For example, " The Great Paris " ( Leonard Nimoy ), Hand's replacement in the fourth and fifth seasons, was also an actor, make-up artist, magician and " master of disguise.

Reportedly, Leonard Nimoy was asked to wear it and refused, so it was passed on to Shatner ; when he also refused, Nimoy reluctantly agreed to wear it.

The gesture actually emulates the initial Shin of the Shema ( Nimoy has also commented that the " sh " could also indicate Shaddai, or the Almighty ; more recently, on William Shatner's Raw Nerve, he associated it with Shekhinah.

The six Star Trek movies feature the original Star Trek cast including Nimoy, who also directed one of the films.

During this time, Nimoy also won acclaim for a series of stage roles.

Nimoy has also appeared in several popular television seriesincluding Futurama and The Simpsonsas both himself and Spock.

Nimoy is also a frequent and popular reader for " Selected Shorts ", an ongoing series of programs at Symphony Space in New York City ( that also tours around the country ) which features actors, and sometimes authors, reading works of short fiction.

Nimoy has also provided voiceovers for the Star Trek Online massively multiplayer online game, released in February 2010, as well as Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep as Master Xehanort, the series ' leading villain.

The contents of this first autobiography also touched on a self-proclaimed " identity crisis " that seemed to haunt Nimoy throughout his career.

Nimoy has also written several volumes of poetry, some published along with a number of his photographs.

During and following Star Trek, Nimoy also released five albums of vocal recordings on Dot Records, including Trek-related songs such as " Highly Illogical ", and cover versions of popular tunes, such as " Proud Mary ".

Nimoy also appears in the alternate music video for the song " Lazy Song " by pop artist Bruno Mars.

Nimoy also introduced the Vulcan nerve pinch in an early Star Trek episode " The Enemy Within ".

First portrayed by Leonard Nimoy in the original Star Trek series, Spock also appears in the animated Star Trek series, two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, seven of the Star Trek feature films, and numerous Star Trek books, comics, and video games.

Nimoy and Murphy acknowledged his part would attract non-Star Trek fans to the franchise following the rising popularity of Murphy, but it also meant the film might be ridiculed.

Bennett and Nimoy collaborated with effects house Industrial Light & Magic ( ILM ) to develop storyboards and new ship designs ; ILM also handled the film's many special effects sequences.

The track included a vocal sample of Mr. Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) from Star Trek, saying " pure energy ," and opened with a sample of Dr. McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ), also from Star Trek, saying, " It's worked so far, but we're not out yet!

Shatner's Star Trek co-star Leonard Nimoy guested in the second season episode " Vengeance is Mine ", as well as directing " The Decoy ", also in the second season.

The Movie also featured guest voices from Leonard Nimoy as Galvatron, Scatman Crothers as Jazz, Casey Kasem as Cliffjumper, Orson Welles as Unicron and Eric Idle as the leader of the Junkions ( Wreck-Gar, though unnamed in the movie ).

He also guest starred in several episodes of the original Mission: Impossible, including one with Leonard Nimoy, and a two-part episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

* Leonard Nimoy was also in the original episode, but in a different role, that of newspaper reporter Judson Ellis.

On the stage, Nimoy played the lead-role in a short run of Gore Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet in 1968, shortly before the end of the Star Trek series.

In 1978, Nimoy played Dr. David Kibner in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

In 1997, Nimoy played the prophet Samuel, alongside Nathaniel Parker, in The Bible Collection movie " David ".

In the 2009 film Star Trek, Nimoy reprised his role alongside Zachary Quinto, who played a younger, alternate-timeline version of the character, and Jacob Kogan playing Spock as a child.

Slate. com said Quinto played Spock " with a few degrees more chill " than Nimoy brought to the original character.

In 1995, Leonard Nimoy played Frank James in the made-for-TV movie Bonanza: Under Attack.

Mermelstein was portrayed by Leonard Nimoy and Cox was played by Dabney Coleman in a 1991 TV movie about the 1981 lawsuit.

Nimoy played Spock again in the 2009 film Star Trek, directed by J. J. Abrams, alongside a younger Spock played by Zachary Quinto.

The world of Dark Future, detailed by Yeovil / Newman, played with multiple sci-fi, horror, and dystopia clichés while mixing in alternate history and homages & cameos to other fiction ( Instead of becoming US president actor Ronald Reagan starred in the TV series Get Smart, famous film murderers like Jason Voorhees are asylum inmates in Krokodil Tears, Leonard Nimoy is named as a 60s astronaut in Comeback Tour ).

