Leonard Nimoy: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Leonard Simon Nimoy
Born	March 26, 1931 • Boston • Massachusetts
Died	February 27, 2015 (aged 83) • Los Angeles • California
Notable Works	“Star Trek III: The Search for Spock” • “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” • “Three Men and a Baby”

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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.

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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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George Takei as Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek, wearing a gold Starfleet uniform and looking intently ahead, with a blurred red and gray background.

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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.

William Shatner

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Spike Jonze

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Diane Keaton smiling at an event in 2007, wearing glasses, a white collared shirt, and a layered black beaded necklace.

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Woody Allen speaking into a microphone with hands raised beside his face during a press conference, against a red background.

Woody Allen

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Martin Scorsese smiling in a tuxedo and bow tie, holding an Oscar statuette at the Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background.

Martin Scorsese

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Clint Eastwood wearing a light suit and olive shirt with tie, standing outdoors at the Cannes Film Festival.

Clint Eastwood

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Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci

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Sydney Pollack

Sydney Pollack

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Rob Reiner smiling at an event, wearing a dark jacket, pale pink shirt, and burgundy tie, with a yellow and black background behind him.

Rob Reiner

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Steve Buscemi wearing a black suit and tie, posing in front of a blue patterned background.

Steve Buscemi

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Mel Brooks in a tuxedo smiles widely and points at his Emmy Award trophy while posing in front of a blue Emmy Awards backdrop.

Mel Brooks

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Henry Winkler

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Barbara Kopple

Barbara Kopple

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Robert Redford as Bill McKay stands at a microphone in a suit and striped tie, with a large campaign poster of himself in the background, in the film The Candidate.

Robert Redford

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Ben Affleck wearing a dark suit, blue shirt, and navy tie, posing for a photo at the premiere of the film AIR with a blurred event backdrop behind him.

Ben Affleck

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Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich

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Matthew Broderick wearing glasses, a dark suit, white shirt, and striped tie, smiling at the camera in a formal portrait taken in 2017.

Matthew Broderick

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Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington

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Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady.

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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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USA 2006 - 78th Annual Academy Awards. Closeup of giant Oscar statue at the entrance of the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, film movie hollywood

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