Robert Whitney (13 July 1912–10 April 2007; age 94) was an actor who played an SA party official in the Star Trek: The Original Series second season episode "Patterns of Force". As a background performer, he was not credited for his role.
Whitney made over ninety film and television appearances – mostly as a background townsman, spectator, patron, or officer – from the mid-1940s through the mid-1970s. Most of his appearances He made his most appearances, in any single television series, on Here's Lucy, Bonanza, The Virginian, Get Smart (with Gilbert Green and Sheila Leighton), Batman (with Frank Gorshin, Gil Perkins, and Al Cavens), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (with Ricardo Montalban, Tom Curtis, and Roger C. Carmel), The Untouchables (with Robert Stack), Peter Gunn, and Bourbon Street Beat.