American stage and screen actor, born in 1951, who played the troubled Betazoid telepath Tam Elbrun in Tin Man and later the Earth minister Nathan Samuels in Enterprise.
Harry Groener is an American actor, born in 1951, with several Tony Award nominations for Broadway musicals and a well-known television role as Mayor Wilkins in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In The Next Generation episode Tin Man (1990) he plays Tam Elbrun, a Betazoid first-contact specialist whose telepathy is so strong that he cannot shut out other minds. He finds peace only with Gomtuu, a living starship, and with Data.
Groener returned as the Magistrate in the Voyager episode Sacred Ground (1996), and as Nathan Samuels in the Enterprise episodes Demons and Terra Prime (2005), where the minister chairs the talks that lead towards a coalition of planets while the xenophobic Terra Prime movement tries to wreck them.