He has also appeared in video games, primarily as James T. Kirk, as well as a number of commercials. The Best of Star Trek: The Original Series. With his 2005 Emmy accolade, he became one of the few actors (along with co-star James Spader as Alan Shore) to win an Emmy Award while playing the same character in two different shows. He had a starring role too in the western-themed secret agent series Barbary Coast during 1975 and 1976, and appeared as a guest of the week in many popular shows of that decade, including Columbo, Ironside, Kung Fu, Mission: Impossible, The Rookies and The Six Million Dollar Man. Shatner has starred in movies and television shows for seven decades. Running for five seasons and ninety-one episodes until 1986, the series partnered Shatner with Heather Locklear and James Darren, later to be a recurring cast member of the third live-action Star Trek show, Deep Space Nine. Calcutta!) [102] A tenth album, Bill, was announced by Shatner on August 26, 2021, and released on September 24.[103][104]. But, by gosh, the price is right. They love that guy!" [citation needed], To supplement his income from acting, Shatner performed as a celebrity guest in a multitude of television game shows, among them Beat the Clock, Celebrity Bowling, The Hollywood Squares, Match Game, Tattletales and Mike Stokey's Stump the Stars. Ever since its Apollo 15 lunar mission, NASA has woken up its astronauts with specially tailored recordings. History CAN repeat itself. In 2003, Shatner appeared in Brad Paisley's Celebrity and Online music videos along with Little Jimmy Dickens, Jason Alexander and Trista Rehn. [123][124][125], Shatner's second wife was Marcy Lafferty, the daughter of the television producer Perry Lafferty. [77][78] On September 25, he revisited the music video genre, appearing as a home plate umpire in the crooner Brian Evans's baseball-themed "At Fenway". He announced his participation in the series in a Twitter post quoting one of its catchphrases, and disclosed that he was himself a so-called brony, one of the show's devotees. [10][11][9][12], Shatner was born on March 22, 1931, in the Notre-Dame-de-Grce neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a Conservative Jewish household. On New Year's Day 1994, Shatner was the Grand Marshal of the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California. [75][76] On July 28, he appeared on the premium cable TV channel Epix as the star of Get a Life!, a documentary film about Star Trek fandom developed from the 1999 book about Trekkies that he had written in the aftermath of his Saturday Night Live rebuke to them. On television, he made a critically praised appearance as a prosecutor in a 1971 PBS adaptation of Saul Levitt's play The Andersonville Trial, and was also seen in major parts in the movies The People (1972) and The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973). Her 30-year mission: To seek out new science. Bill's energy was very good for my performance, because Spock could then be the cool individual. [26], Shatner's movie career began while he was still at college. [139] Doohan too achieved a warmer relationship with Shatner eventually, although it took a long time for the two men to build a rapport. 01:00 NCIS: Los Angeles. William Shatner has revealed the secret to how he manages to look so youthful at 90, maintaining that he's never had any work done. In 1954, Shatner decided to leave Stratford and move to New York City in the hope of building a career on the Broadway stage. 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[117]:201, Shatner is a longtime U.S. resident and has a green card. 05:45 Nyhetsmorgon. Produced by Ben Folds, it included a number of songs co-written with Folds and arranged by him, as well as a cover of the Pulp hit "Common People" performed with Joe Jackson. In 2016, Shatner revealed that despite their long and affectionate relationship, he and Nimoy had not spoken to each other in the five years before his death the year before. . He says that there are episodes of the original Star Trek television show that he has never seen,[115] and he is just as averse to watching his performance in Boston Legal. February 13, 2001 - present (filed for divorce), 20,000 plus 7 1/2 percentage of the gross, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). [110] In the fourth episode of his sitcom $*! In his 2008 book Up Till Now: The Autobiography, Shatner disclosed how Leonard Nimoy, himself no stranger to alcoholism, had done his best to try to avert the tragedy that Kidd's affliction threatened: Leonard Nimoy's personal experience of alcoholism now came to play a central role in my life and it helped us bond together in a way I never could have imagined in the early days of Star Trek. According to Pat Jordan, Shatner's Emmy Award-winning role, the eccentric but highly capable attorney Denny Crane, was essentially "William Shatner the man playing William Shatner the character playing the character Denny Crane, who was playing the character William Shatner. ", Shatner became the focus of political controversy in 2021, when it was revealed that a popular science documentary show that he would host, I Don't Understand with William Shatner, was scheduled to be aired on RT, formerly known as Russia Today, from July 12. William Shatner[3][4] OC (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor. [citation needed]. Many of the actors who had crewed the Enterprise became frequent guests at these events, Shatner included.