British actor (1905–1981) who played Marplon, the secret rebel among the Lawgivers, in the first-season Original Series episode The Return of the Archons.
Torin Thatcher was a British actor, born in India in 1905, whose commanding presence made him a favourite screen villain. His films include Great Expectations (1946), The Robe (1953) and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), in which he played the sorcerer Sokurah.
In The Return of the Archons he played Marplon, a member of the underground on Beta III who works inside the Hall of Audiences as one of Landru's technicians. Marplon spares Kirk and Spock from being absorbed into the Body, returns their phasers and leads them to the chamber where Landru is revealed as a computer.
Thatcher died in 1981.