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- Ninety-year-old William Shatner, who gained fame portraying Captain Kirk on the original “Star Trek,” just hitched a ride aboard a suborbital spacecraft that grazed the edge of outer space before parachuting to a landing, making Shatner the oldest person ever to travel to space.
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William Shatner OC (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor. In a career spanning seven decades, he is best known for his portrayal of James T. Kirk in the Star Trek franchise, from his 1966 debut as the captain of the starship Enterprise in the second pilot of the first Star Trek television series to his final appearance as Captain Kirk in the seventh Star Trek feature film, Star Trek ...
Apr 2, 2014 · (1931-) Who Is William Shatner? Actor, director, author, singer William Shatner is best known for his roles on Boston Legal and Star Trek. Early Life. Born on March 22, 1931, in Montreal,...
Oct 13, 2021 · How William Shatner will make history today. At 90, William Shatner is poised to become the oldest person to take a sub-orbital space flight. In July at age 82, aviator Wally Funk broke...
Nov 19, 2023 · 5 Fascinating Facts About William Shatner. 1. Early Odd Job – To make ends meet as a young actor, he worked as a night manager at a Canadian railroad board company. 2. Champion Equestrian – An avid horse rider, Shatner competes in equestrian events and founded a massive 360-acre horse farm. 3.
Oct 13, 2021 · It was that history, that legacy—both his own and that of the series—that Shatner carried to the launch pad this morning and then into space.
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Shatner made his Broadway debut in a production of Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine in 1956. A few years later, he landed his first major film role alongside Yul Brynner in a 1958 adaptation of Dostoevsky’s classic novel The Brothers Karamazov.
Work on the second pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” began in 1965. The show aired on September 22, 1966, and featured William Shatner as Capt. James T. Kirk, replacing actor Jeffrey Hunter.
