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Bob MinorBobby Van

Bob
PerformerTOS
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Portrays:	Celestra Launch Bay Guard (uncredited)
Date of Birth:	January 01, 1944
Date of Death:	Missing required parameter 1=month!
Age:	82
Nationality:	USA
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Bob Minor (born as Roger Lee Minor on January 1, 1944) is an American stunt performer, actor, stunt coordinator, and second unit director. He appears uncredited as a Celestra launch bay guard in the Original Series episode "Take the Celestra," having been identified via computer-aided facial recognition. Over a career of more than five decades, Minor accumulated well over 100 film and television credits and became a pioneering figure in the integration of the Hollywood stunt industry.

Career

Minor was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in Los Angeles, California, where he attended Manual Arts High School and excelled in baseball, basketball, football, and track. He earned a scholarship to Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, where he set a college record in the high hurdles. Following graduation, he studied acting at Sal Dano's Acting School while simultaneously pursuing bodybuilding, winning the Mr. Los Angeles, Mr. Venice Beach, and Mr. Southern California titles in 1969. He stands 6'2".

His path into stunt work began after reading about a casting call for stunt performers on a western starring Jim Brown and Raquel Welch. Though he missed that particular opportunity, it motivated him to train in fencing, staged falls, stunt driving, and SCUBA diving. He gained early industry footing by performing in the Universal Studios Hollywood tour western show and working as a bodyguard for musicians, connections that opened doors to film production work.

Minor made his stunt debut doubling for James Iglehart in Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970). His next major break came working as both actor and stunt coordinator for director Jack Hill on Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974), both starring Pam Grier. He also worked with Hill on The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974) and Switchblade Sisters (1975).

In 1973, Minor became the first African American member of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures, a milestone in an industry where the discriminatory practice of putting white performers in dark makeup to double for Black actors — known as "painting down" — remained common. Six years after joining, he rose to second vice-president of the association. His Stuntmen's Association belt buckle, dating to approximately 1972, is held in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, where it is displayed in the "Taking the Stage" gallery as part of the museum's recognition of Black stunt performers.

Throughout his career, Minor served as a stunt double for many leading Black actors, including Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Sidney Poitier, Bernie Mac, Roger E. Mosley, Carl Weathers, Danny Glover, and John Amos. As a stunt coordinator, he spent six years on Magnum, P.I. (1982–1988), where he also served as second unit director. He has described Glory (1989) as the production he is proudest of, having coordinated approximately seventy stunt performers for the film's Civil War battle sequences. Additional stunt coordinator credits include Boyz n the Hood (1991), Poetic Justice (1993), Higher Learning (1995), and Set It Off (1996).

As an actor, Minor appeared in Rollerball (1975), The Deep (1977), Escape from New York (1981), Rocky III (1982), Commando (1985), and Action Jackson (1988), among many other film and television roles. On television he guest-starred in The Six Million Dollar Man, Starsky & Hutch, Wonder Woman, The Fall Guy, L.A. Law, Alien Nation, Matlock, Walker, Texas Ranger, and ER. He portrayed the Klingon Bo'rak in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Visionary" (1995).

In 1997, Minor sustained a serious head injury during a stunt on the production of Blues Brothers 2000. He recovered and continued working, with subsequent credits including Ocean's Eleven (2001), The Italian Job (2003), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), and National Treasure (2004).

Battlestar Galactica

Minor appears uncredited as a launch bay guard aboard the Celestra in "Take the Celestra," the twentieth episode of Battlestar Galactica (original series), which first aired on April 1, 1979.

External Links

• Bob article at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki.

• Bob Minor article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• Bob article at Buck Wiki, the Buck Rogers wiki.

References

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Bob
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Portrays:	Hector
Date of Birth:	December 6, 1928
Date of Death:	July 31, 1980
Age at Death:	51
Nationality:	USA
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Bobby Van (born as Robert Jack Stein on December 6, 1928 in New York City, New York, died July 31, 1980 in Los Angeles, California) was an American theater, film and television actor.

Van's parents were Vaudevillian actors, spending time backstage until he joined his parent on-stage at age four. Despite being born a bit later than other notable song-and-dance actors such as Gene Kelly, Van enjoyed many roles in films and musicals in the 1950s.

After the golden age of musicals passed, Van worked as a choreographer for a time for films starring Jerry Lewis and others. Van's comedic talents made him a valuable asset in many roles.

Van made the transition to television with great success as a guest on TV game shows, dramas and comedies such as Match Game, Wonder Woman, The Love Boat and CHiPs. He also hosted the game shows Showoffs (1975), The Fun Factory (1976) and Make Me Laugh (1979).

Van portrayed the android Hector in the Original Series episode, "Greetings From Earth." In the role, he is paired with another classic song-and-dance actor, Ray Bolger. The two conclude their episode with a song-and-dance number for the child characters of the episode, reflecting their mutual career histories.

Van was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in 1979, but hosted a Mrs. America pageant despite the illness.

Van died in 1980, at age 51, and is buried at Mt. Sinai Memorial Park in Burbank, California. He was survived by his second wife, actress Elaine Joyce with whom he had one daughter. He had a son from his first marriage.

