Wilbur Finks

Real world article

(written from a production point of view)

Wilbur Finks (9 August 1938–12 May 2021; age 82)^[1] worked in the swing gang of the art department on the Star Trek: The Next Generation. He received no credit but is listed on the call sheets. Finks also worked under set decorator Laura Richarz in the art department on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Lieutenant Wilbur Finks, a name listed on an okudagram in the episodes "Suddenly Human" and "Legacy", was named after him.

Finks also worked as art department lead man on the music drama The Jazz Singer (1980, with Alan Sims), as property person on the music drama Staying Alive (1983), and as swing gang member on the crime comedy Clue (1985, with Les D. Gobruegge, Tom Purser, and Donald B. Woodruff).

Star Trek episodes

• TNG:
  • "The Schizoid Man" (Season 2)
  • "Peak Performance"
  • "The Offspring" (Season 3)
  • "Suddenly Human" (Season 4)
  • "Legacy"
  • "Clues"
  • "First Contact"
  • "Galaxy's Child"
  • "Night Terrors"
  • "Identity Crisis"
  • "The Nth Degree"
  • "Qpid"
  • "The Drumhead"
  • "Half a Life"
  • "The Host"
  • "The Mind's Eye"
  • "In Theory"
  • "Redemption"

External link

• Wilbur Finks at the Internet Movie Database