American character actor, often cast as villains, who played the Romulan Sub-Commander Thei in the first-season Next Generation finale The Neutral Zone.
Anthony James (1942 to 2020) was an American character actor who specialised in menacing roles. His film career ran from In the Heat of the Night in 1967 to Unforgiven in 1992, after which he retired from acting to work as an artist.
In The Neutral Zone, the final episode of the first season of The Next Generation, he plays Sub-Commander Thei, one of the two Romulan officers who confront Picard after outposts on both sides of the border are found destroyed.
The scene marked the return of the Romulans after decades of isolation, with Thei and Commander Tebok, played by Marc Alaimo, announcing that their people are back.