Sandra Gimpel

Sandra Gimpel is an American stuntwoman and stunt actress.
Gimpel was a dancer in Los Angeles before being an extra for Central Casting. One of those jobs was for the first pilot , given "they knew I could handle costume work and stuff, from dancing." In "The Cage", Gimpel played a Talosian and worked briefly as stunt double for Meg Wyllie for which she filmed her scenes on Wednesday on Desilu Culver Stage 15. The costume work led her to being cast as the M-113 creature in , filming her scene on Friday at Desilu Stage 9. Gimpel also worked as an extra in later episodes. According to her own recollections, she also worked on both and . ()
Between 1966 and 1968, Gimpel worked as Bill Mumy's stunt double in the last two seasons of Lost in Space, hired by stunt coordinator Paul Stader. 
She appeared in stunt roles in numerous films including The Towering Inferno (1974, with Paul Comi, Gregory Sierra, Elizabeth Rogers, David Armstrong, Robert Strong, and Steve Marlo), (1980, with Jonathan Banks, Gregory Itzin, Kenneth Tobey, Jason Wingreen, and Leslie Hoffman), (1981, with Adrienne Barbeau), Night of the Comet (starring Robert Beltran), (1985), (1985, with Rick Sawaya), (1987), (1987), (1988, with Tony Jay, Nehemiah Persoff, and Cary-Hiroyuki), (1989), (1996, with Tony Todd and Raymond Cruz), (1996, with Daniel Riordan and Phil Morris), (1997, with Colm Meaney and Landry Allbright), (1998), (1999, with Doug Jones), (2001, with Whoopi Goldberg and Lanei Chapman), The Animal (2001, with Michael Papajohn), (2003, with Christopher Darga and Robert Curtis Brown), (2007, with Brian Markinson, Cyia Batten, Rachel Nichols, Faran Tahir, James W. Jansen, Erick Avari, and J. Patrick McCormack), (2007), Planet Terror (2007), and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013, with Derek Graf).
She worked as second unit director on the series Mrs. Columbo, which starred Kate Mulgrew, and as stunt coordinator on the shows The Bionic Woman, Harper Valley P.T.A., Otherworld (co-starring Jonathan Banks), and Harts of the West (co-starring Stephen Root).
Her other television credits include stunt acting on the pilot film for Battlestar Galactica (with Ed Begley, Jr., Geoffrey Binney, Dick Durock, Reggie Nalder, Felix Silla, Norman Stuart, and Bruce Wright), and (1994, with Miguel Ferrer, Matt Frewer, Ray Walston, Patrick Kilpatrick, Richard Lineback, and Ken Jenkins), and series like (with Jason Alexander), (with Ed Begley, Jr. and Jamie McShane), (with Paul Guilfoyle and Wallace Langham), Agent Carter, , Raising Hope, and Lucifer.
On , Gimpel was interviewed as part of the Television Academy Foundation's The Interviews: An Oral History of Television on being an stuntwoman, her role as a Talosian in "The Cage" , her return as a Salt Vampire , and working with William Shatner .
== Star Trek appearances ==
File:Talosian observer 7.jpg|Talosian(uncredited)
File:Sandra Gimpel, The Cage.jpg|Stunt double for Meg Wyllie(uncredited)
File:M-113 creature.jpg|(uncredited)
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