7) Leonard Nimoy – Star Trek
William Shatner was reputed to be miffed that he wasn’t offered a similar cameo in J.J Abram’s 2009 superlative reboot, but Kirk’s presence was superfluous to the plot, and who better to add the requisite gravitas without slipping into wink-wink territory than (Prime) Spock himself.
The face-to-face with his younger self at the end of the film offers a one of the more touching (and human) moments in the franchise’s history.
