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 Heures d'angoisse (1948), closely followed by Once a Jolly Swagman (1949) and The Guinea Pig (1949). 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), Le jour où la terre prit feu (1961), Les premiers hommes dans la lune (1964), L'île de la terreur (1966) and Invasion (1966). Judd made sporadic appearances, mostly in television, until the early 1990s.
