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He appeared as James Kirk in all the episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, 21 of the 22 episodes of Star Trek: The Animated Series, and the first seven Star Trek movies. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences before, during and after his time in a Starfleet uniform.
- March 22, 1931 (age 92), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 1951–present
- Bill Shatner
Mar 16, 2023 · March 16, 2023 1:37pm. William Shatner at SXSW Jason Bollenbacher/Getty Images. William Shatner recalled how he managed to land the role of Captain James T. Kirk on the original 1966 Star...
Mar 22, 2024 · There’s no question that the greatest roles of William Shatner have Captain James T. Kirk from the original Star Trek at the top of the list, but in a career that has spanned more than 75 years, he’s brought a great number of other parts to life as well.
- Biography
- Early Career
- Playing James T. Kirk
- Post-Tos Career
- Musical Career
- Book Writing
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Shatner was born in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighborhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a Conservative Jewish household. A native English speaker, he is also fluent in French. He received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill Universityin Montreal, where the Student Center was unofficially renamed "The Shatner Center" in the 1990s in a student...
Shatner began his screen acting career in Canadian films and television productions, including the role of Ranger Bob during the first year of the popular children's show Howdy Doody. He was also seen in a 1952 episode of Omnibus with future Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country co-star Christopher Plummer, who also hails from Montreal. In fact, S...
Stardom was not immediate for Shatner or the rest of the Star Trek cast. Ratings for the series were low and, after only three years, resulted in its cancellation in 1969. But that same year, the Apollo 11 moon landing transformed the vision of interplanetary travel from fantasy to a more realistic possibility. Star Trekreruns gained new popularity...
1970s
In the aftermath of Star Trek's cancellation Shatner continued to work steadily in film and television; because his marriage to Gloria Rand had failed, he was no longer living to pursue his career as a direct result, but instead pursuing his career to live. The year after Trek's apparent demise, Shatner starred in the made-for-TV movies Sole Survivor (which also featured a former Star Trek co-star, John Winston) and The Andersonville Trial (with John Anderson, Harry Townes, Whit Bissell, Robe...
1980s
Unlike many actors who have become identified to specific characters in film and television, Shatner has been able to escape typecasting and continued to find roles outside the realm of Trek which have also been popular; this is due at least in part to, as having been pointed out above, his having pursued his career to live rather than his living to pursue his career. From 1982 to 1986, he starred in the title role of T.J. Hooker, a hard-boiled police officer. That series also starred Star Tr...
1990s and 2000s
Continuing his trend towards "lampooning" himself Shatner starred as the villain in yet another spoof, National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, in 1993. James Doohan also made a gag appearance in his beloved role of Scotty (albeit, as a 20th century police officer in charge of repairing the police station's cappuccino machine), while F. Murray Abraham, Whoopi Goldberg, and Charles Napieralso had cameos. Loaded Weapon 1 was followed in 1998 with the popular Free Enterprise (written/produced by Mark...
Between 1967 and 1970 both William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy recorded covers of famous songs for MCA, which were later collected in the album "Spaced Out: The Best of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner." Shatner is also (in)famous for his rendition of the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," as well as his spoken word cover of Elton John's ...
Following the death of Kirk in Star Trek Generations, Shatner has written, with the assistance of Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, as stated above, a set of nine novels, chronicling the resurrection and subsequent adventures of Kirk in the 24th century. His tenth novel, Star Trek: Academy - Collision Course, shows his own views of how the Star T...
Shatner appeared on the USA Network's and the World Wrestling Federation's Monday Night RAW to promote TekWar, where he was involved in an altercation with Jerry "The King" Lawler. Shatner personally inducted Lawler into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2007. He later guest hosted the February 1, 2009 episode of RAW, which included a segment with Trek alumn...
Shatner once bought a horse from the father-in-law of Scott Bakula, who played Captain Jonathan Archer on Star Trek: Enterprise.Shatner suffers from tinnitus, along with the late Leonard Nimoy, reportedly due to a special effect explosion on the set of the Star Trek episode "Arena". Shatner has since then become involved wi...On 28 March 2013, a humorous advertisement for the Star Trek video game depicted Shatner "fighting" a Gornin a parody of this episode.Actor John Lithgow, whom Shatner worked with on 3rd Rock from the Sun, essentially played Shatner's character from the Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" when it was remade for Twilig...TNG Season 5 DVD special feature "A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry" ("Gene Roddenberry Building Dedicated to Star Trek's Creator"), interviewed on 6 June 1991
William Shatner at MySpace.comWilliam Shatner at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star TrekworksWilliam Shatner at WikipediaMar 22, 2024 · A classically trained Shakespearean actor, Shatner enjoyed a number of small stage, movie, and television roles before being cast as the compassionate, intrepid Captain of the USS Enterprise.
Mar 18, 2024 · Movie Features. William Shatner on His Biggest ‘Star Trek’ Regret – and Why He Cried With Bezos. From Captain Kirk to ‘Boston Legal’ lawyer Denny Crane, the 92-year-old THR Icon reflects on...
Feb 20, 2024 · William Shatner reveals the 1 way he'd return to Star Trek as Kirk. Ahead of his 'Ancient Aliens' debut, the legendary actor talks Star Trek, his latest documentary, and why he thinks we're not...
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