Michael "Mickey" Stanhope (born 11 August 1949; age 75) is an actor and rock musician, singer, and songwriter who was featured as a Bringloidi colonist in the Star Trek: The Next Generation second season episode "Up The Long Ladder". As a background actor he received no credit for this part. He filmed his scenes on 28 March 1989 and was cast through Central Casting. On Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Stanhope worked as one of the makeup test persons.
Born in Joliet, Illinois, Stanhope has started singing at the age of 6 and playing instruments at the age of 8. He joined school bands and won several medals as a drummer. He became drummer for the band "Tre K's" and played in a surf band before he and his friend Skip Griparis formed the band "The Aristocrats" which they later renamed to "The Counts" and signed with Allstate Records. In 1965, Stanhope played the lead role of Koko in the musical The Mikado and became drummer of the band "The Knight's" until 1967. He then joined the bands "The State Prism" and "The Faded Blue" before he became vocalist and drummer for the band "The Litter" aka "White Lightning" and later "Lightning". After a short move to Los Angeles, Stanhope moved back to Minneapolis where he joined bands such as "CCLC".
When he moved back to Los Angeles, Stanhope grew interest in the movie industry and started to work as background actor on film and television. His first job was working as stunt double for Klaus Kinski on Creature (1985, with Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Diane Salinger and Eileen Seeley).
He appeared in episodes of L.A. Law (1990), Designing Women, and Murder, She Wrote (1991) and in Dragnet (1987, with Christopher Plummer, Bruce Gray, Jim Boeke, Josh Cruze, Juli Donald, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Meg Wyllie, Paul Acerno, David Armstrong, Matthias Hues, Conrad Hurtt and Jim Painter), Die Hard 2 (1990, with William Sadler, Don Charles McGovern, Vincent Mazzella, Jr., Ben Lemon, Colm Meaney, Robert Costanzo and Joseph Michael Roth), Solar Crisis (1990, with Dan Shor, Paul Williams, Brenda Bakke, Michael Berryman, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Paul Carr, Lou Elias, Terrence Beasor, Mario Roberts, Vince Deadrick, Jr. and Eurlyne Epper-Woldman), The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991, with Jacqueline Brookes, Anthony James, Tim O'Connor, Peter Mark Richman, Don Pugsley, Manny Perry, Alex Zimmerman, John Fleck, Robert Buckingham, Kaye Wade, Theresa St. Clair, Thomas J. Booth, Michael Wilkinson, Sherry O'Keefe, Peter Eastman, Suzanne Lodge, Bruce Dobos, Lisa Nunziella, Deano Georgio, Rudy Morrison, Maria Doest, Allan Graf, Jane Austin, Natalie Wood, Jophery C. Brown, Sonia McDancer, Mary Peters, Jadie David, Clay Hodges, Don Pulford, Phil Adams, Bruce Barbour, Charlie Brewer, Bobby Burns, Phil Chong, Eugene Collier, Kerrie Cullen, Bud Davis, Donna Garrett, Al Goto, Shawn Lane, Vincent Mazzella, Jr., Dwayne McGee, Bill McTosh, Eric Norris, Peewee Piemonte, J.P. Romano, Laurence Rosenthal, Ed Anders, Lynn Salvatori, Chuck Clow and Bobby Aldridge), Life Stinks (1991, with Michael Ensign, Matthew Faison, Brian Thompson, Larry Cedar, Robert Gatewood, Sam Alejan and Buzz Barbee), Honor Thy Mother (1992, with Dion Anderson, Matthew Faison, Sierra Pecheur, Gregg Daniel and Brian McNamara), and the thriller Breaking Point (1994, with Kim Cattrall).
He worked as stand-in for Chris Farley on Coneheads (1993, with Michael McKean, Barry Kivel, Jason Alexander and Cameron). He also worked as stand-in for William Shatner on Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) and on a TV Guide commercial. Further film work includes Mars Attacks! (1996, starring Pierce Brosnan, with Paul Winfield, Willie Garson, Michael Reilly Burke, Valerie Wildman, Richard Irving, Vinny Argiro, Gregg Daniel, Jeanne Mori, Frank Welker, Greg Bronson and Maria Celeste Genitempo), Con Air (1997, with Colm Meaney, Carl Ciarfalio, Don Charles McGovern, Earl Billings, Mario Roberts, Mark Ginther and Scott Burkholder), Vegas Vacation (1997, with Miriam Flynn, Wallace Shawn, Larry Hankin and Toby Huss), and Death in the Desert (2015).
Stanhope was part of the 1990s reunion of the band "The Litter" for which he wrote several songs and also can be heard as lead voice on some. The band also released their album "Re-Emerge". Today, Stanhope lives in Las Vegas with his wife Deborah and continues to work in the film industry.