone
Thunderbird 6
1968
as Scott Tracy (voice)
Filmed in Supermarionation
2014
as Self
Thunderbirds to the Rescue
1980
as Scott Tracy / Radar Operator (voice)
Dick Spanner P.I.: The Case of the Screaming Dame
2017
as Dick Spanner (voice)
Charlie Muffin
1979
as Braley
UFO From Earth to the Moon
2016
as Self
Space Police
1986
as Lt. Chuck Brogan
The Day the Sky Exploded
1958
as John McLaren (uncredited) (voice)
Dockers
1999
as US Longshoreman
The Saint: The Software Murders
1990
as Bob Harrison
Of Pure Blood
1986
as The Colonel
Flaming Frontier
1958
as Running Bear
Reunion at Fairborough
1985
as Joe Szyluk
Countdown to Disaster
1982
as Scott Tracy (voice)
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
1970
Thunderbirds in Outer Space
1981
as Scott Tracy (voice)
The Investigator
1973
as John (voice)
A Dangerous Age
1957
as Nancy's Father
This Is Supermarionation
2014
as Scott Tracy (voice)
Thunderbirds: Terror In New York City
1965
as Scott Tracy/Scanners/Washington
Thunderbirds 60th Anniversary Double Bill - Trapped in the Sky / Terror in New York City
2025
as Scott Tracy (voice)
Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'
2000
as Self
I Know What I Meant
1974
as Donald Ziegler
Last Video and Testament
1984
as Dr. Hersh
Thunderbirds: Trapped in the Sky
1965
as Scott Tracy/TX 204 Co-pilot (voice)
Breakthrough at Reykjavik
1987
as George Schulz
Doctor Who: The Gunfighters
1966
as Seth Harper
Darkwave: Edge of the Storm
2016
as Anderson
About Shane Rimmer
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… With 131 credits spanning from 1956 to 2025, Shane Rimmer has appeared in 91 films and 40 TV shows.
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- Star Wars (1977) — as InCom Engineer (uncredited)
- Batman Begins (2005) — as Older Gotham Water Board Technician
- Superman (1978) — as Naval Transport Commander (uncredited)
- Dark Shadows (2012) — as Board Member #1
- You Only Live Twice (1967) — as Hawaii Radar Operator (uncredited)
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