Ken Gildin

Ken Gildin is an actor and production staff member from New York who was the photo double for Brent Spiner in the first season episodes and . In addition he worked as an assistant to the writers and producers during the first season of Next Generation. Gildin received no credit for his appearance and work and is the writer of the undeveloped The Next Generation episode "The Hands of Time". Gildin is featured as double for Spiner on two images in .
In 1988 Gildin left The Next Generation because of the writer's strike. He did not return after the strike and Guy Vardaman took over as Spiner's photo double.
Gildin is often misspelled as Ken Gilden and worked as an actor for ten years. His last studio position was at . He is currently a screenwriter and writer of award shows and benefits, having written for such celebrities as , , and , to name a few.
Among his acting resume are the films Hair (1979, starring John Savage), Hostage Flight (1985, with Barbara Bosson, Mitchell Ryan, Allan Miller, Michael Cavanaugh, William Glover, and Ian Abercrombie), (1990, with Ronny Cox, Michael Champion, Roy Brocksmith, Lycia Naff, Robert Costanzo, Marc Alaimo, Erik Cord, Frank Kopyc, Milt Tarver, Robert Picardo, Kamala Lopez-Dawson, and stunts by Gary Baxley, Simone Boisseree, Tony Brubaker, Ann Chatterton, Doug Coleman, Vince Deadrick, Jr., Nick Dimitri, Kenny Endoso, Dana Dru Evenson, Allan Graf, Freddie Hice, Joel Kramer, Steven Lambert, Gene LeBell, Steve Picerni, Cherie Tash, Gary Wayton, George Wilbur, and Vince Deadrick), and (1992, with James Cromwell, Bernard Kates, Danny Goldring, Shannon Cochran, Larry Cedar, Michael Krawic, Scott Haven, and Kara Zediker).
File:Data double.jpg|Gildin doubling Data in "Datalore"
File:Ken Gildin, Heart of Glory.jpg|Gildin in "Heart of Glory"
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