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Alan Gibbs (24 November 194018 March 1988; age 47) was a stuntman, stunt coordinator, and second unit director who appeared as a security guard in the Star Trek: The Original Series third season episode "Is There in Truth No Beauty?".

Born in Florida, Gibbs has doubled for actors such as Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Charles Bronson, and Burt Reynolds (1973 in The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing and 1977 in Smokey and the Bandit).

Beside Star Trek, Gibbs performed stunts in the television series The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1967, along Robert Bralver and Dick Geary), The Immortal (1971), Mannix (1971-1973), The Magician (1974, with Abraham Sofaer and Glenn R. Wilder), Vegas (1980), Riptide, and Knight Rider (1986, with Patricia McPherson, Henry Darrow, Ada Maris, and Andy Gill).

In his career, which spanned over two decades, Gibbs performed stunts in films such as The Savage Seven (1968), The Green Berets (1968, with George Takei), The Great Bank Robbery (1969, with John Anderson), Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), Little Big Man (1970, with Jeff Corey and stunts by Tom Huff and Gary Combs), Scorpio (1973, with John Colicos), Chinatown (1974), Death Wish (1974), Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, with Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd, Vincent Schiavelli, and Michael Berryman), Convoy (1978), Heaven's Gate (1980), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), Lone Wolf McQuade (1983, with Robert Beltran and Kane Hodder), Scarface (1983), The Ice Pirates (1984, with Mary Crosby and Ron Perlman), and Moonwalker (1988).

Beginning in 1972, Gibbs served as stunt coordinator for projects such as The Mechanic with Jill Ireland, The Midnight Man (1974), Cannonball (1976), the pilot episode of CHiPs (1977, with Robert Pine, Brooke Bundy, and Tommy J. Huff), The Border (1982), Cannonball Run II (1984), Legal Eagles (1986), The Witches of Eastwick (1987, with Carel Struycken and stunts by Christine Anne Baur, Paula Moody, and Spike Silver), Shakedown (1988, with stunts by John Alden, Noon Orsatti, Gary Epper, and Patricia Tallman), and Crocodile Dundee II (1988).

In addition, Gibbs served as second unit director on Cannonball (1976), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Avalanche Express (1979), The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1987, with Gary Lockwood), and Big Shots (1987), as well as gaffer in the camera department on The Master of Ballantrae (1984), the thriller Suspicion (1987), Maigret (1988), and the television action film The Diamond Trap (1988).

Gibbs passed away at the age of 47 caused by cancer in Los Angeles, California.

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