Jerry Quinn

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Jerry L. Quinn (born 1962; age ~63), also known under his artist name Brando Quin, is a musician, songwriter, and actor who was a regular background actor during the first season of Star Trek: Voyager as well as the stand-in and photo double for actor Robert Duncan McNeill. In addition he appeared in Star Trek Generations, in the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and portrayed a Starfleet officer in the theme park attraction Star Trek: The Experience. Quinn received no credit for his appearances.

Quinn is listed as "photo double Paris" on the call sheet for the Voyager first season episode "Jetrel", working on Paramount Stage 8. Though Quinn appeared in the bridge scene, he was not doubling for McNeill in this episode.

Quinn was born in Texas and joined the US Air Force and the US Marines before he decided to follow a career in the entertainment industry. He wrote the poetry collection My Poetry Books by a Frightened Man and published the novel The Master Painter and finally became the lead vocalist and head member of the alternative rock / R&B / pop / comedy music group Brando Quinn and the Raven Pheats, a band which toured around the world and published four albums between 2006 and 2008.

Quinn appeared as a background actor in several films, including Forrest Gump (1994, starring Tom Hanks, with Sam Anderson, Don Fischer, Haley Joel Osment, Michael McFall, Michael Jace, Geoffrey Blake, Steve DeRelian, and Jim Boeke), Automatic (1994, with Daphne Ashbrook, John Glover, Jeff Kober, Marjean Holden, Stanley Kamel, and Penny Johnson), The Shadow (1994, with Ethan Phillips, Aaron Lustig, and Lily Mariye), The Mask (1994), Ed Wood (1994, starring Martin Landau, with Mike Starr and Biff Yeager), The Puppet Masters (1994, with Yaphet Kotto, Julie Warner, Sam Anderson, Todd Bryant, Nicholas Cascone, J. Patrick McCormack, Andrew Robinson, and Michael Shamus Wiles)), Strange Days (1995, starring Angela Bassett), Crimson Tide (1995), Visions (1996), and Mars Attacks! (1996, starring Pierce Brosnan, with Paul Winfield, Willie Garson, Michael Reilly Burke, Valerie Wildman, Richard Irving, Vinny Argiro, Gregg Daniel, Jeanne Mori, Frank Welker, Greg Bronson, Robert Buckingham, Faith Burton, Maria Celeste Genitempo, Adolphus Hankins, Jana Karson, Tami Peterson, Michael Wilkinson, and Brian J. Williams).

Among his television appearances are supporting roles in the made for television movie Cagney & Lacey: The Return (1994, with Rick Pasqualone), Murphy Brown and Coach (1997), and the reality show The Love Connection. Quinn has also experiences as a stuntman and participated in several stage plays such as "Star Child" and "Gunfight at Old Nevada".

Star Trek appearances

Stand-in work

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