Larry Polson (1 January 1937 – 26 January 2012; age 75) was an actor who worked on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: First Contact.
On Voyager, he worked as photo double for actor Basil Langton on the first season episode "Caretaker". He filmed his scenes on 2nd unit on Friday 11 November 1994 on Paramount Stage 11 and is listed as Larry Polsom – "P.D. Banjo Man" on the call sheet.
Polson also appeared in episodes of Jake and the Fatman, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Tales from the Crypt, Paradise, Gabriel's Fire, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, ER (1994, starring Eriq La Salle, with Christine Harnos, Brigid Brannagh, Lily Mariye, Ilona Wilson, Melissa Vinicor, Catherine Wong, and Brennan Dyson), JAG, Spy Game, Murder, She Wrote, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Too Real World, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Seinfeld (1996, with Jason Alexander, Richard Herd, Brenda Strong, Patrick Kerr, and Harvey Jason).
Among his film work are Eye for an Eye (1996, with Armin Shimerman, Natalia Nogulich, Nicholas Cascone, Wayne Péré, Sierra Pecheur, Angela Paton, Michael Buchman Silver, Robert Clendenin, Janet Dey, Jack Janda, and David R. Maier), Spawn (1997, with Melinda Clarke, Michael Papajohn, Frank Welker, John Cothran, Jr., Caroline Gibson, Jay Caputo, Al Goto, James Lew, and Simon Rhee), The Opposite of Sex (1997, with Pancho Demmings and Leslie Bevis), Nothing to Lose (1997, with Michael McKean, Randy Oglesby, and J.J. Boone), Blade (1998, with Wesley Snipes, Judson Scott, Sidney Liufau, Andray Johnson, Al Goto, Jeff Imada, Diana Lee Inosanto, Simon Rhee, and Henry Kingi, Sr.), Finding Graceland (1998), The Fantasticks (2000, with Joel Grey and Charles Hallahan), Bedazzled (2000, with Aaron Lustig, Rudolf Martin, Baron Jay, and Scott Trimble), and One Night at McCool's (2001, with Ric Sarabia, Tim de Zarn, and Rad Milo).
Polson died on 26 January 2012. (SAG-AFTRA Magazine Summer 2012, p. 59)