Leonard Nimoy, TV's Mister Spock, hospitalized for chest pains

Published February 24, 2015 12:30pm

Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek's original Mr. Spock, has supposedly been hospitalized after suffering chest pains, celebrity-oriented site TMZ.com reported Tuesday.

TMZ quoted law enforcement sources who said the iconic actor was transported to the University of California in Los Angeles Medical Center last Thursday.

"Nimoy's been in and out of hospitals multiple times in the last few months," it said.

TMZ noted Nimoy had announced in 2014 that he was suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), though he quit smoking more than 30 years ago.

Nimoy, on his Twitter account, had two posts on his Twitter account since Feb. 19, the day he was supposedly brought to a hospital:

I will be sharing my poetry. Today's is, "You and I have Learned," which is in my book, These Words Are for You. LLAP pic.twitter.com/CsHAtmtDnz

— Leonard Nimoy (@TheRealNimoy) February 22, 2015

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP

— Leonard Nimoy (@TheRealNimoy) February 23, 2015

LLAP stands for "Live long and prosper," the greeting of Vulcans in the Star Trek universe.

Nimoy played Spock in the original Star Trek TV series in the 1960s, and made appearances in Star Trek: The Next Generation in the 1980s and 1990s.

He also appeared in the reboot of Star Trek in 2009.

Aside from Star Trek, Nimoy was also the voice of Galvatron in the 1986 "Transformers The Movie." — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News

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