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Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock and William Shatner as Captain Kirk stand side by side holding phasers on the set of the original Star Trek television series. Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, and William Shatner in costume stand with writer Gene Roddenberry and director Robert Wise, who is seated and pointing beside a film camera on the Star Trek: The Motion Picture set. Vulcan hand salute Scene from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock showing the USS Enterprise and other saucer-shaped starships near a large space station above a planet with a moon in the background.
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(Left) Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock and William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk from the television series "Star Trek" (1966-69). (science fiction, Vulcans)
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Leonard Nimoy

American actor
Also known as: Leonard Simon Nimoy
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Leonard Nimoy (born March 26, 1931, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died February 27, 2015, Los Angeles, California) was an American actor known for his portrayal of the stoic, cerebral Mr. Spock in the science fiction television and film franchise Star Trek. Nimoy, the second son of Jewish immigrants from Izyaslav, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine), grew up in a tenement in Boston’s West End neighbourhood. As a child, he began acting in community theatre productions. Nimoy briefly...

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