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Steven Lambert (28 October 195418 August 2023; age 68) was a stuntman and stunt actor who performed stunts in Star Trek: Insurrection and in two first season episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise.

Lambert was the first Suliban ever seen in a Star Trek production, appearing as one of the two agents chasing Klaang through the cornfield in the pilot episode "Broken Bow", filmed on location in Bakersfield, California on 12 June 2001 and 13 June 2001. His costume from this appearance was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay and later at the PropStore and was also worn by background actor David Keith Anderson. [1](X) [2] He then worked as stunt double for guest actor Erick Avari on the episode "Terra Nova" for which he filmed his scenes on Friday 17 August 2001 on Paramount Stage 9. His costume from this episode was also sold off on eBay. [3](X)

Lambert was the regular stunt double for actor James Woods for over three decades and doubled him in projects such as The Hard Way (1991, with Charlie Croughwell), Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995), Vampires (1998), Scary Movie 2 (2001), Shark (2006-2008, coordinated by Ron Stein and co-starring Jeri Ryan) and Ray Donovan (2013), and Jamesy Boy (2014, coordinated by Johnny C. Meier).

Performing stunts since the late 1970s, Lambert also doubled Ken Berry in an episode of Fantasy Island (1981, with Frank James Sparks), Fred Ward in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985, with Joel Grey, Kate Mulgrew, George Coe, Tom Morga, Bernie Pock, and Gene LeBell), Michael Dudikoff in American Ninja (1985), Martin Short in Innerspace (1987, with Simone Boisseree and Joel Kramer), River Phoenix in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989, with John Rhys-Davies), Andrew Bowen in the action comedy Fox Hunt (1996, with Laura Albert, Doug Coleman, Diamond Farnsworth, Dana Hee, and Marjean Holden), Jason Statham in The One (2001), David Willis in the thriller Lost (2004, with Lincoln Simonds and coordinated by Jeff Wolfe), and Elias Koteas in Let Me In (2010, with Bobby Burns and Al Goto).

In 1982, Lambert worked as assistant stunt coordinator on One Down, Two to Go, starring, written, produced, and directed by Fred Williamson. His credits as stunt coordinator include Revenge of the Ninja (1983), the television comedy The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins (1984, with Bernie Casey), Ninja III: The Domination (1984), American Ninja (1985, with Ken Lesco), and Behind Enemy Lines (1986), Invaders from Mars (1986), Eye of the Tiger (1986, with Yaphet Kotto and Seymour Cassel), Best Seller (1987, with Mary Carver and Branscombe Richmond), Cop (1988), Aloha Summer (1988, with Bobby Apisa and Carl Ciarfalio), Always (1989, with Janet Brady and Eddie Hice), Past Midnight (1991, with Clancy Brown), Dead On: Relentless II (1992, with Meg Foster), Fear of a Black Hat (1993), Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993, with Jeff Cadiente and Al Goto), Ed and His Dead Mother (1993), Next Door (1994), For Better or Worse (1995, with Jason Alexander), Cover Me (1995, with Paul Sorvino and Corbin Bernsen), Another Day in Paradise (1998, with Brian Avery, Mark Donaldson, and Nancy Thurston), The Alternate (2000, with John Beck), and the television drama A Painted House (2003, with Brian Avery and Mark DeAlessandro).

Lambert was inducted into the Stuntman's Hall of Fame in 1986 and was a member of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures for 33 years. He earned two Stunt Awards in 1986 for Best High Work in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins and for Best Fight Sequence in Tuff Turf.

He was a gangster kicked by Michael Winslow's stunt double Alan Oliney in Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985), worked as stunt double on Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985), Total Recall (1990), Army of Darkness (1992), RoboCop 3 (1993), Timecop (1994), Titanic (1997), and a PSI Corp bloodhound in the Babylon 5 episode "Strange Relations" (1998, working with James Lew, Walter Koenig, and Patricia Tallman), doubled actor Jeffrey DeMunn in The Green Mile (1999) and actor Dwight Yoakam in Panic Room (2002), and played the casino thief in Ocean's Twelve (2004).

Lambert performed stunts in episodes of Mork & Mindy (starring Robin Williams, with Spiro Razatos), The Incredible Hulk, Matt Houston, MacGyver, Hill Street Blues, Beauty and the Beast (starring Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman), The Colbys (1987, with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, and Nana Visitor), Silk Stalkings (1992, with Marta Dubois), Red Shoe Diaries (1992, with Carl Ciarfalio and Patricia Tallman), The Flash, Married... with Children (with Red Horton, Bruce Barbour, Julius LeFlore, Bob Minor, George Wilbur, and Buck McDancer), Murder, She Wrote (1996), The X-Files, Walker, Texas Ranger (1997, with Noble Willingham, Tanner Gill, and Vince Deadrick, Jr.), She Spies, V.I.P., Angel, NCIS, and Eleventh Hour (2009, with Boni Yanagisawa, Alina Andrei, and Eric Norris).

Further film stunt work include The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981, with Ann Chatterton and Billy Hank Hooker), The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982), Lone Wolf McQuade (1983, with Kane Hodder and Gary Wayton), Critters (1986, with Scott Grimes, Ethan Phillips, John Nowak, and Mike Cassidy), Raw Deal (1986), Firewalker (1986), Two Moon Junction (1988), Rambo III (1988), Twins (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990), Eve of Destruction (1991), Hoffa (1992), Falling Down (1993), Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993, with Whoopi Goldberg), Beverly Hills Cop III (1994, with Eddie Murphy), The Specialist (1994), Casino (1995), Escape from L.A. (1996), Conspiracy Theory (1997, with Patrick Stewart), L.A. Confidential (1997), The Negotiator (1998), Scream 3 (2000), What Planet Are You From? (2000), Traffic (2000), Ocean's Eleven (2001), Red Dragon (2002), Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), Ocean's Thirteen (2007), Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009), The Green Hornet (2011), White House Down (2013), and Havenhurst (2016, with Douglas Tait, Dendrie Taylor, Fionnula Flanagan, Alex Daniels, Danny Downey, Shawn Lane, and Scott Leva).

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