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Leonard Nimoy, best known as the logical Spock from Star Trek died in his home on Friday. He was 83.

Nimoy’s son, Adam, says the actor died Friday morning in Los Angeles of end-stage of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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Although Nimoy followed his 1966-69 Star Trek run with a notable career as both an actor and director (he was on Mission Impossible and directed Three Men and a Baby), in the public’s mind he would always be Spock.

His half-human, half-Vulcan character was the calm counterpoint to William Shatner’s often-emotional Captain Kirk on one of television and film’s most revered cult series.

Nimoy’s ambivalence to the role was reflected in the titles of his two autobiographies, I Am Not Spock (1975) and I Am Spock (1995).

After Star Trek ended, the actor immediately joined the hit adventure series Mission Impossible as Paris, the mission team’s master of disguises. From 1976 to 1982 he hosted the syndicated TV series In Search of … which attempted to probe such mysteries as the legend of the Loch Ness Monster and the disappearance of aviator Amelia Earhart.