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Ed Bishop

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{{Short description|American actor (1932–2005)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Ed Bishop
| image = Ed-Bishop.jpg
| caption =
| birth_name = George Victor Bishop
| birth_date = June 11, 1932
| birth_place = [[Brooklyn]], New York, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2005|6|8|1932|6|11}}
| death_place = [[Kingston upon Thames]], [[Surrey, England|Surrey]], England, United Kingdom
| death_cause =
| resting_place = [[Napton]], Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
| resting_place_coordinates =  {{Coord|52|14|52.92|N|1|19|23.12|W|type:landmark_scale:500_region:GB|display=title}}
| alma_mater = [[Boston University]] [[London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art]]
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1959–2005
| television = ''[[UFO (British TV series)|UFO]]'' ''[[Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons]]''
| spouse = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Jane Thwaites|1955|1955|reason=divorced}}
* {{Marriage|Hilary Preen|1962|1996|reason=divorced}}
* {{Marriage|Jane Skinner|2001}}
}}
| children = 5
}}

'''George Victor Bishop''' (June 11, 1932 – June 8, 2005), 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 (British TV series)|UFO]]'', [[Captain Blue (Captain Scarlet)|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]].

==Early life==
George Victor Bishop was born on June 11, 1932, the son of a Manhattan banker, in [[Brooklyn]], New York. He attended [[Peekskill High School]] before a brief spell at teacher training college. Bishop served in the [[United States Army]] as a disc jockey with the [[Armed Forces Radio]] at [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's]] in [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] where he was introduced to acting with the St John's Players.<ref name="tel-obit">{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1491788/Ed-Bishop.html| title=Ed Bishop| work=The Telegraph| date=11 June 2005| access-date=6 March 2015}}</ref>

After leaving the army, Bishop enrolled at [[Boston University]] where he initially studied business administration but halfway through the course, transferred to drama, much against his parents' wishes. After graduating in Theatre Arts, 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; he almost immediately found work in the British theatre and film industries. He adopted the stage name "Ed Bishop" at this time to distinguish himself from George Bishop, an established actor of the time.<ref name="tel-obit"/><ref name="ind-obit"/> His first [[Broadway theatre|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.

==Career==
Bishop made his film acting debut as an ambulance driver in [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s 1962 movie ''[[Lolita (1962 film)|Lolita]]''. He played an American astronaut going to the Moon in the film ''[[The Mouse on the Moon]]'' (1963) and also appeared in ''[[The Bedford Incident]]'' (1965) and ''[[Battle Beneath the Earth]]'' (1967). In 1966 Bishop appeared in ''[[The Saint (TV series)|The Saint]]'' (S5, E8 'The Man Who Liked Lions') playing Tony Allard, a reporter friend of Simon Templar's who is murdered after a few lines. He had small speaking roles in the [[James Bond]] films ''[[You Only Live Twice (film)|You Only Live Twice]]'' (1967) and ''[[Diamonds Are Forever (film)|Diamonds Are Forever]]'' (1971), but was not included in the film credits for either. He appeared in a second Kubrick film, ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' (1968), in which he played the Captain of the ''[[Aries Ib|Aries 1B]]'' Moon shuttle. The role initially featured dialogue but this was later cut from his scenes.

Bishop appeared in various film and television projects created by producer [[Gerry Anderson]]. He provided narration, in addition to the voice of [[Captain Blue (Captain Scarlet)|Captain Blue]], for Anderson's [[Supermarionation]] puppet series, ''[[Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons]]'' (1967), and appeared in Anderson's science-fiction film ''[[Doppelgänger (1969 film)|Doppelgänger]]'' (1969). His most prominent screen role was that of [[Ed Straker]] in Anderson's science-fiction series ''[[UFO (British TV series)|UFO]]'' (1970–71). Bishop's dark hair was initially dyed blond for the role, though he eventually wore a blond wig instead.

In later years, he appeared in films such as ''[[Twilight's Last Gleaming]]'', ''[[Saturn 3]]'', ''[[Silver Dream Racer]]'', and ''[[The Lords of Discipline (film)|The Lords of Discipline]]''. He provided vocal work for the 1974 animated TV series of ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series|Star Trek]]'', and appeared as Lieutenant Colonel Harrity in the final episode of the British [[World War II]] prisoner-of-war drama ''[[Colditz (1972 TV series)|Colditz]]''. In the 1980s, he made several appearances on ''[[The Kenny Everett Television Show]]'', ''[[Whoops Apocalypse]]'' (he also appeared in the [[Whoops Apocalypse (film)|subsequent film]]), and had a role in the children's television series ''[[Chocky's Children]]''.
{{Quote box|align=right|width=30%|quote=Ed Bishop is one of the most talented people I've ever worked with, and my only sadness was that he didn't go on to become an international star. I would have loved him to have perhaps been [[James Bond]].|author=Gerry Anderson|source=''Mr Thunderbird – The Gerry Anderson Story'' (2000 TV movie)}}
On radio in 1977 and 1978, Bishop played the private eye [[Philip Marlowe]] in ''[[The BBC Presents: Philip Marlowe]]'', adaptations of [[Raymond Chandler]]'s stories for the BBC. The last of these, ''[[Farewell, My Lovely]]'', was produced almost a decade after the others, as the rights had previously been unavailable.

