American actor, born in 1941, who played the Starfleet Commander in Chief in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and Vice Admiral Toddman in Deep Space Nine.
Leon Russom is an American actor with a long record in daytime drama, television and film, including The Big Lebowski and Prison Break.
In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) he played the Commander in Chief of Starfleet, addressed as Bill, who chairs the classified briefing on the Praxis disaster and assigns Kirk to escort Chancellor Gorkon. He is later seen with the Federation President when a plan to rescue Kirk and McCoy by force is put forward and rejected.
Russom returned in the Deep Space Nine episode The Die Is Cast as Vice Admiral Toddman, who forbids Sisko to take the Defiant into the Gamma Quadrant after Odo and Garak.