William Shatner
William Shatner | |
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Born | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | March 22, 1931
Other names | Bill Shatner[1][2] |
Education | McGill University (BComm) |
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Years active | 1951–present |
Works | Filmography |
Spouses |
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Children | 3, including Melanie |
Relatives | Joel Gretsch (son-in-law) |
Awards | Full list |
Honours | Officer, Order of Canada |
Website | williamshatner |
William Shatner[3][4] OC (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor. 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 began his screen acting career in Canadian films and television productions before moving into guest-starring roles in various U.S. television shows. 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. He has also co-written several novels set in the Star Trek universe and a series of science fiction novels, the TekWar sequence, that were adapted for television. Outside Star Trek, Shatner played the eponymous veteran police sergeant in T. J. Hooker (1982–1986), hosted the reality-based television series Rescue 911 (1989–1996), guest starred on the detective series Columbo, and acted in the comedy film Miss Congeniality (2000).
Shatner's television career after his last appearance as Captain Kirk has embraced comedy, drama and reality shows. In seasons 4 and 5 of the
Aside from acting, Shatner has had a career as a recording artist, beginning in 1968 with his album The Transformed Man. His cover versions of songs are dramatic recitations of their lyrics rather than musical performances: the most notable are his versions of the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man", and Elton John's "Rocket Man".[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".[7]
In 2021, Shatner flew into space aboard a Blue Origin sub-orbital capsule. At age 90, he became the oldest person to fly in space and one of the first 600 to do so.[8][9] Minutes after the flight, he described experiencing the overview effect.[10][11][9][12]
Early life
Shatner was born on March 22, 1931, in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a Conservative Jewish household.[13] His parents were Ann (née Garmaise; 1905–1992) and Joseph Shatner (1898–1967), a clothing manufacturer.[14] He is the middle (and only son) of three children; his older sister was Joy Rutenberg (1928–2023) and his younger sister is Farla Cohen (1940–).[15][16] His patrilineal family name was Schattner; it was his grandfather, Wolf Schattner, who anglicized the spelling.[17] All four of Shatner's grandparents were Jewish immigrants: they came from settlements in Ukraine and Lithuania, which were then under the rule of Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire.[18][19]
Shatner attended two schools in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Willingdon Elementary School[20] and West Hill High School,[21] and is an alumnus of the Montreal Children's Theatre.[22] He studied economics at the McGill University Faculty of Management in Montreal, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1952.[23] In 2011, McGill University awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Letters.[24] He was granted the same accolade by the New England Institute of Technology in May 2018.[25]
Acting and literary career
1951–1966: Early stage, film, and television work
Shatner's movie career began while he was still at college. 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".
In 1954, Shatner decided to leave Stratford and move to New York City in the hope of building a career on the Broadway stage. He was soon offered the chance to make his first appearance on American television: in a children's program called
In 1959, Shatner received good reviews in the role of Lomax in The World of Suzie Wong on Broadway. 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.[32]
Shatner appeared in two episodes of
In 1964, Shatner guest-starred in the second episode of the second season of the ABC science fiction anthology series The Outer Limits, "Cold Hands, Warm Heart". Also that year, he appeared in an episode of the CBS drama The Reporter, "He Stuck in His Thumb", and played a supporting role in the Western feature film The Outrage, a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon starring Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom and Edward G. Robinson. 1964 also saw Shatner cast in an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. that featured Leonard Nimoy, later to be his co-star in Star Trek. 1964 saw him too as the titular Alexander in the pilot for a proposed series called Alexander the Great alongside Adam West as Cleander. 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. Shatner hoped that the series would be a major success, but West was apparently unsurprised by its failure to proceed, later castigating the pilot for "one of the worst scripts I have ever read" and recalling it as "one of the worst things I've ever done."[35][36]
In 1965, Shatner guest-starred in
1966–1969: Star Trek on television
Shatner was cast as Captain
1970–1978: overcoming typecasting
In the early 1970s, in the immediate aftermath of the cancellation of Star Trek in 1969, Shatner experienced difficulty in finding employment, having become somewhat typecast as James Tiberius Kirk. 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. He refers to this part of his life as "that period", a humbling time during which he would take any odd job, including small party appearances, in order to support his family.