He continued to act on film, TV and radio, usually in British and European productions, and was a frequent guest at science fiction conventions. He and fellow Anderson actor [[Shane Rimmer]] (a Canadian actor who often worked in the UK) joked about how frequently their professional paths crossed and termed themselves "Rent-a-Yank". They appeared together as [[NASA]] operatives in the opening of ''[[You Only Live Twice (film)|You Only Live Twice]]'' and as [[United States Navy]] sailors in ''[[The Bedford Incident]]'', as well as the 1983 film of the [[Harold Robbins]] novel ''[[The Lonely Lady]]''. In 1989, Bishop was reunited with Rimmer and another Anderson actor, [[Matt Zimmerman (actor)|Matt Zimmerman]], in the [[BBC Radio 4]] adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's ''[[A Study in Scarlet]]''. He and Rimmer also toured together in theatre shows, including ''[[Death of a Salesman]]'' in the 1990s, and they both appeared in the BBC drama-documentary ''[[Hiroshima (documentary)|Hiroshima]]'' (2005), one of Bishop's last TV projects.

In 2000, Bishop briefly reprised the role of Captain Blue in a trailer for [[Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet|the new ''Captain Scarlet'' series]]. He did not, however, reprise the role for the actual series, which would not debut until five years later. In 2002, he recorded a commentary for the DVD release of ''UFO''. In 2003, he performed in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' audio drama, ''[[Full Fathom Five (audio drama)|Full Fathom Five]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]].

==Personal life==
Bishop was politically active, participating in the March 2003 UK protest against the [[Iraq War]]. Bishop had already shown his disapproval of the [[military-industrial complex]] when, in 1993, he gatecrashed an arms-trade fair held in [[Aldershot]], Hampshire whilst dressed to resemble [[Augusto Pinochet]].<ref name="ind-obit">{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ed-bishop-493950.html |title=Ed Bishop – Obituaries |work=The Independent |date=13 June 2005 |access-date=5 October 2013}}</ref> During the Aldershot protest he met photographer Jane Skinner, who later became his third wife.

Bishop was married three times; first to Jane Thwaites in 1955 before divorcing a few months later in the year. He then married Hilary Preen in 1962; they had four children, they remained married for thirty-four years before divorcing in 1996. He later married photographer Jane Skinner in 2001, the marriage lasted until his death in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1491788/Ed-Bishop.html|title=Ed Bishop|date=11 June 2005 }}</ref>

==Death==
[[File:EdBishop1.JPG|thumb|right|Bishop's grave in St Lawrence churchyard, [[Napton]], Warwickshire]]

Bishop died on June 8, 2005 at the age of 72, three days before his 73rd birthday, and five days after the death of his ''UFO'' co-star [[Michael Billington (actor)|Michael Billington]]. He succumbed to a [[Upper respiratory tract infection|chest infection]] contracted while undergoing treatment for [[leukemia]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Claire Steed |url=http://www.shadolibrary.org/actors/bishop/rememberinged.shtml |title=Remembering Ed |publisher=Shadolibrary.org |access-date=5 October 2013}}</ref> He is buried in the churchyard of the Parish Church of Saint Lawrence in [[Napton]], Warwickshire, having previously lived there for many years. His grey sandstone tombstone has a [[peace symbol]] prominently engraved on it. Its design is very similar to the one situated two metres (6 feet) on the right, which marks the grave of his son Daniel (16 May 1967 – 18 January 1988), who was killed in a car accident in [[Cumbria]]. Bishop's [[epitaph]] (from ''[[Red River Valley (song)|Red River Valley]]'') reads: ''From This Valley They Say You Are Going. We Shall Miss Your Bright Eyes And Your Smile.'' He spent the last few years of his life living in West [[Molesey]].

His life and work were honoured at the [[British Academy Television Awards]] in May 2006. He was survived by his widow and by three daughters from his second marriage (Georgina, Jessica and Serina).

