CBS Television · Public domain

Played Spock for over forty years, from the original Star Trek pilot in 1965 through eight feature films, defining a character whose logic-over-emotion creed became one of television's most recognizable archetypes. He also directed two of the franchise's films, Star Trek III and the box-office hit Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Beyond acting, Nimoy released music as Dot Records albums, mostly in character as Spock, worked as a photographer, and hosted the documentary series In Search of..., exploring unexplained phenomena, in the late 1970s.