Edward Judd Movies and Career Information

Edward Judd (4 October 1932 – 24 February 2009) was a British actor. Born in Shanghai, he and his English father and Russian mother fled when the Japanese attacked China five years later. His career was at its peak in the 1960s, with a series of leading roles in British science fiction films, including The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), First Men in the Moon (1964), and Island of Terror (1966). Even though his roles in these classic science fiction films were highly praised by audiences and critics alike, his greatest exposure within the mainstream came with the 1975 "Think Once, Think Twice, Think Bike" campaign on making motorists aware of the risks faced on the road by motorcyclists. Very little is known of his life after the 1970s. He was heard in an episode of the BBC Radio comedy Drop Me Here, Darling, starring Leslie Phillips, in 1983, and the BBC radio play Philadelphia Moonshine in 1985. He appeared in the 1988 tv film Jack the Ripper as Thomas Arnold. As of 1990, he lived in a hotel in Wimbledon and was a credit officer for a Canadian Investment bank. It was believed he died in Wimbledon in July 2004, homeless but this has since been proved incorrect. Apparently, he