==Filmography==

=== Film ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Title
!Role
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="3" |1962
|''[[Lolita (1962 film)|Lolita]]''
|Ambulance Attendant
|Uncredited
|-
|''Big City''
|Narrator
| rowspan="3" |Credited as Edward Bishop
|-
|''[[The War Lover]]''
|Vogt
|-
| rowspan="3" |1963
|''[[The Mouse on the Moon]]''
|American Astronaut
|-
|''[[The Cool Mikado]]''
|Man
|Uncredited
|-
|''Automania 2000''
|Narrator
|Voice, Short
|-
|1964
|''[[The Winston Affair]]''
|Lieutenant at Sikri
|Credited as Edward Bishop
|-
| rowspan="2" |1965
|''[[You Must Be Joking! (1965 film)|You Must Be Joking!]]''
|U.S. Air Force Soldier at Checkpoint
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[The Bedford Incident]]''
|Lieutenant Hacker U.S.N. - Communications
|Credited as Edward Bishop
|-
| rowspan="2" |1967
|''[[You Only Live Twice (film)|You Only Live Twice]]''
|Hawaii CapCom
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[Battle Beneath the Earth]]''
|Lt. Cmdr. Vance Cassidy
| rowspan="2" |Credited as Edward Bishop
|-
|1968
|''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]''
|Aries-1B Lunar Shuttle Captain
|-
| rowspan="2" |1969
|''[[The Desperados]]''
|Army Captain
|Voice
|-
|''[[Doppelgänger (1969 film)|Doppelgänger]]''
|David Poulson
|Credited as Edward Bishop
|-
|1970
|''Children and Cars''
|Narrator
|Voice, Short
|-
|1971
|''[[Diamonds Are Forever (film)|Diamonds Are Forever]]''
|Klaus Hergersheimer
|Uncredited
|-
|1973
|''[[Pets (film)|Pets]]''
|Vincent Stackman
|
|-
|1974
|''The Bunny Caper''
|Stuart Beard
|aka ''Sex Play'' and ''Games Girls Play''
|-
| rowspan="2" |1977
|''[[Twilight's Last Gleaming]]''
|Major Fox
|
|-
|''Madame Claude''
|Smith
|
|-
|1978
|''[[Brass Target]]''
|Col. Stewart
|
|-
|1979
|''Butch Minds the Baby''
|Damon Runyon
|Voice, Short Film
|-
| rowspan="2" |1980
|''[[Saturn 3]]''
|Harding
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[Silver Dream Racer]]''
|Al Peterson
|
|-
|1980
|Breakaway, The Local Affair
|Scott Douglas
|A six episode TV serial by Francis Durbridge
|-
|1981
|''[[Amin: The Rise and Fall]]''
|Narrator
|Voice, Uncredited
|-
|1982
|''Nutcracker''
|Sam Dozier
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1983
|''[[The Lords of Discipline (film)|The Lords of Discipline]]''
|Commerce St. Croix
|
|-
|''[[The Lonely Lady]]''
|Dr. Baker
|
|-
|1985
|''[[Restless Natives]]''
|TV Reporter (American)
|
|-
|1986
|''[[Whoops Apocalypse (film)|Whoops Apocalypse]]''
|Wink Persiman
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1987
|''Turnaround''
|Gerald
|
|-
|''[[Testimony (1988 film)|Testimony]]''
|American Commentator
|
|-
|1988
|''[[Judgment in Berlin (film)|Judgement in Berlin]]''
|Dyson Wilde
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1989
|''[[Out of Time (1988 film)|Out of Time]]''
|Grant
|
|-
|''[[The Candy Show]]''
|
|Short
|-
|1991
|''[[Born to Ride (1991 film)|Born to Ride]]''
|Dr. Tate
|
|-
|1994
|''[[Funny Man (film)|Funny Man]]''
|Card Player
|
|-
|2001
|''500!''
|Father Jones
|
|}

