Tim McCormack

Timothy "Spike" McCormack was an actor who appeared as a regular background actor in the role of Ensign throughout the first through fourth seasons of . McCormack was also the main stand-in for Data actor Brent Spiner and worked as stand-in for a number of recurring and guest actors throughout the first through six seasons. In addition, he portrayed a dead body in the fifth season episode .
McCormack earned his MFA in Directing from Florida State University in 1977.
In 1979, he appeared as Blaine in . Between 1985 and 1987, McCormack worked as stand-in and frequent background actor on . He appeared as reporter, Colby Enterprises staffer, chauffeur Eric, and tourist in twenty-two of the forty-nine episodes and worked with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ricardo Montalban, Joseph Campanella, Sam Hennings, John Staible, John Blower, Suzanne Lodge, Buzz Barbee, Ilona Wilson, Peter White, Peter Eastman, John Hugh McKnight, Frieda Rentie, Gayle Frank, Roger Trantham, Neal Kaz, Jessie Biscardi, Ray Wise, Gene Poe, Bob Davis, Devron Conrad, Tony Rocco, Evelyn Guerrero, Stefan Gierasch, Joel Marston, Georgann Johnson, Bill Zuckert, Judson Scott, George Sasaki, Ray Petersen, David Armstrong, John Burnside, Faith Burton, Robert Hitchcock, Nana Visitor, Bud Davis, and Melodee M. Spevack.
Other television roles include a business party guest in the Dynasty episode "The Divorce" (1986, with Joan Collins, Robert Symonds, and Joey Banks), a workman in the Dynasty episode "Reward" (1986, with Joan Collins, Robert Pine, Clayton Landey, Gene Poe, and Kimberly L. Ryusaki), a hotel guest in the Dynasty episode "The Secret" (1986, with Joan Collins), an auctioneer in the Miami Vice episode "The Lost Madonna" (1989, directed by Chip Chalmers), and a security guard in the Super Force episode "U-Gene: Part 1" (1990, with Ken Olandt).
McCormack died unexpectedly on 20 November 2022. 
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=== Stand-in work ===
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** – stand-in for Thomas Knickerbocker
** – stand-in for Steven Anderson, Michael Ensign, and George Coe
** – stand-in for John Vickery, Duke Moosekian, and Craig Hurley
** – stand-in for Dwight Schultz and Jonathan Frakes
** – stand-in for John de Lancie
** – stand-in for Bruce French
** – stand-in for Colm Meaney and Terrence E. McNally
** – stand-in for Franc Luz and Robert Harper
** – stand-in for Edward Wiley
** – stand-in for Robert O'Reilly and Ben Slack
** – stand-in for Colm Meaney, J.D. Cullum, Ben Slack, and Nicholas Kepros
** – stand-in for Patrick Stewart and Colm Meaney
** – stand-in for Cliff Potts, Harley Venton and Frank Collison
** – stand-in for Colm Meaney
** – stand-in for Wil Wheaton and Colm Meaney
** – stand-in for Mark Lenard, Erick Avari, Graham Jarvis and Norman Large
** – stand-in for Norman Large and Vidal Peterson
** – stand-in for Matt Frewer
** – stand-in for Dennis Madalone
** – stand-in for Harley Venton
** – stand-in for David Sage, Craig Benton, and Ben Lemon
** – stand-in for John Snyder
** – stand-in for Erich Anderson and Erick Weiss
** – stand-in for Callan White
** – stand-in for Kelsey Grammer
** – stand-in for Wil Wheaton, Richard Fancy, and Ray Walston
** – stand-in for Albie Selznick and Patrick Cronin
** – stand-in for Tim O'Connor
** – stand-in for Jeff Allin
** – stand-in for Jonathan del Arco
** – stand-in for Alan Oppenheimer and Kevin Conway
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