Leonard Nimoy is the actor who is best known for playing
Spock on
Star Trek: The Original Series. He was so much remembered for this role, and little else, that he went on to write an autobiography called
I Am Not Spock, a reference to the fact that he didn't like being typecast and taken less seriously as an actor. The title led to a lot of confusion by fans, who assumed he resented Spock as a role, obliging him to write a
second book entitled
I Am Spock.
Beginning with
Star Trek III The Search For Spock, he started up a low key directing career that included
Star Trek IV The Voyage Home and
Three Men And A Baby. As well, his distinctive voice has led to several roles in animation and video games.
He also has recorded several albums in the late 1960s. Surprisingly, he isn't as bad as you would think — or at least, not as campy as Shatner. Nimoy appeared on many of the Golden Throats collections issued by Rhino. The earlier albums are especially great for a laugh, especially when he actually
was portraying Spock. He's also fairly well-known for his
campy song "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins," which is a jaunty re-telling of Tolkien's "The Hobbit."
He has been in semi-retirement since the mid-'90s, only taking on the occasional role that really interests him. Retired from on-screen acting completely after a stint as
The Ghost William Bell in
Fringe, and now basically says "If you want to talk about Spock from now on, speak to
my replacement." He still does voice acting, as he plays the voice of Sentinel Prime in
Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
Otherwise he is enjoying a hobby in photography.
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- He was also the narrator on In Search Of, a paranormal documentary series that came on between 1976 and 1982. Was parodied on Saturday Night Live during its eighth season (on the episode hosted by Ron Howard) with Joe Piscopo as Nimoy.
- William Bell on Fringe.
- Voiced himself on two episodes of The Simpsons: season four's "Marge vs. The Monorail" and season eight's "The Springfield Files" (a.k.a "the Crossover episode with Mulder and Scully from The X-Files")
- Also voiced himself on two episodes of The Simpsons' sister show, Futurama as one of many celebrities whose heads have been preserved in jars in the year 3000: the premiere episode "Space Pilot 3000" and the Star Trek Shout Out episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before."
- Voiced a Spock action figure in The Big Bang Theory episode "The Transporter Malfunction".
- Hosted Standby: Lights, Camera, Action!, a 1980s Nickelodeon behind-the-scenes series documenting the making of movies.
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