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Sandra Lee Gimpel was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and assistant director, known for Big Fat Liar (2002), Escape from New York (1981) and The Rock (1996).
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Sandra Gimpel (born 17 September 1939; age 84) is an American stuntwoman and stunt actress.
Gimpel was a dancer in Los Angeles before being an extra for Central Casting. One of those jobs was for the Star Trek: The Original Series first pilot "The Cage", given "they knew I could handle costume work and stuff, from dancing." In "The Cage", Gimpel played a Talosian and worked briefly as stunt double for Meg Wyllie for which she filmed her scenes on Wednesday 16 December 1964 on Desilu Culver Stage 15. The costume work led her to being cast as the M-113 creature in "The Man Trap", filming her scene on Friday 24 June 1966 at Desilu Stage 9. Gimpel also worked as an extra in later episodes. According to her own recollections, she also worked on both Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Enterprise. (Portal47)
Between 1966 and 1968, Gimpel worked as Bill Mumy's stunt double in the last two seasons of Lost in Space, hired by stunt coordinator Paul Stader.
She appeared in stunt roles in numerous films including The Towering Inferno (1974, with Paul Comi, Gregory Sierra, Elizabeth Rogers, David Armstrong, Robert Strong, and Steve Marlo), Airplane! (1980, with Jonathan Banks, Gregory Itzin, Kenneth Tobey, Jason Wingreen, and Leslie Hoffman), Escape from New York (1981, with Adrienne Barbeau), Night of the Comet (starring Robert Beltran), The Goonies (1985), Commando (1985, with Rick Sawaya), Evil Dead II (1987), The Lost Boys (1987), Twins (1988, with Tony Jay, Nehemiah Persoff, and Cary-Hiroyuki), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), The Rock (1996, with Tony Todd and Raymond Cruz), Jingle All the Way (1996, with Daniel Riordan and Phil Morris), Con Air (1997, with Colm Meaney and Landry Allbright), The Truman Show (1998), Mystery Men (1999, with Doug Jones), Rat Race (2001, with Whoopi Goldberg and Lanei Chapman), The Animal (2001, with Michael Papajohn), Bruce Almighty (2003, with Christopher Darga and Robert Curtis Brown), Charlie Wilson's War (2007, with Brian Markinson, Cyia Batten, Rachel Nichols, Faran Tahir, James W. Jansen, Erick Avari, and J. Patrick McCormack), Norbit (2007), Planet Terror (2007), and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013, with Derek Graf).
She worked as second unit director on the series Mrs. Columbo, which starred Kate Mulgrew, and as stunt coordinator on the shows The Bionic Woman, Harper Valley P.T.A., Otherworld (co-starring Jonathan Banks), and Harts of the West (co-starring Stephen Root).
Her other television credits include stunt acting on the pilot film for Battlestar Galactica (with Ed Begley, Jr., Geoffrey Binney, Dick Durock, Reggie Nalder, Felix Silla, Norman Stuart, and Bruce Wright), and The Stand (1994, with Miguel Ferrer, Matt Frewer, Ray Walston, Patrick Kilpatrick, Richard Lineback, and Ken Jenkins), and series like Seinfeld (with Jason Alexander), Six Feet Under (with Ed Begley, Jr. and Jamie McShane), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (with Paul Guilfoyle and Wallace Langham), Agent Carter, Criminal Minds, Raising Hope, and Lucifer.
Jan 7, 2022 · At Los Angeles Comic Con 2021, I talked to Stunt Woman/Stunt Coordinator Sandra Lee Gimpel best known for playing the Salt Vampire and one of the Talosians in Star Trek the Original Series....
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Aug 13, 2020 · For her full interview, see http://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/sandra-gimpelSee more at http://TelevisionAcademy.com/InterviewsAll content co...
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Sandra Lee Gimpel is an American stuntwoman, stunt actress, and second unit director. She has worked on many movies and TV shows since 1965, such as The Truman Show, Bruce Almighty, The Goonies, and Star Trek: The Cage.
Dec 7, 2023 · Sandra tells us about her origins in Hollywood by becoming one of Elvis Presley’s main dancers featured in many of his movies, how she ended up as Bill Mumy’s stunt double in “Lost in Space” and how that led to her time on “Star Trek,” working with Jeffrey Hunter, William Shatner, and Gene Roddenberry and the secrets to ...
Sep 8, 2016 · Sandra Gimpel played the M-113 Creature, aka The Salt Vampire, in the first episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. She also doubled for Cloris Leachman on Raising Hope and other actors in various shows and movies.
