Beam me up
Actor James Doohan, who played the chief engineer Montgomery Scott in Star Trek, has died at the age of 85.
Doohan, whose role was immortalised in the line "Beam me up, Scotty", had been suffering from pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease, his agent said.
His wife of 28 years, Wende, was by his side, Steve Stevens added.
Doohan was a popular character actor when he auditioned for the part in 1966. When the series ended in 1969, he found himself typecast in the role.
The Canadian-born actor was a master of dialect, developed during his years on radio.
When asked what accent he thought his Star Trek character should have, he said: "I believed the Scot voice was the most commanding."
Doohan's character Scotty manned the Star Trek enterprise with Captain James T Kirk, played by William Shatner, and Mr Spock, played by Leonard Nimoy.
They starred together for three seasons before US network NBC cancelled it because of weak ratings.
But the team was reassembled when the franchise hit the big screen. Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released in cinemas in 1979.
Doohan appeared in seven big screen episodes of Star Trek, and continued to voice the franchise's video games into the late 1990s.