Long before he donned the Vulcan ears and boldly went where no man had gone before as Mr. Spock, Leonard Nimoy checked into General Hospital and played a drug dealer named Bernie Smith on a single episode, the 17th episode of the show's inaugural season. Nimoy had just turned 32 and was very early in his acting career when he took the GH role.
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Nimoy never publicly spoke about his time on GH, but footage of his appearance survives in the ABC archives — and his paystub for the episode still exists. Soap opera historian Gary Warner discovered it while researching his 1995 coffee-table book, General Hospital: The Complete Scrapbook.
To date, this is the only known image of Nimoy’s GH appearance, reproduced in Warner’s book:
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Were you watching GH when Nimoy aired as Bernie Smith? Do you remember his appearance — or the storyline that broke Peggy and Roy’s reunion? Tell us in the comments, and come back next week to see which actor we spotlight next in Before They Were Stars.
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