American actor (1932 to 2005), long resident in Britain and star of the series UFO, who voiced the Megan prosecutor Asmodeus in the animated Star Trek episode The Magicks of Megas-Tu.
Ed Bishop was an American actor who spent most of his career in Britain. He is best remembered as Commander Ed Straker in Gerry Anderson's UFO and as the voice of Captain Blue in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, and had small parts in 2001: A Space Odyssey and two James Bond films.
For Star Trek: The Animated Series he voiced Asmodeus in The Magicks of Megas-Tu (1973). Asmodeus is the stern Megan who acts as prosecutor when the Enterprise crew are put on trial, in a recreation of Salem, for the crimes humanity once committed against his people.
The trial ends when Kirk's willingness to defend Lucien convinces the Megans that humans have changed.