Leon Russom Leon Russom is the Emmy Award - nominated actor from Little Rock , Arkansas who portrayed the Commander in Chief , named , in . Four years later , he appeared as Vice Admiral Toddman in the episode . Russom ' s first television work was on the soap opera " Guiding Light " in 1969 and went on to become a regular on the soap opera " Love is a Many Splendored Thing " ( 1972 – 1973 ) . Other early TV work included appearances on ( in an episode with Lawrence Montaigne ) and " Get Christie Love ! " ( with Marc Alaimo ) . In addition , he appeared in the 1972 film " The Trial of the Catonsville Nine " with William Schallert and the 1974 TV movie " The Migrants " co - starring David Clennon and Ed Lauter . He became a regular on the soap opera " Another World " , playing Willis Frame , from 1976 through 1980 . Leon starred in the 1990 TV movie " Project : Tin Men " with Beau Billingslea and Joseph Culp . In 1986 , Russom appeared on " Spenser : For Hire " , starring a pre - DS9 Avery Brooks . During the 1988 - 89 season , Russom was a regular on the series " TV 101 " . His film credits during this time included supporting roles in 1985 ' s " Silver Bullet " ( in which he co - starred with Terry O ' Quinn , Bill Smitrovich , and Lawrence Tierney ) and 1988 ' s " The Rescue " ( starring Edward Laurence Albert and James Cromwell ) and " Fresh Horses " ( with Molly Hagan ) . During the 1990s , he made appearances in such films as " The Adventures of Huck Finn " ( 1993 , with Ron Perlman ) , " Double Dragon " ( 1994 , with Michael Berryman , Andy Dick , and Julia Nickson ) , " Reasons of the Heart " ( 1996 , co - starring Terry Farrell ) , " The Phantom " ( 1996 , with Samantha Eggar , Cary - Hiroyuki Tagawa and Bill Smitrovich ) , and " The Big Lebowski " ( 1998 , with Jack Kehler and David Huddleston ) . More recent film credits include " Men of Honor " ( 2000 ) and " Behind Enemy Lines " ( 2001 ) . Russom earned an Emmy Award nomination as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for his role in the 1991 TV movie " Long Road Home " ( also featuring Jack Shearer ) . He has starred in numerous other TV movies , including 1992 ' s " Crash Landing " with Bruce McGill , 1993 ' s " The Disappearance of Nora " with Stephen Collins and Stan Ivar , 1994 ' s " Midnight Runaround " with Christopher McDonald , John Fleck , Dick Miller , and Tim de Zarn , the 1995 " Alien Nation " special " Body and Soul " , starring Gary Graham , Eric Pierpoint , Michele Scarabelli , Tiny Ron , and Glenn Morshower , 1997 ' s " Childhood Sweetheart ? " , co - starring Barbara Babcock , Michael Reilly Burke , Ronny Cox , Stephanie Erb , Ed Lauter , and Warren Munson , and 1999 ' s " Witness Protection " , with William Sadler , Jim Metzler , Daniel Zacapa , and Shannon Cochran . As for his guest appearances on episodic television , Russom played Detective in the of " " in 1993 ( which co - starred Cliff DeYoung ) and reprised that role in the 2000 episode " " ( with Brian Thompson ) . His also had guest spots such shows as " Matlock " ( a two - parter with Robert Curtis - Brown ) , " L . A . Law " ( starring Corbin Bernsen and Larry Drake ) , " Seinfeld " ( with Jason Alexander and Richard Herd ) , " NYPD Blue " ( with Gordon Clapp , Sharon Lawrence , Jack Kehler , Glenn Morshower , and Titus Welliver ) , " Dark Skies " ( with Mary Kay Adams and Brad Blaisdell ) , " The Magnificent Seven " ( working with Andrew Kavovit and Ron Perlman ) , " Diagnosis Murder " ( with Joanna Cassidy , Ann Gillespie , Scarlett Pomers , and Richard Riehle ) , " The Practice " ( two episodes , one featuring Bill Cobbs and another co - starring Gregory Itzin , Caroline Kava and George D . Wallace ) , " The West Wing " ( with Thomas Kopache ) , " NCIS " ( with Tim Kelleher and Barbara Tarbuck ) , J . J . Abrams ' " Alias " ( with Art Chudabala ) , " Smith " ( starring Virginia Madsen ) , and " Cold Case " ( with William Lucking , Conor O ' Farrell , and Nicolas Coster ) . More recently , Russom appeared in an episode of " Boston Legal " , the hit ABC series starring William Shatner and Rene Auberjonois . In addition , Russom had a recurring role as the evil General Jonathan Krantz ( " Notepad Man " ) , head of " the Company " on the hit FOX show " Prison Break " . His co - stars included Robert Knepper , Wade Andrew Williams , Reggie Lee , and Raphael Sbarge .