Steve Danton (born 16 October 1956; age 68) is an actor, stuntman, and director who appeared as a Jem'Hadar guard in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine seventh season episode "Strange Bedfellows". He received no credit and was identified by the call sheet for the day of filming, 3 February 1999, on Paramount Stage 18. Danton is the elder brother of regular Trek stuntman Mitchell Danton.
Born as the first son to actor and director Ray Danton and actress Julie Adams, Danton started to work in the film industry as production assistant on projects such as National Lampoon's Movie Madness (1982), Hammett (1982), and Trouble in Mind (1985, with Keith Carradine and Genevieve Bujold).
Also in the '80s, Danton started to work as second assistant director on the television drama Convicted (1986, with John Larroquette and Gabriel Damon), episodes of the television series Hunter, Vice Versa (1988, along with second unit director Max Kleven), Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988, starring W. Morgan Sheppard, with Jeff Conaway), Everybody's All-American (1988), the television comedy The Absent-Minded Professor (1988, directed by Robert Scheerer), and The Hunt for Red October (1990).
Since 1991 Danton is working as first assistant director on projects such as Flight of the Intruder (1991), Thelma & Louise (1991), School Ties (1992), Strange Days (1995, starring Angela Bassett), The Devil's Advocate (1997), The Opposite of Sex (1998), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998, starring Angela Bassett, with Whoopi Goldberg), The General's Daughter (1999, on which his fellow Deep Space Nine co-star Mark Riccardi worked as stunt coordinator), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), Catwoman (2004), When a Stranger Calls (2006), and Get Smart (2008).
Beside his work behind the camera, Danton also appeared in several films as a featured performer including Trouble in Mind (1985), the television drama Convicted (1986), Cruel Doubt (1992), The Evening Star (1996), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), The General's Daughter (1999), and Gone in 60 Seconds (2000). In 2003 he wrote and directed by short film Wrong Turn which featured Brandon Molale.
He later worked as first assistant director on Shelter (2010), the Human _target pilot episode (2010, with Mark Moses), Takers (2010, with Zoe Saldana, Tim Sitarz, Troy Brenna, Erik Stabenau, Marcus Young, and Benito Martinez), Drive Angry (2011, with Billy Burke, Michael Papajohn, and second unit director and stunt coordinator Johnny Martin), and Priest (2011, with Karl Urban, Mädchen Amick, and Christopher Plummer).