Abdicated

Malachi Throne, one of the last surviving special guest villains from Batman, has died at the age of 84. As False Face, Throne was almost unrecognizable behind a semitransparent mask when he wasn’t wearing other disguises to pull off his criminal engagements. Throne also had a unique tie to another iconic 1960s series, as he played the voice of The Keeper in the unaired Star Trek pilot, The Cage, then also playing a commodore when some of the pilot’s footage was used in a later episode The Menagerie. His appearance in Star Trek at all was ironic, as he had originally turned down Gene Roddenberry’s offer of the role of Bones McCoy. Other roles included Robert Wagner’s Boss on It Takes a Thief, the voice of the Star Wars trailer, the Israeli Foreign Minister on The West Wing, who gets blown up as retribution for the Bartlett Administration assassinating Qumari Foreign Minister Abdul Shareef.