American character actor (1906–1986) who played three different elderly men in The Original Series, beginning with Dr Theodore Haskins in the first pilot, The Cage.
Jon Lormer was an American actor, born in 1906, who specialised in judges, doctors and frail old men across decades of television; in film he played the vengeful corpse Nathan Grantham in Creepshow (1982).
In The Cage, reused in The Menagerie, he played Dr Theodore Haskins, an illusory survivor of the crashed SS Columbia on Talos IV. In The Return of the Archons he was Tamar, the townsman of Beta III who is killed by the Lawgivers for sheltering the landing party.
He returned in the third season as the old man who climbs the mountains of Yonada in For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky, and dies after telling McCoy and Kirk the forbidden truth that gives the episode its title.