Towering American actor (1932–1979), famous as Lurch in The Addams Family, who played the android Ruk and supplied the voices of the Gorn captain and the Balok puppet.
Ted Cassidy was an American actor, born in 1932, whose great height and deep voice made him famous as the butler Lurch in the 1960s series The Addams Family.
He contributed to three first-season episodes of the original Star Trek. On screen he plays Ruk, the ancient android left behind by the Old Ones on Exo III, in What Are Little Girls Made Of? He is also heard as the menacing voice of the false Balok puppet in The Corbomite Maneuver and as the voice of the Gorn captain who fights Kirk in Arena.
Cassidy worked for Gene Roddenberry again in the pilot films Genesis II and Planet Earth, and was a busy voice actor in animation. He died in 1979.