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Alex Daniels (born 4 March 1956; age 68) is a stuntman, stunt actor, and stunt coordinator who performed stunts as a large creature in the Star Trek: The Next Generation second season episode "The Dauphin". He received no credit for this appearance.

In 2017, he did utility stunts for the Star Trek: Discovery first season episode "Into the Forest I Go".

Born as Charles Alexander Daniels in Columbia, South Carolina, he doubled for actors such as David Hasselhoff and Peter Coyote and worked as designer and director for the Batman Stunt Shows at Six Flags Theme Parks International between 1995 and 2008. In 2009 he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series for his work on the drama series Prison Break. He shared this nomination with fellow Trek stunt performers Eddie Braun, Tanner Gill, Steve Kelso, Hubie Kerns, Jr., Henry Kingi, Jr., Johnny Martin, Eric Norris, Lin Oeding, Charles Picerni, Jr., Pat Romano, Mike Smith, and Pete Turner.

In addition to this, he also appeared in Starman (1984, with Tony Edwards and John Walter Davis; make-up art by Doug Drexler), and was a stunt performer on a number of other television series, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Baywatch, The X-Files, and Ghost Whisperer, in addition to movies such as Sphere (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), and Red Dragon (2002). Daniels served as body double for the titular toddler in Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992, also featuring Kenneth Tobey, John Paragon, Ron Canada, and Gregory Sierra), during the scenes in which the baby was roughly the size of an adult.

Currently, Daniels is serving as 2nd Vice President/Office Manager of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures. [1]

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