Bobby Apisa is a former stuntman who performed stunts as a Hawaiian waiter in the Star Trek: Voyager third season episode "Alter Ego". He received no credit for this appearance but is listed as "Stunt waiter" on the call sheets of the episode.
Apisa started to work as background and featured actor in several episodes of the television series Hawaii Five-O in the 1970s where he worked with Jack Lord, Patty Duke and Mark Lenard. He then worked on Waikiki (1980, with Branscombe Richmond and Karen Austin), the television action film J.O.E. and the Colonel (1985, with William Lucking, Allan Miller, Douglas Alan Shanklin and Branscombe Richmond), The Serpent Warriors (1985, with Cynthia Gouw), Free Ride (1986, with Liam Sullivan), Three O'Clock High (1987, with Charles Macaulay), the action film Code Name Zebra (1987, with Charles Dierkop), Grotesque (1988, with Charles Dierkop and Eddy Donno), and Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story (1988, with Michael Nouri and Noble Willingham).
He also appeared in a number of television series in the 1980s including episodes of Magnum, P.I. (1981-1987, with Kathryn Leigh Scott, Bob Hoy and Tom Lupo), Riptide (1985, with Michael Champion, Gabriel Damon and Miriam Flynn), Airwolf (1985-1986, with David Spielberg, Julia Nickson and Nick Dimitri), The Fall Guy (1986, with Elisha Cook and Gene LeBell), Hunter (1986-1988, with Charles Hallahan and Richard Cox), Simon & Simon (1988, with Mary Carver, Thalmus Rasulala, John Schuck, Lou Elias and Tony Epper), and L.A. Law (1988, with Corbin Bernsen, Fran Bennett, Rosalind Allen, James W. Jansen, Cristine Rose, Craig Richard Nelson, Charley Lang and Todd Jeffries).
In the late 1980s Apisa also started to do stuntwork in films such as Odd Jobs (1986, with John Cade, Chuck Couch, Chuck Hicks, Alan Oliney, Rex Pierson and Jan Shultz), the action film Nightforce (1987, with Phil Chong, Eddie Hice, Jimmy Ortega, Manny Perry and Mic Rodgers), Real Men (1987, with Greg Barnett, Jophery C. Brown, Kenny Endoso, Allan Graf and Glenn R. Wilder), Aloha Summer (1988, with Billy Hank Hooker, Ken Lesco and Bernie Pock and stunt coordination by Steven Lambert and Johnny C. Meier), and Collision Course (1989, with Gary Wayton).
In the 1990s Apisa performed stunts in Marked for Death (1990, with David LeBell, Brian J. Williams, Kirk Elam, Tierre Turner, Irving Lewis and Lincoln Simonds), Ricochet (1991, with Janet Brady, Kim Robert Koscki and Gary Morgan), Hard Target (1993), The Specialist (1994, with Jeff Bornstein, Mark DeAlessandro and Sidney S. Liufau), Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995, with Henry Kingi, Sr., Rich Minga and Peewee Piemonte), The Nutty Professor (1996, starring Eddie Murphy, with LaFaye Baker, Eugene Collier, Peter Horak and Lane Leavitt), The Glimmer Man (1996, with Ron Balicki, Mark Chadwick, Max Daniels, Mike Gunther, Bridgett Riley and Paul Sklar), Courage Under Fire (1996), Volcano (1997, with Jennifer Caputo, Anita Hart, Mike Justus, Bob Minor, Rita Minor and Tim Trella), Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997, with Laura Albert, Maryellen Aviano, Marjean Holden and Scott Workman), Gang Related (1997), Amistad (1997, with David Paymer, Paul Guilfoyle, Jake Weber, John Escobar and Sharon Schaffer), Land of the Free (1998, with Ted Barba, Chuck Borden, Cole S. McKay and Jeff Smolek), and Out of Sight (1998, with Richard Hancock and Brian J. Williams).
He worked as stunt coordinator on Mallrats (1995, with Phil Chong and Carl Ciarfalio), the television thriller Little Girl Fly Away (1998, with Jane Daly, Bruce Bohne, Anne Haney, Clayton Rohner and Bruce Davison), and the comedy The View from the Swing (2000, with Janet Brady and Gary Guercio). Apisa also appeared in episodes of Twin Peaks (1990, with Mädchen Amick, Richard Beymer, Ray Wise, David L. Lander, Wendy Robie and Galyn Görg), Raven (1993, with Sherman Howard), Diagnosis: Murder (1993, coordinated by Robert Bralver), Renegade (1992-93, with Branscombe Richmond, Scott Jaeck, Freda Foh Shen, Michael Durrell, Michael Harris, Jim Fitzpatrick, Dell Yount and Spike Silver), and Baywatch (1999, with Greg Barnett and Craig Shugart).
In 2000, Apisa worked as producer and actor on the thriller Diaries of Darkness. Among his last known work as stuntman are Ticker (2001, with Paul Eliopoulos, Mike Gunther and Jeff Imada), Like Mike (2002, with Henry Kingi, Sr. and Brian Machleit), A Man Apart (2003, with Robert Alonzo, Sandy Berumen-Justus, Jeff Cadiente, Anita Hart, Alex Madison, Marcus Young, Brian Simpson, Deep Roy and Larry Rippenkroeger), and Runaway Jury (2003, with Charlie Brewer).