American actor (1919–2002), a film noir tough guy later seen in Reservoir Dogs, who played the holodeck gangster Cyrus Redblock and Deep Space Nine's Regent of Palamar.
Lawrence Tierney was an American actor, born in 1919, who became a star of 1940s crime films with Dillinger and Born to Kill and found a new audience late in life as the crime boss Joe Cabot in Reservoir Dogs.
In Star Trek: The Next Generation he appears in the first-season episode The Big Goodbye, first shown in 1988. He plays Cyrus Redblock, the cultured gangster of the Dixon Hill holodeck programme who holds Picard and his companions at gunpoint when the safeguards fail.
He returned in 1997 for the fifth-season Deep Space Nine episode Business as Usual, as the Regent of Palamar, a ruler who wants weapons capable of killing millions from the arms dealers Quark has joined. Tierney died in 2002.