Thomas J. Booth

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(written from a production point of view)

Thomas J. Booth (9 July 1960 – 10 October 2006; age 46) was an actor who worked as recurring background performer on the fourth and fifth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation and also appeared in a second season episode of Star Trek: Voyager. For the episode "Redemption II", he filmed his scenes on Tuesday 16 July 1991 and Wednesday 17 July 1991 on Paramount Stage 9 and 16. [1]

Booth was a Screen Actors Guild member and also worked as an airline pilot. [2] He appeared as a bar patron in the Cheers episodes "The Improbable Dream: Part 2" (1989, with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Renna Bogdanowicz, Michael Zurich, Rebecca Soladay, and Lee Allen) and "What is... Cliff Clavin?" (1990, with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Alex Landi, Linda Harcharic, Rebecca Soladay, Marijane Cole, Randy James, and Denise Lynne Roberts) and as a coroner in 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, Kaye Wade, Michael Stanhope, Theresa St. Clair, Michael Wilkinson, Sherry O'Keefe, Peter Eastman, Suzanne Lodge, Bruce Dobos, Lisa Nunziella, Deano Georgio, Rudy Morrison, Maria Doest, Allan Graf, Jane Austin, Natalie Wood, Jophery C. Brown, Sonia McDancer, Mary Peters, Jadie David, Clay Hodges, Don Pulford, Phil Adams, Bruce Barbour, Charlie Brewer, Bobby Burns, Phil Chong, Eugene Collier, Kerrie Cullen, Bud Davis, Donna Garrett, Al Goto, Shawn Lane, Vincent Mazzella, Jr., Dwayne McGee, Bill McTosh, Eric Norris, Peewee Piemonte, J.P. Romano, Laurence Rosenthal, Ed Anders, Lynn Salvatori, Chuck Clow, and Bobby Aldridge). In 1993, he appeared as a party guest in the Beverly Hills, 90210 episode "Strangers in the Night", along with Peter Mark Richman and Sarah Drury.

He passed away in 2006 due to kidney disease. He was survived by his wife Julie Harmata Booth and their three children, Tommy, Becky, and Jenna. [3]^(X) [4]