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Acting

Ed Bishop

Career: Active from 1963 to 2026, with a break from 2002 to 2013, busiest in 1980 with 4 main titles.

Leading roles: 25
top three billing

Average score: 64/100

Highest rated: UFO
81/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 58 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Ed Bishop Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.4, average 5.4
Family Dynamics
3.1, average 4.8
Coming of Age
1.4, average 3.0
Catharsis
3.9, average 5.1

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Cold War Paranoia 2
Model-Based Special Effects 2
Retro-Futuristic Aesthetic 2
Techno-Thriller 2
Psychological Thriller 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

112

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

2 titles

Spectrum is 20: The Death and Life of New Captain Scarlet

as Captain Blue (archive audio) / Himself (archive footage)

Target: Captain Black!

as Captain Blue (voice)

2010s

1 title

This Is Supermarionation

as Captain Blue (voice)

2000s

3 titles · average score 62

Hiroshima

74

as Stimson

Waking the Dead

50

TV show · as Tyler

500!

as Padre Jones

1990s

13 titles · average score 64

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

64

as Carstairs

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure

63

as Sentry

Broken Glass

as Stanton Case

The Demon Headmaster

71

TV show · as TV Supremo

Calliope

as Lewis Belvedere

Funny Man

48

as Card Player

Highlander: The Series

80

TV show · as Edward Banner

Nudism: The Inside Story

as Narrator (voice)

2Point4 Children

71

TV show · as Chet

Performance

TV show · as Stanton Case

Born to Ride

49

as Dr. Tate

The Serpent of Death

as Grant

1980s

36 titles · average score 60

as Geoffrey

Turnaround

as Gerald

The Master of Ballantrae

64

as Pinkerton

Threads

89

as US President (voice) (uncredited)

Whoops Apocalypse

71

TV show · as Jay Garrick

American Playhouse

69

TV show · as General Tom Farrell

The Kenny Everett Television Show

72

TV show · as Various

Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars

as Captain Blue (voice)

Stainless Steel and the Star Spies

as Stainless Steel (voice)

Saturn 3

32

as Harding (uncredited)

Invasion: UFO

57

as Cmdr. Ed Straker

Captain Scarlet vs. The Mysterons

as Captain Blue (voice)

1970s

31 titles · average score 68

Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet

as Prof. Goonmeyer

The Professionals

78

TV show · as Braddock / Dr. Ernest Harbinger

The Day After Tomorrow: Into Infinity

as TV Announcer

Nurse Will Make It Better

74

as Carson

Pets

54

as Victor Stackman

Star Trek

83

TV show · as Asmodeus (voice) (uncredited)

UFO: Annihilate SHADO... Kill Straker...

as Commander Ed Straker

UFO: Take Them Alive

as Commander Ed Straker

UFO: Destroy Luna Base!

as Commander Ed Straker

UFO: Red alert... Attack on Earth!

as Commander Ed Straker

Diamonds Are Forever

60

as Klaus Hergersheimer (uncredited)

UFO

81

TV show · as Ed Straker

1960s

24 titles · average score 66

Beach Head

as Commandant Tom Decker

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

TV show · as David Beeston

2001: A Space Odyssey

86

as Aries-1B Lunar Shuttle Captain

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

76

TV show · as Narrator / Captain Blue (voice)

You Only Live Twice

66

as Hawaii CapCom (uncredited)

Man in a Suitcase

74

TV show

Out of the Unknown

73

TV show · as Commandant Tom Decker

Automania 2000

68

as Narrator

Paul Starr

as Paul Starr (voice)

Sherlock Holmes

72

TV show

The Saint

74

TV show · as Cy Imberline / George Felson

Lolita

82

as Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)

1950s

2 titles · average score 76

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Karl

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Pinkerton