American actor (1920–2005) who played Akuta, leader of the Feeders of Vaal, in the second-season Original Series episode The Apple.
Keith Andes was an American actor and singer, born in 1920, who appeared in the film Clash by Night (1952), starred in Broadway musicals and later voiced the title hero of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Birdman and the Galaxy Trio.
In The Apple he played Akuta, the eyes and ears of Vaal, who wears small antennae through which the machine speaks to him. Akuta welcomes the Enterprise landing party to Gamma Trianguli VI, then at Vaal's command teaches his people how to kill. When Kirk destroys Vaal, Akuta is left to lead the villagers into an unprotected, ordinary life.
Andes died in 2005.