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Merritt Yohnka (1 April 195816 September 2020; age 62) was a stuntman, stunt actor, and stunt coordinator who performed stunts as an Enterprise-B crewman in Star Trek Generations. He worked as stunt double for Robert Duncan McNeill in the Star Trek: Voyager second season episode "Parturition". Yohnka also worked as stunt double for Bruce Greenwood on Star Trek Into Darkness.

Yohnka won two Emmy Awards for his stunt coordination on the television series Chuck in 2008 and 2009. In 2010 he earned another nomination for Outstanding Stunt Coordination on Chuck. In 2011 he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination in the category Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture for his work on Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

With a career which spanned four decades, Yohnka performed stunts in projects such as They Live (1988), Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990), Last Action Hero (1993), Tank Girl (1995, starring Lori Petty and Malcolm McDowell), Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995), Suicide Kings (1997), American History X (1998), Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), Pearl Harbor (2001), Minority Report (2002), The Island (2005), Transformers (2007), the horror remake A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011).

He worked as stunt double for Thomas Gibson on Dharma & Greg (1998), for Dennis Quaid on Legion (2010), for Lex Medlin on The Little Rascals Save the Day (2014), and for William Fichtner on Shooter (2016).

Yohnka was also a member of the Directors Guild of America. Among his numerous credits as stunt coordinator are Syngenor (1990), Poison Ivy (1992), Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993), Silk Stalkings (1994-1995), High Tide (1996), Martial Law (1998), L.A. Heat (1997-1999), and Nash Bridges (1996-2001), Chain of Command (2000), on second unit on Spider-Man (2002) and Fantastic Four (2005), and the television series Sleeper Cell (2006), Lost (2007), The Shield (2002-2008), Chuck (2007-2011), Pretty Little Liars (2012-2013), Stalker (2015), Supergirl (2016), Rizzoli & Isles (2012-2016), Marvel's Runaways (2017), and Lucifer (2017-2019).

Yohnka died on 16 September 2020 due to complications from cancer at the age of 62. [1]

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