Friday, February 27, 2015

Leonard Nimoy


Actor and photographer Leonard Nimoy died today age 83. Leonard best remembered for his role as Spock in the original Star Trek tv series and movies.
He started his film and tv career in 1951 with Kid Monk Baroni (a boxing movie) and went on to play in many tv series and movies.
Although best remembered for playing Spock it's not so well known that he was in a number of episodes of the series Sea Hunt with Lloyd Bridges, and 4 episodes of Wagon Train, 4 episodes of Gun Smoke, 91 episodes of Ancient mysteries (narrator), no less than a 145 episodes of In Search of (host/narrator) and of course 49 episodes of Mission Impossible as the great Paris.
Leonard leaves a wife and 2 children.
His last few tweets included a brief poem.  A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.
and his final tweet Live long and prosper.

Goodbye Mr Spock.


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