American character actor who played the holographic arms salesman known as the Peddler in the first-season Next Generation episode The Arsenal of Freedom.
Vincent Schiavelli (1948 to 2005) was an American character actor recognised for his distinctive features and for supporting roles in films such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, Ghost and Batman Returns.
In the first-season Next Generation episode The Arsenal of Freedom he plays the Peddler, a recorded holographic salesman for the arms merchants of Minos. The image cheerfully advertises the Echo Papa 607 weapon system, unaware that the product has long since wiped out its makers.
Picard finally ends the demonstration that is hunting the away team by telling the salesman he will buy the system, one of the lighter moments in the episode.