Matt Zimmerman
Biography
Matt Zimmerman was a Canadian actor who voiced Alan Tracy in the 1960s series Thunderbirds and in the two Thunderbirds films that followed. Born in Sudbury, Ontario, and educated in Detroit, he won a scholarship that brought him to Britain in 1959 to train as an actor at LAMDA. He landed the part after David Holliday, the voice of Virgil Tracy, recommended him to the producers Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, and like other cast members he also voiced smaller roles. He reprised Alan in Thunderbirds Are GO (1966) and Thunderbird 6 (1968), and also made a live-action appearance in an episode of UFO. He played Shooty in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, turned up in T-Bag, Mike and Angelo and Never the Twain, and in 2015 played Professor Harold in the Thunderbirds reboot Thunderbirds Are Go. His stage work included West Side Story, Anything Goes and Cabaret. He died in 2022.
87years old at death
- Born Greater Sudbury
- Died
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
Movie Career
- Films
- 3
- Career span
- 48 years1966 to 2014
Every film, newest first
- 2014Filmed in SupermarionationIMDb rating 7.4
- 1968Thunderbird 6IMDb rating 6.3
- 1966Thunderbirds Are GOIMDb rating 6.4
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Big break
Zimmerman won the role of Alan Tracy in Thunderbirds after David Holliday, the voice of Virgil Tracy, recommended him to producers Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.
Early training
After winning a scholarship, Zimmerman went to the United Kingdom in 1959. There he studied drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where Ed Bishop was a contemporary.
Matt Zimmerman movies on Netflix
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David Lane directed two of these films. Two actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Peter Dyneley's page
Jeremy Wilkin's page
Christine Finn's page
David Graham's page
All films by David Lane
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