Felix Locher was an inventor who held over 100 copyrights and patents relating to a unique mapping system that he used when lecturing to insurance salesmen.

Locher started acting late in life: when he began his career in 1955 (performing in an unsold TV show which became the 1957 film Hell Ship Mutiny) he was 73 years old.

The father of actor Jon Hall (born Charles Felix Locher), he visited his son on the set when he was discovered by director Elmo Williams who convinced him to play the part of an elderly Tahitian Chief.

[1] He also appeared in Star Trek, The Outlaw (1966), The Munsters – Season 2, Episode 18 Heap Big Herman (1966),Gunsmoke (1968) The Man from U.N.C.L.E., House of the Damned (1963), Mission: Impossible (1967) with Joseph Campanella, The Twilight Zone: The Silence (TV),[2] Thunder in the Sun,[3] and Curse of the Faceless Man (1958).

[4] He is considered the oldest Star Trek actor of all time by birth year (the second-oldest is Leonard Mudie, born 1883).