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. 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. On May 19, 1983, the iconic status of Captain Kirk was acknowledged with a ceremony celebrating Shatner's being awarded the 1,762nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Plato's Stepchildren, aired on November 22, 1968, earned Shatner a footnote in the history of American race relations: a kiss that Captain Kirk planted on the lips of Lieutenant Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) is often cited as the first example of a white man kissing a black woman on scripted television in the United States. He was best known for playing Capt. [131][bettersourceneeded] The divorce was finalized in January 2020. He has claimed that the only Star Trek movie that he has screened is the one that he directed and so necessarily viewed when it was being edited, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,[116] although in his 1993 book Star Trek Memories, he recalls how disappointed he felt when he attended the premiere of the first Star Trek movie, Robert Wise's Star Trek: The Motion Picture. One of William . Shatner was raised in Montreal. [28] His roles at the Festival included a part in Marlowe's Tamburlaine, in which he made his Broadway debut in 1956. 19511966: Early stage, film, and television work, Performances of songs on television and in films, "William Shatner blows $20K for a contestant". 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]. 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. 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NCIS' Sean Murray Praises The Current Cast As The Series Hits 450 episodes. 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. [59][60][61][62] Two days later, he ridiculed some of the tweets that she and Levi Johnston, the father of her grandchild, had published on Twitter. [80] In 2015, he played Mark Twain in an episode of the Canadian historical crime drama series Murdoch Mysteries,[81] and Croatoan the dangerous, interdimensional father of Audrey Parker in the last episodes of the fifth and final season of SyFy channel's fantasy series Haven. [36][37][38] In 1973, Shatner returned to the role of Kirk, albeit only in voice, in the animated Star Trek series, which ran for two seasons and twenty-two episodes. Television audiences were introduced to Shatner's unorthodox musicianship not long after Star Trek had made him famous. Rescue 911: With William Shatner, David Teschendorf, Dick Warlock, John Sherrod. [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. Guthrie too rated the young Shatner very highly, later recalling him as the most promising actor that his Festival employed, and for a time, he was seen as a potential peer of Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Robert Redford. His career diversified further in the 1980s when he began working as a director, taking charge of many episodes of T. J. Hooker. [16][17] His patrilineal family name was Schattnerit was his grandfather, Wolf Schattner, who anglicized it. 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. With very little money and few acting prospects, he lost his home and was for a time so poor that he was reduced to living in a truck-bed camper in the San Fernando Valley. 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. (Life imitated art in Gary, Indiana in 2001, when Shatner visited the town to host the Miss USA Pageant for real). "[42][43], After Star Trek was cancelled, it acquired a cult following among people watching syndicated reruns of the series, and Captain Kirk became a cultural icon. ET, October 13, 2021. 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. Returning home at around 10 p.m. on August 9, 1999, he found her lying lifeless at the bottom of their backyard swimming pool. Many of the actors who had crewed the Enterprise became frequent guests at these events, Shatner included.[44]. 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 contributions to the Pyramid series included a week-long match-up that pitted him against Leonard Nimoy in an event billed as "Kirk versus Spock". [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. In 2005, he was heard in the track "'64 - Go" on the Lemon Jelly album '64 - '95. His mistake meant that the contestant paired with him was automatically disqualified from receiving what would have been a prize of $20,000. Entertainment and Shatner Singularity Introduce Stan Lee's God Woke! Science fiction icon William Shatner has been a darling of American pop culture almost since the day he stepped foot on the Enterprise. In addition to treating songs with apparently serious intent, Shatner has sometimes offered performances which, like many passages from his memoirs, are exercises in self-mockery. [97][98] Shatner's colleagues on the project included popular musicians of considerable notability: the country star Brad Paisley, Zakk Wylde of Black Label Society, Peter Frampton, Brian May of Queen, Steve Howe from Yes, John Wetton from King Crimson and Asia, Ritchie Blackmore from Deep Purple, Alan Parsons and Bootsy Collins of Parliament-Funkadelic. 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. [151][152] In an appearance on The View on May 16, 2006, he said that the proceeds of the sale and an additional $20,000 raised from the cast and crew of Boston Legal had been donated to the housing charity Habitat for Humanity. [79], On April 24, 2014, Shatner performed an autobiographical one-man show on Broadway, which was filmed for subsequent screening in more than 700 theatres across Australia, Canada and the United States. Later, after doing his research, Shatner found a connection between testosterone (he was regularly taking hormone supplements) and prostate cancer. Enterprise. 4. 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. [130] Shatner filed for divorce from Elizabeth in 2019. On March 29, 2006, TV Land aired a Shatner-centred episode of their Living in TV Land series subtitled "William Shatner in Concert". The episodes' story involves Shatner's character becoming attracted to Nolan and trying to insert himself into her defence. 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. William Shatner made his official acting debut in 1951. 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. Film [ edit] Television [ edit] Video games [ edit] Commercials [ edit] See also [ edit] William Shatner's musical career William Shatner became famous for playing Captain Kirk on the 1960s TV series "Star Trek" and in seven films. 2016 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. or "When did you get your lobotomy?". He also starred in an episode of Gunsmoke in 1966 as the character Fred Bateman. 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. In 1963, he starred in the Family Theater production called "The Soldier" and received credits in other programs of The Psalms series. Shatner's first-ever credited film role was in 1951's The Butler's Night Off. [54], In May 1999, Simon & Schuster published Shatner's book Get a Life!, a memoir of his experiences with Trekkies. [133], Nimoy spoke about their mutual rivalry during the Star Trek years:[134]. [121][122] The couple had three daughters: Leslie (born in 1958), Lisabeth (born in 1961) and Melanie (born in 1964). He went on to play Kirk in six further Star Trek films: 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), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) andin a story that culminated in the captain's self-sacrificial deathStar Trek Generations (1994). Shatner began his screen acting career in Canadian films and television productions before moving into guest-starring roles in various US television shows. [141], Shatner revealed in 2020 that he suffers from swollen joints and various age-related "aches and pains". Not the Bill Shatner I know." 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