Leon Russom

Leon Russom, an American actor, has worked mostly in television, especially soap operas, as well as film and stage. He was part of the original company of the 1969 Off-Broadway production Oh! Calcutta!, then moved to television on the CBS soap Guiding Light in the late 1960s. He played Joe Taylor on Love is a Many Splendored Thing from 1972 to 1973 and was the second actor to take the role of Willis Frame on NBC's Another World. Early films included The Trial of the Catonsville Nine and Silver Bullet (1985). In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), he was the Starfleet Commander-in-Chief, and he played Admiral Toddman on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Later credits include The Big Lebowski (1998), True Grit (2010), Prison Break as General Jonathan Krantz, and A Quiet Place (2018). In 2012, he received a nomination for an LA Weekly Theater Award for his performance as Hamm in Endgame.