| Ed Bishop | |
|---|---|
| Born | George Victor Bishop June 11, 1932 Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Died | June 8, 2005 (aged 72) Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England |
| Occupation | Film, radio, stage, TV actor |
Ed Bishop (born George Victor Bishop on 11 June 1932 in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, New York, USA and died on 8 June 2005 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England), was an American film, television, stage and radio actor based in Britain. Events 1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned according to the calculations of Eratosthenes. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 68 - The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba. 536 - St Silverius becomes Pope (probable Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Kingston upon Thames is the principal settlement of the Royal Borough Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is the branch of the Performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works Events 1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned according to the calculations of Eratosthenes. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 68 - The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba. 536 - St Silverius becomes Pope (probable Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Kingston upon Thames is the principal settlement of the Royal Borough Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located He was 5 feet 11" tall with blue eyes and brown hair.
Bishop is best known for his television roles working for producer Gerry Anderson, most notably his performance as Commander Ed Straker in the science fiction series, UFO, which was produced in 1969 and broadcast during 1970-1971. For a detailed article on collaborations with Sylvia Anderson see Sylvia and Gerry Anderson; the separated strands aren't working - GA is the common thread throughout SHADO redirects here For other meanings see Shado. UFO is a British Television Science fiction SHADO redirects here For other meanings see Shado. UFO is a British Television Science fiction Bishop also provided the voice of Captain Blue for Anderson's Supermarionation puppet series, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. Captain Blue (real name Adam Svenson is a character in the 1960s Supermarionation Television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. Supermarionation (a Blend of "super" "marionette" and "animation" is a puppetry technique devised in the 1960s by British production Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as simply Captain Scarlet, is a Science fiction Television series produced Both series have become cult favorites. A cult following is a group of fans devoted to a specific area of Pop culture. In UFO, he dyed his dark hair blond for the role of Straker, though he eventually started wearing a blond wig instead. Bishop kept one of the wigs he wore in UFO as a souvenir and was also given the Certina wristwatch he wore on the show, and before his death, said that he planned to pass it on to his eldest grandson. Certina is a Swiss watch manufacturer founded in 1888 by Adolf and Alfred Kurth [1] Bishop was the only cast member of UFO to appear in every episode of that series.
Bishop served in the US Army from 1952 to 1954, working as a disk jockey with the Armed Forces Radio at St. Johns in Newfoundland. The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience St John's (ˌseɪntˈdʒanz French Saint-Jean) is the provincial capital of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada and located on the eastern tip Newfoundland — ˈn(jufənˌlænd (Terre-Neuve Talamh an Éisc — is a large island 15 km off the east coast of
After graduating in Theatre Arts from Boston University, he won a Fulbright Scholarship to study for two years at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, from which he graduated in 1959 and almost immediately found work in the British theatre and film industries. For similarly-named academic institutions see Education in Boston MA. The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of grants for international educational exchange for scholars educators graduate The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art ( LAMDA) founded 1861, is a leading British Drama school in west London. He adopted the first name "Edward" at this time for professional reasons. His first Broadway stage performance was in David Merrick's production of The Rehearsal in 1962, though he returned to Britain in 1964. Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located
Bishop made his film acting debut in a small role in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 adaptation of Lolita (as an ambulance driver), and he had small roles in the James Bond films You Only Live Twice and Diamonds Are Forever. Lolita is an influential 1962 film by Stanley Kubrick based on the classic novel of the same title by Vladimir Nabokov. James Bond 007 is a Fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve Novels and two Short story You Only Live Twice (1967 is the fifth Spy film of the British James Bond series and stars Sean Connery as the Diamonds Are Forever (1971 is the seventh Spy film of the British James Bond series and the sixth to star Sean Connery Some of his other better known films include Saturn 3, Twilight's Last Gleaming, Whoops Apocalypse (he also appeared in the TV series version), and 2001: A Space Odyssey (where he played the Captain of the Aries 1B space-station-to-moon shuttle, in a role which first featured dialogue: the dialogue was later cut from his scenes). Saturn 3 is a 1980 Science fiction Film starring Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett and Harvey Keitel. Twilight's Last Gleaming is a 1977 film directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark. Whoops Apocalypse was originally a six-part 1982 Sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television 2001 A Space Odyssey is a 1968 Science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Kubrick and Arthur C In 1963 he played an American astronaut going to the moon in the movie The Mouse on the Moon. The Mouse on the Moon is a 1963 British Comedy film, an adaptation of the novel The Mouse on the Moon by Irish Author Leonard Wibberley Bishop also provided vocal work for the animated version of Star Trek and for Full Fathom Five, a Doctor Who audio drama produced by Big Finish Productions. Star Trek The Animated Series (also known as The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry 's Star Trek) is an Emmy Award winning Full Fathom Five is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays (released straight to Compact disc and On radio, he played the private eye Philip Marlowe in six adaptations of Raymond Chandler's stories, the last of them produced almost a decade after the others, as the rights had previously been unavailable.