=== Television ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Title
!Role
!Notes
|-
|1961
|''[[Drama 61-67]]''
|First Reporter
|Episode: "Drama '61: Edge of Truth"
|-
|1964
|''Paul Starr''
|Paul Starr
|TV movie; credited as Edward Bishop
|-
|1964–1966
|''[[The Saint (TV series)|The Saint]]''
|Tony Allard / George Felson / Cy Imberline / Sherm Inkler
|4 episodes; credited as Edward Bishop
|-
|1965
|''[[Mogul (TV series)|Mogul]]''
|Mr. Kramer
|Episode: "Stoneface"; credited as Edward Bishop
|-
|1966
|''[[Court Martial (TV series)|Court Martial]]''
|Law Officer
|Episode: "Shadow of a Man"; credited as Edward Bishop
|-
| rowspan="2" |1967
|''[[The Baron (TV series)|The Baron]]''
|Naval Officer
|Episode: "The Island"; uncredited
|-
|''[[Theatre 625]]''
|Padfield
|Episode: "Sword of Honour #3: Unconditional Surrender"; uncredited as Edward Bishop
|-
|1967–1968
|''[[Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons]]''
|Captain Blue / Narrator (voice)
|32 episodes; credited as Edward Bishop
|-
| rowspan="3" |1968
|''[[Man in a Suitcase]]''
|American Agent
|Episode: "The Boston Square"
|-
|''[[The Portrait of a Lady (TV series)|The Portrait of a Lady]]''
|Caspar Goodwood
|4 episodes; credited as Edward Bishop
|-
|''[[Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series)|Sherlock Holmes]]''
|Joseph Stangerson
|Episode: "A Study in Scarlet"; credited as Edward Bishop
|-
| rowspan="5" |1969
|''[[Out of the Unknown]]''
|Commandant Tom Decker
|Episode: "Beach Head"; credited as Edward Bishop
|-
|''[[Armchair Theatre]]''
|Karl
|Episode: "On Vacation"
|-
|''[[The Way We Live Now (1969 TV serial)|The Way We Live Now]]''
|Hamilton K. Fisker
|2 episodes
|-
|''[[W. Somerset Maugham]]''
|Edward Barnard
|Episode: "The Fall of Edward Barnard"
|-
|''[[Strange Report]]''
|Moran
|Episode: "Report 5055: Cult - Murder Shrieks Out"; credited as Edward Bishop
|-
|1970–1971
|''[[UFO (British TV series)|UFO]]''
|Col. Ed Straker
|26 episodes
|-
|1971
|''[[ITV Sunday Night Theatre]]''
|David Beeston
|Episode: "Man and Boy"
|-
|1972
|''[[The Adventurer (TV series)|The Adventurer]]''
|Wayne
|Episode: "Miss Me Once, Miss Me Twice and Miss Me Once Again"
|-
| rowspan="2" |1973
|''[[The Protectors]]''
|Colonel John Hunter
|Episode: "The First Circle"
|-
|''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series]]''
|Asmodeus (voice)
|Episode: "[[The Magicks of Megas-tu|The Magicks of Megas-Tu]]"; uncredited
|-
| rowspan="5" |1974
|''[[Orson Welles Great Mysteries|Orson Welles' Great Mysteries]]''
|The Millionaire
|Episode: "Compliments of the Season"
|-
|''[[Colditz (1972 TV series)|Colditz]]''
|Lt. Col. Harrity
|Episode: "Liberation"
|-
|''[[Marked Personal]]''
|Howard Morris
|2 episodes
|-
|''Late Night Drama''
|The M.D.
|Episode: "Just Fine"
|-
|''[[Warship (1973 TV series)|Warship]]''
|Sanders
|Episode: "The Man from the Sea"
|-
| rowspan="6" |1975
|''[[Anne of Avonlea (1975 film)|Anne of Avonlea]]''
|Judson Parker
| rowspan="2" |2 episodes
|-
|''[[The Girls of Slender Means]]''
|Felix Dobell
|-
|''[[Oil Strike North]]''
|Patterson
|Episode: "Deadline"
|-
|''[[Quiller (TV series)|Quiller]]''
|Frank Ilroy
|Episode: "The Price of Violence"
|-
|''Thriller''
|Gang Boss / Carson
|2 episodes
|-
|''[[NBC Special Treat]]''
|TV Announcer (voice)
|Episode: "Into Infinity"
|-
| rowspan="4" |1976
|''[[Rogue's Rock]]''
|Cyrus T. Triphammer
|5 episodes
|-
|''[[The Day After Tomorrow (TV special)|The Day After Tomorrow]]''
|Narrator (voice)
|TV movie
|-
|''[[Katy (series)|Katy]]''
|Dr. Carr
|6 episodes
|-
|''[[The Cedar Tree]]''
|Earl Mulligan
|Episode: "Fete Accompli: Part 2"
|-
| rowspan="2" |1977
|''[[Two's Company (British TV series)|Two's Company]]''
|Jack
|Episode: "The Honeymoon"
|-
|''[[1990 (TV series)|1990]]''
|Ed Burbank
|Episode: "Whatever Happened to Cardinal Wolsey?"
|-
| rowspan="6" |1978
|''[[Wilde Alliance]]''
|Wingman
|Episode: "Danny Boy"
|-
|''Life at Stake''
|Jim Lovell
|Episode: "Houston... We've Got a Problem"
|-
|''[[It Ain't Half Hot Mum]]''
|Colonel Sol Zimmerman
|Episode: "The Stars Look Down"
|-
|''[[The Professionals (TV series)|The Professionals]]''
|Braddock / Dr. Ernest Harbinger
|2 episodes
|-
|''Dylan''
|Professor Goonmeyer
|Documentary
|-
|''[[Tycoon (TV series)|Tycoon]]''
|Frazer Carter
|Episode: "Sleeping on Grass"
|-
| rowspan="3" |1979
|''[[Playhouse (British TV series)|ITV Playhouse]]''
|Brother Bethlehem (voice)
|Episode: "Children of the Gods"
|-
|''Running Blind''
|Commander Nordlinger
|Episode: "The Deception Operation"
|-
|''[[S.O.S. Titanic]]''
|Henry Harris
|TV movie
|-
| rowspan="3" |1980
|''Breakaway''
|Scott Douglas
|6 episodes
|-
|''[[Butterflies (TV series)|Butterflies]]''
|Tony
|Episode: "Gimme Shelter"
|-
|''[[Oppenheimer (TV series)|Oppenheimer]]''
|General Tom Farrell
|Episode: "Episode #1.5"
|-
| rowspan="3" |1981
|''Stainless Steel and the Star Spies''
|Stainless Steel (voice)
|TV movie
|-
|''[[Take a Letter, Mr. Jones|Take a Letter Mr. Jones]]''
|Joe Bradley
|Episode: "Business Before Pleasure..."
|-
|''[[Play for Today]]''
|American Reporter
|Episode: "London is Drowning"
|-
| rowspan="2" |1982
|''[[Whoops Apocalypse]]''
|Jay Garrick
|6 episodes
|-
|''Bid for Power''
|
|
|-
|1982–1984
|''[[Kelly Monteith]]''
|
|2 episodes
|-
| rowspan="3" |1983
|''[[The Baker Street Boys]]''
|Marvin
|2 episodes
|-
|''[[Philip Marlowe, Private Eye]]''
|District Attorney
|Episode: "Finger Man"
|-
|''[[The Mad Death]]''
|Tom Siegler
|Episode: "Episode #1.1"
|-
|1983–1986
|''[[The Kenny Everett Television Show]]''
|Various
|5 episodes
|-
| rowspan="4" |1984
|''[[The Master of Ballantrae (1984 film)|The Master of Ballantrae]]''
|Pinkerton
|TV movie
|-
|''Master of the Game''
|Dr. Mattson
|
|-
|''[[The First Olympics: Athens 1896]]''
|Mr. Bogardus
|2 episodes
|-
|''[[Threads (1984 film)|Threads]]''
|US President (voice)
|TV movie; uncredited
|-
| rowspan="3" |1985
|''The Man from Moscow''
|Alexander
|2 episodes
|-
|''[[Chocky's Children]]''
|Dr. Deacon
|5 episodes
|-
|''Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story''
|Sanders
| rowspan="2" |TV movie
|-
| rowspan="2" |1986
|''[[The Fifth Missile]]''
|Adm. Stewart Cullinane
|-
|''[[Just Good Friends]]''
|Vernon
|Episode: "Paris"
|-
| rowspan="2" |1987
|''[[The Two Mrs. Grenvilles]]''
|Strasser
|2 episodes
|-
|''[[The Two Ronnies]]''
|
|Episode: "1987 Christmas Special"
|-
| rowspan="2" |1988
|''Les Girls''
|Cheese Rep
|Episode: "Arrival"
|-
|''[[Worlds Beyond (TV series)|Worlds Beyond]]''
|Mr. Hitchcock
|Episode: "Reflections of Evil"
|-
|1988–1993
|''[[French and Saunders]]''
|Head of Light Entertainment / Various Characters
| rowspan="2" |2 episodes
|-
| rowspan="2" |1989
|''After the War''
|Charlie Lehmann
|-
|''The Les Dennis Laughter Show''
|
|Episode: "Episode #3.4"
|-
|1990
|''[[Chancer]]''
|Elmer
|Episode: "Hazard"
|-
|1991
|''[[Motormouth (American TV program)|Motormouth]]''
|Mr. Miller
|Episode: "Episode #4.9"
|-
|1992
|''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]''
|Sentry
|Episode: "Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal"
|-
|1993
|''[[2point4 Children]]''
|Chet
|Episode: "Whoopee, We're All Going to Die"
|-
|1994
|''[[The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show]]''
|
|Episode: "Episode #1.2"
|-
|1996
|''Broken Glass''
|Stanton Case
|TV movie
|-
|1997
|''[[Highlander: The Series|Highlander]]''
|Edward Banner
|Episode: "Diplomatic Immunity"
|-
| rowspan="2" |1998
|''[[The Demon Headmaster (1996 TV series)|The Demon Headmaster]]''
|TV Supremo
|4 episodes
|-
|''[[The American (1998 film)|The American]]''
|Gen. Packard
|TV movie
|-
|1999
|''[[The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax]]''
|Carstairs
|TV movie
|-
|2002
|''[[Waking the Dead (TV series)|Waking the Dead]]''
|Tyler
|Episode: "Special Relationship: Part 1"
|-
|2005
|''Hiroshima''
|Stimson
|Documentary; final role
|}

