American actor and director (1919–2002) who directed the first-season episode Charlie X and returned to Star Trek decades later to play the Klingon ambassador Kell in The Next Generation.
Lawrence Dobkin was an American character actor, radio performer and director. For the original Star Trek he directed Charlie X, the early first-season episode written by D.C. Fontana from a Gene Roddenberry story, in which the adolescent Charles Evans brings dangerous mental powers aboard the Enterprise.
A quarter of a century later he appeared in front of the camera in The Next Generation, playing Ambassador Kell in the fourth-season episode The Mind's Eye. Kell is the Klingon emissary who is secretly working with the Romulans and who is meant to give the brainwashed Geordi La Forge his orders.
Dobkin's long career also took in many television directing assignments and a great deal of voice and narration work.