Glenn R. Wilder

Glenn R. Wilder was a stuntman, stunt actor, stunt coordinator, and second unit director who served as stunt coordinator on and the first season episode . He received no credit for the latter one and was among the group of one time stunt coordinators, prior to Dennis Madalone's employment on the series.
Wilder was born in Los Angeles, California and is the father of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier stuntman Scott Wilder. In 1997 he was injured in a speed boat accident, filming a stunt scene for the feature film Gone Fishin. His son was also injured and his daughter-in-Law, stuntwoman Janet Wilder, died.
Wilder made his first steps into the stunt business in the early '60s and performed and doubled in television series such as The Beverly Hillbillies, The Green Hornet, The Fugitive, as double for , and The Mod Squad. He was one of the stunt drivers in (1968, alongside Regina Parton, Ronald R. Rondell, and Carey Loftin), doubled in (1967), and performed stunts in The Boston Strangler (1968, starring Jeff Corey and Sally Kellerman).
He continued in the '70s and appeared in dozens of feature films, including Cleopatra Jones (1973, with Bernie Casey), (1974, with Diana Muldaur), (1978, with Madge Sinclair and Seymour Cassel), and the television pilot for Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979). Wilder also began working as stunt coordinator and directed the action scenes for productions, including (1972), (1976, with stunts by Paula Crist, Tom Huff, Beth Nufer, and Mike Washlake), and (1978, with Ed Begley, Jr.). He was responsible for the stunt scenes in the television series Planet of the Apes (1974, with Mark Lenard) and S.W.A.T. (1975-1976), and took punches, made car stunts, and felt from heights in Mission: Impossible (1971-1972, with Leonard Nimoy), (1972-1973), (1967-1974), and (1978, starring David Soul).
In the '80s he coordinated projects such as Shogun and the following mini series with the same title (1980, with John Rhys-Davies), (1984, with Barbara Bosson, Meg Wyllie, Marc Alaimo, and Wil Wheaton), (1985, with stunts by Christine Anne Baur, Ann Chatterton, David LeBell, and Pat Romano), (1988, with Jenette Goldstein), and (1988-1992, with semi-regular Sherman Howard and stunts by Joe Murphy). In addition he was seen in (1982, with David Warner), (1983, with F. Murray Abraham), The Outlaws (1984, with Charles Napier), (1987), (1987, starring Whoopi Goldberg ), (1988), (1988), Blind Fury (1989, with Terry O'Quinn), and (1989, with Anthony De Longis and Patricia Tallman), as well as in (1982, starring Ricardo Montalban and with Gene LeBell), (1986, starring Dwight Schultz), and B.L. Stryker (1989-1990). In 1987 he contributed a part of the screenplay and directed , which featured Star Trek alumni Raymond Forchion and his son, Scott Wilder.
With almost thirty years of experience, Wilder coordinated several feature films in the '90s. Among them are (1990, starring Winona Ryder), (1993), and Heaven's Prisoners (1996, with Teri Hatcher and Don Stark), and several episodes of (1995-1996, with Julia Nickson in the last one) and Swamp Thing (1990-1993, starring Dick Durock). He appeared in (1990), (1991, coordinated by Joel Kramer), (1991), (1994), (1994, coordinated by Greg Barnett and directed by Cliff Bole), Fair Game (1995), and (1998, with James Cromwell).
Among his projects in the last years are stunt coordination and second unit direction for (2000-2002, alongside Greg Barnett and Jeff Pruitt), stunts in (2000, with Joan Collins and stunts by Leslie Hoffman, Spice Williams, and Gene LeBell), The Mothman Prophecies (2002), (2002), (2003), and (2006). He made a memorable performance in (2003), which also featured Kane Hodder and coordinated (2006, with Steven Weber, Matt Frewer, Ron Perlman, and Charlie Brewer).
He performed stunts in Déjà Vu (2006), (2007), (2008), as stunt double for in (2012, starring Dwayne Johnson, stunt coordinated by Alex Daniels, and stunts by Rick Avery and Rick Sawaya), and in the comedy Wanderlust (2012). He also worked as stunt coordinator on the thriller Cassadaga (2011) and the comedy Numba One (2011, with Paul Sorvino).
Among his last projects are (2013), (2013, with Eddie Braun, Erik Cord, Alex Daniels, Jeremy Fry, Allan Graf, Terry James, Oliver Keller, and Harry Wowchuk), (2014, with Christine Anne Baur, Craig Baxley, Jr., Henry Kingi, Jr., Henry Kingi, Sr., Mike Massa, Jimmy N. Roberts, and Don Ruffin), and (2015, with Hunter Baxley and Todd Bryant).
Wilder passed away at the age of 83 on 7 July 2017.
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