Richard Sarstedt

Real World article
(written from a Production point of view)

Richard Sarstedt
Birth name:	Richard Graham Sarstedt
Date of birth:	25 March 1940
Place of birth:	New Delhi, British India (now India)
Roles:	Background Actor Stand-in; Photo double
Character(s):	Multiple characters

Richard Graham Sarstedt (born 25 March 1940; age 81) is an actor and singer who worked as background performer, stand-in, and photo double for eighteen years on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, and several Star Trek films. He received no on-screen credit for nearly all of his appearances. Sarstedt's costume as an admiral from the episode "Endgame" was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1] His Starfleet uniform as William McKenzie was also sold off. [2] Besides the regular actors, Denise Crosby, John de Lancie, Colm Meaney, and David B. Levinson, Sarstedt is the only actor who appeared in the pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint" and in the series final episode "All Good Things..."

According to the call sheet, Sarstedt was scheduled to appear in a corridor scene in the fourth season episode "Redemption" but was replaced by a fellow background actor as he worked on second unit. He was also scheduled to appear in a corridor scene for the fifth season episode "Unification I", scene 6, and "Hero Worship" but his scenes were not part of the final episodes.

Sarstedt filmed a scene on 2nd unit as photo double for guest actor Larry A. Hankin in the Voyager first season episode "The Cloud" on Thursday 5 January 1995 on Paramount Stage 16 but this scene was not part of the final episode.

Sarstedt was born in New Delhi, India and has started his career as a singer under the name Eden Kane, in honor of the film Citizen Kane and the Biblical Garden of Eden, in the early '60s. As Eden Kane, he has had several Top 10 hits in the U.K., including the number one single "Well I Ask You" in 1961. His brothers, Peter Sarstedt and Robin "Robbie" Sarstedt, are also singers. As a singer and with his brothers he appeared in several episodes of the music shows Top of the Pops (1964) and Ready Steady Go! (1964). Between 1961 and 2001 he recorded eight albums, several EPs, and many singles. Sarstedt is married to Charlene and they have two children.

Among his non-Trek resume are acting and stand-in appearances in several films and television series such as Dallas, Dynasty (1981-1989, starring Joan Collins), The Colbys (1985-1987, starring Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, and Ricardo Montalban), Falcon Crest (1988, episode "Liars Anonymous" along with Robert Ito, J. Michael Flynn, Angela Paton, Allan G. Royal, Lee Delano, Faith Burton, and Dave Armstrong), Sisters (1991-1996, starring Ashley Judd), and the Columbo episodes "Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo" (1990, with Jean-Paul Vignon and Ed McCready) and "Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star" (1991, with Terrence Beasor).

Star Trek appearances

Command officer
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek Generations
Recurring character
(uncredited)

Photo double for Jonathan Frakes
TNG: "Heart of Glory"
(uncredited)

Romulan delegate
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
(uncredited)

Hand double for Nicholas Kepros
TNG: "Redemption II"
(uncredited)

Hand double for Jonathan Frakes
TNG: "The Game"
(uncredited)

Hand double for Jonathan Frakes
TNG: "Unification II"
(uncredited)

Hand double for Jonathan Frakes
TNG: "The Outcast"
(uncredited)

Photo double for
John Franklyn-Robbins
TNG: "Preemptive Strike"
(uncredited)

Crewman William McKenzie
Star Trek: Voyager
Recurring character
(uncredited)

Henard
VOY: "State of Flux"
(uncredited)

Hand double for Robert Picardo
VOY: "The Gift"
(uncredited)

Hand double for Robert Picardo
VOY: "Revulsion"
(uncredited)

Ankari
VOY: "Equinox"
(uncredited)

"Legs only" photo double for Robert Picardo
VOY: "Renaissance Man"
(uncredited)

Starfleet vice admiral
VOY: "Endgame"

Hand double for Francis Guinan
ENT: "The Communicator"
(uncredited)

Chef
ENT: "The Catwalk"
(uncredited)

Civilian ceremony attendee
ENT: "These Are the Voyages..."
(uncredited)