[44]. In seasons 4 and 5 of the NBC series 3rd Rock from the Sun, he played the alien "Big Giant Head" to which the main characters reported. From his time helming the Federation flagship to his. [98] Astronautically themed and with a general flavour of heavy metal, the album featured covers of Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly", David Bowie's "Space Oddity" and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". 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J. Hooker. [82] In the August of that year, Trekkies were treated to a sequel to The Captains which he produced, scripted and directed and in which he starred: William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge, a behind-the-scenes documentary film about Star Trek: The Next Generation. ', August 18, 2015, Today. "[29] Shatner took the Crane role to Boston Legal and won a Golden Globe and an Emmy in 2005, and was Emmy nominated again in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. [39] During an Archive of American Television interview, Richard Dawson disclosed that when Mark Goodson was considering whom to employ as the host of the pilot of Family Feud (1976), he would have chosen Shatner if had not been intimidated into awarding the position to Dawson by a threat from Dawson's agent. [94] The idiosyncratic way with songs that Shatner chose for this LP, an approach so amusical that it scarcely even qualified as Sprechstimme, was a style to which he remained loyal throughout his recording career. 15:05 The Curse of Oak Island. In February, he appeared on Broadway in a one-man show called Shatner's World: We Just Live in It. NCIS; NCIS Los Angeles; Blue Bloods; Jeopardy; Gold Rush; Wheel of Fortune; American Pickers; Storage Wars; Chicago PD; Chicago Med; Chicago Fire; Law & Order; Deadliest Catch; People . I said I did. She picks up a mysterious hitchhiker, who turns out to be a shape-shifting wind demon who was fleeing from the local authorities. In an hourlong chat with emcee Kevin Smith, the 91-year . [86] Another new enterprise that he launched that year was Shatner Singularity, a publisher of comic-books, which has a list including the graphic novel Stan Lee's 'God Woke' by Lee and Mariano and Fabian Nicieza. In the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun, Shatner appeared in several 19992000 episodes as the "Big Giant Head", a high-ranking officer from the same alien planet as the Solomon family who becomes a womanizing party-animal on Earth. Enterprise. And she met a tragic ending because of it."[127]. [63] On December 11, 2009, he returned to Palin once more to read excerpts from her autobiography, Going Rogue: An American Life, and she, taking his teasing in good part, responded by reciting extracts from his own memoir, Up Till Now. Two high-profile animated pictures released in 2006 featured Shatner in their cast. Early Life. [109] Among the music videos for other artists that featured him were one for Ben Folds's "Landed", in which he played the part of a producer, and two for Brad Paisley, one promoting "Celebrity" and the other "Online", with the latter containing a meta-reference in which Shatner appeared to be heartbroken when told that he could not sing. . They worked together again in 2005, when she appeared in two episodes of Boston Legal as Kelly Nolan, a woman being tried for killing her much older, wealthy husband. The Boss Baby: Back in Business. 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 Generations (1994). Shatner was featured in two episodes of the NBC television series Thriller ("The Grim Reaper" and "The Hungry Glass") and the film The Explosive Generation (1961). Shatner has been friends with actress Heather Locklear since 1982, when she began co-starring with him on T. J. Hooker. 05:00 Undercover Boss US. Born on March 22, 1931, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Shatner started his . . [100] Shatner's ninth album, The Blues, was released on October 2, 2020,[101] and reached the number one slot of the Billboard Blues Chart fifteen days later. His final appearances as James Tiberius were in the movie sequences of the video game Starfleet Academy (1997), in a 2006 DirecTV advertisement that used footage from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and at the 2013 Academy Awards, in which he reprised the role for a comedic interlude with the show's host, Seth MacFarlane. Actor, director, author, singer William Shatner is best known for his roles on Boston Legal and Star Trek. Shatner began his screen acting career in Canadian films and television