21 Facts About Shane Rimmer

Shane Lance Deacon, known professionally as Shane Rimmer, was a Canadian actor and screenwriter who spent the majority of his career in the United Kingdom.

Shane Rimmer made several on-stage appearances for the Royal National Theatre, and wrote scripts for Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and Joe 90.

Rimmer was born Shane Lance Deacon in Toronto, Ontario to a British mother, Vera, and an Irish father, Thomas Deacon, who was a journalist.

Shane Rimmer adopted his paternal grandmother's maiden name Rimmer and began his career on Canadian radio as a singer and disc jockey before becoming a television presenter.

Shane Rimmer emigrated to England in 1959, after initially performing as a cabaret singer.

Shane Rimmer's appearances include roles in films such as Dr Strangelove, Rollerball, The Spy Who Loved Me, Gandhi, Out of Africa, Crusoe, Spy Game and Batman Begins.

Shane Rimmer is believed to have provided the voice for the character Hamilton in Live and Let Die.

Shane Rimmer had a long-running association with TV producer Gerry Anderson, including the series Thunderbirds.

Shane Rimmer was the voice actor behind the character of Scott Tracy.

Shane Rimmer drafted the story for the series' penultimate episode, "Ricochet", from which writer Tony Barwick penned a script.

Shane Rimmer thought the studio rates for voices in those days were "absolutely deplorable".

Shane Rimmer wrote scripts and provided uncredited voices for Anderson's subsequent Supermarionation productions Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90 and The Secret Service, appeared in episodes of the live-action series UFO and The Protectors, provided voices for Space: 1999, and guest-starred in one of its episodes, "Space Brain".

Shane Rimmer was the second voice of Louie Watterson in the Cartoon Network series The Amazing World of Gumball from 2014 to 2019.

Shane Rimmer appeared once in Doctor Who, and twice in Coronation Street: as Joe Donnelli, who held Stan Ogden hostage before taking his own life, and Malcolm Reid, the adoptive father of Audrey Roberts' son Stephen.

In 1989, Shane Rimmer was reunited with Bishop and Zimmerman during the production of a BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet.

In 2010, Shane Rimmer returned to the world of Thunderbirds with a 15-minute fan film simply entitled Thunderbirds 2010.

Shane Rimmer portrays Jeff Tracy in a voiceover on Thunderbird 3s radio, towards the end of the movie, instructing Scott and Alan to take the three astronauts they rescued in the movie to an intact space station, and return to Tracy Island in anticipation of a storm in the Pacific.

Shane Rimmer played the role of Leo Carlin in the 2013 audio drama The Mighty Carlins by award-winning Canadian playwright Collin Doyle.

In 2014, Shane Rimmer released his first fiction novel Long Shot, through amazon.

Shane Rimmer married Sheila Logan in 1963; the couple had three sons: Damien, Ben and Paul.

Shane Rimmer died at Barnet Hospital in London on 29 March 2019, at the age of 89.