# Marc Alaimo

Marc Alaimo is an American actor known for his villainous roles. He is best known for his role as recurring villain Gul Dukat in the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

## Early and personal life

Alaimo was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has a son from his first marriage, Michael Antony Alaimo, who is a writer, story editor and producer known for The Closer, Major Crimes, Invasion, Traveler, and for penning "Columbo Likes the Nightlife," the final episode of Columbo.

## Career

Alaimo is a classically trained theatre actor, and performed as part of the Marquette University Players and the Milwaukee Repertory Theater in the 1960s in everything from Shakespeare and the classics to world premiere productions. He was also a member of various theatre companies in New York and touring companies across the country before making the move to Los Angeles in 1973. Some of his theatrical roles include Iago in Othello, Rodolpho in Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge and Lucky in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
Alaimo has been playing characters in television shows since 1971. He has appeared, mostly as villains, in shows such as The Doctors, Kojak, Gunsmoke, Baretta, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Starsky & Hutch, Knight Rider, Quincy, The Greatest American Hero, The Incredible Hulk, Quantum Leap, Family Guy, Walker, Texas Ranger, Wonder Woman, The Rockford Files, Hill Street Blues, Barnaby Jones, and The A-Team. Alaimo has appeared in some feature films including the 1984 science fiction movie The Last Starfighter (portraying the human guise of an alien assassin), Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult, Tango & Cash, and the 1988 film The Dead Pool. He also appeared as Curtis Block in the television movie Case Closed and as a security officer on Mars in the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Total Recall.
He played several characters in Star Trek: The Next Generation (Star Trek: TNG), starting in the first season. He has the distinction of two firsts on Star Trek: TNG, playing the first Romulan, Commander Tebok, in the 1988 episode "The Neutral Zone", and the first Cardassian (in any Star Trek series), Gul Macet, in the 1991 episode, "The Wounded". He also played a poker player who speaks French to Data in the episode "Time's Arrow". In 1993, Alaimo began playing Cardassian character Gul Dukat in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Gul Dukat was a recurring character that appeared in 33 episodes of that series.
Alaimo also appeared in a season two episode of 21 Jump Street. He was also featured in the 2006 video game Call of Juarez, and its 2009 prequel Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, both times as the voice of the gunslinging Ray McCall. In 2010 he voiced The Dean in the Family Guy episode "The Splendid Source".
During a Q&A panel at the Star Trek Las Vegas Convention in 2015, Alaimo revealed he was still willing to work as an actor but was out of touch with the industry and had no agency representing him at that time. Fans and co-star Andrew Robinson who was on the panel with him and was at the time planning a return to acting himself expressed support for the actor and encouraged him to continue acting.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1974 | The Execution of Private Slovik | Soldier | TV movie; uncredited |
| 1975 | Cage Without a Key | Workman | TV movie |
| 1975 | A Matter of Wife... and Death | Angie | TV movie |
| 1976 | Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde | Preston, The Pusher | |
| 1977 | The 3,000 Mile Chase | Richards | TV movie |
| 1977 | Which Way Is Up? | Frankie | |
| 1978 | Mean Dog Blues | Transfer Guard | |
| 1979 | Hardcore | Ratan | |
| 1979 | A Great Ride | Barry | |
| 1979 | High Midnight | Gratzek | TV movie |
| 1980 | Seems Like Old Times | B.G. | |
| 1981 | The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire | Sandros | TV movie |
| 1981 | Broken Promise | Joe Clawson | TV movie |
| 1982 | The Ambush Murders | Garza | TV movie |
| 1984 | No Man's Land | Clay Allison | TV movie |
| 1984 | The Last Starfighter | Hitchhiker | |
| 1985 | Command 5 | Lear Businessman | TV movie |
| 1986 | Avenging Force | Charlie Lavall | |
| 1987 | Police Story: The Freeway Killings | Lou Morello | TV movie |
| 1987 | The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues | Private Bob Butler | |
| 1988 | Case Closed | Curtis Block | TV movie |
| 1988 | The Dead Pool | Embarcadero Bodyguard #2 | |
| 1989 | Arena | Rogor | |
| 1989 | Tango & Cash | Lopez | |
| 1990 | Total Recall | Captain Everett | |
| 1992 | Quicksand: No Escape | Lieutenant Harold Towers | TV movie |
| 1992 | Rosemary | Unknown | TV movie |
| 1992 | Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story | Sheriff Walton | TV movie |
| 1993 | Rio Diablo | Jud Everly | TV movie |
| 1993 | Donato and Daughter | Detective Petsky | TV movie |
