New York (APA / dpa) – His pointed ears and pulled up eyebrow made him world famous. Now, “Mr. Spock “dead. Leonard Nimoy, the actor of the half-Vulcan from” Star Trek “, died on Friday at the age of 83 years, as his agent, Deutsche Presse-Agentur confirmed. On the side of “Captain Kirk” and the rest of the “Enterprise” crew Nimoy wrote television history.
Trekkie fans, fellow actors and even the US President Barack Obama were dismayed at his death. “I have loved Spock,” Obama said, according Communication in Washington. In 2007 he had personally met Nimoy and of course received him with the Vulcan salute, in which a hand raised and the fingers separated only between the ring and middle fingers. His wife Michelle and he would Nimoy now sorely missed.
“I loved him like a brother,” wrote the “Captain Kirk” actor William Shatner (83) in the short message service Twitter. “We will all miss his sense of humor, love his talent and his ability.” “Leonard Nimoy was more than Mr. Spock. But Mr. Spock is his gift to us all, “praised Oscar winner Tom Hanks (58) his colleagues.
” My heart is broken. I love you very much my good friend and I will miss you every day, “wrote Zachary Quinto (37) on Instagram. He played Spock in the movies “Star Trek” (2009) and “Star Trek Into Darkness” (2013). Nimoy had in “Star Trek Into Darkness” his last little film appearance.
The cause of death of the actor was a serious lung disease undergoing hemodialysis, his wife Susan Bay Nimoy told the “New York Times”. In the previous year had Nimoy, who had long smoked, but stopped decades ago, announced that he was suffering from the so-called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). . This cause narrowing of the airways problems such as shortness of breath, cough and sputum
Nimoy himself had reported four days prior to the last time the public via Twitter for word: “Life is like a garden. Perfect moments are possible, but they can not be kept except in memory, “he wrote, ending the Twitter message as usual with the well-known greeting of” Mr. Spock “:” LLAP “-” Live long and prosper “in German variant as” live long and prosper “
Nimoy was born in 1931 in Boston, the son of Orthodox Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine.. Even as a child he began acting. He later starred in numerous films and television series, and also worked as a director, producer, and photographer. Became known but he remained in first place with a roller. Of the half-Vulcan “Mr.Spock” in the television series “Star Trek” and “Star Trek” movies
For a long time he did extremely reluctant, and called his first autobiography, even provocative: “I am not Spock.” Eventually, however, he found himself with it. “How many actors can say the same to be identified for decades with a particular role?” He later said. As Mr. Spock he coined unforgettable canvas sayings, including “Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end” and “If I were a man, my answer would be likely, Go to hell! ‘. If I were a man … “.
The US space agency NASA announced via Twitter manifest their grief”. So many of us at NASA inspired by Star Trek “The world has a” Hikaru Sulu had “played in the series on Facebook – big man Enterprise” lost Nimoy wrote “” colleague George Takei, who “. “We now give you the stars again, Leonard. You taught us “long and to live in peace,” and you’ve really done my friend. I will miss you in so many ways. “
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