Michael Stanhope
Michael "Mickey" Stanhope  is an actor and rock musician, singer, and songwriter who was featured as a Bringloidi colonist in the  second season episode . As a background actor he received no credit for this part. He filmed his scenes on  and was cast through Central Casting. On , Stanhope worked as one of the makeup test persons.

Born in Joliet, Illinois, Stanhope has started singing at the age of 6 and playing instruments at the age of 8. He joined school bands and won several medals as a drummer. He became drummer for the band "Tre K's" and played in a surf band before he and his friend Skip Griparis formed the band "The Aristocrats" which they later renamed to "The Counts" and signed with Allstate Records. In 1965, Stanhope played the lead role of Koko in the musical The Mikado and became drummer of the band "The Knight's" until 1967. He then joined the bands "The State Prism" and "The Faded Blue" before he became vocalist and drummer for the band "The Litter" aka "White Lightning" and later "Lightning". After a short move to Los Angeles, Stanhope moved back to Minneapolis where he joined bands such as "CCLC".

When he moved back to Los Angeles, Stanhope grew interest in the movie industry and started to work as background actor on film and television. His first job was working as stunt double for  on the horror film Creature (1985, with Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Diane Salinger, and Eileen Seeley).

He appeared in episodes of L.A. Law (1990), Designing Women, and Murder, She Wrote (1991) and in the comedy Dragnet (1987, with Christopher Plummer, Bruce Gray, Jim Boeke, Josh Cruze, Juli Donald, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Meg Wyllie, Paul Acerno, Dave Armstrong, Matthias Hues, Conrad Hurtt, and Jim Painter), the action sequel Die Hard 2 (1990, with William Sadler, Don Charles McGovern, Vincent Mazzella, Jr., Ben Lemon, Colm Meaney, Robert Costanzo, and Joseph Michael Roth), the science fiction thriller Solar Crisis (1990, with Dan Shor, Paul Williams, Brenda Bakke, Michael Berryman, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Paul Carr, Lou Elias, Terrence Beasor, Mario Roberts, Vince Deadrick, Jr., and Eurlyne Epper-Woldman), as a waiter and a detective in the comedy sequel The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991, with Jacqueline Brookes, Anthony James, Tim O'Connor, Peter Mark Richman, Don Pugsley, Manny Perry, Alex Zimmerman, John Fleck, Robert Buckingham, and Lisa Nunziella), the thriller Honor Thy Mother (1992, with Dion Anderson, Matthew Faison, Sierra Pecheur, Gregg Daniel, and Brian McNamara), and the thriller Breaking Point (1994, with Kim Cattrall).

He also worked as stand-in for  on the science fiction comedy Coneheads (1993, with Michael McKean, Barry Kivel, Jason Alexander, and Cameron). He also worked as stand-in for William Shatner on the comedy Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) and on a TV Guide commercial. Further film work includes the science fiction comedy Mars Attacks! (1996, with Paul Winfield, Willie Garson, Michael Reilly Burke, Valerie Wildman, Richard Irving, Vinny Argiro, Gregg Daniel, Jeanne Mori, Frank Welker, Greg Bronson, and Maria Celeste Genitempo), the action thriller Con Air (1997, with Colm Meaney, Carl Ciarfalio, Don Charles McGovern, Earl Billings, Mario Roberts, Mark Ginther, and Scott Burkholder), the comedy Vegas Vacation (1997, with Miriam Flynn, Wallace Shawn, and Larry Hankin), and the action film Death in the Desert (2015).

Stanhope was part of the 1990s reunion of the band "The Litter" for which he wrote several songs and also can be heard as lead voice on some. The band also released their album "Re-Emerge". Today, Stanhope lives in Las Vegas with his wife Deborah and continues to work in the film industry.

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