Steven Grothe (11 June 1968–18 March 2020; age 51) was a former actor turned into production sound mixer who appeared as a Starfleet officer in the Star Trek: Voyager fifth season episode "In the Flesh". He received no credit for this appearance but was identified by the call sheets of the episode. His uniform was previously worn by Shepard Ross as Ensign Murphy in several episodes of Voyager and later sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1](X)
Grothe worked as production assistant on the thriller The Corporate Ladder (1997, with Ben Cross) and the comedy Nothing to Lose (1997, with Michael McKean, Randy Oglesby, and J.J. Boone) and as boom operator on Pacific Blue, G vs E (2000, starring Clayton Rohner), Lizzie McGuire, and The Handler (2003), the comedy Palmer's Pick-Up (1999, with Patrick Kilpatrick), The Broken Hearts Club (2000), Stranger Than Fiction (2000, with Dina Meyer), Time Share (2000, with George Murdock, Richard Tanner, and John Hostetter), the drama Romeo and Juliet (2000, with Benito Martinez and Wendy Robie), and the short film Proposition 13 (2003).
Grothe then provided additional and utility sound and worked as sound mixer on Scrubs, The O.C., Carnivàle (2003, starring Michael John Anderson, with Adrienne Barbeau, Clancy Brown, Patrick Bauchau and Toby Huss), Noah's Arc (2005), Bones (2005-08), Justified (2011, starring Timothy Olyphant), Parenthood (2011), Iconoclasts (2005-12), Up All Night (2011-12), The Mindy Project (2012-14), and Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-16).
Among his film work are Mexican Werewolf in Texas (2005), Alien Autopsy (2006), the drama A Good Funeral (2009), A Perfect Getaway (2009, with Chris Hemsworth), Takers (2010, with Idris Elba, Zoe Saldana, Tim Sitarz, Troy Brenna, Erik Stabenau, Marcus Young, Benito Martinez, and Michael Duisenberg), the documentary The Out List (2013), Veronica Mars (2014, with Jerry O'Connell and Maury Sterling), There's Always Woodstock (2014, with Richard Riehle and Ron McCoy), Annabelle (2014, with Tony Amendola, Alfre Woodard, Ivar Brogger, and Trampas Thompson), the television comedy Old Soul (2014), the television comedy Mission Control (2014), San Andreas (2015, with Dwayne Johnson), and The Trans List (2016).
Later credits as sound mixer include Santa Clarita Diet (2017), Love (2016-17), The World According to Billy Potwin (2017), Year Million (2017, narrated by Laurence Fishburne), Lucifer (2017), and American Housewife (2017, with Diedrich Bader), the comedy The House (2017, with Bill Blair, Greg Haines, and Teebone Mitchell), and Under the Silver Lake (2018, with Patrick Fischler, Don McManus, and John Eddins).