Shane Lance Deacon (May 28, 1929 – March 29, 2019[1][2][3]), known professionally as Shane Rimmer, was a Canadian actor and screenwriter who spent the majority of his career in the United Kingdom. The self-proclaimed "Rent-A-Yank" of the British entertainment industry, he appeared in over 160 films and television programmes from 1957 until his death in 2019, usually playing supporting North American characters.
Among his best known roles were the voice of Scott Tracy in the original Thunderbirds series, Air Force Captain "Ace" Owens in Dr. Strangelove, Joe Donnelli and Malcolm Reid on Coronation Street, Edward R. Murrow in Gandhi, and Louie Watterson on the Cartoon Network series The Amazing World of Gumball. He also made several appearances in the James Bond film series. He made several on-stage appearances for the Royal National Theatre, and contributed scripts to Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and Joe 90.
^"Thunderbirds Are Go as Scott Tracy Actor Shane Rimmer Launches Autobiography". The Times (Hendon & Finchley, Barnet & Potters Bar, Edgware & Mill Hill). Newsquest. 18 October 2010. Archived from the original on 30 October 2010. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
^"Voice of Thunderbirds Scott Tracy Shane Rimmer has Died". Gerry Anderson. 29 March 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
^Belam, Martin (29 March 2019). "Shane Rimmer, voice of Thunderbirds' Scott Tracy, dies aged 89". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
Shane Lance Deacon (May 28, 1929 – March 29, 2019), known professionally as ShaneRimmer, was a Canadian actor and screenwriter who spent the majority...
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command of International Rescue. The voice of Scott was provided by ShaneRimmer. In the film, he was portrayed by actor Philip Winchester. Since the...
film directed by Kevin Connor and starring Doug McClure, Peter Gilmore, ShaneRimmer, and Lea Brodie. The plot concerns a trip to the lost world of Atlantis...
based on an unbroadcast 1986 pilot movie titled Space Police featuring ShaneRimmer. The series was created by Gerry Anderson and was a combination of science...
of the episodes were written by Tony Barwick, with ShaneRimmer contributing six scripts. Rimmer was hired while co-authoring a book with Barwick, who...
Hemmings, Ralph Richardson, Sam Wanamaker, Pinkas Braun, Ian Richardson, ShaneRimmer and Jennie Linden and was directed by Jack Gold. This Cold War espionage...
was commonly accepted, with Bob Grodin, a fictional Apollo astronaut (ShaneRimmer) claiming to have stumbled onto a mysterious lunar base during his moonwalk...
McEnery, Nancy Paul, Brian Pettifer, George Pravda, Eugene Lipinski, ShaneRimmer, Ray Jewers, Bogdan Kominowski 17 Avenging Angel New World Pictures Robert...
George Wendt as Keller Vernon Wells as Mr. Cutt Barbara Crampton as Carol ShaneRimmer as Commander E.J. Saggs Olwen Fouéré as Building Commander Pat Laffan...
William Byars Andrew Grainger as CIA Operations Officer Andrew Unger ShaneRimmer as The Estate Agent Ho Yi as The Prison Warden Benedict Wong as CIA Agent...
of the classics. An unabridged reading of the novelisation, spoken by ShaneRimmer, was released in February 2013. The Gunfighters was released on VHS in...
Graham and Sylvia Anderson featured in all three, Ray Barrett in two and ShaneRimmer in one. Two of the stories – F.A.B. and The Stately Homes Robberies –...
Kyrano David Graham as Parker and Kyrano David Holliday as Virgil Tracy ShaneRimmer as Scott Tracy I remember seeing an aircraft coming into land with its...
also marked the start of a long professional association with actor ShaneRimmer, who voiced Scott Tracy. Production on Thunderbirds had been under way...
(1969) – Sir Hilary Bray The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) – Captain Benson ShaneRimmer played all different characters in the three films he appeared in. He...
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