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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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Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady.
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Leonard Nimoy: References & Edit History

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  • Richard Pallardy
    Richard Pallardy received a B.A. in English from Illinois State University in 2005. He was a research editor with Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. from 2008 to 2016 and worked on Britannica Blog from 2010 to 2014. Peripatetic by nature, he can normally be found wandering the streets, or darting through the stacks of the Chicago Public Library in search of obscure shreds of information.

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: Television Academy Foundation - The Interviews - Leonard Nimoy. Sep 18, 2026
Anniversary information added. Mar 22, 2026
Anniversary information added. Feb 23, 2026
Add new Web site: Reform Judaism - A Conversation with Leonard Nimoy: The Vulcan Talks Judaism. Nov 25, 2025
Add new Web site: CBS News - ​Passage: Leonard Nimoy. Sep 06, 2025
Add new Web site: CNN US - Leonard Nimoy Fast Facts. Jul 22, 2025
Add new Web site: Television Academy Foundation - The Interviews - Leonard Nimoy. Feb 04, 2025
First paragraph modernization. May 06, 2024
Add new Web site: BBC News - Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek's Mr Spock, dies at 83. Dec 04, 2023
Add new Web site: NPR - Not My Job: Leonard Nimoy. Aug 14, 2023
Media added. Jan 16, 2019
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Leonard Nimoy. Aug 02, 2018
Corrected display issues. May 30, 2018
Add new Web site: The New York Times - Leonard Nimoy, Spock of �Star Trek,� Dies at 83. Jan 19, 2017
Media added. Mar 16, 2016
He died on February 27, 2015. Feb 27, 2015
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Leonard Nimoy. Jun 08, 2014
Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Biography of Leonard Nimoy. Jun 08, 2014
Add new Web site: AllMusic - Leonard Nimoy. Jun 08, 2014
Add new Web site: Matinee Classics - Biography of Leonard Nimoy. Jun 08, 2014
Added photograph. Oct 23, 2012
New article added. Mar 14, 2012
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