Leonard Nimoy

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Leonard Nimoy (2011)

Leonard Simon Nimoy (born March 26, 1931 in West End , Boston , Massachusetts - † February 27, 2015 in Bel Air , Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor , film director , film producer , author , musician and photographer . He achieved international fame with Star Trek in the role of Mr. Spock , in which he could be seen between 1965 and 2013, with interruptions over a period of almost fifty years, in Raumschiff Enterprise and several film and television productions based on it.

Life

Grave site of Leonard Nimoy
Grave site of Leonard Nimoy (pictured at right, with provisional label), Garden of Solomon at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Culver City, California, in May 2015

Nimoy's parents, Max Nimoy and Dora (née Spinner), were Jewish Orthodox , Yiddish- speaking immigrants and came from Isjaslav , in what is now western Ukraine . Leonard Nimoy grew up in Boston with his father, who ran a hair salon , his mother, who was a housewife, and with his older brother Melvin. After graduating from high school, Nimoy studied acting at Boston College and the Pasadena Playhouse . In 1971 he studied photography with Robert Heinecken at the University of California, Los Angeles . He also completed a Masters Degree in Bilingual Education from Antioch College ; later he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Antioch University . He received another honorary doctorate from Boston University .

In 1953, Nimoy joined the United States Army Reserve and resigned as a sergeant after 18 months . Although its military records were destroyed in a fire in 1973, some details have been reconstructed. So he spent most of his time at Fort McPherson in East Point, Fulton County , Georgia and served, together with the future actor and dancer Ken Berry , in a unit of the special services that focused on the entertainment of the troops.

Nimoy was married twice. He was married to actress Sandra Zober from 1954 to 1987, and with her he had two children. His son from this marriage is the director Adam Nimoy . Leonard Nimoy was married to actress Susan Bay from January 1, 1989 until his death.

On February 6, 2014, Nimoy announced on Twitter that he had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ; He advised his 808,000 followers on Twitter to quit smoking. Nimoy died of complications from his lung disease at his Los Angeles home on February 27, 2015 at the age of 83.

Nimoy found his final resting place in the Garden of Solomon at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City , California .

Career

Leonard Nimoy (2012)

Nimoy gained his first acting experience as a child actor . In 1951 he got his first small role in the film Queen for a Day and then played in various films and at the theater. He was best known to a wide audience for his role as the Vulcan Mr. Spock in the Star Trek franchise , for which he was nominated three times for an " Emmy ". Alongside this, he played roles in television series such as Cobra, Take Over , Columbo and TJ Hooker .

Nimoy also worked as a director. In 1987 he received the “ShoWest Award” for Three Men, Another Baby , the American remake of the French feature film Three Men and a Baby . He made his directorial debut in 1973 with an episode of the Night Gallery series . Further television productions followed until he made his first feature film in 1984 with Star Trek III: In Search of Mr. Spock . Two years later, he also directed the sequel Star Trek IV: Back to the Present . In the following years he turned to other projects beyond Star Trek as a director , including: a. he made some comedies. Nimoy last appeared as a director in 1995. Nimoy was rarely active as a screenwriter, most recently working on the story development for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Land .

After Star Trek was deposed , Nimoy played in the secret agent series Kobra, taking over as Paris . He replaced Martin Landau there, who had demanded a fee that was too high for the producers and then had to leave the series. Landau was offered the role of Mr. Spock before Nimoy in the early 1960s , but he declined.

In 1967 the record Leonard Nimoy presents Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space was released , on which Nimoy also sang himself. Since then he has released ten albums, including tracks like If I Had a Hammer by Pete Seeger , Put a Little Love in Your Heart by Jackie DeShannon, and Gentle on My Mind by John Hartford .

Nimoy was active both as a photographer and as a writer. In addition to published volumes of poetry, he wrote two autobiographies almost 20 years apart, I Am Not Spock (1977) and I Am Spock (1995). The latter appeared after a translation of Yvonne Angkawidjaja 1996 under the German title I am Spock in Heyne Verlag .

After JJ Abrams , the director and producer of the 2009 published the eleventh Star - Trek -Kinofilms took over and decided a story as a prequel to turn to the classic television series, was charged with Zachary Quinto engaged for the first time after 43 years another actor depicting Spock. As early as 2007 it was announced that Nimoy would take on a smaller role as the older Spock. One year after the broadcast he gave in April 2010 announced end of his career as an actor, which he much success Quinto in the presentation of Mr. Spock in future Star - Trek productions wished. Nevertheless, in 2012 he was involved in the portrayal of Dr. William Bell in the FBI's Fringe series , a role he had played sporadically since 2009, on television again. This was followed in 2013 by another cameo as Mr. Spock in the twelfth movie Star Trek Into Darkness . As a voice actor he was previously heard , also as Spock, in an episode of the sitcom The Big Bang Theory .

Nimoy has received several awards throughout his career. Even with his portrayal of Spock, he was honored with a nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a television series for the Emmy after each of the three seasons . In 1985 he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . In 2009 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Saturn Awards . The following year he was honored again, as Best Guest Star on TV Series, for portraying Dr. William Bell in Fringe - Borderline cases of the FBI . This was his last acting award after he had already been honored with the Life Career Award in 1989, 21 years earlier .

