John Lendale Bennett
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John Lendale Bennett (27 November 1951 – 27 February 2006; age 54) was an actor and movie stuntman who played three characters in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Two of his appearances were as Klingons. In addition, he has worked as a stunt double for Avery Brooks on Deep Space Nine and Tim Russ on Star Trek: Voyager.
His first Star Trek appearance was as Kozak in "The House of Quark". Later in season three he played Gabriel Bell in "Past Tense, Part I". He also played the "Towering Klingon" in the season five premiere "Apocalypse Rising".
Bennett also had acting roles on the science fiction television shows Space: Above and Beyond and Seven Days. As a stuntman, he performed in such films as Face/Off (1997), Stuart Baird's U.S. Marshals (1998), Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000), The Replacements (2000), and Minority Report (2002).
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Born in Chicago, Illinois, Bennett initially considered joining the priesthood, graduating from Quigley Preparatory Seminary South. While there, he performed in a number of high school plays. He also won a statewide oration competition for his rendition of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
He then attended Ohio State University, where he played college football. After returning to Chicago and working as a conductor, he moved to California to become an actor.
Bennett died of his fourth heart attack in 2006. He was 54 years old. He is remembered as an "adrenaline junkie", a man who loved to take risks, yet his only serious injury was a broken arm. (Jim Ritter, "Action movie stuntman was 'adrenaline junkie,'" Chicago Sun-Times, 24 Apr. 2006)
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