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Marvin Walters (born 6 June 1938; age 85) is the retired stuntman, stunt coordinator, and stunt actor who made an uncredited appearance as a Troglyte in the Star Trek: The Original Series third season episode "The Cloud Minders".

His Star Trek performance was followed by stunt work in What's Up, Doc? (1972, with Kenneth Mars, Stefan Gierasch, and Graham Jarvis), Across 110th Street (1972, along Dick Crockett), Blazing Saddles (1974, with stunts by Bill Catching, Dick Crockett, Kenny Endoso, Gary Epper, and Robert Herron), Black Samson (1974), Freebie and the Bean (1974, with Eddy Donno, Frank Orsatti, and Tom Huff), Earthquake (1974), The Front Page (1974), Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976, starring Bernie Casey and with Marc Alaimo), The River Niger (1976), the television pilot of the science fiction series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979, with Tim O'Connor, Felix Silla, Dave Cadiente, Kenny Endoso, and Tony Epper), and The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1979) and Quincy, M.E. (1980, with Robert Ito, John S. Ragin, and Diana Muldaur).

In the '80s he performed in Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982, with Richard Lynch, Anthony De Longis, Jeff Corey, Joseph Ruskin, and stunts by Simone Boisseree, Tony Brubaker, Jophery C. Brown, Phil Chong, Nick Dimitri, Vince Deadrick, Jr., Chris Doyle, Bob Minor, Tom Morga, and Kym Washington), White Dog (1982), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), The Return of Desperado (1988), and Glory (1989).

Prior to his retirement in 1999 he worked as stuntman on RoboCop 2 (1990), Sidekicks (1992, with Julia Nickson, Joe Piscopo, and Gerrit Graham), Armageddon (1998), and 3 Strikes (2000, with Vincent Schiavelli, Phil Morris, Richard Fancy, and stunts by Denney Pierce, Ousaun Elam, Cole McKay, and Noon Orsatti).

Throughout his career in the stunt business, Walters served as stunt coordinator for various productions, including Shaft's Big Score! (1972), Sweet Jesus, Preacherman (1973), Magnum, P.I., The Dogs of War (1980), Keaton's Cop (1988, with stunts by Matt McColm and J. Suzanne Rampe), Heart of Darkness (1994, with Iman), and Eve's Bayou (1997).

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