American character actor (1916–2003) who played Bela Oxmyx, the gangland boss of Sigma Iotia II, in the second-season Original Series episode A Piece of the Action.
Anthony Caruso was an American actor, born in 1916, who played gangsters and heavies in a long run of films and television programmes, most notably the safecracker Louis Ciavelli in The Asphalt Jungle (1950).
In A Piece of the Action he sent up that screen image as Bela Oxmyx, boss of the largest territory on a planet that has modelled its whole society on a book about the Chicago mobs of the 1920s. Oxmyx invites the Enterprise to supply him with heaters to wipe out his rivals; Kirk instead forces the bosses into a single syndicate with Oxmyx at its head and the Federation taking a cut.
Caruso died in 2003.