William Morgan Sheppard, a British actor born on August 24, 1932 and who died on January 6, 2019, lent his voice to the Heavy Gun Trooper and the Ruulian Strip Miner in Star Wars: Force Commander. In the LucasArts game from 2000, Escape from Monkey Island, he also voiced the character Ignatius Cheese.
In the sixth series of the revived Doctor Who, specifically the episode The Impossible Astronaut, he made an appearance in 2011. He is among the actors who have acted in both Star Trek and Star Wars, portraying Ira Graves in Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Klingon Commandant in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Qatai in Star Trek: Voyager, and the Vulcan science minister in the 2009 movie Star Trek.
At the age of 86, Sheppard died in Los Angeles, California on January 6, 2019.