Victor Paul

Victor Paul was a stuntman and stunt coordinator who worked as stunt double for Dan Kern, performing his fencing stunts, in the first season episode . Twenty years prior, he appeared as a Klingon crewman in the third season episode . 
Paul also portrayed Picard's fencing opponent in a deleted scene of TNG second season episode . This appearance is part of the extended version of the episode on TNG Season 2 Blu-ray.
Born as Philip Paul Romano, Paul was the father of stuntmen John Phillip and Philip Romano and is probably best known for his work on the 1960s television series . He worked as stunt coordinator on 120 episodes between 1966 and 1968 and was also the stunt double for actor who portrayed along with 's stunt double and "Day of the Dove" co-performer Hubie Kerns, Sr., father of another Trek stuntman Hubie Kerns, Jr. He also doubled for Ward in the 1966 television movie Batman which also featured Trek stunt performers Dick Crockett, Lou Elias, Gil Perkins, Charles Picerni, and George Sawaya and was interviewed for the 2002 documentary Behind the Action: Stuntmen in the Movies together with Robert Herron and Tony Brubaker. Specialized in performing sword fights and fencing stunts he can be seen various times in movies and television series doubling actors in these scenes. He also worked as fencing coach / sword fight coach in numerous projects such as (1985, with Denise Crosby), (1986), (1992, with Gary Combs), and (1993, with Patrick Stewart and stunts by Dan Barringer, Erik Cord, Clint Lilley, Scott Leva, and David LeBell). Paul was a Lifetime member of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures.
Paul started his work in the film and stunt business in the late 1940s with featured appearances in (1949), (1949, with Ricardo Montalban), (1950), (1951), and (1952). Prior to his work on Batman, Paul also worked on (1956, with stunts by Paul Baxley, Max Kleven, Chuck Hicks, and Gil Perkins) and (1958, with Chuck Couch and Gil Perkins).
Further stunt work included the television series Cimarron Strip (1968, with Edward Madden and Dallas Mitchell) and Mission: Impossible (1968-1970, with Leonard Nimoy, Charles Picerni, Dick Dial, Carol Daniels Dement, and Anthony Zerbe), (1971, with Andrew Robinson), (1971, with Paul Baxley, Lightning Bear, Richard E. Butler, Vince Deadrick, Donna Garrett, Carey Loftin, Ronald R. Rondell, and Tom Steele), the adventure The Poseidon (1972), (1972) and (1973), (1974), (1977), the comedy The Prisoner of Zenda (1979, with Dick Geary, Erik Cord, and Pete Kellett), (1980), (1980), (1983), (1984), (1985, with Ken Bates, Tom Morga, Spiro Razatos, and Brian J. Williams), (1985), (1988) and (1990), (1989, with Denise Crosby), (1989) and The Last Boy Scout (1991), (1993), (1995), (1996), (1998), and (1999, with Joey Box, Leslie Hoffman, and Gene LeBell).
As stunt coordinator Paul created and coordinated the stunts for (1978, with Dick Durock, Ralph Garrett, John Nowak, and Frank Orsatti), (1981), (1984), (1984), (1987), the television series Tales from the Crypt (1990), (1994), and the television science fiction film Target Earth (1998, with Tim Sitarz). His last known stunt work was in (2000, with Steve Blalock, Janet Brady, Jennifer Caputo, Eugene Collier, Al Goto, Kane Hodder, Tom Huff, Henry Kingi, Sr., Rusty McClennon, and Merritt Yohnka) and (2001, with Buddy Joe Hooker and Mike Massa).
== Star Trek appearances ==
File:Klingon Kang's crewman 16.jpg|Klingon crewman(uncredited)
File:Victor Paul, We'll Always Have Paris.jpg|Stunt double for Dan Kern(uncredited)
File:Fencing opponent.jpg|Fencing opponent(uncredited)
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