Bob (1980)Bob Helis

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Bob is a Cylon
Bob is a Final Five Cylon
Bob is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Bob is an Original Series Cylon

Bob is an advisor to the President of the United States of America.

When receiving reports on the alleged Soviet attack on American soil, and the use of laser and advanced technologies, Bob surmises that they have a first contact situation on their hands (^{(Comics: Galactica 1980 #2)}).

This article has a separate continuity. This article is in the Dynamite Comics separate continuity, which is related to the Re-imagined Series. Be sure that your contributions to this article reflect the characters and events specific to this continuity only.

The Returners are thirty-three Colonial citizens, most known to be long dead, who reappear, apparently very much alive, in an old Colonial ship, Medivac 12, encountered by battlestar Galactica as it passed by an old Colonial battlefield of Colonial ships in a region of space very far away from the Twelve Colonies ^{(Comics: Battlestar Galactica #0)}.

Laura Roslin, reading from the Sacred Scrolls, notes a passage that "The dead shall return in an ark of fire." Medivac 12 is suffering from hull breaches and internal fires as its inhabitants ward off Cylon Centurion attacks.

While Commander William Adama and his son, Lee "Apollo" Adama, strongly believe the people to be Cylon constructs similar to Humanoid Cylons, Caprica-Valerii tells them that these people are not Cylons ^{(Comics: Battlestar Galactica #1)}.

Kara Thrace is unsure of the nature of these people, particularly after she encounters her dead fiancé, Zak Adama, aboard the ship ^{(Comics: Battlestar Galactica #0)}. Anastasia Dualla's brother, Darrin, also appears on the derelict ship.

Some of the Returners escape via zip pods to other ships in the Fleet, despite Galactica's quarantine order ^{(Comics: Battlestar Galactica #1)}. The people, unwillingly or intentionally, spread a contagion that incapacitates most of the crew ^{(Comics: Battlestar Galactica #2)}.

Gaius Baltar, investigating the craft, discovers that the Returners are Cylon constructs of a sort. The beings are clones implanted with memories of the dead, used by the Cylons to study human nature in preparation for the creation of the twelve humanoid Cylon models. Billy Keikeya, pouring through available records, confirms that every one of the Returners were people who died while in some kind of flight, and were not on the ground or in a building at the time of their death ^{(Comics: Battlestar Galactica #3)}.

List of Returners

The following is a list of known Returners, including how their originals had died and how long ago they died, in relation to the events of the comics.

Name	Colony	Death
Darrin Dualla	Sagitaria	Airline accident, seven years prior
Jane Esolia	Gemenon	Sky King Disaster, six years prior
Sparto Relamia	Sagitaria	Unknown
Zak Adama	Caprica	Killed during his qualifying run, two years prior to the Miniseries
Daniel Estaran	Gemenon	Unknown
Shelia San	Aerilon	Unknown
Marco Lesa	Caprica	Killed by the Cylons
Felis Ava	Virgon	Unknown
Bob Helis	Caprica	Unknown

Notes

The concept of the deceased returning occurs in the main continuity as the fleet encounters a miraculously alive Kara Thrace ^{(TRS: "He That Believeth in Me")}. Considering the issue, Lee Adama muses about what would happen if Zak returned in a similar fashion, and Starbuck herself considers the possibility that she is a Cylon construct similar to that described above.

Bob BralverBob Harris

Bob
Role:	Stunt coordinator Stunt performer (various episodes, uncredited)
BSG Universe:	Original Series and Galactica 1980
Date of Birth:
Date of Death:	Missing required parameter 1=month! ,
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Bob Bralver is a stunt coordinator on the original Battlestar Galactica and Galactica 1980, who also appeared as a stunt performer and actor in various episodes over both series.

He also appeared on the original Star Trek as Lieutenant Grant in "Friday's Child" and uncredited roles in the episodes "The Tholian Web" and "Is There in Truth No Beauty?".

Battlestar Galactica

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  Bralver as Council Security ^{(TOS: "Baltar's Escape")}.
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  Bralver as Celestra Landing Bay Guard ^{(TOS: "Take the Celestra")}.

Galactica 1980

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  Bralver as a Nazi boxcar guard who pursues an unnamed Little Girl that the Galacticans rescue ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II")}.
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  Bralver as a Stanford Chemical Plant worker ^{(1980: "The Super Scouts, Part II")}.

External links

• Bob article at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki.

Bob
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Role:	Research Writer and Consultant
BSG Universe:	Caprica
Date of Birth:
Date of Death:	Missing required parameter 1=month! ,
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IMDb profile

Bob Harris is an American writer and voice actor, and writer of Beyond Caprica: A Visitor's Pocket Guide to the Twelve Colonies.

A friend of Caprica's first post-Pilot showrunner, Jane Espenson, Harris wrote various internal documents to be used as an internal guide on the backstories and minutiae of The Twelve Colonies of Kobol. These documents, in a more abbreviated form, were later released as the tie-in booklet Beyond Caprica, published by DK.

Harris would later work with Espenson again on Torchwood: Miracle Day's web series tie in, Torchwood: Web of Lies.

External Links

• Bob article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• Bob article at TARDIS Wiki, the Doctor Who wiki.

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