American actor (1935–2009), known for Laugh-In and Nashville, who played the Ferengi commissioner Nilva in the Deep Space Nine episode Profit and Lace.
Henry Gibson was an American actor and comedian who came to fame on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and appeared in films including Nashville, The Blues Brothers and Magnolia.
In the sixth-season Deep Space Nine episode Profit and Lace he plays Nilva, chairman of the Slug-o-Cola company and an influential member of the Ferengi Commerce Authority.
Nilva comes to the station to meet the female financial adviser said to be behind Grand Nagus Zek's reforms. With Ishka ill, Quark is disguised as a woman named Lumba to take the meeting, and has to fend off the commissioner's advances while winning his support.