Bishop continued to act on film, TV and radio, usually in British and European productions, and was a frequent guest at science fiction conventions. Science fiction conventions are gatherings of the community of fans (called Science fiction fandom) of various forms of Speculative fiction including Science He was also politically active, participating in the March 2004 British protest against the Iraq war. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Iraq War|2007 in Iraq|2008 in IraqThe post-invasion period in Iraq Bishop had already showed his disapproval of the military-industrial complex some years earlier, in a notable act of political theatre: in 1993 he gatecrashed an arms-trade fair held in Aldershot whilst dressed to resemble Augusto Pinochet[1]. A military-industrial complex (MIC is a concept commonly used to refer to Policy relationships between Governments national Armed forces, and industrial In the history of theatre there is long tradition of performances addressing issues of current events and central to society itself encouraging consciousness and social change Aldershot is a town in the English County of Hampshire, located on heathland about 60 km (37 miles southwest of London. Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (November During the Aldershot protest he met photographer Jane Skinner, who would later become his third wife. His widow requested that instead of sending flowers to Bishop's funeral, donations should instead be made to the Campaign Against the Arms Trade.
Ed Bishop was married three times:
- Jane Thwaites, 1955; (divorced)
- Hillary Preen, 1962; 4 children - a son and 3 daughters (divorced 1996)
- Jane Skinner, 2001 (widow)
Bishop died five days after the death of one of his UFO co-stars, Michael Billington. Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the termination of a Marriage. WIDOW is a full-length Album recorded by British rock band Ritual released in 1983 Michael Billington (born on December 24, 1941 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England; died on June 3, 2005 in Bishop succumbed to a chest infection contracted while undergoing treatment for leukaemia. A chest infection is a general term that can covers a variety of lung issues including Lower respiratory tract infection Bronchitis Leukemia or leukaemia (Greek leukos λευκός, "white" aima αίμα, "blood" is a Cancer of the Blood [2] He lies buried in the churchyard of the Parish Church of Saint Lawrence in Napton, Warwickshire. Napton-on-the-Hill, often referred to as just Napton, is a small Village and Civil parish in the Stratford district of Warwickshire Geography Warwickshire is bounded to the northwest by the West Midlands Metropolitan county and Staffordshire, by Leicestershire to The grey granite tombstone has a peace symbol prominently engraved on it. Granite (ˈɡrænɪt is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, Felsic, igneous rock. A headstone, tombstone or gravestone is a marker normally carved from stone, placed over or next to the site of a Burial [3] Bishop's epitaph reads: From This Valley They Say You Are Going. An epitaph (in Greek, &mdash literally " on the gravestone " is a short text honoring a deceased person strictly speaking that inscribed on We Shall Miss Your Bright Eyes And Your Smile. His grave is adjacent to that of his son Daniel, who was killed in a car accident on 18 January 1988, aged 20. Events 350 - Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar)
His life and work was honoured at the British Academy Television Awards in May 2006. The British Academy Television Awards, also known as the BAFTAs &mdash or to differentiate them from the BAFTA Film Awards, the BAFTA Television Awards
He is survived by his widow and three daughters from his second marriage: Georgina, Jessica and Serina.
References
External links
- Ed Bishop at the Internet Movie Database
- Ed Bishop at Allmovie
- Ed Bishop article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
- Ed Bishop at Find A Grave
- Obituary in The Independent newspaper
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