High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Arnold Judas Rimmer is a fictional character in the science fiction situation comedy Red Dwarf, played by Chris Barrie. He is unpopular with his crew mates, and is often the target of insults or pranks. After he is killed by a radiation leak in the series` first episode "The End", he is present only as a computer-generated hologram, indicated by the "H" symbol on his forehead. In the eighth series, he is brought back to life, along with all other members of the original Red Dwarf crew.