Today we pour one out for the legendary Leonard Nimoy, the Boston-born actor and performer who is most known for his role as Spock in the Star Trek film and television series. He was 83.
Here’s official word from the New York Times:
Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie juggernaut “Star Trek,” died on Friday morning at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles. He was 83.
His wife, Susan Bay Nimoy, confirmed his death, saying the cause was end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Mr. Nimoy announced last year that he had the disease, which he attributed to years of smoking, a habit he had given up three decades earlier. He had been hospitalized earlier in the week.
His artistic pursuits — poetry, photography and music in addition to acting — ranged far beyond the United Federation of Planets, but it was as Mr. Spock that Mr. Nimoy became a folk hero, bringing to life one of the most indelible characters of the last half century: a cerebral, unflappable, pointy-eared Vulcan with a signature salute and blessing: “Live long and prosper” (from the Vulcan “Dif-tor heh smusma”).
Read the Times’ full obituary here.
And as we separate out fingers and cut our bangs straight across, mod-style, listen to Nimoy’s “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins” and “Cotton Candy,” both pulled from his 1968 album The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy.
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