American film and television actor (1917–2002), star of The Thing from Another World, who played the elderly Rurigan in the Deep Space Nine episode Shadowplay.
Kenneth Tobey was an American actor best known as the lead of the 1951 science-fiction film The Thing from Another World and of other creature features of that decade, later turning up in affectionate cameos in films by Joe Dante.
In the Deep Space Nine episode Shadowplay he plays Rurigan, the oldest resident of a Yaderan village and grandfather of the young girl Taya.
Rurigan proves to be the only real person there: he recreated his lost home as a holographic community after the Dominion took over his world. Odo persuades him that the villagers he has lived among for thirty years are worth restoring.