Carl David Burks

From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference

Carl David Burks (born 3 March 1955; age 54) (also known as Carl David and Carl Banks) is an actor who appeared as a regular extra on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager. He performed also in Star Trek Generations and the 1996 video game Star Trek: Klingon. In addition he served as stand-in for Brent Spiner on The Next Generation and for Robert Duncan McNeill on the second season of Voyager. As an extra, he received no on-screen credits for all of his appearances. [1]

Burks has appeared in several films, including the 1990 action thriller Catchfire with Dean Stockwell and stunts by Janet Brady and Tommy J. Huff and many television commercials for labels such as "McDonalds" (1980).

Together with his wife he took over the aaah!Capella theatre in the Noho Arts district in North Hollywood, California in 1996. When his wife left him he ran it alone. The club became famous as the "Club Dragopolis", with a special fan community of transgendered and transsexual people and several famous guests who stepped onto the stage of the club, including Jack Nicholson, Steve Guttenberg, and B.B. King. Burks took the name Debbie David and served as emcee and hostess, after he found his gender identity and changed into female. After her gender change, David continued to appear on films, such as I Was a Teenage Dragqueen, as well as working as a director, writer, and talent scout.

[edit] Uncredited Star Trek appearances

Ensign/Lieutenant Russell Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: Voyager Recurring character

Enterprise-B crewman Star Trek Generations

[edit] Appearances as Russell

[edit] External links

• Dragopolis.com - official site
• Carl David Burks at the Internet Movie Database