productions before moving into guest-starring roles in various US television shows. An emotional William Shatner says "I hope I can maintain what I feel now. [146], Shatner participates in the Hollywood Home Games of the World Poker Tour, in which celebrities try to win money for their favourite charities. [13] His parents were Ann (ne Garmaise) and Joseph Shatner, a clothing manufacturer. In Miss Congeniality, he performed the song "Miss United States", which was included in the movie's soundtrack album. Sky Conway, the organizer of the penultimate convention attended by Doohan, was a witness to their burying the hatchet: "At our show: 'The Great Bird of the Galaxy' in El Paso, Texas in November 2003, a celebration of Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek, Bill and Jimmy went on stage together. His growing success on television and in movie theatres in the 1980s did not lead him to stop working for advertisers. It's the future, man". 12:10 TV4Vdret. In December 1989, Shatner took part in the British television series This Is Your Life, a show in which a celebrity is ambushed by the host and then taken to a studio for the story of his life to be told in a stream of anecdotes related by his acquaintances: Shatner's episode began with Michael Aspel taking him by surprise on the set of the Starship Enterprise at Universal Studios in Hollywood. After traveling together for a while, the demon turns against Wendy and she kills him. [When asked if he wore a hairpiece] It's a question that I find like asking somebody, "Did you have a breast implant?" In the closing scene of Free Enterprise, he recited an oration of Mark Antony's from Julius Caesar over a rap delivered by The Rated R, a duet listed in the movie's credits as "No Tears for Caesar". In the mid-1970s, noting the growing appetite for Star Trek, Paramount began pre-producing a sequel show, Star Trek: Phase II, in which they planned to present new, younger actors alongside the stars of the original series. [121][122] The couple had three daughters: Leslie (born in 1958), Lisabeth (born in 1961) and Melanie (born in 1964). [133], Nimoy spoke about their mutual rivalry during the Star Trek years:[134]. I woke up about eight o'clock the next morning and Nerine was drunk. [29][30] In Henry V, he combined playing the minor role of the Duke of Gloucester with understudying Christopher Plummer as the king: when a kidney stone obliged Plummer to withdraw from a performance, Shatner's decision to present a distinctive interpretation of his role rather than imitating his senior's impressed Plummer as a striking manifestation of initiative and potential. NCIS' Sean Murray Praises The Current Cast As The Series Hits 450 episodes. Instead, the voyage left him filled with grief, an "overwhelming sadness" and a . Although Shatner was unable to take part in Nimoy's funeral due to other commitments, his daughters attended in his place, and he celebrated his friend's life in an online memorial. [7], In 2021, Shatner flew into space aboard a Blue Origin sub-orbital capsule. Once an autopsy had revealed that her blood contained both alcohol and diazepam, the coroner decided that the cause of her death was accidental drowning and the Los Angeles Police Department, agreeing that there was no evidence of foul play, closed its file on the case. [70], In April 2010, Shatner began hosting the Discovery Channel show Weird or What, which aired until August 2012. [132], Shatner first appeared on screen with Leonard Nimoy in 1964 when both actors guest-starred in an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., "The Project Strigas Affair". [145] In 2019, he won a world championship with his Standardbred road horse Track Star while showing at the Kentucky State Fair World's Championship Horse Show in Louisville. Several of the movies in which Shatner participated featured him in a musical context. Shatner reprised the role in a television series that followed, as well as directing several episodes of it himself, but its run on the USA Network, Syfy and Canada's CTV was brief. 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He had hit songs and that sort of thing. [8][10] In a televised post-flight conversation with Bezos, Shatner articulated experiencing the overview effect, a deepened understanding of the fact that the ecosphere of the Earth is but a thin, fragile skin enveloping its planet. Lasting from 1973 to 1996, their marriage was Shatner's longest, but did not produce any children. In the view of Pat Jordan, author of an in-depth profile of Shatner for The New York Times, his subsequent failure to achieve the acclaim accorded to his starrier contemporaries was attributable to his professional philosophy of "work equals work", and his consequent participation in many "forgettable" projects that probably did his career more harm than good. Shatner also appeared in Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2004), in which Stan Fields is kidnapped in Las Vegas together with the winner of the pageant of the previous