American actor and impressionist (1933–2005) who played the relentless Cheron lawman Bele in Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, and was famous as the Riddler in the 1960s Batman series.
Frank Gorshin was an American actor, comedian and impressionist, born in 1933 and best known to television audiences as the Riddler in the 1960s Batman series, a part that brought him an Emmy nomination.
In Star Trek he guest stars in the third-season episode Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, first shown in January 1969. He plays Bele, a commissioner from the planet Cheron who has chased the fugitive Lokai for fifty thousand years. Bele is black on his right side and white on his left, Lokai the reverse, and that difference is the whole basis of their hatred.
Gorshin's fierce, tightly wound performance opposite Lou Antonio made the episode one of the series' best-remembered allegories about prejudice. He died in 2005.