Ian Patrick Williams (born 23 April 1939; age 86) is the actor who portrayed Fitzgerald in the Star Trek: Voyager sixth season episode "Spirit Folk".
Williams has appeared in television series and feature films since the early '80s. Among his first on-screen roles are episodes of Archie Bunker's Place (1982, with Steve Susskind), E/R (1984, with Jason Alexander and Pamela Segall), Hill Street Blues (1986, with Barbara Bosson), Hooperman (1987, with Phil Chong and Chip Heller), and Freddy's Nightmares (1988, starring Robert Englund, with William Frankfather). He also portrayed supporting and leading characters in Re-Animator (1985, starring Jeffrey Combs), TerrorVision (1986, with Gerrit Graham, Chad Allen and Bert Remsen), Dolls (1987, with Stephen Lee), and Blueberry Hill (1988, with Dendrie Taylor).
In the '90s he continued his television career and made guest appearances in television series such as Alien Nation (1990, starring Eric Pierpoint, Gary Graham, Michele Scarabelli and Ron Fassler, with Angela Bassett), Major Dad (1991), Designing Women (1991), Matlock (1992, with Robert Curtis Brown, David Froman, James W. Jansen and Leon Russom), Batman: The Animated Series (1992, co-starring the voice of George Murdock), Silk Stalkings (1993, with Tracy Scoggins and Victor Bevine), Seinfeld (1995, starring Jason Alexander and with Richard Herd, Thomas Dekker, Brian McNamara and Tom Wright), Diagnosis: Murder (1996, with Ronny Cox and Michael Reilly Burke), Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1996, starring Teri Hatcher and K Callan, with Keene Curtis, Pancho Demmings and Harve Presnell), NYPD Blue (1997, starring Gordon Clapp), and Batman Beyond (1999, alongside Sherman Howard). In addition, he joined the cast of Robot Jox (1990, with Gary Graham and Jeffrey Combs), Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story (1991, with Jeff Austin and Dierk Torsek), the television bio drama Roseanne: An Unauthorized Biography (1994, with David Graf, Joycelyn O'Brien and J. Patrick McCormack), and the drama Born Bad (1999, with Larry Cedar and Marnie McPhail).
Williams later appeared in American Tragedy (2000, with Clyde Kusatsu, Christopher Plummer, Richard Cox, Francis Guinan, Jeff Kober and Chase Hoyt), Whoopi Goldberg’s Strong Medicine (2001, starring Jenifer Lewis) Frasier (2002, starring Kelsey Grammer and with Christopher Shea), King of the Ants (2003, with Joe Davis), J.J. Abrams' Alias (2005, with Rachel Nichols), Medium (2005, starring Jake Weber, directed by Robert Duncan McNeill), and in several roles in Days of Our Lives (2000-06). Williams was also in ER, with Christopher McDonald, Brent Spiner, Michael Papajohn and Amanda Carlin. He later appeared in Polar Opposites (2008), The Last Resort (2008), and the comedy Touch Wood (2008).