Ron Kinwald
Ron Kinwald (born 10 December 1932; age 92) was a background actor who worked during the 1960s and 1970s including two uncredited roles in Star Trek: The Original Series: a Tantalus V inmate in "Dagger of the Mind" and a Starbase 11 patron in "Court Martial". By the 1970s and 1980s, he worked as a second assistant director on the four Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episodes "Coming of Age", "Heart of Glory", "The Arsenal of Freedom", and "Skin Of Evil".
Among his work as background actor and member of the Screen Extras Guild are episodes of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1960, 1961, and 1963, with Yvonne Craig, Sherry Jackson, Len Felber, Sally Kellerman, and Susan Bay), There Was a Crooked Man... (1970, with Paul Prokop, David Armstrong, Bill Borzage, Dave Cadiente, Vince Cadiente, Lars Hensen, Robert Herron, Henry Kingi, Sr., Jack Perkins, Clark Ross, Jesse Wayne, and Ilona Wilson), What's Up, Doc? (1972, with Kenneth Mars, Stefan Gierasch, Graham Jarvis, Carl Saxe, Jack Perkins, Gil Perkins, Peter Eastman, Jerry Summers, Tom Anfinsen, Shep Houghton, Monty O'Grady, and Arthur Tovey), and Blazing Saddles (1974, with David Huddleston, Tom Anfinsen, Dave Armstrong, Jimmie Booth, Dave Cadiente, Bill Catching, Dick Crockett, Dick Cherney, Kenny Endoso, Seamon Glass, Robert Hitchcock, Troy Melton, Beans Morocco, Hal Needham, Monty O'Grady, Jack Perkins, Al Roberts, Clark Ross, George Sawaya, David Sharpe, Eddie Smith, Paul Stader, Tom Steele, Jerry Summers, and Bill Zuckert).
Besides background acting, Kinwald worked as stand-in for Charles Bronson on Breakout (1975, with Jill Ireland and Robert Herron).
Kinwald then worked as second assistant director on Moving Violation (1976, with Stephen McHattie), Cindy (1978), the television series The Paper Chase (1978-1979), Orphan Train (1979), the television drama Evita Peron (1981, with assistant property master Alan Sims), Evilspeak (1981, with Clint Howard and Don Stark), Six Pack (1982), Remington Steele (1983), D.C. Cab (1983, with second unit director Alan Oliney), Second Sight: A Love Story (1984), Moving Violations (1985, with Sally Kellerman), and Real Men (1987, with second unit director Dick Ziker). Between 1985 and 1986 Kinwald was a second and first assistant director on the final season of Trapper John, M.D..
Following his work on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Kinwald worked as second assistant director on the television drama Circus (1988, with Tony Jay and Thalmus Rasulala), the short drama The Magic Boy's Easter (1989, directed by John Meredyth Lucas and Marc Daniels), Rescue Me (1992, with second unit director B.J. Davis), Jade (1995), and Red Ribbon Blues (1996, along with David Goldfarb), as first assistant director on The Bradys (1990) and FBI: The Untold Stories (1991), and as assistant director on Backstreet Dreams (1990, with second unit director B.J. Davis) and the documentary Meet John Wooden (2011).