He died in 2015, a month before his 84th birthday. Leonard Nimoy, the actor who portrayed Spock on the original Star Trek series, died in February of 2015. (Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press) ...

“After Spock died, I thought, ‘Well, that takes care of that.’ And it certainly didn’t,” Nimoy told USA Today in 2009.

Star Trek fan David Gerhard plays the Vulcan harp on his iPad. Actor Leonard Nimoy died at the age of 83 and many science fiction fans fondly remember his role as Mr. Spock in the series Star Trek.