US actor Leonard Nimoy, who played Mr Spock in the sci-fi series Star Trek, has died at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, of end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on Friday morning. A caution to smokers: Nimoy last year revealed he was suffering chronic lung disease COPD, despite stopping smoking 30 years ago. Nimoy was taken to hospital on 19 February after suffering from chest pains.
As a kid, Sunday mornings were special to watch the reruns of the original Star Trek when it appeared on Doordarshan. I remember the taunts - the most often repated was, 'what poppycock is this, with a small cigarette pack like box, he can talk to anywhere in the world and to his spaceship too?'
A measure of his popularity and of the Star Trek and how it inspired many was on display with a message from NASA crediting Nimoy and Star Trek as an inspiration.
Leonard Simon Nimoy
March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015
Biography
1931 Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Jewish immigrants Dora (Spinner) and Max Nimoy
1951 Bit-part Hollywood debut in Queen for a Day
1954 Marries Sandra Zober. Two children, Julie and and Adam, follow.
1966 Cast as Spock in Star Trek, which turns Nimoy into a star
1969 Joins cast of Mission: Impossible and plays The Great Paris for two years
1979 Reprises role as Spock in the first big-screen version of Star Trek
1987 Directs the hugely successful comedy Three Men and a Baby
1989 Stars in Star Trek V and then Star Trek VI in 1991
2009 Comes out of retirement to play Spock in new Star Trek films directed by JJ Abrams
2014 Reveals diagnosis with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a progressive lung condition
2015 Passes away in Los Angeles
(Space Shuttle image courtesy NASA; inset image courtesy unknown)
As a kid, Sunday mornings were special to watch the reruns of the original Star Trek when it appeared on Doordarshan. I remember the taunts - the most often repated was, 'what poppycock is this, with a small cigarette pack like box, he can talk to anywhere in the world and to his spaceship too?'
A measure of his popularity and of the Star Trek and how it inspired many was on display with a message from NASA crediting Nimoy and Star Trek as an inspiration.
Leonard Simon Nimoy
March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015
Biography
1931 Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Jewish immigrants Dora (Spinner) and Max Nimoy
1951 Bit-part Hollywood debut in Queen for a Day
1954 Marries Sandra Zober. Two children, Julie and and Adam, follow.
1966 Cast as Spock in Star Trek, which turns Nimoy into a star
1969 Joins cast of Mission: Impossible and plays The Great Paris for two years
1979 Reprises role as Spock in the first big-screen version of Star Trek
1987 Directs the hugely successful comedy Three Men and a Baby
1989 Stars in Star Trek V and then Star Trek VI in 1991
2009 Comes out of retirement to play Spock in new Star Trek films directed by JJ Abrams
2014 Reveals diagnosis with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a progressive lung condition
2015 Passes away in Los Angeles
(Space Shuttle image courtesy NASA; inset image courtesy unknown)
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