Recurring appearances

• TNG: as command officer
  • "Encounter at Farpoint" (Season 1)
  • "The Naked Now"
  • "Code of Honor"
  • "Too Short a Season"
  • "The Big Goodbye"
  • "When The Bough Breaks"
  • "Coming of Age"
  • "The Arsenal of Freedom"
  • "Conspiracy"
  • "Up The Long Ladder" (Season 2)
  • "Peak Performance"
  • "The Survivors" (Season 3)
  • "Yesterday's Enterprise"
  • "Allegiance"
  • "Tin Man"
  • "Sarek"
  • "Future Imperfect" (Season 4)
  • "Galaxy's Child"
  • "The Nth Degree"
  • "The Drumhead"
  • "The Mind's Eye"
  • "Silicon Avatar" (Season 5)
  • "Cost of Living"
  • "Imaginary Friend"
  • "Realm of Fear" (Season 6)
  • "Man of the People"
  • "Frame of Mind"
  • "Suspicions"
  • "Second Chances"
  • "Descent, Part II" (Season 7)
  • "Dark Page"
  • "Eye of the Beholder"
  • "All Good Things..."
• VOY: as William McKenzie
  • "The Cloud" (Season 1)
  • "Emanations"
  • "Prime Factors"
  • "Heroes and Demons"
  • "Jetrel"
  • "Twisted"
  • "Parturition" (Season 2)
  • "Persistence of Vision"
  • "Death Wish"
  • "Threshold"
  • "Investigations"
  • "Remember" (Season 3)
  • "Future's End, Part II"
  • "The Q and the Grey"
  • "Coda"
  • "Unity"
  • "Favorite Son"
  • "Before and After"
  • "Real Life"
  • "Displaced"
  • "Scorpion"
  • "Scorpion, Part II" (Season 4)
  • "The Gift"
  • "Day of Honor"
  • "The Raven"
  • "Scientific Method"
  • "Year of Hell"
  • "Timeless" (Season 5)
  • "Someone to Watch Over Me"
  • "Relativity"
  • "The Haunting of Deck Twelve" (Season 6)
  • "Drive" (Season 7)
  • "Workforce"
  • "Workforce, Part II"
  • "Q2"
  • "Author, Author"
  • "Homestead"

Stand-in work

Sarstedt (fourth from left) on the set of Insurrection

Sarstedt films Second Unit shots for "Natural Law"

