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Bill McTosh was the name given in screen credit for Bill McIntosh (born 11 June 1939; age 85), a former stuntman and stunt coordinator who appeared as a Klingon crewman in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. McIntosh was born in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California and graduated from Canoga Park Senior High School in 1957 and from Pierce Community College in Woodland Hills.

He started performing stunts in television and film in the 1970s when he worked on Blazing Saddles (1974, with David Huddleston and fellow stunt performers Bill Catching, Dick Crockett, Dave Cadiente, Kenny Endoso, Troy Melton, Hal Needham, George Sawaya, Jerry Summers, and Bill Zuckert).

Following his work on Star Trek: The Motion Picture, McIntosh performed stunts in Going Ape! (1981, with Bill Couch, Sr. and Mary Peters), Under the Rainbow (1981, with Denver Mattson, Mary Peters, and George Wilbur), Heartbeeps (1981, with Kerrie Cullen, Julie Ann Johnson, Faith Minton, and Mary Peters), and Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982-1983, along with Bruce Barbour, Tom Steele, Vince Deadrick, Diamond Farnsworth, and Steve Kelso).

Further credits in the 1980s include The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982, with Richard Lynch, Anthony De Longis, Jeff Corey, Joseph Ruskin, George Murdock, Jay Robinson, Hubie Kerns, Jr., and stunts by Simone Boisseree, Robert Bralver, Jophery C. Brown, Tony Brubaker, Phil Chong, Vince Deadrick, Jr., Chris Doyle, Chuck Hicks, Tom Morga, Mary Peters, Paul Stader, and George Wilbur), Blue Thunder (1983), Ghostbusters (1984, with Michael Ensign), North & South (1985, starring Kirstie Alley, James Read, Jean Simmons, and Jonathan Frakes), Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985, with Carel Struycken), Trouble in Mind (1985), Silverado (1985), Raw Deal (1986), Critters (1986, with Scott Grimes), The Golden Child (1986), Innerspace (1987, with Robert Picardo, Wendy Schaal, William Schallert, and Henry Gibson), Young Guns (1988), Alien Nation (1988), Moonwalker (1988), A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989, starring Robert Englund, with Lisa Wilcox), and Glory (1989).

McIntosh continued to work as stuntman in the 1990s on projects such as Nothing but Trouble (1991), Mobsters (1991, with Christian Slater and F. Murray Abraham), The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991), Sneakers (1992), In the Line of Fire (1993), Undercover Blues (1993), Grumpy Old Men (1993), On Deadly Ground (1994), Stargate (1994, with Leon Rippy, Erick Avari, Derek Webster, Scott Alan Smith, Frank Welker, and stunts by Chino Binamo, Simone Boisseree, George Colucci, Mark De Alessandro, and Gary Guercio), Wild Bill (1995), the television thriller The Perfect Getaway (1998), and Bats (1999, with Dina Meyer and Bob Gunton).

Also in the 1990s, McIntosh started to work as stunt coordinator. His works include Unabomber: The True Story (1996, with Dean Stockwell), the television drama Divided by Hate (1997, with Jim Beaver and Kevin Rahm), The Visitor (1997-1998, with Leon Rippy and stunts by Mark Chadwick), the television drama No Laughing Matter (1998), the romance Zack and Reba (1998), Drive Me Crazy (1999, with Stephen Collins and Mark Metcalf), and the television horror film The Darkling (2000, with F. Murray Abraham and Simone Boisseree).

In the 2000s, McIntosh performed stunts in The Way of the Gun (2000, with Chuck Hicks, Terry James, Irving Lewis, Kurt Lott, Eddie Mathews, and Jim Wilkey), Firestarter: Rekindled (2002, with Malcolm McDowell and Deborah Van Valkenburgh and stunts by Brian Avery, Eliza Coleman, Phil Culotta, and Don Ruffin), Con Express (2002, with Joel West, Michael Kagan, J. Patrick McCormack, and stunts by Jane Austin and Kurt D. Lott), Bruce Almighty (2003), and the short film Peter Arthur Stories (2009). He also worked as stunt coordinator on the television drama See You in My Dreams (2004), Blind Dating (2006, starring Chris Pine), and Forever Strong (2008, with Neal McDonough, Julie Warner, and Steve Luna).

McIntosh is a lifetime member of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures. [1]

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