Career
He is best known for his role as recurring villain Gul Dukat in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Alaimo has been playing characters in television shows since 1972. He has appeared, mostly as villains, in shows such as Kojak, Gunsmoke, Baretta, The Bionic Woman, Starsky and Hutch, Knight Rider, Quincy, The Greatest American Hero, The Incredible Hulk, Quantum Leap, Family Guy, Walker, Texas Ranger, and Hill Street Blues.
He also appeared as Curtis Block in the television movie Case Closed and as a security officer on Mars in the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Total Recall.
He played several characters in Star Trek: The Next Generation, starting in the first season, including the first Romulan on the series, Commander Tebok, and the first Cardassian, Gul Macet, in the 1991 episode, "The Wounded," of that series. He also played a poker player who speaks French to Data in the episode "Time"s Arrow".
In 1993, Alaimo began playing Gul Dukat in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Gul Dukat was a recurring character, who appeared in 37 episodes of that series, and is his best-known character.
He also appeared in a Season Two episode of 21 Jump Street.
Alaimo also featured in the 2006 video game Call of Juarez, and its 2009 prequel Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, both times as the voice of the gunslinging Ray McCall. In 2010 he voiced The Dean in the Family Guy episode "The Splendid Source".
