Education
He attended Bowling Green State University, Ohio, where he was a telecommunications major.
He attended Bowling Green State University, Ohio, where he was a telecommunications major.
Born in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, and educated in Detroit, Michigan, United States, Zimmerman started acting at an early age. Besides voicing Alan in Thunderbirds, Zimmerman, like other actors on the series, also voiced various minor characters. He made a live-action appearance in one episode of unidentified flying object ("Exposed", 1970) and one episode of Space: 1999, both among Gerry Anderson"s other television productions.
Zimmerman also starred 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, in addition to many commercials, most notably for Wrangler Jeans. He Returned to the Thunderbirds Franchise in 2015"s Thunderbirds Are Go episode Tunnels of Time as Professor Harold.
Also a stage actor, Zimmerman has starred in plays such as Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Once in a Lifetime and West Side Story, and made his most recent West End appearance in Fiddler on the Roof at the Savoy Theatre in London. In 2008, he appeared in the touring cast of Cabaret, taking the role of Herr Schultz.
