American classical actor (1910–1989) who played Anton Karidian, the travelling player suspected of being Kodos the Executioner, in the Original Series episode The Conscience of the King.
Arnold Moss was an American actor, born in 1910, with a distinguished stage career in Shakespeare and a resonant voice that also made him a busy radio performer. In films he was often cast as smooth villains, as in Reign of Terror (1949).
In The Conscience of the King he played Anton Karidian, head of a company touring Shakespeare between the stars. Kirk comes to believe he is Kodos, the former governor of Tarsus IV who ordered the deaths of four thousand colonists twenty years earlier. Karidian finally admits the truth to his daughter and dies shielding Kirk from her phaser.
Moss died in 1989.