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Leonard Nimoy

1931 - 2015

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Leonard Simon Nimoy ( NEE-moy; March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015) was an American actor and director, famed for playing Spock in the Star Trek franchise for almost 50 years. This includes originating Spock in the original Star Trek series in 1966, then Star Trek: The Animated Series, the first six Star Trek films, Star Trek: The Next Generation, the 2009 Star Trek film, and Star Trek Into Darkness. Nimoy also directed films, including Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), and Three Men and a Baby (1987), and his career included roles in music videos and video games. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonard Nimoy has received more than 13,296,841 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Leonard Nimoy is the 309th most popular actor (down from 277th in 2019), the 566th most popular biography from United States (down from 510th in 2019) and the 155th most popular American Actor.

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  • 71

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  • 4.19

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  • 5.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Leonard Nimoy ranks 309 out of 13,578. Before him are Burt Young, Salma Hayek, Harold Lloyd, Carl Weathers, Kim Novak, and Mia Farrow. After him are Sean Penn, Ian Holm, Maurice Chevalier, Daniel Craig, Michael J. Fox, and Matt Damon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Leonard Nimoy ranks 27. Before him are Thomas Bernhard, Josef Masopust, Anatoly Dyatlov, Desmond Tutu, Rupert Murdoch, and Guy Debord. After him are Ian Holm, João Gilberto, Dries van Agt, Johannes Rau, D. B. Cooper, and Martinus J. G. Veltman. Among people deceased in 2015, Leonard Nimoy ranks 23. Before him are Josef Masopust, Laura Antonelli, Val Logsdon Fitch, Kim Young-sam, Richard von Weizsäcker, and Ulrich Beck. After him are Lemmy, Yitzhak Navon, Tariq Aziz, Otto Carius, Kenan Evren, and Irwin Rose.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leonard Nimoy ranks 566 out of 20,380. Before him are Gloria Gaynor (1947), Kim Novak (1933), George Armstrong Custer (1839), Quincy Jones (1933), Ronald Wayne (1934), and Mia Farrow (1945). After him are Charles Goodyear (1800), Sean Penn (1960), Eddie Murphy (1961), Dennis Ritchie (1941), Steven Tyler (1948), and Arthur Compton (1892).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Leonard Nimoy ranks 155. Before him are Raquel Welch (1940), Burt Young (1940), Harold Lloyd (1893), Carl Weathers (1948), Kim Novak (1933), and Mia Farrow (1945). After him are Sean Penn (1960), Matt Damon (1970), Jennifer Aniston (1969), Julianne Moore (1960), Carrie Fisher (1956), and Gene Kelly (1912).

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Television and Movie Roles

Star Trek
Ambassador Spock
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.
May 6o 20097.4 / 10
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Sentinel Prime (voice)
The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes apparent to Optimus Prime that the United States government has been less than forthright with them.
Jun 28o 20116.2 / 10
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Captain Spock
The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.
Jun 4o 19827.4 / 10