| 1994 | Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult | Trucker | |
| 1994 | The Fence | Rudy Baralli | |
| 2020 | Grizzly II: Revenge | Luke | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1971 | You Are There | Militia Man / Pony Express Rider | Episode: "The Record Ride for the Pony Express" |
| 1971–1972 | The Doctors | Frank Barton | 51 episodes |
| 1972–1973 | Somerset | Virgil Paris | |
| 1974 | Apple's Way | Worthington | Episode: "The Witness" |
| 1974 | Toma | | Episode: "Indictment" |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files | Farber | Episode: "The Dark and Bloody Ground" |
| 1974 | Gunsmoke | Kane | Episode: "The Iron Men" |
| 1974 | Get Christie Love! | Lucas | Episode: "Bullet from the Grave" |
| 1975 | Barnaby Jones | Dr. Whitehall | Episode: "Counterfall" |
| 1975 | Matt Helm | Devlin | Episode: "Matt Helm" |
| 1975 | The Wide World of Mystery | Byron | Episode: "Mr. & Mrs. and the Bandstand Mystery" |
| 1976 | Joe Forrester | Hawk | Episode: "Squeeze Play" |
| 1976 | Helter Skelter | Phil Cohen | 2 episodes |
| 1976 | Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman | George Curtis | 2 episodes |
| 1974–1976 | Police Story | John Scalesi / Gillette / Barbarosa / Officer Baker | 5 episodes |
| 1975–1976 | The Blue Knight | Detective Akers / The Dutchman | 2 episodes |
| 1975–1976 | Baretta | Carew / Slit | 2 episodes |
| 1977 | Hunter | Lawson | Episode: "The Hit" |
| 1977 | The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | Masked Man | Episode: "Mystery of the Solid Gold Kicker" |
| 1977 | Kingston: Confidential | Honky Henderson | Episode: "The Rage at Hannibal" |
| 1977 | The Six Million Dollar Man | Williams | 2 episodes |
| 1977 | The Bionic Woman | Hopper | Episode: "African Connection" |
| 1978 | The American Girls | Charlie Kramer | Episode: "Firefly" |
| 1973–1978 | Kojak | Joe Greensteen / Artie | 2 episodes |
| 1975–1978 | Starsky and Hutch | Daimler / 'Skinny' Momo / Eddie Moore | 3 episodes |
| 1979 | Kaz | Ping Pong | Episode: "A Piece of Cake" |
| 1979 | Wonder Woman | Pierce | 2 episodes |
| 1979 | B.J. and the Bear | Randy / Hammer's Accomplice | 2 episodes |
| 1980 | Charlie's Angels | John Mackey | Episode: "One of Our Angels Is Missing" |
| 1980 | Quincy M.E. | Ed Burly | Episode: "Riot" |
| 1978–1980 | The Incredible Hulk | Joe Lo Franco / Captain Holt / Ernie | 3 episodes |
| 1978–1981 | CHiPs | Zager / Bix | 2 episodes |
| 1982 | McClain's Law | | Episode: "Takeover" |
| 1982 | The Greatest American Hero | Donnie Armus | Episode: "There's Just No Accounting..." |
| 1982 | The Phoenix | Preminger's Associate | Episode: "In Search of Mira" |
| 1982 | Knight Rider | Bill Gordon | Episode: "Slammin' Sammy's Stunt Show Spectacular" |
| 1983 | The Renegades | Manton | Episode: "The Big Time" |
| 1984 | The Master | Straker | Episode: "Failure to Communicate" |
| 1984 | Jessie | Fletch | Episode: "Flesh Wounds" |
| 1984 | Hardcastle and McCormick | Captain Jerold D. Medwick | Episode: "One of the Girls from Accounting" |
| 1984 | The New Mike Hammer | Claude Fawner | Episode: "Cold Target" |
| 1985 | Hunter | Officer Doug Kirkwood | Episode: "The Shooter" |
| 1985 | Street Hawk | Phillip Truman | Episode: "Female of the Species" |
| 1985 | Our Family Honor | Dom | 2 episodes |
| 1983–1986 | The Fall Guy | Bobby Lee / Max | 2 episodes |
| 1983–1986 | T. J. Hooker | Manny Jacobs / Ray Downing | 2 episodes |
| 1987 | Scarecrow and Mrs. King | Fritz Frommer | Episode: "Bad Timing" |
| 1987 | The A-Team | Angelo | Episode: "Without Reservations" |
| 1987 | Hill Street Blues | Gene Scapizzi | 8 episodes |
| 1987 | 21 Jump Street | Shields | Episode: "Fear and Loathing with Russell Buckins" |
| 1984–1988 | Cagney & Lacey | Det. Mahoney / Ernie Cade | 2 episodes |
| 1989 | Freddy's Nightmares | Woody Burton | Episode: "Bloodlines" |
| 1989 | Paradise | Sheriff Fry | Episode: "The Return of Johnny Ryan" |
| 1990 | Nasty Boys | Major Clemens | Episode: "Last Tango in Vegas" |
| 1990 | Quantum Leap | Police Captain Paul Brewster | Episode: "Black on White on Fire" |
| 1987–1992 | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Frederick LaRouque / Gul Macet / Cmdr. Tebok / Badar N'D'D | 4 episodes |
| 1996 | Diagnosis Murder | Mr. Smith | Episode: "Murder in the Dark" |
| 1995–1998 | Walker, Texas Ranger | Paul Kelton / Lamar | 2 episodes |
| 1993–1999 | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Gul Dukat / Officer Ryan | 35 episodes |
| 2010 | Family Guy | Dean of the Secret Order of Dirty Joke Writers | Episode: "The Splendid Source" |

### Video games

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1996 | Santa Fe Mysteries: The Elk Moon Murder | Chief Gus Weber | Credited as Mark Alaimo |
| 1997 | Santa Fe Mysteries: Sacred Ground | Chief Gus Weber | Credited as Mark Alaimo |
| 2001 | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Dominion Wars | Gul Dukat | |
| 2006 | Call of Juarez | Reverend Ray | |
| 2009 | Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood | Ray McCall | Uncredited |