Edward Judd

The British character actor Edward Judd was born to British parents in 1932 in Shanghai, China, where he began acting on stage as a teenager.

Before he was 16, he was in England making his film debut in The Hideout (1948), closely followed by Maniacs on Wheels (1949) and The Outsider (1948).

During the 1950s, Judd achieved modest fame on the English stage and continued his film career.

, X the Unknown (1956), The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), First Men in the Moon (1964), Island of Terror (1966) and Invasion (1965).

By the 1960s, he had become associated mostly with science fiction films, e. g.

Judd's first wife, actress Gene Anderson, who appeared with him in a couple of films, including The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), died at age 34 of a brain hemorrhage. His second wife, actress Norma Ronald bore him two daughters, one of them named Deborah. His second wife died in 1993.

Best known to a certain generation in the UK as the face of a famous 1970s "Public Information Film", in which he urges car drivers to be more aware of motorbikes. "Think once... think twice... think BIKE!!!".

Performed in repertory in Windsor and Nottingham in the early years. Later on the West End stage, he appeared in "The Long and the Short and the Tall" with an up-and-coming Peter O'Toole and returned there in 1973 for a role in the Tennessee Williams play "Small Craft Warnings" co-starring Elaine Stritch.

After his retirement in the early 1990s, it was reported that he became a credit officer for a Canadian Investment bank.

Reclusive in later years, it was believed at one point that he had died in Wimbledon in July 2004, homeless and in frail health due to his heavy drinking. The fact, at least about him being homeless, was proved incorrect. Apparently, he lived at a retirement home in Mitcham in his final years.