Edward Judd (4 October 1932 – 24 February 2009) was a British actor.Born in Shanghai, China, 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 - a disaster film in which he played an alcoholic reporter during a time when ever larger nuclear explosions could alter the Earth's axis, propelling the Earth towards the sun), First Men in the Moon (1964), and Island of Terror (1966).