==Discography==
* [[Show Boat (John McGlinn recording)|Jerome Kern: ''Show Boat'', conducted by John McGlinn, EMI, 1988]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Portal|Biography}}
*{{IMDb name|0084042}}
*[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ed-bishop-493950.html Obituary in ''The Independent'']

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Garrett Birkhoff

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{{Short description|American mathematician (1911–1996)}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Garrett Birkhoff
| image = Birkhoff Garrett 3.jpeg
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1911|1|19}}
| birth_place = [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]], [[New Jersey]], US
| death_date = {{death date and age|1996|11|22|1911|1|19}}
| death_place = [[Water Mill, New York|Water Mill]], [[New York (state)|New York]], US
| fields = [[Mathematics]]
| workplaces = [[Harvard University]]
| alma_mater = [[Cambridge University]] [[Harvard University]]
| academic_advisors = {{plainlist|1=
* [[Ralph H. Fowler]]
* [[Philip Hall]]
}}
| doctoral_students = {{plainlist|1=
* [[Richard Friedrich Arens|Richard Arens]]
* [[Jerry L. Bona]]
* [[Thomas Caywood]]
* [[Chandler Davis]]
* [[George Fix]]
* [[Emmett Keeler]]
* [[Uta Merzbach]]
* [[George Mostow]]
* [[Peter J. Olver]]
* [[R. Tyrrell Rockafellar]]
* [[Henry C. Wente]]
* [[Philip M. Whitman]]
* [[David M. Young, Jr.]]
* [[Vern Poythress]]
}}
| notable_students = [[Richard S. Varga]]
| known_for = {{plainlist|1=
* [[Lattice theory]]
* [[Quantum logic]]
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'''Garrett Birkhoff''' (January 19, 1911 – November 22, 1996) was an American [[mathematician]]. He is best known for his work in [[lattice theory]].

The mathematician [[George Birkhoff]] (1884–1944) was his father.

