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| Frank Orsatti |
| Memory Alpha Wiki. "Frank Orsatti (26 February 1942 - 23 December 2004; age 62) was the stuntman and stunt actor who performed stunts in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and in three episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. ... His father is former baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals and stuntman Ernie Orsatti, his brother is stuntman and stunt coordinator Ernie F. Orsatti, and his nephew is Noon Orsatti, who is also in the stunt industry. His mother is opera singer Inez Gorman. Originally he tried to start a baseball career at the St. Louis Cardinals, but an injury crossed this vision. He then worked for ten years on freighters for the Merchant Marine. ... Orsatti passed away in Sherman Oaks, California, due to acute respiratory failure, in 2004. He was 62 years old and survived by his wife Julie Ann Steinberg Orsatti, daughters Kimberly Ann and Gina Marie, brothers Ernie and Rex, and a granddaughter." |
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| Frank Orsatti: Actor, stuntman |
 Variety, January 7, 2005. "Actor and stuntman Frank Orsatt [sic] died in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Dec. 23 of acute respiratory failure. He was 62. The son of St. Louis Cardinals baseball player Ernest, an injury prevented him from also joining the Cardinals. His career in stunts began with 'Planet of the Apes,' and he went on to appear in films including 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Poseidon Adventure,' 'The Longest Yard' and 'Con Air.' ..." |
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| The Con Game That Got Rough |
| Edwin Shrake, Sports Illustrated, September 30, 1974. "... What you hurl is someone like Frank Orsatti, who is a stunt man and one of a number of people who have doubled for [Burt Reynolds] over the years and sometimes wound up in the hospital as a result of their efforts. 'Burt likes guys he knows will go the limit,' Orsatti says. ..." |
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