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Vincenzo De Florio

Bishop and Billington after the UFO series

Dear Sirs,

my name is Enzo, I'm a big fan of the U.F.O. series. That series stroke
me so much when I first watched it. I've recently watched the whole
series again and decided to see what had happened to my "heroes",
Commandant Straker and Col. Foster. That's why I first joined the Ed
Bishop group at yahoo and now, thanks to suggestions from that group,
SHADO too. I would like to ask a question to both groups -- what
happened to the careers of Bishop and Billington after the UFO series
shut down? Which works would you recommend me to watch, and in which
order? Thank you very much

Kind regards,

Enzo

SHADO

Re: Bishop and Billington after the UFO series

I would go to imdb.com, and do a search for each of the respective gentlemen.

Jeff
P.S. Welcome to the group!

Vincenzo De Florio <[hidden email]> wrote:
Dear Sirs,

my name is Enzo, I'm a big fan of the U.F.O. series. That series stroke
me so much when I first watched it. I've recently watched the whole
series again and decided to see what had happened to my "heroes",
Commandant Straker and Col. Foster. That's why I first joined the Ed
Bishop group at yahoo and now, thanks to suggestions from that group,
SHADO too. I would like to ask a question to both groups -- what
happened to the careers of Bishop and Billington after the UFO series
shut down? Which works would you recommend me to watch, and in which
order? Thank you very much

Kind regards,

Enzo

Yahoo! Groups Links

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Natalie Foster-2

Re: Bishop and Billington after the UFO series

Welocme to the group, Enzo. I can tell you for certain that both men
were in episodes of The Professionals. Michael Billington, The Rack.
Where he played John Cougar, an exboxer turned drug dealer. Ed Bishop,
Long Shot, as Dr Ernest Harbinger, and Man Without A Past, where he
played CIA agent Braddock.

Michael Billington also appeared in a Bond film, he was a russian agent
and was killed in the first 5 mins. He went on to do things behind the
cameras and also taught acting. Ed Bishop had a long and varied career
in England, often playing Americans (Gee, you don't say :-P , sorry,
sarcasim) although he did do some movies in the States.

If I've missed something or got something wrong I'm sure someone will
correct me.

Nat

Jeffrey Nelson wrote:

>
> I would go to imdb.com, and do a search for each of the respective
> gentlemen.
>
> Jeff
> P.S. Welcome to the group!
>
> Vincenzo De Florio <[hidden email]
> <mailto:vincenzo.deflorio%40gmail.com>> wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
>
> my name is Enzo, I'm a big fan of the U.F.O. series. That series stroke
> me so much when I first watched it. I've recently watched the whole
> series again and decided to see what had happened to my "heroes",
> Commandant Straker and Col. Foster. That's why I first joined the Ed
> Bishop group at yahoo and now, thanks to suggestions from that group,
> SHADO too. I would like to ask a question to both groups -- what
> happened to the careers of Bishop and Billington after the UFO series
> shut down? Which works would you recommend me to watch, and in which
> order? Thank you very much
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Enzo
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
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Marc Martin

Re: Bishop and Billington after the UFO series

Administrator

>> I would go to imdb.com, and do a search for each of the respective
>> gentlemen.

Or go here on my UFO website:

http://ufoseries.com/cast/castInfo.html#bishop
http://ufoseries.com/cast/castInfo.html#billington

Marc

ruadan1963

Re: Bishop and Billington after the UFO series

In reply to this post by Natalie Foster-2

--- In [hidden email], Natalie Foster <natalie.foster@...>
wrote:
> Michael Billington also appeared in a Bond film, he was a russian
> agent and was killed in the first 5 mins.

I believe Ed Bishop also played a brief part as a space traffic
controller in a Bond film as well.

SumitonJD

Re: Bishop and Billington after the UFO series

In reply to this post by Vincenzo De Florio

Ed was actual in two Bond films. He worked as a flight tracker in You Only
Live Twice at the start of the Film. And in Diamonds Are Forever he played a
Technician at the Whyte test labs.

James K.

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Bruce Sherman

Re: Bishop and Billington after the UFO series

In reply to this post by Vincenzo De Florio

Billington was in The Spy who loved me

Bruce

-----Original Message-----

>From: ruadan1963 <[hidden email]>
>Sent: Jan 18, 2007 11:33 AM
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: [SHADO] Re: Bishop and Billington after the UFO series
>
>--- In [hidden email], Natalie Foster <natalie.foster@...>
>wrote:
>> Michael Billington also appeared in a Bond film, he was a russian
>> agent and was killed in the first 5 mins.
>
>I believe Ed Bishop also played a brief part as a space traffic
>controller in a Bond film as well.
>

Natalie Foster-2

Re: Bishop and Billington after the UFO series

In reply to this post by ruadan1963

Oh cool. I'm not normally a Bond fan but I have to have those ones in
my collection just for those two actors.

Nat

ruadan1963 wrote:

>
> --- In [hidden email] <mailto:SHADO%40yahoogroups.com>, Natalie
> Foster <natalie.foster@...>
> wrote:
> > Michael Billington also appeared in a Bond film, he was a russian
> > agent and was killed in the first 5 mins.
>
> I believe Ed Bishop also played a brief part as a space traffic
> controller in a Bond film as well.
>
>
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mark turner

Re: Bishop and Billington after the UFO series

In reply to this post by Bruce Sherman

--- In [hidden email], Bruce Sherman <brucesherman@...> wrote:

>
> Billington was in The Spy who loved me
>
> Bruce
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: ruadan1963 <ruadan63@...>
> >Sent: Jan 18, 2007 11:33 AM
> >To: [hidden email]
> >Subject: [SHADO] Re: Bishop and Billington after the UFO series
> >
> >--- In [hidden email], Natalie Foster <natalie.foster@>
> >wrote:
> >> Michael Billington also appeared in a Bond film, he was a

russian
> >> agent and was killed in the first 5 mins.
> >
>
> >
> Looks like I will have to start paying attention to the credits
in the older flicks! (That's usually when I'm making nachos...)

Bruce Sherman

Re: Bishop and Billington after the UFO series

In reply to this post by Bruce Sherman

Remember, the series and the bond movies were filmed in the same studio, Pinewood In one of the DVD commentaries from the series, they talk about seeing the Bond sound stage while Straker running around.

Bruce
----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Sherman
To: [hidden email]
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [SHADO] Re: Bishop and Billington after the UFO series

Billington was in The Spy who loved me

Bruce

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Marc Douglas

Re: Bishop and Billington after the UFO series

In reply to this post by Vincenzo De Florio

And Ed was in Diamonds are Forever 1971

Marc D.

-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Bruce Sherman
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 4:35 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [SHADO] Re: Bishop and Billington after the UFO series

Billington was in The Spy who loved me

Bruce

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