American actor (1915–1993) who played Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Finney, the records officer who fakes his own death, in the Original Series episode Court Martial.
Richard Webb was an American actor, born in 1915, who appeared in films such as Out of the Past (1947) and Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and was the star of the 1950s children's adventure series Captain Midnight.
In Court Martial he played Ben Finney, an instructor at the Academy when Kirk was a midshipman and later his embittered subordinate. Blaming Kirk for a reprimand that stalled his career, Finney alters the Enterprise computer log to show the captain jettisoning the ion pod with him inside, then hides in engineering. Kirk finds him by the sound of his heartbeat and overpowers him.
Webb later wrote several books. He died in 1993.