RIP Leonard Nimoy – Dead at the Age of 83

Posted by at 11:42 am on February 27, 2015

Leonard-Nimoy-leonard-nimoy-9475233-1000-840It is with great sadness that we report the Leonard Nimoy; actor, director, poet, singer, photographer and author, has passed away at age 83 due to complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. According to the New York Times, Nimoy died this morning at his Bel Air home, as confirmed by his wife, Susan Bay Nimoy.

“Smokers, please understand. If you quit after you’re diagnosed with lung damage it’s too late,” Nimoy tweeted. “Grandpa says learn my lesson. Quit now.”

Born March 26, 1931, Nimoy began his film and television career in the early 1950s, including a role as an alien in Republic serial Zombies of the Stratosphere, sci-fi classic Them! as well as guest spots on shows like “The Outer Limits” and “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” (the latter with his future co-star William Shatner).

In 1966, he debuted the role of logic-driven Vulcan Mr. Spock on Gene Roddenberry’s NBC series “Star Trek,” which would air for only three seasons from 1966-69 but had such a ravenous cult following that it spawned a franchise that included an animated series, twelve feature films (and counting) as well as four spin-off shows, video games, theme park rides and various merchandise.

From 1977 to 1982, he hosted ” In Search of.”  The show was devoted to mysterious phenomena. It Reruns of the In Search of… series aired during the early 1990s on the A&E Network. In the later 1990s, the show aired The History Channel.

Nimoy maintained the role in the six films featuring the original cast from 1979-1991, as well as a two-part episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” titled “Unification.” He reprised the role as the one remaining link to the original timeline in J.J. Abrams’ reboot films Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), as well as spoofing it in an episode of “Futurama” that reunited the surviving cast members titled “Where No Fan Has Gone Before.”

After directing the third and fourth films the Star Trek film series, he went on to a surprisingly successful career behind the camera, helming 1987’s #1 box office hit Three Men and a Baby.

In recent years, Nimoy worked on various projects and public appearances, including 11 episodes of J.J. Abrams’ series “Fringe,” voicing Sentinel Prime in Michael Bay’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon, as well as publishing two contradicting biographies about his relationship to Trek fandom, “I Am Not Spock” (1975) and “I Am Spock” (1995).

Towardds the end of his left, he reconnected with his Jewish heritage, and in 1991 he produced and starred in “Never Forget,” a television movie based on the story of a Holocaust survivor who sued a neo-Nazi organization of Holocaust deniers.

In 2002,Mr. Nimoy published “Shekhina,” a book devoted to photography with a Jewish theme, that of the feminine aspect of God. His black-and-white photographs of nude and seminude women struck upset some Orthodox Jewish leaders. Mr. Nimoy asserted that his work was consistent with the teaching of the kabbalah.

One of his other major photo works was The Full Body Project. In this work , Nimoy captured images of full-bodied women, some of whom are involved in what is known as the “fat acceptance” movement. “The average American woman,” Nimoy writes, “weighs 25 percent more than the models selling the clothes.

He is survived by his wife and two children, Adam and Julie.

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