John Fifer

John Fifer is a puppeteer and special effects artist who worked as puppeteer.
In , Elliot, Apone, and Fifer worked as puppeteers for the Reptohumanoid hatchling on the second season episode , as listed on the call sheets.
Fifer and special effects makeup artist Allan A. Apone who worked closely from the founding of their company Makeup & Effects Laboratories along with Paul Elliot designed the costume for Seven of Nine on and further created her costume worn in the episode .
In 2001, he was a puppeteer for the Andorian e of actors Jeffrey Combs, Jeff Ricketts, and Steven Dennis along with Paul Elliot and Heide Pendergast on the first season episode . He received no credit for this work but is listed on the call sheets of "The Andorian Incident". Fifer also operated the antennae of "Talas" actress Molly Brink in the episodes , , and . 
Outside of Star Trek, Fifer also operated a creature puppet in (1991, with James Avery, Michael Berryman, Carl Ciarfalio, Larry Dobkin, Charles Hyman, Rex Pierson, Wayne Péré, Dick Warlock, Frank Welker, and Dan Woren) and portrayed a Goomba Toad in (1993, with Paul Barnes and Allan A. Apone). He can be seen in the television documentary The Making of 'Super Mario Brothers (1997), where he discussed his creations, the "Goomba" soldiers.
Other projects on which he worked as special effects artist include (1986, with Dick Miller, Michael Berryman, and Cary-Hiroyuki), (1987), (1989, with Gerrit Graham, Larry Cedar, Robert Symonds, Clive Revill, and Jonathan Farwell), (1990, with Brad Dourif and working with Jill Rockow), (1991, with Lloyd Bridges, Heidi Swedberg, Kelly Connell, Annie O'Donnell, and Chris Doyle), (1993, with Charles Napier, Jay Robinson, Michael J. Pollard, John Putch, Saxon Trainor, Barbara Baldavin, Warren A. Stevens, and Richard Herd), (1994, with Stacie Foster, Joseph Ruskin, and Dana Sparks), the adventure Storybook (1996, with Gary Morgan, Robert Costanzo, James Doohan, Vinny Argiro, Heather Lauren Olson, Zachary Benjamin, and Ed Begley, Jr.), and (1999, with Willie Garson, Richard Fancy, Patti Tippo, Audrey Gelfand, Andy Dick, and Winona Ryder).
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Category:Puppeteers
Category:Special and Visual effects staff