In 2015 the asteroid (4864) Nimoy was named after him.

Filmography (selection)

Nimoy at a Star Trek meeting (around 1980).

actor

Director

Leonard Nimoy (sixth from left) together with his fellow actors from Spaceship Enterprise in front of the Space Shuttle Enterprise (1976)

Voice actor

Films & series
Video games

Moderator

German dubbing voice

Leonard Nimoy's best-known speaker was Herbert Weicker , who almost always gave him his role as Mr. Spock (in the series Raumschiff Enterprise , the video synchronization of the animated series The Enterprise as well as the first six Star Trek films and in a guest appearance in Raumschiff Enterprise - The next century ) lent his voice. In the episode Geist sucht Körper he was also partially dubbed by Erich Ebert . In the dubbing of the films and the series as well as the first Star Trek pilot film The Cage , he was spoken by Norbert Gescher . Christian Rode dubbed him in the ZDF synchronization of the Star Trek animated series Die Enterprise . In the eleventh movie Star Trek , Nimoy was again dubbed by Gescher and in Star Trek Into Darkness by Fred Maire .

Weicker also spoke Nimoy in The Body Eaters Coming and in a guest appearance on the series The Simpsons (Homer gets going).

In the series Kobra, you take over he was dubbed by Klaus Kindler and Hans-Werner Bussinger .

Works

music

  • Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space ( Dot Records ), (1967).
  • The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy (Dot Records), (1968).
  • The Way I Feel (Dot Records), (1968).
  • The Touch of Leonard Nimoy (Dot Records), (1969).
  • The New World of Leonard Nimoy (Dot Records), (1970).
  • Leonard Nimoy & William Shatner : Spaced Out - The Very Best of (2004).

In addition to his own music career, he made an appearance as a chauffeur in the music video for Going Down to Liverpool the Bangles and was seen in the music video for The Lazy Song by Bruno Mars .

Books

  • You & I. (1973).
  • I am not Spock. (1977).
  • I am Spock. 1995. German: I am Spock. Heyne Verlag , Munich 1996, ISBN 3-453-10980-5 .
  • A Lifetime of Love: Poems on the Passages of Life. (2002).

photography

  • 1973 - First gallery exhibition and publication of his collection of poems “You and I” (poems and photographs)
  • 1974 - Second book “Will I Think of You” (poems and photographs)
  • 1978 - “Come Be with Me” (poems and photographs) published
  • 1981 - Publication of “These Words Are for You” (poems and photographs)
  • 1983 - Publication of “Warmed by Love” (poems and photographs)
  • 2001 - Awarded “Artist in Residence” at the American Academy in Rome
  • 2002 - “Shekhina” (photo series)
  • 2005 - “Maximum Beauty” (photo series)
  • 2010 - Emerson Gallery Berlin (MdF)

Audio books

Honor

  • 2017: Posthumous induction into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame

literature

  • Ralph Sander : Star Trek Classic - Leonard Nimoy. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag , Munich 1996.
  • William Shatner with David Fisher: Spock and me. My friend Leonard Nimoy. Wilhelm Heyne, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-453-20143-9 . (With 17 photos; American original edition: Leonard - My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man. Thomas Dunne Books, New York 2016)

Web links

Commons : Leonard Nimoy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Boston's West End . Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC 1998, ISBN 0-7524-1257-4 , pp. 85 .
  2. ↑ Jessica Wolf: Leonard Nimoy, 83, longtime supporter of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. On: newsroom.ucla.edu. February 27, 2015, accessed February 28, 2015.
  3. ↑ Dr. Leonard Nimoy. (PDF). In: Antioch University McGregor (Ed.): Alumni News. November 2000, accessed February 28, 2015.
  4. ^ Amy Laskowski: Leonard Nimoy Urges CFA Grads to "Live Long and Prosper". On: bu.edu. 2012, accessed February 28, 2015.
  5. ↑ Famous Veteran: Leonard Nimoy. On: military.com. February 27, 2015, accessed February 28, 2015.
  6. ↑ Sandra Zober Nimoy. Obituary. On: legacy.com.
  7. ↑ Leonard Nimoy reveals he has lung disease. Reported by BBC News on February 6, 2014.
  8. ↑ Virginia Heffernan: Leonard Nimoy, Spock of 'Star Trek,' Dies at 83rd New York Times , February 27, 2015, accessed February 27, 2015 .
  9. ^ The grave of Leonard Nimoy , knerger.de
  10. ↑ Kevin Williamson: Leonard Nimoy set to retire. At: TorontoSun.com. April 19, 2010.
  11. ↑ John Tenuto: Christopher Lloyd: Leonard Nimoy Returning To Fringe - Will Appear In Same Episode. At: trekmovie.com. October 26, 2010.
  12. ^ Jens Ihlenfeld: Guest appearances: Stephen Hawking and Leonard Nimoy in The Big Bang Theory. At: Golem.de. March 14, 2012.
  13. ↑ Leonard Nimoy. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
  14. ^ Science fiction awards database - Leonard Nimoy . Retrieved November 24, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Nimoy, Leonard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nimoy, Leonard Simon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor, director, film producer, and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH West End (Boston) , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2015
Place of death Bel Air (Los Angeles) , California