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See Leonard Nimoy's Relentlessly Spock-Studded Commercials

By Nat Ives. Published on February 27, 2015.
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Leonard Nimoy, the actor known to generations of TV viewers and moviegoers as Mr. Spock on "Star Trek," died Friday, his wife told The New York Times.

He was also a familiar face in commercials, which almost always traded on the Spock thing for a joke.

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Nat Ives is executive editor at Ad Age, which he joined in 2005 as a reporter on the publishing beat. He previously helped cover the media and ad industries as a news assistant at The New York Times and reported on commercial real estate for Institutional Investor newsletters. He graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2001.

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