Born on this day in 1946 in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England, Scarfe was the child of two university professors. In fact, his father Neville was the Founding Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia.
Scarfe studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, graduation in 1966 (only a few months before the premiere of a certain science fiction franchise.) Upon graduation, he began his career on the stage.
If it is true that actors with a backgroun in stage performance have an advantage when auditioning for Star Trek, then Alan Scarfe is a prime example. He has been seen in over 100 major roles across Europe and in Canada and the United States, including King Lear, Othello, Iago, Hamlet, Brutus, Cassiusm Cyrano de Bergerac, Doctor Faustus, and Uncle Vanya. He is also an excellent director, taking on some of the greatest playwrights in history: Shakespeare, Albee, Beckett, Arthur Miller and Harold Pinter, to name a few.he has performed many times at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, Canada and was the Associate Director there for from 1976-1977, and also at the Shaw Festival, on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.
Scarfe has been seen in a select number of television shows, including the time travel series Seven Days and the 2004 TV film Burn: The Robert Wraight Story, in which he co-starred with his son Jonathan. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, he played Romulan Admiral Mendak in “Data’s Day.” The duplicitous Mandak feigned willingness to begin Federation-Romulan negotiations, but it was all just a ploy to extract the spy Sub-Commander Selok, who had been living as the Vulcan T’Pel for years, collecting Federation secrets. Scarfe wasn’t finished playing Romulans; in “Birthright, Part II” he portrayed Tokath, a former Romulan commander who was in command of a concentration camp full of Klingons who had been captured during the Khitmer massacre.
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