American actor (born 1941) who played Admiral Leyton, the Starfleet officer who attempts a coup on Earth in Deep Space Nine, and the Vulcan administrator V'Las in Enterprise.
Robert Foxworth is an American stage and screen actor, known on television for Falcon Crest and Six Feet Under.
In the Deep Space Nine two-part story Homefront and Paradise Lost he plays Admiral Leyton, Sisko's former commanding officer and head of Starfleet Operations, who exploits the fear of changeling infiltration to place Earth under martial law before Sisko exposes him.
He returned to the franchise in 2004 as V'Las, head of the Vulcan High Command, in the Enterprise trilogy The Forge, Awakening and Kir'Shara, where he schemes to start a war with Andoria.