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Coordinates: 52°14′52.92″N 1°19′23.12″W / 52.2480333°N 1.3230889°W / 52.2480333; -1.3230889
Ed Bishop (June 11, 1932 - June 8, 2005) was an American film, television, stage and radio actor based in Britain.
Bishop served in the US Army from 8 October 1952 to 24 September 1954, working as a disc jockey with the Armed Forces Radio at St. Johns in Newfoundland. At the time of discharge, his rank was Corporal.
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. He adopted the first name "Edward" at this time for professional reasons. His first Broadway appearance was as Villebosse in David Merrick's production of Jean Anouilh's The Rehearsal in 1963, though he returned to Britain in 1964.
Bishop made his film acting debut in a small role in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 adaptation of Lolita (as an ambulance driver). In 1963 he played an American astronaut going to the moon in the movie The Mouse on the Moon. He had small roles in the James Bond films You Only Live Twice and Diamonds Are Forever, plus a cameo scene in The Bedford Incident. He also appeared in 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which he played the Captain of the Aries 1B space-station-to-moon shuttle. The role initially featured dialogue, though this was later cut from his scenes.
Actors: Lou Rawls (actor), David Michael Frank (composer), Billy Dee Williams (actor), Timothy Bottoms (actor), Henry Silva (actor), Earl Boen (actor), Michael Riley (actor), Kathryn Morris (actress), Saul Stein (actor), Irit Raz (editor), William G. Schilling (actor), Alex Morissen (actress), Danielle Nicolet (actress), Judi Jensen (costume designer), Tim Lounibos (actor),
Plot: A young executive in a toy company is dangerously close to being fired. He meets a mysterious man who teaches him how to manipulate others and soon the young man is a shark on the top of his game. But he's just a pawn in another man's game.
Keywords: acting-friendly, allegory, ambition, bad-advice, business-deal, competitiveness, deception, egoism, executive, hostile-takeover