Star Trek alum and multi-talented actor Basil Langton passed away last Thursday in Santa Monica, California. He was 91.

Langton is known to Trek fans as the mysterious Caretaker in Star Trek: Voyager's premiere episode.

Langton was born in Bristol, England on January 9, 1912. He was educated in Canada and returned to England in his twenties. Langton studied acting and dancing and joined the Shakespeare Festival Company at the Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, in 1935. He appeared extensively onstage throughout the '30s.

In the '40s, he founded the Traveling Repertory Theatre (TRT), which toured and performed plays for towns, munitions factories and army camps in Britain during World War II. In 1947, Langton moved to the United States, where he appeared on Broadway in productions of "The Affair" and "Camelot" and taught at such schools as Sarah Lawrence and UCLA. In 1951, he produced the first George Bernard Shaw festival in America and was co-founder of the Empire State Music Festival. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1959 to research Shaw. In addition to his acting talents, Langton was a gifted photographer and many of his portraits of artists have been exhibited in Los Angeles and New York.

The role of the Caretaker was his last, according to the Telegraph. Langton is survived by a daughter from his first marriage and by companion Judith Searle.

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