William Shatner Biography

Birthday: 1931-03-22
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec Canada
Height: 5' 9½" (1.77 m)
Wiki Biography: William Alan Shatner was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Handsome actor who - despite his detractors - has notched up an impressive 50-years-plus in front of the camera, most recently displaying 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 USS Enterprise. Shatner spent many years honing his craft in television and live theater before debuting alongside Yul Brynner in The Brothers Karamazov (1958). He was kept busy during the 1960s in films such as The Intruder (1962) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and on television guest-starring in dozens of series such as "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955), "The Defenders" (1961), "The Outer Limits" (1963) and "Twilight Zone" (1959). In 1966, Shatner boarded the USS Enterprise for three seasons of "Star Trek" (1966), co-starring alongside Leonard Nimoy, with the series eventually becoming a bona-fide cult classic with a worldwide legion of fans known as "Trekkies".
After "Star Trek" folded, Shatner spent the rest of the decade and the 1970s making the rounds guest-starring on many prime-time television series, including "Hawaii Five-O" (1968), "Marcus Welby, M.D." (1969) and "Ironside" (1967). He has also appeared in several feature films, but they were mainly B-grade (or lower) fare such as the embarrassingly bad Euro western White Comanche (1968) and the campy Kingdom of the Spiders (1977). However, the 1980s saw a major resurgence in Shatner's career with the renewed interest in the original "Star Trek" (1966) series culminating in a series of big-budget "Star Trek" feature films including Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). In addition, he starred in the lightweight police series "T.J. Hooker" (1982) from 1982 to 1986, alongside spunky Heather Locklear, and surprised many fans with his droll comedic talents in Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) and Miss Congeniality (2000).
He has most recently been starring in the David E. Kelley television series "The Practice" (1997) and its spin-off "Boston Legal" (2004).
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Filmography
TV Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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Kraft Television Theatre | Fred Bell / ... | 1947 - 1958 | |
Kaiser Aluminum Hour | 1956 | Drama | |
Star Trek | Captain James T. Kirk | 1966 - 1969 | Adventure |
Star Trek: The Animated Series | Captain James T. Kirk / ... | 1974 | Drama |
T.J. Hooker | Sgt. T.J. Hooker | 1982 | Action |
Rescue 911 | Himself - Host | 1989 - 1996 | |
A Twist in the Tale | The Storyteller | 1999 - 1999 | Family |
Tactic | 2004 - 2005 | ||
How William Shatner Changed the World | 2005 | Documentary | |
Invasion Iowa | 2005 - 2005 | Comedy | |
Vanished | Dave Paulick | 2006 - 2006 | |
Boston Legal | Denny Crane | 2008 | Comedy |
Gotta Catch Santa Claus | Santa Claus | 2008 | Animation |
Weird or What | Himself - Host | 2010 | |
Shit My Dad Says | Dr. Edison Milford Goodson III | 2010 | |
Jersey Shore After Hours | Captain James T. Kirk | 2011 | |
Shatner's Raw Nerve | Himself - Host | 2011 | Talk Show |
Kinderfluisteraar, De | Kirk | 2011 | |
Combat Cash | Captain James T. Kirk | 2011 | Reality Tv |
Worlds Craziest Police Pursuits | Himself - Host | 2011 | |
Inside Men | Captain James T. Kirk | 2012 | Crime |
Movies Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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The Brothers Karamazov | Alexi Karamazov | 1958 | |
Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | Drama, History | |
The People | 1972 | Drama, Sci Fi | |
Go Ask Alice | 1973 | ||
Big Bad Mama | 1974 | 0, 0, Comedy | |
Pray for the Wildcats | 1974 | Thriller | |
The Devil's Rain | Mark Preston | 1975 | |
Kingdom of the Spiders | Dr. Robert 'Rack' Hansen | 1977 | |
Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Captain Kirk | 1979 | 0, Game Show, Sport |
The Kidnapping of the President | 1980 | Thriller, Action, Drama | |
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | James T. Kirk | 1982 | Sport, Game Show, 0, 0 |
Visiting Hours | Gary Baylor | 1982 | Horror, Thriller |
Airplane II: The Sequel | Cdr. Buck Murdock | 1982 | Comedy, Romance, Sci Fi |
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Kirk | 1984 | Game Show, Sport |
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | Kirk | 1986 | 0, Sport, 0 |
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | Kirk | 1989 | Sport, 0, Game Show |
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | Kirk | 1991 | Action, Mystery, Sci Fi |
Loaded Weapon 1 | 1993 | Action, Comedy, Crime | |
Star Trek: Generations | Kirk | 1994 | Action, Mystery, Sci Fi |
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie | 1995 | Documentary, History | |
Free Enterprise | 1999 | Comedy, Romance | |
Falcon Down | 2000 | ||
Miss Congeniality | Stan Fields | 2000 | Action, Comedy, Crime |
Osmosis Jones | Mayor Phlegmming | 2001 | 0, 0, 0 |
Groom Lake | 2002 | ||
Shoot or Be Shot | Harvey Wilkes | 2002 | Comedy |
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous | Stan Fields | 2005 | Biography, Game Show, 0, 0 |
Over the Hedge | Ozzie | 2006 | 0, Drama, 0 |
Stalking Santa | 2007 | ||
Horrorween | Cameo | 2008 | |
Star Trek | Captain James T. Kirk | 2009 | Sport, 0 |
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey | 2010 | ||
Land of the Free | 2017 |