Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won
a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical
human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television
and movie juggernaut “Star Trek,” died on Friday morning at his home in
the Bel Air section of Los Angeles. He was 83.
His wife, Susan Bay Nimoy, confirmed his death, saying the cause was end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Mr. Nimoy announced last year that he had the
disease, which he attributed to years of smoking, a habit he had given
up three decades earlier. He had been hospitalized earlier in the week.
His religious upbringing influenced the
characterization of Spock. The character’s split-fingered salute, he
often explained, had been his idea: He based it on the kohanic blessing,
a manual approximation of the Hebrew letter shin, which is the first
letter in Shaddai, one of the Hebrew names for God.
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