Robert Hitchcock (30 December 1925 – 9 October 1997; age 71) was an actor who appeared as a civilian engineer in the Star Trek: The Original Series first season episode "The Devil in the Dark". He received no credit for his appearance.
The son of a dental surgeon, Hitchcock grew up in Maryland, but eventually ended up in Hollywood and found employment as a background performer in films and television, starting in the mid-1960s. His prematurely white hair made him look ideal for roles like "Cop #1", "Businessman" or "Courtroom spectator". He worked steadily for two decades, appearing in over a hundred (mostly uncredited) parts.
His credits include television series like Batman (with Julie Newmar), The Invaders (starring Roy Thinnes, with Antoinette Bower, Jason Evers, Byron Morrow, Hal Baylor, Ed Long, Arthur Tovey, Shep Houghton, Monty O'Grady, and Mark Russell), I Dream of Jeannie (with Vince Howard and Mark Russell), Bewitched (with Jay Robinson, Bill Quinn, and Byron Morrow), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (with Elisha Cook, Rex Holman, Alfred Ryder, David Armstrong, Peter Mark Richman, and David Hurst, directed by Joseph Sargent), The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy (both starring Lucille Ball), Mannix, Mission: Impossible (with Leonard Nimoy), Hogan's Heroes, Kojak, Columbo, Starsky & Hutch (starring David Soul, featuring Samantha Eggar, Joan Collins, Ed Begley, Jr., Charles Picerni, and Tony Dante), Charlie's Angels (starring Kate Jackson, with William O'Connell, Frank Gorshin, Meg Wyllie, Rudy Solari, Lou Elias, Dave Armstrong, Tony Dante, Al Roberts, Robert Strong, and Monty O'Grady), Battlestar Galactica (with George Murdock), The Rockford Files, Cheers (1983, episodes "Power Play", "Little Sister, Don't Cha", and "Homicidal Ham" with Marvin Smith, Joel Schultz, Gerald David Bauman, Paul Willson, Gayle Frank, Derek McGrath, and Gene Cross), Murder, She Wrote (with William Windom), Dynasty (starring Joan Collins), and The Colbys (1987, with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ricardo Montalban, Nana Visitor, Kavi Raz, Bruce Gray, Bob Davis, Devron Conrad, Tim McCormack, Faith Burton, and Buzz Barbee).
His movie credits include Torn Curtain (1966, with David Opatoshu, Walter Bacon, and Dick Cherney), Elvis Presley's Double Trouble (1967, with Stanley Adams) and Live a Little, Love a Little (with Celeste Yarnall, Emily Banks, and Morgan Jones), Topaz (1969, with David Armstrong, Richard Derr, Dick Cherney, Lawrence Montaigne, and Robert Strong), Hello, Dolly! (1969, with David Hurst, Billy Curtis, Morgan Farley, Carey Foster, Shep Houghton, Arthur Tovey, and Hubie Kerns, Sr.), Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1973, with Ricardo Montalban, William Windom, James B. Sikking, Shep Houghton, Janos Prohaska, Karl Bruck, and Walker Edmiston), Westworld (1973, with Majel Barrett, Alan Oppenheimer, Charles Seel, Paul Sorensen, Lou Elias, Charles Picerni, and Bill Catching), Blazing Saddles (1974, with David Huddleston, Dave Armstrong, Bill Catching, Dick Cherney, Hal Needham, Monty O'Grady, Jack Perkins, Al Roberts, George Sawaya, David Sharpe, and Bill Zuckert), The Towering Inferno (1974, with Elizabeth Rogers, Paul Comi, Steve Marlo, Sandra Gimpel, Dave Armstrong, and Robert Strong), Meteor (1979, with Brian Keith, Joseph Campanella, Michael Zaslow, Bibi Besch, Clyde Kusatsu, Tony Rocco, and Bill Couch, Sr.), and Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987, with Michael McKean, Richard Herd, Bill Erwin, and William Windom).
He retired from the film industry in the late-1980s, and moved to Las Vegas, where he died in 1997.