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Leonard Nimoy, Spock in 'Star Trek' Series, Dies at 83
Leonard Nimoy, the actor behind one of pop culture’s most famous and distinctive fictional characters, the half-human,half-alien Mr. Spock in the “Star Trek” television series and films, has died.
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Leonard Nimoy, the actor behind one of pop culture’s most famous and distinctive fictional characters, the half-human, half-alien Mr. Spock in the “Star Trek” television series and films, has died. He was 83.
He died Friday at his home in Los Angeles, according to an e-mailed statement from the actor’s representative, the Gersh Agency in Beverly Hills, California. The cause was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which he attributed to the cigarette habit he had quit 30 years before.