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Martin "Marty" Valinsky (born 15 July 1952; age 71) is an actor and stuntman who worked as stand-in on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and appeared as a post-atomic courtroom soldier in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "Encounter at Farpoint". He received no credit for both appearances. His costume from his Next Generation appearance was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1]

Valinsky started to work in films and television in the '80s and was featured in episodes of Cheers (1982, with Bob Davis and 1983 with Tim Culbertson, Jessie Biscardi, John Copage, and Walter Smith), T. J. Hooker (1986, with William Shatner, James Darren, Marcy Lafferty, R.A. Rondell, and Vanessa Williams) and Alien Nation (1989-1990, with Eric Pierpoint, Gary Graham, Michele Scarabelli, Ron Fassler, Andreas Katsulas, Sam Anderson, Joel Swetow, Craig Richard Nelson, Henry Brown, Harvey Jason, and Mark L. Taylor). In 1994 he worked as stand-in for actor Fred Ward on Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult along with fellow stand-in Dale Kasman.

Valinsky often portrayed cops and police officers and performed precision driving stunts in feature films. Among his performances are Tango & Cash (1989, starring Teri Hatcher), Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989, with David Graf, Matt McCoy, Kenneth Mars, Gerrit Graham, Arthur Batanides, and Dennis Ott), Mobsters (1991, starring Christian Slater), Wayne's World 2 (1993), Black Sheep (1996), Grace of My Heart (1996), Jingle All the Way (1996), Top of the World (1998, with Peter Weller and Next Generation co-star Cary-Hiroyuki), Chill Factor (1999), Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), Hulk (2003, starring Eric Bana), The Dukes of Hazzard (2005), J.J. Abrams' Mission: Impossible III (2006), Transformers (2007), and The Invasion (2007).

More recent work as stunt precision driver include Hancock (2008), Eagle Eye (2008), Race to Witch Mountain (2009, starring The Rock), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), and Tied to a Chair (2009).

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