James Lee Stanley

Real world article

(written from a production point of view)

James Lee Stanley
Birth name:	James Lee Stanley
Date of birth:	30 April 1946
Place of birth:	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Roles:	Background actor
Character(s):	Multiple characters

James Lee Stanley (born 30 April 1946; age 79) is an American singer, musician, songwriter, and actor who was a regular background actor on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager for five years. Besides playing a Bajoran security deputy, he appeared as various Klingons, Romulans, Vulcans, Bajorans, Cardassians and other unnamed aliens. As a background actor he received no credit for his appearances.

In 2016, Stanley commented: "I was on the show for five and half years, and I did every kind of alien you can imagine. I've got some fun stories for the stage about my experiences. You will have to come to the concert to hear them. But in a nutshell, the memories are spectacular: Playing chess in the replicator lounge with Quark; wrestling with some uppity Klingons that Odo and I were trying to subdue; sitting in the makeup chair for four hours to become a Klingon. And by the way, if you ever heard a Klingon singing, that was me. The singing Klingon – more about that stuff at the concert". [1]

Besides his work on Star Trek, Stanley worked as background actor on the drama They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969, with Michael Sarrazin, Ian Abercrombie, Noble Chissell, Benjie Bancroft, Robert Buckingham, Dick Cherney, and Arthur Tovey), had a supporting role in the Los Angeles-filmed part of the Australian drama Boulevard of Broken Dreams (1988, with Jess Harnell), and was the stand-in for Christopher Lloyd on the science fiction remake My Favorite Martian (1999, with Ray Walston, Wallace Shawn, Charles Chun, Lorin McCraley, Ken Thorley, Michael Bailey Smith, Jean-Luc Martin, Beau Billingslea, and fellow stand-in Marshal Silverman).

Star Trek appearances

Bajoran security deputy
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Recurring character
(uncredited)

Klingon warrior
DS9: "Apocalypse Rising"
(uncredited)

Romulan officer
DS9: "By Inferno's Light"
(uncredited)

Vulcan rebel
DS9: "The Emperor's New Cloak"
(uncredited)

Alien visitor
VOY: "Survival Instinct"
(uncredited)

Recurring appearances

• DS9: as Bajoran deputy
  • "Visionary" (Season 3)
  • "Improbable Cause"
  • "The Way of the Warrior" (Season 4)
  • "Little Green Men"
  • "Homefront"
  • "Crossfire"
  • "Bar Association"
  • "Hard Time"
  • "For the Cause"
  • "To the Death"
  • "Body Parts"
  • "Broken Link"
  • "Trials and Tribble-ations" (Season 5)
  • "The Assignment"
  • "Rapture"
  • "The Begotten"
  • "In Purgatory's Shadow"
  • "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
  • "Blaze of Glory"
  • "In the Cards"
  • "Call to Arms"
  • "Rocks and Shoals" (Season 6)
  • "Behind the Lines"
  • "Favor the Bold"
  • "Sacrifice of Angels"
  • "You Are Cordially Invited"
  • "Inquisition"
  • "His Way"
  • "The Reckoning"
  • "The Sound of Her Voice"
  • "Image in the Sand" (Season 7)
  • "Shadows and Symbols"
  • "Afterimage"
  • "Covenant"
  • "Prodigal Daughter"
  • "Field of Fire"
  • "What You Leave Behind"

External links

• JamesLeeStanley.com – official site
• Datamusicata.com – official blog
• James Lee Stanley at Wikipedia
• James Lee Stanley at the Internet Movie Database