== Life ==
The son of the mathematician [[George David Birkhoff]], Garrett was born in [[Princeton, New Jersey]].<ref>Staff. [https://library.ias.edu/files/pdfs/hs/cos.pdf#page=90 ''A COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS: The Institute for Advanced Study Faculty and Members 1930-1980''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111124234612/http://library.ias.edu/files/pdfs/hs/cos.pdf#page=90 |date=2011-11-24 }}, p. 90. [[Institute for Advanced Study]], 1980. Accessed November 20, 2015. "Birkhoff, Garrett 40s M Born 1911 Princeton, NJ."</ref> He began the [[Harvard University]] BA course in 1928 after less than seven years of prior formal education. Upon completing his Harvard BA in 1932, he went to [[Cambridge University]] to study [[mathematical physics]] but switched to studying [[abstract algebra]] under [[Philip Hall]]. While visiting the [[University of Munich]], he met [[Constantin Carathéodory]] who pointed him towards two important texts, [[Bartel Leendert van der Waerden|Van der Waerden]] on [[abstract algebra]] and [[Andreas Speiser|Speiser]] on [[group theory]].

Birkhoff held no Ph.D., a qualification British higher education did not emphasize at that time, and did not obtain an M.A. Nevertheless, after being a member of Harvard's [[Society of Fellows]], 1933–36, he spent the rest of his career teaching at Harvard.

During the 1930s, Birkhoff, along with his Harvard colleagues [[Marshall Stone]] and [[Saunders Mac Lane]], substantially advanced American teaching and research in [[abstract algebra]]. In 1941 he and Mac Lane published ''A Survey of Modern Algebra'', the second undergraduate textbook in English on the subject ([[Cyrus Colton MacDuffee]]'s ''An Introduction to Abstract Algebra'' was published in 1940). Mac Lane and Birkhoff's ''Algebra'' (1967) is a more advanced text on [[abstract algebra]]. A number of papers he wrote in the 1930s, culminating in his monograph, ''Lattice Theory'' (1940; the third edition remains in print), turned [[lattice theory]] into a major branch of [[abstract algebra]]. His 1935 paper, "On the Structure of Abstract Algebras" founded a new branch of mathematics, [[universal algebra]]. Birkhoff's approach to this development of universal [[algebra]] and lattice theory acknowledged prior ideas of [[Charles Sanders Peirce]], [[Ernst Schröder (mathematician)|Ernst Schröder]], and [[Alfred North Whitehead]]; in fact, Whitehead had written an 1898 monograph entitled ''Universal Algebra''.

During and after [[World War II]], Birkhoff's interests gravitated towards what he called "engineering" mathematics. During the war, he worked on radar aiming and ballistics, including the [[bazooka]]. In the development of weapons, mathematical questions arose, some of which had not yet been addressed by the literature on [[fluid dynamics]]. Birkhoff's research was presented in his texts on fluid dynamics, ''Hydrodynamics'' (1950) and ''Jets, Wakes and Cavities'' (1957).

Birkhoff, a friend of [[John von Neumann]], took a close interest in the rise of the electronic computer. Birkhoff supervised the Ph.D. thesis of [[David M. Young, Jr.|David M. Young]] on the numerical solution of [[Poisson's equation|the partial differential equation of Poisson]], in which Young proposed the [[successive over-relaxation]] (SOR) method. Birkhoff then worked with [[Richard S. Varga]], a former student, who was employed at [[Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory]] of the [[Westinghouse Electric (1886)|Westinghouse Electronic Corporation]] in Pittsburgh and was helping to design nuclear reactors. Extending the results of Young, the Birkhoff–Varga collaboration led to many publications on [[positive operator]]s and [[iterative method]]s for ''p''-cyclic matrices.

Birkhoff's research and consulting work (notably for [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]]) developed computational methods besides [[numerical linear algebra]], notably the representation of smooth curves via [[cubic spline]]s.

Birkhoff published more than 200 papers and supervised more than 50 Ph.D.s. He was a member of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Garrett Birkhoff |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/57681.html |access-date=2022-11-30 |website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref> the [[American Philosophical Society]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Garrett+Birkhoff&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-11-30 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> and the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Garrett Birkhoff |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/garrett-birkhoff |access-date=2022-11-30 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}</ref> He was a [[Guggenheim Fellow]] for the academic year 1948–1949 and the president of the [[Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics]] for 1966–1968. He won a [[Lester R. Ford Award]] in 1974.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Birkhoff, Garrett|title=Current trends in algebra|journal=Amer. Math. Monthly|volume=80|year=1973|issue=7 |pages=760–782|url=http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/current-trends-in-algebra|doi=10.2307/2318163|jstor=2318163 }}</ref>

