Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy (March 26, 1931 - February 27, 2015) was an American actor and director. He provided the voice of Galvatron in The Transformers: The Movie, and a quarter-century later returned to the fold to give Sentinel Prime his sonorous tones in the third of Mr. Bay's live-action Transformers sagas (sagae?). Oh, and apparently he also played an alien on some old sci-fi show, alongside fellow Transformers voice actor George Takei, but no one remembers that anymore. Mr. N. also did two seasons of Mission: Impossible, and somehow managed to avoid being in an episode with Shatner. He was to retire in 2010, with his final role being the voice of Master Xehanort in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (alongside other Transformers voice actors such as Kirk Thornton and Richard Epcar), but he officially violated his retirement in 2011 appearing in an alternate music video of The Lazy Song by Bruno Mars; his true final role was a cameo as that alien in the 2013 movie of that old sci-fi show that went into darkness.
Nimoy died on the morning of February 27, 2015 due to complications of end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 83.<ref>[1]</ref> Rest assured, he lived long and prospered...
Roles
[edit]- Sentinel Prime
- Spock (archive Star Trek footage)
Notes
[edit]- Nimoy was married to Susan Bay who is first cousin to director Michael Bay, and apparently it was due to their considerable donations to Griffith Observatory that Michael was allowed to film parts of Transformers there.<ref>According to Michael Bay on the Transformers DVD commentary.</ref>
- Nimoy guest-starred in several episodes of Fringe, which was created, executive-produced and written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
- According to Orci, he was at one point considered for the role of The Fallen in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.<ref>Roberto Orci - Leonard Nimoy, Frank Welker in the running for the role of voicing... post on the Don Murphy Message Board</ref> Nimoy himself was waiting to be in Transformers once more since his role in the '86 movie. This is what happens when you don't ask the people you're hiring if they actually want to be in the movie.
- That alien he played (over a span of 49 years)? It was the inspiration for Shockwave.<ref>Rusting Carcass interview with Bob Budiansky</ref>
References
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