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Lou Slaughter is an actor and stuntman who worked as background actor on several episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager. As a background actor he received no credit for his appearances.

For the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Warlord", Slaughter filmed his scenes on Thursday 5 September 1996 and Friday 6 September 1996 on Paramount Stage 16.

Slaughter is an experienced stuntman with skills in martial arts, firearm handling, and motorcycle work. With an army background of four years, he studied acting in Ontario, New York, and Los Angeles. Slaughter has appeared in several stage plays and commercials and is also a voice actor.

Slaughter has performed roles in films including Demolition Man (1993, with Bob Gunton, Bill Cobbs, Tracee Lee Cocco, and Francis Praksti), Girl 6 (1996, with Debra Wilson), Barb Wire (1996, with Shelly Desai, Diana Lee Inosanto, and Clint Howard), Lost Highway (1997), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), also as stand-in for lead actor Benicio del Torro, and in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003). He performed stunts in Steel (1997, with Charles Napier, Kerrie Keane, Eric Pierpoint, and Gary Graham), Demon Knight (1995, starring William Sadler, Brenda Bakke, Dick Miller, and John Schuck), Idiocracy (2006, with stunts by Lin Oeding), and coordinated the stunts for the independent film Le Full Palaa.

Slaughter played a Vampire in an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer under stunt coordinator Jeff Pruitt and director James Whitmore, Jr. and performed stunts in Profiler, OP Center, and a music video for Snoop Doggy Dogg.

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