Ronald R. Rondell

Ronald "Ronnie" R. Rondell, Jr. is a stuntman, stunt coordinator and director who worked as stunt coordinator on . He also portrayed the henchman of Nicky the Nose in the film.
Rondell is the son of the late actor and assistant director Ronald R. Rondell whose career spanned forty years. He was also the father of stuntman Reid Rondell who died at the age of 22, filming a helicopter stunt for the television series Airwolf in 1985. Rondell's second son is stuntman and stunt coordinator R.A. Rondell who is married to First Contact stuntwoman Debby Lynn Ross and has a son, Erik Rondell, also a stuntman. Rondell together with Hal Needham and Glenn R. Wilder was also a founding member of the stunt organization Stunts Unlimited in the early 1970s. 
With a career of 50 years as a stuntman and stunt coordinator and a career of 40 years as an assistant and 2nd unit director, Rondell is best known to be the stuntman on fire on the cover of the 1975 studio album , shaking hands with fellow stuntman Danny Rogers.
Rondell started his on-screen career in the early 1950s as Dannie Kettle in the comedy film series about the Kettle family, including Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952), Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1953), and Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1955), (1954, with Ian Wolfe), (1957, with Theodore Bikel), (1958, with William Campbell), and (1958, with Whit Bissell). Also in the '50s Rondell started his career in the stunt industry with performances in the television series Soldiers of Fortune, Mike Hammer, (1956), Richard Diamond, Private Detective, and Cimarron City.
Between the '60s and the '90s Rondell worked on over twenty television series such as Laredo, Twen Police (1970-1973), (1978-1980), (1981), , , Baywatch (1989), and Thunder in Paradise (1994) and on over 100 feature films such as (1960), (1968), (1971), (1974), (1982), (1984), (1987, starring Kim Cattrall), , (1987) (1989), (1989), (1990), (1990), (1991), (1993), (1994), (1994), (1995), and (1996).
Following his work on Star Trek: First Contact, Rondell worked as stunt coordinator on the Russian unit of (1997), as supervising stunt coordinator on (1997), and as stunt coordinator on (1998) and (1999). Stunt work during these years include (1997), (1997, with Eddy Donno, Billy Hank Hooker, and Buddy Joe Hooker), (1997), (1998), (1999), (1999), (2000, with Dan Barringer, Doug Coleman, and Hubie Kerns, Jr.), and (2001).
Following his retirement in 2001, Rondell received a Lifetime Achievement Taurus World Stunt Award in 2004. 
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