== Selected books ==

* {{Citation | last1=Birkhoff | first1=Garrett | title=Lattice theory | orig-year=1940 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o4bu3ex9BdkC | publisher=[[American Mathematical Society]] | location=Providence, R.I. | edition=4th | series=American Mathematical Society Colloquium Publications | isbn=978-0-8218-1025-5 | mr=598630 | year=1979 | volume=25}}<ref>{{cite journal|author=Wilcox, L. R.|title=Review: ''Lattice Theory'', by Garrett Birkhoff|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=1941|volume=47|issue=3|pages=194–196|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1941-47-03/S0002-9904-1941-07409-4/S0002-9904-1941-07409-4.pdf|doi=10.1090/S0002-9904-1941-07409-4|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* {{Citation | last1=Birkhoff | first1=Garrett |author-mask=2 |year=1997 | first2=Saunders |last2=Mac Lane |author2-link=Saunders Mac Lane |title=A Survey of Modern Algebra |publisher=A.K. Peters |isbn=1-56881-068-7 |orig-year=1941}}<ref>{{cite journal|author=Thrall, R. M.|author-link=Robert M. Thrall|title=Review: ''A Survey of Modern Algebra'', by Garrett Birkhoff and Saunders Mac Lane|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=1942|volume=48|issue=5|pages=342–345|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1942-48-05/S0002-9904-1942-07670-1/S0002-9904-1942-07670-1.pdf|doi=10.1090/S0002-9904-1942-07670-1|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* {{Citation | last1=Birkhoff | first1=Garrett |author-mask=2 |year=1978 |orig-year=1950 |title=Hydrodynamics: A study in logic, fact, and similitude |publisher=Greenwood Press }}<ref name="Stoker1951">{{cite journal|last1=Stoker|first1=J. J.|author-link=James J. Stoker|title=Book Review: ''Hydrodynamics, a study in logic, fact, and similitude''|journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society|volume=57|issue=6|year=1951|pages=497–500|issn=0002-9904|doi=10.1090/S0002-9904-1951-09552-X|doi-access=free}}</ref> [https://books.google.com/books?id=Vj7WCgAAQBAJ 2015 pbk reprint of 1960 2nd edition]
* {{Citation | last1=Birkhoff | first1=Garrett |author-mask=2 | year=1957 | first2=E.H. |last2=Zarantonello |author2-link=Eduardo Héctor Zarantonello|title=Jets, Wakes, and Cavities| publisher=Academic Press}}<ref>{{cite journal|author=Lighthill, M. J.|author-link=James Lighthill|title=Review of ''Jets, Wakes and Cavities'' by Garrett Birkhoff and E. H. Zarantonello|journal=Journal of Fluid Mechanics|volume=3|issue=4|year=1958|pages=437–440|doi=10.1017/S0022112058210100 |s2cid=123461272 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-fluid-mechanics/article/abs/jets-wakes-and-cavities-by-garrett-birkhoff-and-e-h-zarantonello-new-york-academic-press-1957-353-pp-1000-or-80s/95F0DFF393775181EF43EDF4959F81C2}}</ref>
* {{Citation | last1=Birkhoff | first1=Garrett |author-mask=2 | year=1989 |orig-year=1962 | first2=Gian-Carlo |last2=Rota |author2-link=Gian-Carlo Rota |title=Ordinary Differential Equations |publisher=John Wiley}}<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of ''Ordinary Differential Equations'' by G. Blrkhoff and G. Rota|author=Burkill, J. C.|author-link=John Charles Burkill|journal=The Mathematical Gazette|volume=48|issue=364|date=May 1964|pages=240–241|doi=10.1017/S0025557200051068|s2cid=195544336 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/mathematical-gazette/article/abs/ordinary-differential-equations-by-g-blrkhoff-and-g-rota-pp-vi-318-850-1962-ginn-and-company/B7A4F33B7EF76E7E48C1C001AE699F8A}}</ref>
* {{Citation | last1=Birkhoff | first1=Garrett |author-mask=2 | year=1999 |orig-year=1967 |first2=Saunders |last2=Mac Lane |author2-link=Saunders Mac Lane |title=Algebra |publisher=Chelsea |isbn=0-8218-1646-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L6FENd8GHIUC}}
* {{Citation | last1=Birkhoff | first1=Garrett |author-mask=2 | year=1970 |first2=Thomas |last2=Bartee |title=Modern Applied Algebra |publisher=McGraw-Hill}}<ref>{{cite journal|author=Rheinboldt, Werner C.|title=Review: ''Modern Applied Algebra'', by Garrett Birkhoff and Thomas C. Bartee|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=1972|volume=78|issue=3|pages=383–385|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1972-78-03/S0002-9904-1972-12908-2/S0002-9904-1972-12908-2.pdf|doi=10.1090/s0002-9904-1972-12908-2|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* {{cite book|title=Numerical solution of elliptic problems|author=Birkhoff, Garrett Birkhoff|author-mask=2|author2=Lynch, Robert Edward|year=1984|publisher=Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)|location=Philadelphia|series=SIAM Studies in Applied Mathematics, vol. 6|doi=10.1137/1.9781611970869.fm |url=https://epubs.siam.org/doi/pdf/10.1137/1.9781611970869.fm}}
* {{Citation | last1=Birkhoff | first1=Garrett |author-mask=2 | year=1973 |title=Source Book in Classical Analysis |publisher=Harvard University Press}}
* {{cite book|editor1=Oliveira, J. S.|editor2=Rota, G.-C.|title=Selected Papers on Algebra and Topology by Garrett Birkhoff|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BBykgLvJ3yAC|date=1 January 1987|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-8176-3114-7}}