The majority of the cast has appeared in a role in the Star Trek universe: Patrick Stewart played Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Whoopi Goldberg played Guinan, Leonard Nimoy played Mr. Spock, Christopher Lloyd played Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Ed Begley, Jr. played Henry Starling in two episodes of Star Trek: Voyager, George Hearn played Dr. Berel in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and B. J.

Gene Roddenberry had distributed a memo that suggested that though it would be unlikely to feature Leonard Nimoy as Spock on the series due to financial considerations, he suggested a reasonable alternative would be to feature Mark Lenard, who played Spock's father, Sarek.

Other stars of the franchise chimed in, with Leonard Nimoy ( who played Spock ) offering his support in a 1991 letter to the Los Angeles Times:

In 1991, Nimoy teamed up with Robert B. Radnitz to produce a movie for TNT about a pro bono publico lawsuit brought by public interest attorney William John Cox on behalf of Mel Mermelstein, an Auschwitz survivor, against a group of organizations engaged in Holocaust denial.

Nimoy turned down the chance to direct the feature as well as reprise the role of Spock.

Nimoy began his career in his early twenties, teaching acting classes in Hollywood and making minor film and television appearances through the 1950s, as well as playing the title role in Kid Monk Baroni.

As the half-Vulcan, half-human Spock — a role he chose instead of one on the soap opera Peyton Place — Nimoy became a star, and the press predicted that he would " have his choice of movies or television series.

Nimoy was cast in the role of Paris, an IMF agent who was an ex-magician and make-up expert ' The Great Paris '.

When a new Star Trek series was planned in the late 1970s, Nimoy was to be in only two out of eleven episodes, but when the show was elevated to a feature film, he agreed to reprise his role.

Tetsuya Nomura, the director of Birth by Sleep, stated that he chose Nimoy for the role specifically because of his role as Spock.

In Spring 2012, Nimoy reprised his role of William Bell in Fringe, in the fourth season episodes " Letters of Transit " and " Brave New World " parts 1 & 2.

Nimoy reprised his role as Master Xehanort in the recent title Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance.

The Space Foundation named Nimoy as the recipient of the 2010 Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award for creating a positive role model that inspired untold numbers of viewers to learn more about the universe.

After DeForest Kelley in 1964 stated his non-interest in playing the role, Roddenberry cast Nimoy because he knew him from a guest appearance in his pilot The Lieutenant ; after Roddenberry saw Nimoy's thin face and sharp features, no other actors were considered-Kelley, on the other hand, would later be cast as Dr. McCoy, the highly emotional human who became Spock's frequent foil.

Had Nimoy turned down the role, Roddenberry would have approached Martin Landau.

As Kelley's role grew in importance during the first season he received a pay raise to about $ 2, 500 per episode, and received third billing starting in the second season after Nimoy.

Nimoy approached Beverly Hills Cop writer Daniel Petrie, Jr. to write the screenplay when a concept that executive producer Jeffrey Katzenberg described as " either the best or worst idea in the world " arose — Star Trek fan Eddie Murphy wanted a starring role.

" On learning about the scene, Kirk Thatcher, an associate producer on the film, convinced Nimoy to let him play the role ; Thatcher shaved his hair into a mohawk and bought clothes to complete the part.

He described it as different to working on many other films because Nimoy appreciated the role of sound effects and made sure that they were prominent in the film.

With Leonard Nimoy the film's executive producer, the 71-year old Kelley was paid US $ 1 million for the role, assuring a comfortable retirement for the veteran actor.

Frank Welker provided Spock's screams, and Steve Blalock doubled for Nimoy, so that a total of seven actors contributed to the role.

Nimoy wanted someone with " power and magic " for the ethereal role.

Nimoy said that Lloyd brought a welcome element of theatricality to the role.

When asked by Paramount Pictures if he wanted to reprise the role for the third feature, Nimoy agreed and told them, " You're damned right, I want to direct that picture!

With the release of The Transformers: The Movie animated film in 1986, he took on the role of the Autobot Wheelie and afterwards, took over the role of Galvatron ( which coincidentally was voiced by his Star Trek III castmate Leonard Nimoy ).