Victor Paul

Victor Paul was a former stuntman and stunt coordinator who worked as stunt double for Dan Kern, performing his fencing stunts, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode  in. Twenty years prior, he appeared as a Klingon crewman in the Star Trek: The Original Series third season episode. Paul also portrayed Picard's fencing opponent in a deleted scene of The Next Generation second season episode. This appearance is part of the extended version of the episode on TNG Season 2 Blu-ray.

Born as Philip Paul Romano, Paul is the father of stuntmen John Phillip and Philip Romano and is probably best known for his work on the 1960s television series. He worked as stunt coordinator on 120 episodes between 1966 and 1968 and was also the stunt double for actor who portrayed  along with 's stunt double and "Day of the Dove" co-performer Hubie Kerns, Sr., father of another Trek stuntman Hubie Kerns, Jr.. He also doubled for Ward in the 1966 television movie Batman which also featured Trek stunt performers Dick Crockett, Louie Elias, Gil Perkins, Charlie Picerni, and George Sawaya and was interviewed for the 2002 documentary Behind the Action: Stuntmen in the Movies together with Robert Herron and Tony Brubaker. Specialized in performing sword fights and fencing stunts he can be seen various times in movies and television series doubling actors in these scenes. He also worked as fencing coach/ sword fight coach in numerous projects such as the television drama My Wicked, Wicked Ways... The Legend of Errol Flynn (1985, with Denise Crosby), the comedy The Whoopee Boys (1986), the fantasy comedy Stay Tuned (1992, with Gary Combs), and the comedy Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993, with Patrick Stewart and stunts by Dan Barringer, Erik Cord, Clint Lilley, Scott Leva, and David LeBell). Paul is a Lifetime member of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures.

Paul started his work in the film and stunt business in the late 1940s with featured appearances in the drama Scene of the Crime (1949), the war drama Battleground (1949, with Ricardo Montalban), the crime drama Gambling House (1950), the romance Mask of the Avenger (1951), and the adventure Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952). Prior to his work on Batman, Paul also worked on the adventure Around the World in Eighty Days (1956, with stunts by Paul Baxley, Max Kleven, Chuck Hicks, and Gil Perkins) and on the adventure The Buccaneer (1958, with Chuck Couch and Gil Perkins).

Further stunt work includes the television series Cimarron Strip (1968, with Ed Madden and Dallas Mitchell) and Mission: Impossible (1968-1970, with Leonard Nimoy, Charlie Picerni, Dick Dial, Carol Daniels Dement, and Anthony Zerbe), the thriller Dirty Harry (1971, with Andrew Robinson), the movie Diamonds Are Forever (1971, with Paul Baxley, Lightning Bear, Richard E. Butler, Vince Deadrick, Donna Garrett, Carey Loftin, Ronald R. Rondell, and Tom Steele), the adventure The Poseidon (1972), the science fiction film Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) and its sequel Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), the thriller The Towering Inferno (1974), the comedy The Last of the Cowboys (1977), the comedy The Prisoner of Zenda (1979, with Dick Geary, Erik Cord, and Pete Kellett), the horror film The Island (1980), the music comedy The Blues Brothers (1980), the music drama Flashdance (1983), the comedy Bachelor Party (1984), the comedy sequel Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985, with Ken Bates, Tom Morga, Spiro Razatos, and Brian J. Williams), the adventure The Goonies (1985), the action thriller Die Hard (1988) and its sequel Die Hard 2 (1990), the comedy Skin Deep (1989, with Denise Crosby), the action films Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) and The Last Boy Scout (1991), the comedy Loaded Weapon 1 (1993), the fantasy film Casper (1995), the science fiction comedy Mars Attacks! (1996), the science fiction drama Armageddon (1998), and the superhero comedy Mystery Men (1999, with Joey Box, Leslie Hoffman, and Gene LeBell).

As stunt coordinator Paul created and coordinated the stunts for the crime drama The One Man Jury (1978, with Dick Durock, Ralph Garrett, John Nowak, and Frank Orsatti), the comedy Zorro, the Gay Blade (1981), the romance Racing with the Moon (1984), the comedy The Wild Life (1984), the science fiction comedy Project X (1987), the television series Tales from the Crypt (1990), the drama Don Juan DeMarco (1994), and the television science fiction film Target Earth (1998, with Tim Sitarz). His last known stunt work performed Paul in the action thriller Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000, with Steve Blalock, Janet Brady, Jennifer Caputo, Eugene Collier, Al Goto, Kane Hodder, Tommy J. Huff, Henry Kingi, Sr., Rusty McClennon, and Merritt Yohnka) and in the crime drama 15 Minutes (2001, with Buddy Joe Hooker and Mike Massa).