Editing Leonard Nimoy (section)

=== Directing ===
Nimoy's directorial debut was in 1973, with the "Death on a Barge" segment for an episode of ''[[Night Gallery]]'' during its final season. In the early 1980s, he resumed directing consistently, including television and film.

Nimoy began feature film directing in 1984 with ''[[Star Trek III: The Search for Spock]]'', the third in the film series. He directed the second most successful movie (critically and financially) in the franchise, ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home]]'' (1986), and then ''[[Three Men and a Baby]]'', the highest-grossing film of 1987. These successes made him a star director.<ref name="harmetz19881030">{{cite news |last=Harmetz |first=Aljean |author-link=Aljean Harmetz |date=October 30, 1988 |title=Leonard Nimoy at the Controls |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/30/movies/leonard-nimoy-at-the-controls.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=May 24, 2011}}</ref> He directed ''[[The Good Mother (1988 film)|The Good Mother]]'' (1988) and ''[[Funny About Love]]'' (1990). In 1994 he directed his last feature film, ''[[Holy Matrimony (1994 film)|Holy Matrimony]]''. His final directorial credit was "Killshot", the 1995 pilot episode for ''[[Deadly Games (TV series)|Deadly Games]]'', a short-lived science-fiction television series.

At a press conference promoting the 2009 ''Star Trek'' movie, he said he had no further plans or ambition to direct although he enjoyed it.<ref name="Powers">{{cite interview |last1=Nimoy |first1=Leonard |last2=Quinto |first2=Zachary |subject-link2=Zachary Quinto |interviewer=Nicole Powers |title=Leonard Nimoy And Zachary Quinto: The Two Faces Of Spock |url=https://suicidegirls.com/girls/nicole_powers/blog/2680122/leonard-nimoy-and-zachary-quinto-the-two-faces-of-spock/ |work=[[SuicideGirls]] |publisher=Sg Services, Inc. |location=Los Angeles |date=May 1, 2009 |access-date=August 2, 2010}}</ref>