Fun Facts About Spock And Leonard Nimoy
Fun Facts About Leonard Nimoy And Spock From Star Trek As we all know, unless you're one of "Those" people, Leonard Nimoy played Spock, the most iconic character from Star Trek. Fact One: Deforest Kelly was offered the role of Spock before Leonard Nimoy. Yep, DeForest Kelly, who eventually went on to play I'm-A-Doctor-Jim-Not-A-Martian, Doctor "Bones" McCoy, was offered the role of the "Alien From Mars" in 1964. He turned it down as it would be illogical, Captain. Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek even offered the role of Spock to Adam West, who was Batman in the original cheesy Batman television series. But Adam West couldn't fit it into his schedule as he was filming the movie Robison Crusoe on Mars at the time. The role finally went to Leonard Nimoy after Roddenberry remembered him from his guest appearance in the pilot show. Skinny, pale, sharp facial features, Michael Jackson wasn't available ei...