Zachary Quinto provided an affectionate video introduction of Leonard Nimoy for Entertainment Weekly’s CapeTown Film Festival earlier this month.
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Both appear in the new Star Trek movie, Nimoy uncredited.
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Peter Weller, who had the title role Buckaroo Banzai (discussed here recently), plays a strident Starfleet admiral in the new movie.
[Thanks to John King Tarpinian for the story.]
Peter Weller, who’s a very nice guy, also played Robocop in the first two Robocop movies.
And in case the acting gig doesn’t work out …
“In 2004, Weller completed a Master’s degree in Roman and Renaissance Art at Syracuse University and occasionally teaches courses in ancient history at the university. In 2007, Weller was finishing a Ph.D. at UCLA, in Italian Renaissance art history. He expects to complete his dissertation in 2012.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Weller#Personal_life