Shane Rimmer (May 28th, 1929–March 29th, 2019) was a Canadian voice actor in The Amazing World of Gumball. Starting in "The Extras" until "The Agent" he voiced Louie. He had a long and prolific career in film and television. He died on March 29th, 2019 at the age of 89 just 2 months before his 90th birthday.
Filmography
1958–1979
- Flaming Frontier (Running Bear)
- Dr. Strangelove (Co-pilot Ace)
- The Bedford Incident (Sparks Naval Officer)
- Thunderbirds (voice of Scott Tracy)
- Thunderbirds Are Go (voice of Scott Tracy)
- You Only Live Twice (Control Operator)
- The Dirty Dozen (Car Pool Sergeant Brady)
- Thunderbirds 6 (voice of Scott Tracy)
- Diamonds Are Forever (Security Chief Tom Shaw)
- Scorpio (Detective Reisen)
- S*P*Y*S* (CIA agent Hestler)
- Rollerball (Dallas coach Ace Logan)
- The Human Factor (Joe Carter)
- The People That Time Forgot (Pilot Hogan)
- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Incom Engineer)
- The Spy Who Loved Me (Captain Carter USS Wayne)
- Warlords of Atlantis (Captain Daniels)
- Hanover Street (Colonel Robert Bart)
- Arabian Adventure (Abu - Rebel Leader)
1980–2011
- Superman II (NASA Base Control Chief)
- The Dogs of War (Dr. Harry Oaks)
- Reds (Chairman MacAlpine)
- Priest of Love (John Kelly)
- Gandhi (Edward R. Murrow)
- Superman III (Sheriff Mullins)
- The Hunger (John Jelinek)
- The Lonely Lady (Adelph Fannon)
- Affair at Nairobi (Jason Gardener)
- Reunion at Fairborough (Joe Szylik)
- Morons from Outer Space (Redneck)
- The Holcroft Covenant (NYPD Officer Miles)
- Dreamchild (Studio Head Newman)
- White Knights (Ambassador Jim Smith)
- Space (Commentator Dunne)
- Gulag (Reporter Bradley)
- Out of Africa (Gamekeeper Belnap)
- Of Pure Blood (Colonel Kranz)
- The Last Days of Patton (Chief Surgeon Hawes)
- Roman Holiday (Editor Hogan)
- Whoops Apocalypse (Secretary of State M. Gelbert)
- A Very British Coup (U.S. Secretary of State)
- Crusoe (Captain Mather)
- The Bourne Identity (General Conklin)
- Coded Hostile (Admiral Riley)
- Company Business (Ambassador Jim Smith)
- A Kiss Before Dying (Commentator Dunne)
- Year of the Comet (T.T. Kelleher)
- Chaplin (Manager/Agent)
- A Kid in King Arthur's Court (Baseball Coach)
- Space Truckers (E.J. Saggs)
- Hollywood Ten (Prosecutor Parnell)
- Spy Game (Agent Reg Bowels)
- Caught in the Act (George the Father)
- Mee Shee the Water Giant (Anderson)
- Batman Begins (Lennie)
- Alien Autopsy (A General)
- Lovelorn (Barman)
- Dark Shadows (Boardroom Member)
Television appearances
1958–1979
- Come Fly With Me (Host)
- After Hours (Vocal Singer)
- Compact (Editor Corrigan)
- The Saint (Major Smith, "The Hijackers")
- Thunderbirds (voice of Scott Tracy)
- Dangerman (Buchanan, "The Mercenaries")
- Orlando (Kahn)
- Dr. Who (Seth Harper)
- Court Martial (Ramsey, "All Roads Lead to")
- Lee Oswald: Assassin (Marine Sergeant)
- Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons (Voice-over, "Flight to Atlantica")
- Coronation Street (US Sergeant Joe Donnelli)
- The Chicago Conspiracy (Chief Prosecutor Tom Foran)
- UFO (Pilot Bill Johnson, "Identified")
