Frank da Vinci

Template:Realworld Frank da Vinci is an actor and stuntman who worked as Leonard Nimoy's stand-in and background and stunt performer on Star Trek: The Original Series.

Da Vinci also appeared in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Secret Sceptre Affair", which also featured Jack Donner and William Boyett, was directed by Marc Daniels, co-produced by Sam Rolfe, and had a musical score by Jerry Goldsmith, and was an extra on the movie Psycho, which was written by Joseph Stefano, based on a novel by Robert Bloch, and featured John Anderson in the cast.

His nickname, according to William Blackburn, was "Buddy." The Star Trek Concordance and derivative works occasionally list him as "Bud da Vinci".

Star Trek appearances

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Brent
Star Trek: The Original Series
Recurring character

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Vinci
Star Trek: The Original Series
Recurring character

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Eminian guard
TOS: "A Taste of Armageddon"

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Vulcan litter bearer
TOS: "Amok Time"

Sarek's aide
TOS: "Journey to Babel"

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Ekosian marshal
TOS: "Patterns of Force"

Recurring roles

• TOS: as Brent
  • "The Corbomite Maneuver" (TOS Season 1)
  • "Mudd's Women"
  • "The Man Trap"
  • "The Naked Time"
  • "Charlie X"
  • "The Galileo Seven"
  • "Court Martial"
  • "The Menagerie, Part I" (stock footage)
  • "The Menagerie, Part II"
  • "Arena"
  • "The Alternative Factor"
  • "Tomorrow is Yesterday"
  • "The Return of the Archons"
  • "A Taste of Armageddon"
  • "Space Seed"
  • "Errand of Mercy"
  • "Operation -- Annihilate!"
  • "Catspaw" (TOS Season 2)
  • "The Changeling"
  • "The Deadly Years"
  • "Bread and Circuses"
  • "The Gamesters of Triskelion"
  • "The Immunity Syndrome"
  • "A Piece of the Action"
  • "By Any Other Name"
  • "Return to Tomorrow"
  • "The Ultimate Computer"
  • "Spock's Brain" (TOS Season 3)
  • "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
  • "The Tholian Web"
  • "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"
  • "Whom Gods Destroy"
  • "The Lights of Zetar"
  • "The Mark of Gideon"
  • "The Way to Eden"
• TOS: as Vinci
  • "Mudd's Women" (TOS Season 1)
  • "The Enemy Within" (scene deleted)
  • "The Man Trap"
  • "Charlie X"
  • "Dagger of the Mind"
  • "The Conscience of the King"
  • "The Menagerie, Part I"
  • "This Side of Paradise"
  • "The Devil in the Dark"
  • "Operation -- Annihilate!"
  • "The Changeling" (TOS Season 2)
  • "The Trouble with Tribbles"
  • "Obsession"
  • "The Omega Glory"
  • "Elaan of Troyius" (TOS Season 3)
  • "And the Children Shall Lead"
  • "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"
  • "That Which Survives"
• TOS: as voice actor
  • "The Conscience of the King" as the voice of Jon Daily ^{(citation needed • edit)}
  • "The Lights of Zetar" as the voice of a crewman

Stunts

• TOS:
  • "The Cage"
  • "The Galileo Seven" as stunt double for Leonard Nimoy
  • "The Alternative Factor"
  • "Catspaw" as stunt double for Leonard Nimoy
  • "The Tholian Web" as stunt double for DeForest Kelley

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