Leonard Nimoy - Archive Interview Part 7 of 8 TVLEGENDS

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Actor/Director Leonard Nimoy described his early career as an actor on such programs as Dragnet and Danger. He then went on to talk about his starring role on Star Trek as Mr. Spock and his later role on Mission: Impossible. He spoke about his directing career which began with an assignment on Rod Serling's Night Gallery. He also talked about his work on his many television films including A Woman Called Golda and Never Forget.

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[brenbaroque]

Leonards memory is amazing.

[Simoneallen1]

This is why I love Leonard Nimoy (well, one of the reasons!) - he feels bad for not remembering for about 10 seconds who wrote Devil in the Dark. He's a good guy.

[heavyarms01h]

@ConstantTweeter I know - and Leonard is such a gentleman, too. He's like a cool, wise grandfather who's had an amazing life. =) I just think it's kind of funny that back then, he was concerned for a while about typecasting and where his career was going after "Star Trek," but now he's become such a legend that he can't retire even if he wants to - people keep asking him to come back. =) He recently had a voice acting role in the 3rd Transformers film and his performance was amazing.

[obeythesink]

Spock's suggestions to the director pretty much shaped how a Vulcan is viewed in other Star Trek series and in the franchise itself. He invented the Vulcan grip and the salute

[ConstantTweeter]

According to his memoirs, Mr. Nimoy was paid about ten times as much to play Paris on "Mission Impossible" than he was paid to play Spock on "Star Trek."

That he would walk away from that kind of money because he was not artistically fulfilled says a lot about his character.

He really should have won the Emmy for Spock. But in the end, he won something better: the respect of the industry, the adulation of millions of fans and the golden aura of a legend.

Who remembers who won the Emmy in 66-69?

[DolphinScare]

The Enemy Within! The Enemy Within! You can say it! @ 03:19

[sondano]

isn't it ironic that both Devil in the dark and Spock's brain were written by Gene L Coon? The later under the name Lee Cornin

[ken10763]

journey to babel

[doveswife]

Spock's father is Sarek, not Saavik (she's his protegee). We meet him in some episode, I can't remember which and for that I should be shot. But Mark Lenard was beyond belief in his portrayal of Sarek, and he ended up doing that character many more times.

[Gothdemon01]

I LOVED "In Search Of!" That was one of my favorite shows as a kid and still is. When I see reruns I flip out!!!

[46Orca]

Amok Time is my absoulutly favorite episode!

Most of what's in this segment is rather standard for Trek people but still interesting to hear again.

Oh and does anyone know the name of the episode where we first meet Spock's father, Savik? I vaguly remember it but not very well.