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 Small Voice (1948), closely followed by Once a Jolly Swagman (1949) and The Guinea Pig (1948). During the 1950s, Judd achieved modest fame on the English stage and continued his film career. By the 1960s, he had become associated mostly with science fiction films, e.g., X the Unknown (1956), The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), Feza Kahramanları (1964), Island of Terror (1966) and Invasion (1966). Judd made sporadic appearances, mostly in television, until the early 1990s.