Towering American actor and former basketball player, also credited as Ron Taylor, who played Maihar'du, the silent Hupyrian servant of Grand Nagus Zek, throughout Deep Space Nine.
Tiny Ron, the professional name of Ron Taylor, is an American actor who played basketball professionally before turning to film and television. Standing around seven feet tall, he was cast in physically imposing parts in films such as The Rocketeer, where he played the Rondo Hatton-like henchman Lothar, and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
In Deep Space Nine he played Maihar'du, the Hupyrian attendant who never speaks to anyone but his master, Grand Nagus Zek. He first appears in The Nagus and returns with Wallace Shawn's Zek in nearly all of the Nagus's later visits, among them Rules of Acquisition, Prophet Motive, Ferengi Love Songs, Profit and Lace and The Dogs of War.
He also appeared in Voyager as a Hirogen hunter in the fourth-season episodes Hunters and Prey.