At age 90, William Shatner broke a record by becoming the oldest man to travel to space. [24] In 2011, McGill University awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Letters. [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. 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. In the same scene, a waitress asked Ed if he wanted to tackle "Rocket Man" and he answered "Not tonight!". 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. As well as anecdotes about Star Trek conventions, the book features interviews with some of the most devoted fans of the Star Trek franchise, including conversations with several Trekkies who regard the show not just as entertainment but as philosophically significant.[55]. Shatner has been friends with actress Heather Locklear since 1982, when she began co-starring with him on T. J. Hooker. . William Shatner made his official acting debut in 1951. Shatner and all the other original Star Trek cast members returned to their roles when Paramount produced Star Trek: The Motion Picture, released in 1979. [6] His most successful album was his third, Seeking Major Tom (2011), which includes covers of Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly", David Bowie's "Space Oddity" and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". Even worse, after doing a PSA test, the doctor told him he had an aggressive form of cancer. Not the Bill Shatner I know." In 1995, he narrated Peter Kuran's documentary film Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie, and his TekWar franchise expanded into the world of computer games with a first-person shooter release, William Shatner's TekWar. [156] In 2017, he acted as the honorary captain of a ship hosting "Star Trek: The Cruise", the first Star Trek cruise that CBS Productions licensed, an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast of Star Trek's original pilot episode. [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". 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Researchers think that tinnitus can be triggered by exposure to very loud noise, and Shatner believes that his falling prey to it might be the result of a pyrotechnical accident that happened during the shooting of the 1967 Star Trek episode "Arena". In 1982, Shatner was once again the leading character of a high-profile television show when he was cast as a veteran Los Angeles police sergeant in T. J. Hooker. 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. [54], In May 1999, Simon & Schuster published Shatner's book Get a Life!, a memoir of his experiences with Trekkies. [14][15] He is the middle child of three siblings: he has an older sister, Joy Rutenberg (1928) and a younger sister, Farla Cohen (1940). [70], In April 2010, Shatner began hosting the Discovery Channel show Weird or What, which aired until August 2012. 2016 No. Although the resurrection of Star Trek from oblivion only came about because of the enthusiasm of Trekkies, Shatner's attitude towards them is not uncritical. . Twice she almost drank herself to death. 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. [56][57] In December 2008, he experimented with the chat show genre in the humorous Shatner's Raw Nerve, which aired until March 2011. The series was not picked up, and the pilot remained unaired until 1968, when it was repackaged as a TV movie to capitalize on the fame that West and Shatner had won in the interim. In the same year, he had the lead role in a legal drama, For the People, starring as an assistant district attorney married to a woman played by Jessica Walter; ironically, it was only the show's cancellation after its 13-episode first season that allowed him to walk onto the bridge of the Enterprise the following year. William Shatner (born 1931) is a Canadian actor who has had a career in film and television for seven decades. There is this fiction that Bill and Leonard [Nimoy] were good friends, but we know betterLeonard privately expressed his irritation with Bill. 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. [126], Shatner's third wife was Nerine Kidd, whom he married in 1997. In a much-discussed 1986 Saturday Night Live sketch about a Star Trek convention, he advised a room full of Trekkies to "get a life". Shatner's film work in this phase of his career was limited to such B-movies as Roger Corman's Big Bad Mama (1974), the horror film The Devil's Rain (1975)[29] and Kingdom of the Spiders (1977). After David E. Kelley saw Shatner's commercials,[29] he brought Shatner on to the final season of the legal drama The Practice. )[105][106][107][108] On June 28, 2002, Shatner appeared with Brian Evans at the San Carlos Institute Theatre in Key West, Florida and duetted with him in the songs "What Kind of Fool Am I" and "The Lady Is a Tramp": the concert was later released as the album Brian Evans Live with Special Guest: William Shatner. Peter Bradshaw. We will all miss his humor, his talent, and his capacity to love." Digital Pictures, a special effects studio that operated from 1994 to 2010. The film also included a conversation between Shatner and his Star Trek VI co-star Christopher Plummer, a sequence celebrating a friendship that began when the two actors both took part in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and reflecting Shatner's profound admiration for his colleague. RT America ceased transmitting altogether on March 3.[93]. He's an actor. History CAN repeat itself. He opened mock-hostilities on July 27, 2009, with a poetry slam inspired recitation of the speech in which she had resigned the governorship of Alaska. He also had a supporting role in the comedy DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004), which starred Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn. [52][53] He was also the Chief Executive Officer of the Toronto, Ontario-based C.O.R.E. [46] His amusement at the behaviour of the lunatic fringe of his admirers was reflected in the romantic comedy movie Free Enterprise (1998), in which he contributed a caricature of himself to a film that satirized some Trekkies' Kirk idolatry. For Trekkies, his most notable project of the year was the first Star Trek film that he had directed since Star Trek V. The Captains, which he also wrote and presented, was a feature-length documentary in which he interviewed all five of the actors who had played the principal role in the Star Trek sequels that had been created up to that pointPatrick Stewart of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Avery Brooks of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Kate Mulgrew of Star Trek: Voyager, Scott Bakula of Star Trek: Enterprise and Chris Pine of J. J. Abrams's 2009 movie. 