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Tony Angelotti (born 17 August 1967; age 56) is a stuntman and stunt actor who performed utility stunts in Star Trek Nemesis.

Angelotti has won two Taurus World Stunt Awards for best fight as stunt double for Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006). He doubled Depp in these and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007, alongside Tom Morga, Lisa Hoyle, Mark Wagner, and Theo Kypri).

Angelotti was injured during the back-to-back filming of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and At World's End, but recovered fully. He later sued the Walt Disney Co., producer Jerry Bruckheimer, and the stunt coordinators for negligence, however, his case was dismissed due to the California employee protection laws.

Among his resume are also films such as Batman Forever (1995, with René Auberjonois, Eileen Seeley, Noby Arden, Kevin Grevioux, Sidney Liufau, Peewee Piemonte, Mike Smith, Ed Begley, Jr., and stunts by Richard L. Blackwell, Diamond Farnsworth, Alex Daniels, Dana Hee, Scott McElroy, Jeff Smolek, Jennifer Caputo, Doug Coleman, Linda Fetters, Phil Chong, Anita Hart, Kim Robert Koscki, and Rick Sawaya), Starship Troopers (1997, with Dina Meyer and Clancy Brown), as stunt double for Antonio Banderas in The Mask of Zorro (1998, with Tony Amendola, Victor Rivers, and stunts by Richard L. Blackwell, Joey Box, Mark Donaldson, Tom Morga, Jimmy Ortega, Lincoln Simonds, and Mike Watson), and Planet of the Apes (2001, with David Warner, Cary-Hiroyuki, Eileen Weisinger, Erick Avari, Kevin Grevioux, Anne Elizabeth Ramsay, Michael Jace, Jay Caputo, Todd Babcock, Dragon Dronet, and stunts by Chris Antonucci, Joni Avery, Alex Chansky, Eliza Coleman, Danny Downey, Thomas DuPont, Ransom Gates, Leigh Hennessy, Denney Pierce, Austin Priester, Tim Sitarz, Darlene Williams, and Glen Hambly).

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