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 Posted:   Feb 27, 2015 - 10:35 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

In 1993 Nimoy narrated the IMAX feature TITANICA.




Nimoy voiced the roles of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in the 1994 animated film THE PAGEMASTER. James Horner provided the score.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 27, 2015 - 10:51 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

In 1994, Nimoy directed his last feature film, the crime comedy HOLY MATRIMONY. Bruce Broughton scored the film.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 27, 2015 - 11:00 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

Always in demand as a narrator, in 1996 Nimoy narrated the feature documentary CARPATI: 50 MILES, 50 YEARS. The film begins with a story, told by Nimoy, about a gypsy who asks a Jew from the Carpathian Mountains of southwestern Ukraine how it is that he knows so many languages.

"I had my bris in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, my bar mitzvah in Czechoslovakia, my divorce in the Soviet Union and I'll be buried in the Ukraine, but I've never left my hometown," the man replies.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 27, 2015 - 11:21 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

As his opportunities for onscreen roles diminished, Nimoy took on more voice work. He played the King of Atlantis in the 2001 Disney animated film ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE.



 
 
 Posted:   Feb 27, 2015 - 11:28 PM   
 By:   SOSAYWEALL   (Member)

Leonard Nimoy was great as Spock on Star Trek and was important to it's success & longevity. I'll also remember him as Galvatron from Transformers: the movie & he had a fun role on the television series Fringe, he will be sorely missed.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 27, 2015 - 11:34 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

Nimoy appeared as "Spock Prime" in the 2009 reboot of STAR TREK.




Nimoy did voice work for the character "Sentinel Prime" in the 2011 film TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON.




Nimoy appeared as himself in the 2013 musical documentary HAVA NAGILA (THE MOVIE), about the history of the famous Jewish song.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 27, 2015 - 11:53 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

Nimoy again appeared as "Spock Prime" in 2013's STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS. It was his last appearance in a fiction feature.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 28, 2015 - 12:05 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

Leonard Nimoy's final piece of feature film voice work was for the documentary THE PRIME MINISTERS: THE PIONEERS. Nimoy played the voice of Levi Eshkol, who was Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 to 1969. Lee Holdridge scored the film.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 28, 2015 - 12:15 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

Leonard Nimoy's final big screen appearance as himself was in the 2014 documentary/biography TO BE TAKEI about fellow Star Trek actor George Takei.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 28, 2015 - 12:42 AM   
 By:   Nightingale   (Member)

Interesting that their aged makeup appearances in the episode "The Deadly Years" in no way resembles/resembled Shatner and Nimoy now that they are the age they portrayed those many years ago.

 
 Posted:   Feb 28, 2015 - 1:45 AM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)



"Story by Alan Dean Foster and Gene Roddenberry"? It must have been done before the credits were finalized, because Roddenberry turned down the co-story credit (as per Harold Livingston, if Roddenberry couldn't get a screenplay credit he didn't want anything).

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 28, 2015 - 2:41 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

"Story by Alan Dean Foster and Gene Roddenberry"? It must have been done before the credits were finalized, because Roddenberry turned down the co-story credit (as per Harold Livingston, if Roddenberry couldn't get a screenplay credit he didn't want anything).


Yes, that was just a teaser poster. Posters sometimes go through many iterations while a film is in pre- and post-production. Here's an even earlier pre-release poster, with no story credits and Roddenberry given co-screenwriting credit. In this first poster, Persis Khambatta's credit reads "Also Starring Persis Khambatta" and appears last, following the rest of the "Co-starring" cast.




In the second poster, Roddenberry's co-screenwriting credit is dropped and he is given co-story credit instead. The second poster changes Persis Khambatta's credit to "Presenting Persis Khambatta", and moves it up to fourth position, after De Forest Kelly's credit. Stephen Collins, on the other hand, is bumped from fourth position to last.




This next "Advance" poster is closer to the final one, dropping Roddenberry's co-story credit. The tag line is changed, and credits are added for the soundtrack, book tie-in, and Dolby Stereo process. Persis Khambatta's "Presenting" credit is moved back behind the rest of the cast again, but before Stephen Collins, who is still listed dead last, but given a "Starring" credit to make up for it.




And here's the final release poster, which changes the film's tag line back to the earlier one, and adds the MPAA rating.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 28, 2015 - 5:48 AM   
 By:   Francis   (Member)

Another Nimoy appearance that stuck with me, perhaps not the best Outer Limits episode of that season but still a good enough performance to save it:

 
 Posted:   Feb 28, 2015 - 7:34 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Nimoy had a gift for playing oily sleazeballs. He did so on Bonanza (S2's "The Ape") and numerous times during his stint on Mission: Impossible. Nimoy has said he enjoyed being able to play so many different characters, particularly in that first year (season four). He had a magnificent wicked laugh--I also found it highly amusing that he adopted those late '60s "Neo Edwardian" hair and clothing styles with a vengeance.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 28, 2015 - 7:47 AM   
 By:   vinylscrubber   (Member)

Charles posted the THEM shot I wanted, but here's another one Mr. Nimoy would probably good-naturedly chuckle over from time to time:

Nils   (Member)

Sad news indeed. I became a Trekker basically from THE NEXT GENERATION onwards, but TOS was (and is) of course something very special, and there's no doubt that Nimoy/Spock is the most iconic and influential figure in Trekdom, probably even more so than Shatner/Kirk.

There is some small consolation in the fact that Nimoy was able to pursue his activities (acting, photography, writing..) almost up tp the very end. May he rest in peace.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 28, 2015 - 9:41 AM   
 By:   Nils   (Member)

Incidentally, I'm planning to watch the TO BE TAKEI documentary tonight, and I didn't realize this was Nimoy's last big screen appearance before reading Bob's post above just now. Makes it even more appropriate, of course.

 
 Posted:   Feb 28, 2015 - 9:46 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Don't forget countless work as a narrator for documentaries.

 
 Posted:   Feb 28, 2015 - 11:56 AM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)

Posters sometimes go through many iterations while a film is in pre- and post-production.

The most extreme case in my experience was The Flintstones - writing credits on early poster: "Story by Michael Wilson; Screenplay by Brian Levant & Al Aidekeman & Cindy Begel & Lloyd Garver & David Silverman & Stephen Sustaric & Nancy Steen & Neil Thompson." Final writing credits: "Written by Tom S. Parker & Jim Jennewein and Steven E. deSouza."

 
 Posted:   Feb 28, 2015 - 12:08 PM   
 By:   johnjohnson   (Member)

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/leonard-nimoy-to-be-honored-by-syfy-with-marathon/ar-BBi3cIi

 
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