Jeff Imada

Jeff Imada is a stuntman, stunt actor, and martial arts expert who served as stunt double for George Takei in .
Imada was born in Inglewood, California and has started studying martial arts at the age of fifteen and has become an instructor and adviser for stars such as Brandon Lee. His first jobs in Hollywood were as a movie extra.
Among his stunt resume are films such as (1982, starring Joanna Cassidy), (1986, with Michael Ensign, Steve Susskind, and stunts by Kane Hodder), (1986, starring David Graf), (1986, with Kim Cattrall and Jerry Hardin), (1988, with Meg Foster), (1989, with Anthony De Longis, Patricia Tallman, Kevin Tighe, and Marshall R. Teague), (1989, starring Teri Hatcher), (1991, with Judson Scott, Anne Haney, David Renan, Ted Barba, James H. Burk, Kenny Endoso, Dave Perna and Nicholas Shaffer, and stunts by Greg Barnett and Lane Leavitt), (1991, with Virginia Madsen), (1992, starring Christian Slater), (1993, with Alex Datcher and David Warner), (1994, with Tony Todd), (1995, with Cary-Hiroyuki), (1995), (1996, with Fred Williamson, Spice Williams, and Rosine "Ace" Hatem), (1998, with Marjean Holden and Steve Blalock), (1998, with Judson Scott, Andray Johnson, and Sidney Liufau), (1999, with James Cromwell and William Sadler), (2001, with Jeri Ryan), (2001), (2001), and (2005).
His resume also includes stunts and stunt acting parts in television series such as (1983), The Master (1984, with Brian Tochi and Dick Durock), (starring Dwight Schultz and Melinda Culea), Beauty and the Beast (1988, starring Ron Perlman and guest starring Rosalind Chao), Raven (1992, with France Nuyen and Branscombe Richmond), Spy Game, and (2003, starring Nikki Cox).
In addition he has also worked for several films as a stunt coordinator and second unit director. In 2008 he was part of the stunt team which received a Screen Actors Guild Award for best film stunt ensemble , for which he served as one of the stunt coordinators. Fellow Star Trek stuntmen George Colucci, Gilbert Combs, Jeremy Fry, and Chris O'Hara, and stunt coordinators Darrin Prescott and Scott Rogers were also part of the team.
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