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Gary Morgan (born 2 January 1950; age 74) is an actor and stuntman who worked as stunt double for Tracey Walter on the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "The Last Outpost". His costume was auctioned off as part of a Ferengi lot at the 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection by Christie's. [1] Footage from this episode was later reused for the second season episode "Shades of Gray". He is the father of stunt actress and contortionist Bonnie Morgan who appeared in the Star Trek: Discovery pilot episode "The Vulcan Hello" in 2017.

Morgan was born in New Jersey and started to work as an actor at the age of eight. Among his first appearances are episodes of Naked City (1958, with Lawrence Dobkin), Head of the Family (1960), The United States Steel Hour (1962), The Patty Duke Show (1964, with William Schallert), N.Y.P.D. (1967, with Robert Hooks), Room 222 (1969), Bonanza (1970), and Adam-12 (1970, with William Boyett). He also had a background part in Wait Until Dark (1967).

The following years he worked on episodes of Ironside (1971, with Barbara Anderson), The Partridge Family (1973, with Alan Oppenheimer and Victor Tayback), Happy Days (1974), CHiPs (1982, with Robert Pine, Lou Wagner, and Julie Newmar), Hotel (1984, with Kim Darby), Spenser: For Hire (1987, with Avery Brooks), Alien Nation (1990, with Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Tony Rizzoli, and Branscombe Richmond), Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1998, with Kay E. Kuter), Black Scorpion (2001, with Sidney Liufau and Robert Pine), and NCIS (2007, with Scottie Thompson and Brian George).

Film work include Fuzz (1972, with Steve Ihnat and Bert Remsen), Summer School Teachers (1974, with Grainger Hines and Dick Miller), Logan's Run (1976, with Glenn R. Wilder and Johnny Haymer), Pete's Dragon (1977), Lovelines (1984, with Todd Bryant), Gone Fishin' (1997, with Louise Fletcher), Growing Up Brady (2000, with Daniel Hugh Kelly, Mark Chaet, and Thomas Knickerbocker), and Unaccompanied Minors (2006, with Jim Wilkey).

In the early 1980s he also started to work in the stunt industry and performed stunts in films such as Going Ape! (1981, with Beth Nufer), 2010 (1984, with Jim Burk, Jim Halty, Johnny C. Meier, and Mic Rodgers), Explorers (1985, with James Cromwell, Robert Picardo, and stunts by Janet Brady, Robert Herron, and Kym Washington), The Golden Child (1986, with stunts by Jeff Cadiente, Vince Deadrick, Gene LeBell, Matt McColm, Noon Orsatti, and Spiro Razatos), Alien Nation (1988, with Tom Morga, Leslie Hoffman, Richard Hancock, and Brian J. Williams), The 'Burbs (1989, with Gary Epper, Frank Orsatti, and Jeff Smolek), Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991, with Al Jones and Noon Orsatti), and Hook (1991, with stunts by Joey Box, Richard E. Butler, Bud Davis, Deep Roy, Scott Leva, and Michael J. Sarna).

Morgan was one of the stunt bear performers in The Great Outdoors (1988, with Ben Scott and Manny Perry), doubled actor Martin Short in Three Fugitives (1989, with Tony Brubaker, Spike Silver, and Don Pulford), doubled José Pérez in The Mask of Zorro (1998), Paulo Costanzo in Scorched (2003, with Jennifer Caputo, Kim Robert Koscki, and Tim Trella), and Shia LaBeouf in The Even Stevens Movie (2003, with Ron Althoff and Chris Doyle). As stunt coordinator he worked on Troop Beverly Hills (1989), The Silence of the Hams (1994, with Alex Daniels, Jimmy Ortega, Tom Morga, Gerard Williams, and Brian J. Williams), White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild (1995), the television drama Max Is Missing (1995), Humanoids from the Deep (1996, with Alex Daniels), Alien Avengers (1997) and Alien Avengers II (1998), and the short drama Stop (2005).

Other film credits as stunt performer include Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992), Under Siege (1992), Army of Darkness (1992, with Chuck Borden, George Colucci, B.J. Davis, Chris Doyle, Maria Kelly, Gene LeBell, Ken Lesco, Dennis Madalone, Tom Morga, John Nowak, and Brian J. Williams), Batman Forever (1995), Bean (1997), Spawn (1997, with Michael Papajohn, Spice Williams, Jay Caputo, Kane Hodder, Faith Minton, and Denney Pierce), Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), Free Enterprise (1998, with William Shatner, Thomas Hobson, Chase Masterson, and stunts by Mark DeAlessandro), Wild Wild West (1999), Rush Hour 2 (2001), and Peter Pan (2003).

Morgan also worked as stunt coordinator on the short films Dracula's Daughters vs. the Space Brains (2010) and Night of the Little Dead (2011) and had a featured part in the mystery comedy Disappearing Bakersfield (2010).

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