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Victor Paul (15 January 192713 September 2011; age 84) was a stuntman and stunt coordinator who worked as stunt double for Dan Kern, performing his fencing stunts, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "We'll Always Have Paris". Twenty years prior, he appeared as a Klingon crewman in the Star Trek: The Original Series third season episode "Day of the Dove". [1]

Paul also portrayed Picard's fencing opponent in a deleted scene of TNG second season episode "The Measure Of A Man". This appearance is part of the extended version of the episode on TNG Season 2 Blu-ray.

Born as Philip Paul Romano, Paul was the father of stuntmen John Phillip and Philip Romano and is probably best known for his work on the 1960s television series Batman. He worked as stunt coordinator on 120 episodes between 1966 and 1968 and was also the stunt double for actor Burt Ward who portrayed Robin along with Batman's stunt double and "Day of the Dove" co-performer Hubie Kerns, Sr., father of another Trek stuntman Hubie Kerns, Jr. He also doubled for Ward in the 1966 television movie Batman which also featured Trek stunt performers Dick Crockett, Lou Elias, Gil Perkins, Charles Picerni, and George Sawaya and was interviewed for the 2002 documentary Behind the Action: Stuntmen in the Movies together with Robert Herron and Tony Brubaker. [2] [3] Specialized in performing sword fights and fencing stunts he can be seen various times in movies and television series doubling actors in these scenes. He also worked as fencing coach / sword fight coach in numerous projects such as My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn (1985, with Denise Crosby), The Whoopee Boys (1986), Stay Tuned (1992, with Gary Combs), and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993, with Patrick Stewart and stunts by Dan Barringer, Erik Cord, Clint Lilley, Scott Leva, and David LeBell). Paul was a Lifetime member of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures.

Paul started his work in the film and stunt business in the late 1940s with featured appearances in Scene of the Crime (1949), Battleground (1949, with Ricardo Montalban), Gambling House (1950), Mask of the Avenger (1951), and Blackbeard the Pirate (1952). Prior to his work on Batman, Paul also worked on Around the World in 80 Days (1956, with stunts by Paul Baxley, Max Kleven, Chuck Hicks, and Gil Perkins) and The Buccaneer (1958, with Chuck Couch and Gil Perkins).

Further stunt work included the television series Cimarron Strip (1968, with Edward Madden and Dallas Mitchell) and Mission: Impossible (1968-1970, with Leonard Nimoy, Charles Picerni, Dick Dial, Carol Daniels Dement, and Anthony Zerbe), Dirty Harry (1971, with Andrew Robinson), Diamonds Are Forever (1971, with Paul Baxley, Lightning Bear, Richard E. Butler, Vince Deadrick, Donna Garrett, Carey Loftin, Ronald R. Rondell, and Tom Steele), the adventure The Poseidon (1972), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) and Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), The Towering Inferno (1974), The Great Smokey Roadblock (1977), the comedy The Prisoner of Zenda (1979, with Dick Geary, Erik Cord, and Pete Kellett), The Island (1980), The Blues Brothers (1980), Flashdance (1983), Bachelor Party (1984), Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985, with Ken Bates, Tom Morga, Spiro Razatos, and Brian J. Williams), The Goonies (1985), Die Hard (1988) and Die Hard 2 (1990), Skin Deep (1989, with Denise Crosby), Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) and The Last Boy Scout (1991), Loaded Weapon 1 (1993), Casper (1995), Mars Attacks! (1996), Armageddon (1998), and Mystery Men (1999, with Joey Box, Leslie Hoffman, and Gene LeBell).

As stunt coordinator Paul created and coordinated the stunts for The One Man Jury (1978, with Dick Durock, Ralph Garrett, John Nowak, and Frank Orsatti), Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981), Racing with the Moon (1984), The Wild Life (1984), Project X (1987), the television series Tales from the Crypt (1990), Don Juan DeMarco (1994), and the television science fiction film Target Earth (1998, with Tim Sitarz). His last known stunt work was in Gone in 60 Seconds (2000, with Steve Blalock, Janet Brady, Jennifer Caputo, Eugene Collier, Al Goto, Kane Hodder, Tom Huff, Henry Kingi, Sr., Rusty McClennon, and Merritt Yohnka) and 15 Minutes (2001, with Buddy Joe Hooker and Mike Massa).

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