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Kim Robert Koscki (13 September 19649 October 2014; age 50) was a stuntman and stunt coordinator who worked on two Star Trek films and three episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise. He doubled actor Ethan Phillips in Star Trek: First Contact under stunt coordination by Ronald R. Rondell. Several years later, Koscki doubled actor Jeffrey Combs in three episodes of Enterprise and also appeared as an Andorian in another episode. Most recently, Koscki was part of the stunt group which filmed the attack scene at the Daystrom Conference Room in Star Trek Into Darkness. Koscki's costume from the Enterprise first season episode "The Andorian Incident" was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1]

Born seventh of eleven children in Chico, a city in Butte County, California, Koscki started to work as stuntman in the entertainment industry in the early 1980s. He is probably best known for doubling actor Mike Myers in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002). He also doubled Myers in The Cat in the Hat (2003). Other actors he doubled include Richard Dreyfuss in Mad Dog Time (1996), Rick Moranis in The Flintstones (1994) and Little Giants (1994), William H. Macy in the crime movie On the Dead Side (1995) and Edmond (2005), Martin Short in Father of the Bride Part II (1995), Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2004), and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006), David Spade in Lost & Found (1999) and Just Shoot Me! (2001), and Thomas Lennon in Reno 911!: Miami (2007).

Koscki trained car stunt driving at Rick Seaman's Hollywood Stunt Driving School until 1992. From 2006 on, he then worked as Driving Instructor himself at this school. He also trained stunt rigging under Lane Leavitt and was specialized in motorcycle stunt work.

After he worked as assistant stunt coordinator on projects such as the romance Under the Boardwalk (1989, working with Dan Koko) and the comedy Think Big (1989, with George Colucci and Tom Huff), Koscki became stunt coordinator himself on projects including Timebomb (1991, with Tracy Scoggins, Irving Lewis, and Kurt D. Lott), Project Vampire (1993), Head of the Family (1996), Murdercycle (1999), the thriller Net Games (2003, with Monica Staggs), the television series Happy Family (2003-2004, starring John Larroquette and Susan Gibney), Reeker (2005, with Oliver Keller and Nancy Thurston) and No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker (2008, with William De Vital), the horror thriller Neighborhood Watch (2005), Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006), Sonny with a Chance (2009-2010), Bad Actress (2011), and the comedy Camp Fred (2012).

Koscki also performed stunts in The Lost Boys (1987, with Todd Feder and stunts by Janet Brady and Spice Williams), Miracle Mile (1988, with Denise Crosby), Hook (1991), Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1991, with Marjean Holden, Christopher Collins, Patti Yasutake, J.D. Walters, and stunts by Mark De Alessandro, Tommy J. Huff, and Robert Herron), Super Mario Bros. (1993), Beverly Hills Cop III (1994), Forrest Gump (1994), Batman Forever (1995, with René Auberjonois), Independence Day (1996, with Brent Spiner), Face/Off (1997, with stunts by Mark Riccardi, Denney Pierce, and Spiro Razatos), Blade (1998), Ghosts of Mars (2001, with Joanna Cassidy, Marjean Holden, and stunts by Dana Hee), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005, with William Shatner, Enrique Murciano, and Faith Minton), Flightplan (2005, with stunts by Lynn Salvatori), Smokin' Aces (2006), J.J. Abrams' Lost (2009, with Todd Bryant and Thom Williams), Angels & Demons (2009), Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight (2009-2010), Piranha 3D (2010), The Green Hornet (2011), Here Comes the Boom (2012), and Olympus Has Fallen (2013).

He worked as stunt coordinator on Preservation (2014, stunts by Danny Downey), on the first season of The Thundermans (2013-2014), Terry the Tomboy (2014), and on the short horror film Boarding House (2014), and performed stunts in True Blood (2014, with Craig Baxley, Jr., Theo Kypri, Erik Stabenau, Mark Wagner, and stunt coordination by Hiro Koda). He also completed filming as stunt coordinator on the drama The Grounds (2014, with Michael Welch) and on the comedy Loaded (2015).

Koscki was still filming the science fiction film Wizardream as stunt and fight coordinator (with Malcolm McDowell and Raymond Forchion) when he went out for a private motorcycle ride on Sunday 5 October 2014. He was brought to the hospital after he suffered a cardiac arrest and went into a coma. He passed away on Thursday, 9 October 2014, survived by his wife and his two daughters. [2] [3]

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