| LC control no. | no 92022863 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rimmer, Shane |
| Variant(s) | Deacon, Shane Lance |
| Birth date | 1929-05-28 |
| Death date | 2019-03-29 |
| Place of birth | Toronto (Ont.) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Acting Singing Broadcasting Television authorship Motion picture authorship |
| Profession or occupation | Actors Tenors (Singers) Disc jockeys Television personalities Television writers Screenwriters Authors |
| Found in | Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb [MP] 1964: credits (with Shane Rimmer) Guardian WWW site, viewed April 3, 2019 (Shane Rimmer; Shane Lance Rimmer (Deacon), actor, writer and singer, born 28 May 1929; died 29 March 2019; Shane's father, Thomas Deacon, was a reporter who moved from Ireland to New York, and relocated to Toronto, Canada, where Shane was born. A talented tenor, Shane adopted his paternal grandmother's maiden name, Rimmer, and began a successful career on Canadian radio as a singer and DJ before hosting his own musical TV show, Come Fly With Me (1958). He published an autobiography, From Thunderbirds to Pterodactyls, in 2010) IMDb, August 8, 2023: (Shane Rimmer; actor, writer, soundtrack; died March 29, 2019, London, England) |
| Associated language | eng |
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