# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ed-bishop
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:07:19.748Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ed-bishop"
name: "Ed Bishop"
slug: "ed-bishop"
description: "George Victor Bishop, known professionally as Ed Bishop or Edward Bishop, was an American actor, predominantly based in the UK. He was known for playing Commander Ed Straker in UFO, Captain Blue in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and for voicing Philip Marlowe in a series of BBC Radio adaptations of the Marlowe novels by Raymond Chandler."
tagline: "American actor (1932–2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/EdBishop1.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1932-06-11"
deathDate: "2005-06-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.93
  momentum:             8.264947245017586
  historical:           13.41596933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0084042/"
    handle:    "nm0084042"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bishop"
    title: "Ed Bishop"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%A8"
    title: "إد بيشوب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%BE"
    title: "اد بیشاپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bishop"
    title: "Ed Bishop"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bishop"
    title: "Ed Bishop"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bishop"
    title: "Ed Bishop"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%BE"
    title: "اد بیشاپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bishop"
    title: "Ed Bishop"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bishop"
    title: "Ed Bishop"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bishop"
    title: "Ed Bishop"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%83%E3%83%97"
    title: "エド・ビショップ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%97%90%EB%93%9C_%EB%B9%84%EC%88%8D"
    title: "에드 비숍"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%88_%D8%A8%D8%B4%D9%BE"
    title: "ایڈ بشپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c807ac23-8fc3-44ac-bb8d-0e0fee7d2694"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q706134"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/108277"
    title: "Ed Bishop"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump