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     • The actor who played Scotty, James Doohan, wasn’t just not Scottish… his family was actually Irish.
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   Was James Doohan Irish?

   • The actor who played Scotty, James Doohan, wasn’t just not Scottish… his family was actually Irish. And that’s just the beginning of a remarkable life story that took James Doohan — who would have been 100 years old this month — from Canada to the battlefields of World War II to Hollywood and, eventually, outer space.

   Star Trek's Scotty, James Doohan, Was an Irish Canadian WWII Veteran

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   Who is James Doohan?

   • In his iconic role on Star Trek as “Scotty,” James Doohan inspired a whole generation of real-life aeronautical engineers. But many of those who idolize him don’t even know about his real-world heroic exploits as one of the 14,000 Canadian soldiers who landed on the shores of Normandy during World War II.

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   Who is James Montgomery Doohan?

   • James Montgomery Doohan ( / ˈduːən /; March 3, 1920 – July 20, 2005) was a Canadian actor and author, best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television and film series Star Trek.

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   How did James Doohan become famous?

   • After he was shipped back to Canada he began an acting career with drama classes in Toronto. Later he won a scholarship to attend The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City where fellow Canadian Leslie NIELSEN was a classmate. James Doohan became famous for his role as Chief Engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in Star Trek.

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   Doohan was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the youngest of four children of William Patrick Doohan and Sarah Frances (née Montgomery), who both emigrated from Bangor, Northern Ireland. His father, William Doohan, was born in Belfast , [4] and was a pharmacist , veterinarian and dentist , and a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland .

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   Mar 16, 2020 · Star Trek’s chief engineer, Montgomery Scott, may be the most famously Scottish person in all of pop culture. But here’s something fascinating: The actor who played Scotty, James Doohan, wasn’t...

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   Jul 5, 2022 · James Doohan’s Early Life. Television’s most famous Scotsman was actually a Canadian of Irish descent. Born on March 3, 1920, in Vancouver to a pair of Irish immigrants, James Doohan was the youngest of four children.

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   Oct 19, 2014 · His parents, Sarah Frances (Montgomery) and William Patrick Doohan, were emigrants from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. He was raised Catholic, and had both Irish Catholic and Ulster-Scots/Northern Irish Protestant ancestry.

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   James Doohan, the son of Irish immigrants, was brought up in Sarnia, Ont. He graduated from the Sarnia Collegiate Institute and Technical School in 1938 and joined the Canadian Army shortly thereafter.

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    Jul 14, 2021 · James Doohan was born in Canada and had Scottish accent on the Starship Enterprise — but genealogist says his ancestry was 100% Irish.