Dennis Keiffer
Dennis Keiffer (born 13 November 1967; age 57) is a stuntman and stunt actor who worked as stunt double in a fight scene in Star Trek.
Keiffer, a former K.I.C.K. Super Middleweight Kickboxing Champion, started his film career as a background performer and fighter in movies such as the action films Shootfighter: Fight to the Death (1992, with Chris Torres), Bloodfist IV: Die Trying (1992, with Gene LeBell), Maximum Force (1992), Dragon Power (1993), Full Contact (1993), Firepower (1993), Bloodfist V: Human Target (1994), Guardian Angel (1994, with Marshall R. Teague), and Fists of Iron (1995, with Matthias Hues).
The following years Keiffer performed stunts and portrayed action parts in Fist of the North Star (1995, with Malcolm McDowell, Clint Howard, Tracey Walter, and stunts by Johnny Martin and Scott McElroy), Mortal Kombat (1995, with Cary-Hiroyuki, Lloyd Kino, T.J. Storm, Frank Welker, and stunts by Dana Hee, Jeff Imada, and Chris Torres), Mortal Kombat Annihilation (1997, with Reiner Schöne, Brian Thompson, Musetta Vander, Marjean Holden, Lance LeGault, Carolyn Seymour, and Dana Hee), Batman & Robin (1997, as Ice Thug along with Steve Blalock, Mark Chadwick, Jean-Luc Martin, Jim Palmer, Chris Sayour, and Paul Sklar), and Wild Wild West (1999, with Musetta Vander).
He appeared in episodes of The Pretender (1998, with Leigh Taylor-Young), Charmed (1999 & 2004, with Ian Abercrombie and stunt coordinator Noon Orsatti), The X-Files (2000, with Mark Chaet), Nash Bridges (2000), V.I.P. (2001, with stunts by Jeff Cadiente, Henry Kingi, Jr., and Darlene Ava Williams), J.J. Abrams' Alias (2001, with Daniel Betances, Derek Mears, Greg Grunberg, and stunts by Shauna Duggins), Power Rangers Wild Force (2002), CSI: New York (2005, with Eugene Collier and Derek Mears), CSI: Miami (2005, with Brett Cullen), Deadwood (2005-06, with stunts by Chris Doyle, Thomas DuPont, and Bobby Aldridge), and The Shield (2007).
Further film credits include Bryan Singer's X-Men (2000, starring Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Rebecca Romijn, Bruce Davison, and with Scott Leva), Planet of the Apes (2001), Minority Report (2002), The Rundown (2003, starring Dwayne Johnson and with William Lucking, Jeffrey Chase, and Todd Stashwick), Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2005, with stunts by Randy Hall, Brian Simpson, and Monica Staggs), Serenity (2005), Southland Tales (2007), Epic Movie (2007), and Live Free or Die Hard (2007, with Tim Russ).
Later projects include episodes of Breaking Bad (2008), House (2008, starring Jennifer Morrison), and Eleventh Hour (2008, with Tanner Gill), Redbelt (2008, with Scott Barry, Mike Genovese, and Gene LeBell), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), and Bitch Slap (2009, with Erin Cummings, Robert Mammana, Danny Nero, Eurlyne Epper-Woldman, Karen Austin, and stunts by Thom Williams).
In 2009 Keiffer was part of the stunt crew which received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Fellow Trek stunt performers shared this nomination: Jon Braver, Keith Campbell, Lauro Chartrand, Ken Clark, Phil Culotta, Anthony De Longis, Kevin Derr, John Dixon, Danny Downey, Shauna Duggins, Thomas DuPont, Peter Epstein, Ian Eyre, Jeremy Fry, Charles Grisham, Jim Hart, Mike Justus, Rob Mars, Mike Massa, Derek Mears, Victor Paguia, Jim Palmer, Monty Rex Perlin, Darrin Prescott, Brian Simpson, Gary Ray Stearns, Douglas Tait, Trampas Thompson, Tim Trella, Gary Wayton, and Webster Whinery, Jr..