year. [64][65][66] (Co-written with David Fisher, later to collaborate with Shatner on a book about Leonard Nimoy and Shatner's relationship with him, Up Till Now had been published in 2008.) [92] Four days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Shatner issued a statement via Twitter expressing unqualified support for the Ukrainians in the resistance that they were mounting against their assailants. Ben Folds's 1998 album Fear of Pop: Volume 1 features Shatner on two tracks, "In Love" and "Still in Love". [118], Shatner has been married four times. Jess Hardiman. [29] Fans of the showso-called Trekkiesbegan organizing conventions where they could meet like-minded enthusiasts, buy Star Trek merchandise and enjoy question and answer sessions with members of the show's regular cast. Aged 90 years, 6 months and 22 days, he became the oldest person to fly into space, surpassing Wally Funk, who had flown on Blue Origin's first crewed spaceflight at the age of 82 in July 2021. We had a celebration in Pasadena, and Leonard was my best man. 1964 also saw Shatner cast in an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The most obvious is the casting of William Shatner himself as Commander Buck Murdock, played like a less stable Kirk. However, astounded by the enormous success that George Lucas's film Star Wars achieved in 1977, the studio decided that Star Trek would earn them more money if the next adventure of the Enterprise took place not on television but in theatres. ", "William Shatner beams into role as Calgary Stampede parade marshal", "William Shatner to lead Calgary Stampede Parade", "Shatner "Beams Down" For Stampede (With Video)", "Salt Lake Comic Con Kicks Off Salt Lake Comic Con 2016 with Announcement of First 13 Guests", "Attention Trekkies: William Shatner's 'Star Trek' cruise wants to beam you up", "Capt. Instead of leading the event in the customary classic car, he presided over it from horseback. And he provided the lead vocals on the progressive rock artist Ben Craven's track "Spy In The Sky Part 3" in Craven's album Last Chance To Hear, released in March 2016. When Nimoy died in 2015, Shatner said, "I loved him like a brother. Since then he has appeared in episodes of JAG, Silk Stalkings, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Burn Notice, and NCIS. In an episode of Dinah Shore's talk show, Dinah!, he used his appearance on it to perform Harry Chapin's "Taxi". In the March of that year, while still performing in that production, he also played detective Archie Goodwin in what would have been television's first Nero Wolfe series, had it not been aborted by CBS after shooting a pilot and a few episodes.[33]. [87] The book won the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards' Outstanding Books of the Year Independent Voice Award. His condition has been ameliorated by habituation therapy that involved his wearing an earpiece delivering low-level white noise which "helped his brain put the tinnitus in the background". On March 29, 2006, TV Land aired a Shatner-centred episode of their Living in TV Land series subtitled "William Shatner in Concert". In 1996, an episode entitled Eye, Tooth saw him guest-starring in Will Smith's television show, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. In Groom Lake, released the following year, Shatner repeated his Star Trek V feat of directing and starring in a movie based on a story of his own inventiona film exploiting the interest in Area 51 kindled by The X-Files, and co-starring a young Amy Acker, later best known as a regular colleague of Joss Whedon. These have been the voyages of the Space Shuttle Discovery. His appearances as a guest star in two episodes of the television detective series Columbo, almost two decades apart, were among his many such contributions to television shows from the 1970s to the 2010s. In 2016, 2017 and 2018, he starred in both seasons of NBC's Better Late Than Never, a comical travel series in which a band of elderly celebrities toured east Asia and Europe. [52][53] He was also the Chief Executive Officer of the Toronto, Ontario-based C.O.R.E. The program featured footage of him working with Ben Folds on Has Been, and included a sequence in which he performed with Folds's band and Joe Jackson; it climaxed with a defiant rendition of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" that was punctuated by him giving the finger. [49] In 1994, Shatner revisited Columbo to play the murderer-of-the-week in the episode Butterfly in shades of grey. The actor wasn't content on simply enjoying the once-in-a-life time experience. A large portion of the revenue of the project went to charity. I don't think I've even seen all the episodes from my series. Getty Images Just like that unexpectedly productive afternoon in London, Shatner,. Avatar: The Last Airbender. Shatner's first-ever credited film role was in 1951's The Butler's Night Off. Total Drama. In the Sandra Bullock comedy movie Miss Congeniality (2000), Shatner played the supporting role of Stan