• TNG: – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes
  • Season 4-7
• TNG: – stand-in for guest actors
  • "Encounter at Farpoint" – stand-in for John de Lancie
  • "Hide and Q" – stand-in for John de Lancie
  • "Too Short a Season" – stand-in for Clayton Rohner
  • "First Contact" – stand-in for Michael Ensign and George Coe
  • "Identity Crisis" – stand-in for Paul Tompkins
  • "Qpid" – stand-in for John de Lancie
  • "The Drumhead" – stand-in for Earl Billings
  • "Half a Life" – stand-in for David Ogden Stiers
  • "The Mind's Eye" – stand-in for John Fleck, Larry Dobkin, and Edward Wiley
  • "In Theory" – stand-in for Colm Meaney
  • "Redemption" – stand-in for Ben Slack and Tom Ormeny
  • "Redemption II" – stand-in for Stephen James Carver, Michael G. Hagerty, Timothy Carhart, and Robert O'Reilly
  • "Ensign Ro" – stand-in for Scott Marlowe and Jeffrey Hayenga
  • "The Game" – stand-in for Colm Meaney
  • "Unification II" – stand-in for Daniel Roebuck and Malachi Throne
  • "Unification I" – stand-in for Daniel Roebuck
  • "A Matter of Time" – stand-in for Matt Frewer
  • "Hero Worship" – stand-in for Steven Einspahr
  • "Violations" – stand-in for Doug Wert
  • "The Masterpiece Society" – stand-in for John Snyder
  • "Power Play" – stand-in for Colm Meaney, Lincoln Simonds and Ryan Reid
  • "The First Duty" – stand-in for Robert Duncan McNeill and Richard Rothenberg
  • "Cost of Living" – stand-in for Christopher Halsted and Tony Jay
  • "Birthright, Part II" – stand-in for Alan Scarfe
  • "Rightful Heir" – stand-in for Alan Oppenheimer
  • "Dark Page" – stand-in for Norman Large
  • "Homeward" – stand-in for Paul Sorvino
  • "All Good Things..." – stand-in for John de Lancie
• VOY: – stand-in for Robert Beltran
  • "Resistance"
  • "Future's End"
  • "Future's End, Part II"
  • "Warlord"
  • "Scorpion"
  • "Scorpion, Part II"
  • "The Gift"
  • "Nemesis"
  • "Day of Honor"
  • "Revulsion"
  • "The Raven"
  • "Scientific Method"
  • "Year of Hell"
  • "Year of Hell, Part II"
  • "Random Thoughts"
  • "Concerning Flight"
  • "The Killing Game"
  • "Hope and Fear"
  • "Extreme Risk"
  • "In the Flesh"
  • "The Fight"
  • "The Disease"
  • "Course: Oblivion"
  • "Think Tank"
  • "Juggernaut"
  • "11:59"
  • "Relativity"
  • "Warhead"
  • "Virtuoso"
  • "Drive"
  • "Nightingale"
  • "Repentance"
  • "Renaissance Man"
  • "Natural Law"
• VOY: – stand-in for guest actors
  • "Caretaker" – stand-in for Scott MacDonald, Richard Poe, Bruce French, Jeff McCarthy, Robert Picardo, and Eric David Johnson
  • "The Cloud" – stand-in for Robert Picardo and Larry A. Hankin
  • "Eye of the Needle" – stand-in for Robert Picardo and Vaughn Armstrong
  • "Ex Post Facto" – stand-in for Robert Picardo and Francis Guinan
  • "Emanations" – stand-in for Robert Picardo and John Cirigliano
  • "Prime Factors" – stand-in for Ronald Guttman
  • "State of Flux" – stand-in for Robert Picardo and Anthony De Longis
  • "Heroes and Demons" – stand-in for Robert Picardo
  • "Cathexis" – stand-in for Robert Picardo
  • "Faces" – stand-in for Robert Picardo
  • "Jetrel" – stand-in for Robert Picardo, James Sloyan, and Larry Hankin
  • "Learning Curve" – stand-in for Robert Picardo and Armand Schultz
  • "Resistance" – stand-in for Tom Todoroff
  • "Future's End" – stand-in for Christian R. Conrad
  • "Future's End, Part II" – stand-in for Christian R. Conrad
  • "Warlord" – stand-in for Leigh J. McCloskey
  • "Scorpion" – stand-in for John Rhys-Davies
  • "Random Thoughts" – stand-in for Lou Simon
  • "Concerning Flight" – stand-in for John Rhys-Davies
  • "The Killing Game, Part II" – stand-in for Danny Goldring and Mark Metcalf
  • "Hope and Fear" – stand-in for Jack Shearer
  • "Extreme Risk" – stand-in for Alexander Enberg and Daniel Betances
  • "Think Tank" – stand-in for Christopher Darga
  • "11:59" – stand-in for Kevin Tighe
  • "Drive" – stand-in for Robert Tyler
  • "Repentance" – stand-in for Jeff Kober
  • "Renaissance Man" – stand-in for Tarik Ergin and cover stand-in for Robert Picardo
• ENT: – stand-in for Scott Bakula
  • "Broken Bow"
  • "Terra Nova"
  • "The Andorian Incident"
  • "Breaking the Ice"
  • "Oasis"
  • "Detained"
  • "Two Days and Two Nights"
  • "Dead Stop"
  • "The Communicator"
  • "The Catwalk"
  • "Cogenitor"
  • "The Expanse"
  • "The Xindi"
  • "Rajiin"
  • "The Shipment"
  • "Stratagem"
  • "Harbinger"
• ENT: – stand-in for guest actors
  • "Broken Bow" – stand-in for Mark Moses, Joseph Ruskin, Steve Lambert, Ron King, Jason Grant Smith, and James Horan
  • "Unexpected" – stand-in for Christopher Darga
  • "The Andorian Incident" – stand-in for Jamie McShane
  • "The Communicator" – stand-in for Francis Guinan
• Star Trek films
  • Star Trek Generations – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes and Alan Ruck
  • Star Trek: First Contact – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes
  • Star Trek: Insurrection – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes

External links

• EdenKane.com – official site
• Eden Kane at Wikipedia
• Richard Sarstedt at the Internet Movie Database