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 that he had the disease last year, 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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