{"id":8336,"date":"2019-03-31T09:39:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T13:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=8336"},"modified":"2025-11-11T17:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:01:12","slug":"shane-rimmer-voice-of-thunderbirds-scott-tracy-dies-aged-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=8336","title":{"rendered":"Shane Rimmer, voice of Thunderbirds’ Scott Tracy, dies aged 89"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Canadian actor had forged a lengthy career in cult TV shows and films, appearing in three James Bond movies<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n

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Shane Rimmer, who has died aged 89, pictured here during a stint in ITV\u2019s Coronation Street during the 1980s. Photograph: ITV\/REX\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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Actor Shane Rimmer, who voiced the character of pilot Scott Tracy in Thunderbirds, has died. The official Gerry Anderson website carried the news<\/a>, saying that the death of the 89 year old had been confirmed by his widow Sheila Rimmer. Rimmer died at home in the early hours of 29 March. No cause of death has been given.<\/p>\n

Rimmer, who was born in Toronto in 1929 and moved to the UK in the 1950s, played the leader of the Thunderbirds crew in 32 episodes produced between 1964 and 1966. The actor also contributed his voice to other Gerry Anderson<\/a> projects including Joe 90 and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, and appeared in person in the Anderson\u2019s live action project UFO. Behind the scenes, Rimmer also wrote episodes of Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, The Secret Service and The Protectors.<\/p>\n

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As well as his work with Gerry and Sylvia Anderson he appeared in over 100 films including Dr Strangelove, Gandhi and Out of Africa. He played three different roles in three different James Bond<\/a> movies, appearing in Diamonds Are Forever, You Only Live Twice, and The Spy Who Loved Me.<\/p>\n

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Rimmer was also regularly cast in science fiction and fantasy projects, having appeared in William Hartnell era Doctor Who story The Gunfighters, as well as in Space: 1999, and having minor roles in Star Wars and Superman movies. He also played two different characters in British soap opera Coronation Street \u2013 in 1988 as shopkeeper Malcolm Reid, and between 1967 and 1970 as Joe Donnelli, an American GI who had murdered an army colleague and eventually shot himself.<\/p>\n

Rimmer had continued to work in his later years, and as recently as 2017 was supplying a voiceover in cult kids\u2019 TV show The Amazing World of Gumball.<\/p>\n

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