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, attributing it 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”).

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Came here to see if anyone was paying their respects to this beloved actor.

May his soul RIP.

LordReed:
Came here to see if anyone was paying their respects to this beloved actor.

May his soul RIP.

Wow im just seeing dis,he was a gifted actor r.i.p sir

bejeria101:


Wow im just seeing dis,he was a gifted actor r.i.p sir

his performance as spock was so commanding that I believed that was his real name. He made me fall in love with the sci fi genre . You will be sorely missed! R.I.P.