- UFO (CIA Agent Rosen, "Confetti Check A-OK")
- The Persuaders (Lomax, "Element of Risk")
- The Protectors (Zeke Daly, "Zeke's Blues")
- Great Mysteries (Sergeant Warren, "The Confessional")
- Space 1999 (Eagle Pilot, "Breakaway")
- Space 1999 (James Kelly, "Space Brain")
- Billion Dollar Bubble (Fred Levin)
- Hadleigh (Pollack, "Divorce")
- Second Verdict (Harold G. Hoffman, "Lindbergh Killing")
- Alternative 3 (Bob "Buzz" Brodin)
- Professional Foul (Stone)
- One & Only Phillis Dixey (US Colonel)
- The Famous Five (Mr. Henning, "5 at Finniston Farm")
- Silver Bears (American Banker)
- Power Struggle (Mr. "Big" M. Shaw)
- Return of the Saint (Falco, "Dragonseed")
- A Man Called Intrepid (Willoughby)
- Speed King (Ambassador Bingham)
- Charlie Muffin (CIA Agent Braley, "A Deadly Game")
- The Secret Army (Canadian Commandant)
1980–2019
- Oppoenheimer (Ed Compton)
- Tales of the Unexpected (Arthur Beauchamp, "My Lady Love" and "Dove")
- Bognor (CIA Agent Higgins, "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie")
- The Rose Medallion (Sergeant Ed Busorsky)
- Tales of the Unexpected (John Smith, "Man With a Fortune")
- Nanny (Dick Leonard, "Fathers Ep. 9)
- Philip Marlowe (Det. Sergeant Murphy, "Smart Aleck Kill")
- Agatha Christie (Hank P. Ryder, "The Crackler")
- Alas Smith & Jones (Sketches)
- Master of the Game (Hugh Carroll)
- Lace (P.R. Hal Carson)
- Mistral's Daughter (Harry Klein)
- Ellis Island (TV Announcer Duffy)
- House of Mystery & Suspense (Dr. Hersch, "Last Video & Testament")
- Space (General Quigley)
- Mr. & Mrs. Edgehill (Brod Sarnton)
- Gulag (Jay)
- Dick Spanner: Private Eye (voice of Dick Spanner)
- The Last Days of Patton (Dr. Colonel Lawrence Ball)
- Anastasia (Publisher Ben Grant)
- The 2 Mrs. Grenvilles (Security Nolan)
- Return of Sherlock Holmes (Stark)
- Riviera (Doc Ed Turner)
- Breakthrough at Reykjavik (George Schultz)
- Van Der Valk (Lovell J. Wallace, "A Sudden Silence")
- Coronation Street (Malcolm Reid)
- The Bourne Identity (General Conklin)
- The Fortunate Pilgrim (Republican Reilly)
- A Very British Coup (US Secretary of State)
- Street Legal (Coach Tim Thomas, "Basketball Story")
- Coded Hostile (Admiral Riley)
- Red King, White Knight (General)
- The Nightmare Years (Ambassador Todd)
- Enemy's Enemy (George Schultz, Episode "Del" 4)
- Stanley & the Women (Morton Fendig)
- Land of Hope & Glory (Bob, "Auth. Taste of England")
- Double Vision (Skipper Richards)
- Lipstick on Your Collar (Lt. Colonel Trekker)
- I.K. - Ivar Kreuger (President Hoover)
- Only Love (Chief Krall)
- The Dockers (US Union Leader)
- 7 Industrial Wonders (William Kingsley, "Brooklyn Bridge")
- Caught in the Act (Father)
- Hiroshima (US Secretary of State Byrnes)
- The Amazing World of Gumball (voice of Louie)
Trivia
- He joined Gumball at the age of 85, making him the oldest voice actor to work on the show.
- He was the first voice actor of the show to pass away, unless one counts dub voice actors. The second is Gillian Hanna and the third is David Warner.
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