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Curt Truman is a former recurring actor on Star Trek: The Next Generation. He was identified through the makeup continuity Polaroid from "Descent" and through several call sheets. Two Starfleet uniforms worn by Truman, one distressed and previously worn by James Washington, were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1] [2]

His appearance as a dead Brattain scientist in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fourth season episode "Night Terrors". He filmed his scenes on Wednesday 9 January 1991 on Paramount Stage 16 and was listed as "charred body" on the call sheet.

Truman was also on set on Tuesday 9 July 1991 to appear on the bridge as "conn legs" in scene 31A in the fifth season episode "Redemption II" but did not appear in the final episode. He also filmed Ten Forward scenes for the episode "New Ground" but was not part of that final episode, as well.

In 1991, Truman appeared as a man at the auction at the Carrington Mansion in the first part of the television mini-series Dynasty: The Reunion. Other Trek actors include Joan Collins, Robin Sachs, Tony Jay, Keone Young, Evelyn Guerrero, Jeff O'Haco, Ray Reinhardt, Renna Bogdanowicz, Phil Culotta, Bruce Dobos, Peter Eastman, Michael Echols, Melanie Hathorn, Steve Hershon, Debra Dilley, and Bill Blair.

Truman had featured parts in The Bonfire of Vanities (1990, with Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Louis Giambalvo, Richard Libertini, Marjorie Monaghan, Kirsten Dunst, John Eric Bentley, Don McManus, Richard Gilbert-Hill, and F. Murray Abraham), Point Break (1991, with Lori Petty, Christopher Pettiet, Mike Genovese, Galyn Görg, Jack Kehler, and Raymond Forchion), and episodes of Wings (1992, with Steven Weber) and General Hospital (1991-1993, with Nikki Cox) before he was chosen by director Penny Marshall to portray Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in the comedy Calendar Girl (1993, with Irene Roseen and Liz Vassey).

He earned his SAG card while working as a construction worker on Murder, She Wrote and appeared in the television series Rude Awakening (1998), Diagnosis: Murder (1999, with Scott Lawrence), Sunset Beach (1998-1999), and Passions (2000, with Tim Lounibos). Truman can also be seen in Hollywood Squares (1999, with Tom Bergeron and Whoopi Goldberg), Extra (2003, hosted by Dayna Devon), the television drama Inside a Black Box (2000), and The Bold and the Beautiful (2000-2007). He appeared in a television commercial for Zellers Department Stores and in the music videos "Ghetto Superstar" by Pras Michel and Mya in 1998 and "It's Now or Never" by Elvis Presley.

In more recent years, Truman worked as location coordinator on the crime thriller Angel of Death (2009, with James Lew, Monica Staggs, and Chien Funan) and on CSI: NY (2010, with Robert Joy). As a licensed real estate agent in California with his company Truman, Inc. Real Estate he worked for celebrity clients such as Hugh Jackman, Aaron Eckhart, Terrance Howard, Mehcad Brooks, Courtney Love, Steven Sodenbergh, Michael Corbett, and Golden Brooks.

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