Fields, the co-host of the Miss United States Pageant; his future Boston Legal co-star Candice Bergen took part in the film too. On Oct. 13, actor William Shatner, 90, best known for his role as Star Trek's Captain James T. Kirk, went to space for real aboard a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket. In DreamWorks' Over the Hedge, he voiced Ozzie, an opossum; in Walt Disney's The Wild, he had the role of the movie's villain, Kazar, a megalomaniacal wildebeest. At age 90, he became the oldest person to fly in space and one of the first 600 to do so. William Shatner's appearance on "Saturday Night Live" in 1986 illustrated this scene. [85] Shatner joked that Bradshaw, famous as a quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers, was "putty in my hands". Shatner remained with Boston Legal until, after five seasons and one hundred and one episodes, it ended in 2008. On March 2, he withdrew from his show, citing the invasion as his reason for doing so. 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. 4. Shatner's first venture into the country music genre, Why Not Me, appeared in August 2018, with a new partner in the form of Jeff Cook, best known as a founding member of the American band Alabama. The resulting feature documentary, William Shatner's Gonzo Ballet, was favourably received when it was unveiled at the Nashville Film Festival on April 17, 2009. 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. To boldly go, and do, what no spacecraft has done before. On the anniversary of Nimoy's death, Shatner released Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man. [73], Shatner's 2012 began with his return to his roots in theatre. Richard Schiff (born May 27, 1955) is an American actor and director. "[138] Koenig, on the other hand, accepted Shatner's invitation to appear on his interview series Shatner's Raw Nerve in 2011 and made it clear that the animosity that he had once felt towards Shatner had long since dissipated. Twice she almost drank herself to death. [71] After T.J. Hooker ended, Shatner helped her to get other roles, and after Nerine Shatner's death in 1999, she was solicitous in comforting him in his bereavement. One of the special skills that Shatner was able to offer to casting directors was an expertise in a martial art: he was taught American Kenpo karate by the black belt Tom Bleecker, who had in turn been trained by the founder of American Kenpo, Ed Parker. Not the Bill Shatner I know." [18] All four of Shatner's grandparents were Jewish immigrants: they came from settlements that are currently in Ukraine and Lithuania, but which were then under the rule of Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire. To build new outposts. He also mocked the cavalier, almost superhuman, persona of Captain Kirk in the films Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) and National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993). A pair of newlyweds stopping in a small town are trapped by their own superstition when playing a fortune-telling machine in a local diner. Outside Star Trek, Shatner played the eponymous veteran police sergeant in T. J. Hooker (19821986) and hosted the reality-based television series Rescue 911 (19891996), which won a People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Dramatic Series. William Shatner has notched up an impressive 70-plus years in front of the camera, displaying heady comedic talent and being instantly recognizable to several generations of cult television fans as the square-jawed Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the starship U.S.S. [136][137], Interviewed in London in 2023, Takei made it clear that the passage of time had done nothing to assuage his hostility towards his former colleague: "Shatner is a cantankerous old fossil. To promote his Biography Channel talk show Shatner's Raw Nerve, he guest-hosted World Wrestling Entertainment's flagship show WWE Raw on February 1, 2010, and performed several wrestlers' entrance theme songs. [8][9] Minutes after the flight, he described experiencing the overview effect. When the production of Star Trek V was delayed by a Writer's Guild strike, Shatner began transforming his initial concept into a novel, assisted by an established author of pulp science fiction, Ron Goulart. [131][bettersourceneeded] The divorce was finalized in January 2020. William Shatner (born 1931) is a Canadian actor who has had a career in film and television for seven decades. Shatner also contributed to O'Brien's recurring "In the Year 3000" feature, which began with Shatner's disembodied head floating in space and delivering the segment's portentous tag line: "And so we take a cosmic ride into that new millennium; that far off reality that is the year 3000. In the 1990s, Shatner made numerous attempts to reconcile with Doohan without success; Doohan was the only former Star Trek co-star who declined to be interviewed by Shatner for his first, 1993 memoir, Star Trek Memories. 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