== See also ==
* [[Birkhoff algorithm]]
* [[Semimodular lattice#Birkhoff's condition|Birkhoff's condition]]
* [[Birkhoff polytope]]
* [[Birkhoff's representation theorem]]
* [[Birkhoff's HSP theorem]]
* [[Birkhoff's theorem (disambiguation)|Birkhoff's theorem]]
* [[Topological group#Properties|Birkhoff–Kakutani theorem]]
* [[Pierce–Birkhoff conjecture]]
* [[Partially ordered ring#f-rings|Pierce–Birkhoff ring]]
* [[Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorem]]
* [[Algebraic statistics]]
* [[Median algebra]]
* [[Universal algebra]]

== References ==
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* {{MacTutor Biography|id=Birkhoff_Garrett}}

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Bob Guccione Jr.

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'''Robert Charles Guccione Jr.''' (born September 19, 1955) is an [[Americans|American]] publisher and the eldest son of late [[Penthouse (magazine)|''Penthouse'']] founder [[Bob Guccione]]. He founded the music magazine ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''.

==Publishing career==

In 1978, after two attempts at going into the publishing business on his own, the young, [[London]]-raised Guccione went to work for ''[[Penthouse (magazine)|Penthouse]]'' publisher General Media International, a company owned by his father, ''Penthouse'' founder [[Bob Guccione]]. By the early 1980s, at which time he was running the marketing and circulation department, he left the company (and purported position as heir apparent) to once again attempt to establish his own brand.

===Launching of ''Spin'' magazine (1985)===

In 1985, with a loan from his father, he launched ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''. In 1987, his father abruptly shut down the magazine after General Media experienced a financial dip which resulted in a long-lasting estrangement between the two. This estrangement ended a few years prior to the elder Guccione's death on October 20, 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Episode 635 - Bob Guccione, Jr.|url=http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_635_-_bob_guccione_jr|access-date=2021-11-14|website=WTF with Marc Maron Podcast|language=en-US}}</ref> The younger Guccione found new investors and relaunched ''Spin'' in late 1987. He managed to gather most of the magazine's old staff, and missed only one month of publication.

In 1996, Guccione and ''Spin'' were sued for sexual harassment and discrimination by Staci Bonner, a former fact-checker for the magazine. Guccione was cleared of the harassment charges, but found liable for promoting a [[hostile work environment]] and not paying Bonner comparably to a man with a comparable job position.

Guccione sold ''Spin'' to ''[[Vibe (magazine)|Vibe]]'' in 1997, and shortly thereafter founded ''[[Gear (magazine)|Gear]]'', which published until 2003. In 2005, [[science]] magazine ''[[Discover (magazine)|Discover]]'' was purchased from Disney Publishing and Guccione formed Discover Media, LLC to publish the magazine. In 2007, Guccione was ousted as CEO, in what was described by the ''[[New York Post]]'' as "a falling-out over philosophical differences with his financial backers about how to run the company."<ref>[http://www.nypost.com/seven/10102007/business/guccione_jr__goes_from_penthou.htm "Guccione Jr. Goes From Penthouse to the Outhouse"]</ref>

===''Gear'' magazine (1998–2003)===

''[[Gear (magazine)|Gear]]'' was launched and published in the United Kingdom devoted chiefly to revealing pictorials of popular singers, [[B-movie]] actresses, and models, along with articles on gadgets, cars, fashion, guy tales of sex, and sports.

''Gear'' debuted in September 1998, with actress [[Peta Wilson]] on the cover. The magazine established itself with several publishing stunts such as publishing a nude photo of soccer player [[Brandi Chastain]]. The publication, which reached a peak circulation of 500,000 copies sold in 2001, discontinued publication in 2003.

====Jessica Biel controversy====
''Gear'' reached its exposure apogee in 2000 when it featured a risqué pictorial of then 17-year-old actress [[Jessica Biel]], who posed while appearing on the [[The WB|WB]] family drama series ''[[7th Heaven (TV series)|7th Heaven]]''. A controversy arose when ''7th Heaven'' castmate [[Stephen Collins (actor)|Stephen Collins]], who played her father on the series, described the pictures as "child pornography". Collins later admitted to three counts of child abuse.<ref name="wapo2014">{{cite news |last1=Phillip |first1=Abby |title=‘7th Heaven’ dad Stephen Collins admits to sexually abusing three girls |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2014/12/17/7th-heaven-dad-stephen-collins-admits-to-sexually-abusing-three-girls/ |access-date=10 October 2018 |agency=Washington Post |date=December 17, 2014}}</ref> Others, including A.J. Jacobs writing in ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'', praised it as a brave move by Biel.<ref name="sexiest-2005">
{{cite journal
| date=October 31, 2005
| author=A.J. Jacobs
| title=Jessica Biel Is the Sexiest Woman Alive
| url=http://www.esquire.com/women/sexiest-woman-alive-2005/ESQ0207SEXIEST
| journal=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]
| publisher=[[Hearst Communications]]
| volume=144
| issue=5
| url-status=dead
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{official Website|http://www.bobguccionejr.com}}
* {{IMDb name|id=2532904}}

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