Matt Zimmerman

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Matt Zimmerman is a Canadian actor best known as the voice of Alan Tracy in Thunderbirds, the TV series, as well as the movies Thunderbirds are GO and Thunderbird 6. He also attended Bowling Green State University, and is a telecommunications major. He was well known for having the best friends in the world. Truly awesome he was.

Born in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, and educated in Detroit, he started acting at an early age. Having won a scholarship he moved to Britain in 1959 to study drama at LAMDA where he was a contemporary of Ed Bishop.

As well as voicing Alan in Thunderbirds, he, in common with other actors in the series also voiced several minor or incidental characters. He also appeared in an episode of Space 1999, another Gerry Anderson production.

Matt also appears as Shooty in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Other television appearances include T-Bag, Mike and Angelo, Crazy Like a Fox, Never the Twain, Once in a Lifetime and many commercials, most notably Wrangler Jeans.

Also a theatrical actor, he has appeared in shows such as Anything Goes and West Side Story , and is currently (January 2008) appearing in [1] Fiddler on the Roof at the Savoy Theatre in London.