American actor (1930–1990) who played Jojo Krako, the rival gang boss, in the second-season Original Series episode A Piece of the Action.
Vic Tayback was an American actor, born in 1930, best known as the diner owner Mel Sharples, a part he created in the film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) and played for nine seasons in the television series Alice.
In A Piece of the Action he played Jojo Krako, boss of the south side territory on Sigma Iotia II and chief competitor of Bela Oxmyx. Krako kidnaps Kirk and offers him a share in return for Federation weapons, and is later beamed up to the Enterprise and held there until he agrees to join Kirk's planet-wide syndicate as Oxmyx's lieutenant.
Tayback died in 1990.