Eddie Smith
Eddie Smith (1 December 1924–1 June 2005; age 80) was an actor, stuntman and stunt coordinator who played an Enterprise sciences crewman in the Star Trek: The Original Series first season episode "The Corbomite Maneuver". As a background performer, he received no credit for his role.
He filmed his scene on Thursday 2 June 1966 at Desilu Stage 9.
Smith started his career in Hollywood as a background extra and stand-in, appearing in films such as Imitation of Life (1958, with Elinor Donahue and Joseph Mell), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, with Brock Peters, William Windom, Frank Overton, John Megna, Paul Fix, Richard Hale, Walter Bacon, Noble Chissell and Max Wagner), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963, Milton Berle, with Buster Keaton, Janos Prohaska, Al Cavens, Dick Cherney, Noble Chissell, Monty O'Grady and Max Wagner), Elvis Presley's Roustabout (1964, with Marianna Hill, Carey Foster, Lance LeGault and K.L. Smith), Torn Curtain (1966, with David Opatoshu, Walter Bacon, Dick Cherney, Robert Hitchcock, Paul Power and Arthur Tovey), The Boston Strangler (1968, with Jeff Corey, Sally Kellerman, William Marshall, Benjie Bancroft, Bill Couch, Sr., Dick Dial, Chuck Hicks, Victor Paul and Sally Yarnell), and The Love Bug (1968, with Bill Couch, Sr., Jack Perkins, Tom Anfinsen, Dick Cherney and Carey Loftin).
His television background spots include episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (with David Opatoshu and Cal Bolder, directed by Joseph Sargent), I Spy (with Joanne Linville, Michael J. Pollard, Lou Elias, Dick Cherney and Noble Chissell, directed by Leo Penn), Get Smart (with Alan Oppenheimer, Walker Edmiston, Paul Comi and Charles Cirillo), Batman (with Yvonne Craig, Frank Gorshin, Joan Collins, Nancy Kovack, Gil Perkins, Pete Kellett, Al Wyatt and Arthur Tovey), The Invaders (starring Roy Thinnes, with Janet MacLachlan and Al Cavens), Mission: Impossible (with Steve Ihnat, Jason Evers and Vic Perrin), and The Mod Squad (with Tige Andrews, Brooke Bundy, Hal Lynch, Charles Cirillo, Benjie Bancroft and Al Roberts).
He later turned to stunts and had been a founder of the Black Stuntmen's Association (BSA).
He performed stunts in numerous films, including M*A*S*H* (1970, with René Auberjonois, Sally Kellerman, Fred Williamson, John Schuck and Ted Knight), Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970, with James Gregory, Jeff Corey and Gregory Sierra), Dirty Harry (1971, with Andrew Robinson, Bill Couch, Sr., Vince Deadrick, Chuck Hicks and Charles Washburn), Diamonds Are Forever (1971, with Sid Haig, Paul Baxley, Ed Bishop, Dick Crockett, Christopher Held and Tom Steele), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972, starring Roddy McDowall, with Ricardo Montalban, Lou Wagner, Paul Comi, Tony Dante and Monty O'Grady), Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973, starring Roddy McDowall, with Paul Williams and France Nuyen), Live and Let Die (1973, starring Yaphet Kotto), Cleopatra Jones (1973, with Bernie Casey and Arch Whiting), Earthquake (1974, with Geneviève Bujold, George Murdock, Gene Dynarski, Benjie Bancroft, Buzz Barbee, Jerry Hardin, Charles Picerni, George Sawaya and Arthur Tovey), Scarface (1983, with F. Murray Abraham, Harris Yulin, Mark Margolis and Geno Silva), Predator 2 (1990, with Kevin Peter Hall, Michael Papajohn and Philip Weyland), and The Nutty Professor (1996, starring Eddie Murphy, with John Ales, Nicole McAuley and Arthur Tovey).
He also worked as stunt coordinator, his credits including Truck Turner (1974, with Nichelle Nichols and Dick Miller), Roots (1977, starring LeVar Burton, featuring Thalmus Rasulala), and Do the Right Thing (1989, with John Savage).