10 Things That Wouldn't Exist Without Leonard Nimoy

5. Three Men And A Baby

It's always a surprise to note, but Nimoy did have a short run as a director as well as an actor. Less surprising when you consider he was offered the chance to helm Star Trek III: The Quest For Spock, with the producers wanting to keep him around even though SPOILERS he'd been killed off in the previous film, Wrath Of Khan. He also directed 1986's Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, before capping off this side of his career with the pilot episode of unsucessful sci-fi TV series Deadly Games in 1995. Before he hung up his directing cap (and jodhpurs, and one of those cones they used before megaphones), however, he directed one of the most successful comedies of the eighties. Yes, it was Spock who was responsible for Three Men And A Baby, the in retrospect rather peculiar crime thriller/comedy starring the rather peculiar combination of Ted Danson, Tom Selleck, and Steve Guttenberg. It ended up being the biggest American box office hit of 1987, winning a People's Choice Award, so he must've done something right.