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[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. [113][114] Invited to join Chris Boshuizen, Glen de Vries and Audrey Powers on the trip by Blue Origin's creator, the entrepreneur and Trekkie Jeff Bezos, he began his real-world visit to space at Blue Origin's Launch Site One in West Texas, travelling on the RSS First Step, a New Shepard suborbital rocket capsule. 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]. In January 2007, he began posting daily autobiographical vlogs on the LiveVideo platform in a project that he named ShatnerVision; rebranded as The Shatner Project, his vlogging migrated to YouTube the following year. After a three-week run at the Music Box, the show toured throughout the United States. Shatner was cast as Captain James T. Kirk for the second pilot of Star Trek, titled "Where No Man Has Gone Before". 05:00 Undercover Boss US. He was best known for playing Capt. [146], Shatner participates in the Hollywood Home Games of the World Poker Tour, in which celebrities try to win money for their favourite charities. 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. When Nimoy died in 2015, Shatner said, "I loved him like a brother. 16:05 Forged in Fire. Early Life. A running gag is that the golden goose that "Knight" rides keeps trying to attack Nick Cannon. In December 1958, directed by Kirk Browning, he appeared opposite Ralph Bellamy as a Roman tax collector in Bethlehem on the day of Jesus's birth in a Hallmark Hall of Fame live television production entitled The Christmas Tree, the cast list of which included Jessica Tandy, Margaret Hamilton, Bernadette Peters, Richard Thomas, Cyril Ritchard, and Carol Channing. The LPs' bill of fare included him reminiscing about his work on Star Trek and reading excerpts from Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds and Bertolt Brecht's Galileo. In 1951, he had a small role in a Canadian comedy drama, The Butler's Night Off: its credits list him as Bill Shatner, and describe his role simply as "a crook". [157] Shatner was dismayed that the cruise offered its customers an opportunity to swim with dolphins, and petitioned the CEO of the Norwegian Cruise Line through PETA not to include dolphins in the programme of their 2018 cruise: "The exploitation of any species for profit and entertainment would have violated the Prime Directive. 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Pat Boone CelebrityToupee Wearer. [27] After graduating, he worked as an assistant manager and actor at both the Mountain Playhouse in Montreal and the Canadian National Repertory Theatre in Ottawa before joining the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario. Two years before its release, his own tale of how the characters of the original series of Star Trek might have come together was published in his novel Star Trek: Academy Collision Course. 04:00 Vanderpump Rules. 1964 also saw Shatner cast in an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu. On an episode of the A&E series Biography, where it was also divulged that Nimoy was Shatner's best man at his wedding with his fourth wife Elizabeth, Nimoy said, "Bill Shatner hogging the stage? Enterprise. 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. As she combined her work on Hooker with a semi-regular role in Dynastyalso an Aaron Spelling productionshe was asked by Entertainment Tonight whether she was finding her schedule difficult. 14:10 The UnXplained With William Shatner. He had hit songs and that sort of thing. On the anniversary of Nimoy's death, Shatner released Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man. The most obvious is the casting of William Shatner himself as Commander Buck Murdock, played like a less stable Kirk. 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. [26], Shatner's movie career began while he was still at college. William Shatner Celebrity Hair Piece. [118], Shatner has been married four times. 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. Family Reunion. I woke up about eight o'clock the next morning and Nerine was drunk. I don't think I've even seen all the episodes from my series. 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 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. Shatner remained with Boston Legal until, after five seasons and one hundred and one episodes, it ended in 2008. Criticized by a Russian journalist for his involvement with the government-controlled outlet, Shatner branded his accuser a hypocrite and compared his contract with RT to the arrangement through which the channel had acquired the right to broadcast American football games. To build new outposts. In 2006, Shatner sold a kidney stone that had been surgically extracted from him to the online auction company GoldenPalace.com for $25,000, after rejecting an earlier bid of $15,000 with the observation that collectors had paid more than $100,000 for one of his Star Trek tunics. 17:00 American Pickers. [128] He later told Larry King in an interview that "my wife, whom I loved dearly, and who loved me, was suffering with a disease that we don't like to talk about: alcoholism. Much like their characters on Star Trek, Shatner and Nimoy had a professional rivalry that developed into a close friendship. [95] A year later, the recording was reissued by another company, again as a double LP, now titled William Shatner Live: Captain of the Starship. He also took part in the coin toss before the subsequent 80th Rose Bowl college football game. [90], "My prayers are with the people of the Ukraine, as I watch events unfolding on TV with such brave people fighting an overwhelming force, I am reminded ironically enough of Stalingrad, when the Nazis, on their way to Moscow, thought they could overwhelm that city. [133], Nimoy spoke about their mutual rivalry during the Star Trek years:[134]. Working on T. J. Hooker inspired Shatner with the idea of developing a television show in which he would play a character that would be a hybrid of Hooker and Kirka hard-boiled former police officer working as a private investigator in a dystopian future. Everything in this film, in fact, is beside the point, save for the fact that it stars the genetic miracle of the modern . [45] Their adoration of him took unwelcome forms almost from the beginning of his time as Captain Kirk; as early as April 1968, a group of them attempted to tear his clothes from him as he left 30 Rockefeller Plaza. 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