Shatner's film work in this phase of his career was limited to such B-movies as Roger Corman's
To supplement his income from acting, Shatner performed as a celebrity guest in a multitude of television game shows, among them
Advertising agencies also played a part in helping Shatner through his post-Kirk doldrums. Among the television commercials for which he was hired were spots promoting General Motors' Oldsmobile brand, Promise margarine, the British Columbia-based supermarket chain SuperValu and its Ontarian equivalent, Loblaws; Canadian viewers became familiar with the former hero of Starfleet reassuring them that "At Loblaws, more than the price is right. But, by gosh, the price is right."[43][44]
1979–1989: Star Trek movies and T. J. Hooker
After Star Trek was cancelled, it acquired a
In the mid-1970s, noting the growing appetite for Star Trek,
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. In a much-discussed 1986
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
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. Shatner also has a star on Canada's Walk of Fame, granted to him in recognition of his being the first Canadian actor to star in major series on three U.S. networks—NBC, CBS and ABC.
1989–1999: TekWar and other diversifications
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 Kirk—a hard-boiled former police officer working as a private investigator in a dystopian future. 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. Goulart described his contribution to Shatner's endeavour as merely that of an adviser, but Shatner credits him with rewriting. The first fruit of their collaboration, TekWar, was published in 1989, and launched a sequence of books that sold hundreds of thousands of copies.[48][49] The novels led to four TekWar television movies, in which Shatner played not the lead character but his boss, Walter Bascom. 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.
In December 1989, Shatner took part in the British television series
In the late 1990s, Shatner became closely accociated with the travel website priceline.com, appearing in many television commercials for the company as a pompous caricature of himself.[28][52] He has said that while it is true that his work for priceline earned him stock options, reports that they are now worth hundreds of millions of dollars are exaggerated.[53][54] He was also the chief executive officer of the Toronto, Ontario-based C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures, a special effects studio that operated from 1994 to 2010.[55]
In May 1999, Simon & Schuster published Shatner's book Get a Life!, a memoir of his experiences with Trekkies. 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.[56]
2000–2009: Further films, and Denny Crane
After
Two high-profile animated pictures released in 2006 featured Shatner in their cast. In
Shatner made several guest appearances on
Shatner was not "offered or suggested" a role in the 2009 film Star Trek.[68][69] Director J. J. Abrams said in July 2007 that the production was "desperately trying to figure out a way to put him in" but that to "shove him in ... would be a disaster",[70] an opinion echoed by Shatner in several interviews. At a convention held in 2010, Shatner described the film as "wonderful". 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.[71]
2010–present: a miscellany of projects
In April 2010, Shatner began hosting the
Shatner's 2012 began with his return to his roots in theatre. In February, he appeared on Broadway in a one-man show called Shatner's World: We Just Live in It. After a three-week run at the
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. A large portion of the revenue of the project went to charity.[81] In 2015, he played Mark Twain in an episode of the Canadian historical crime drama series Murdoch Mysteries,[82] 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.[83] 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.[84][85]
Premiering on August 23, 2016, the NBC reality miniseries Better Late Than Never followed Shatner and a quartet of other aging celebrities—Terry Bradshaw, Jeff Dye, George Foreman and Henry Winkler—as they took a grand tour around Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia.[86] Shatner joked that Bradshaw, famous as a quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers, was "putty in my hands".[87] 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.[88] The book won the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards' Outstanding Books of the Year Independent Voice Award.[89]
Shatner's most notable television work in 2017 was in the second season of Better Late Than Never: a preview episode of December 11, 2017, was followed by an official season premiere on the New Year's Day of 2018. His equestrian enthusiasm found an outlet in the animated children's show
William Shatner @WilliamShatner "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. The people of Stalingrad & the army defending Stalingrad fought the Nazis to a standstill. History CAN repeat itself."
February 28, 2022[92]
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
Also in 2021, Shatner starred in the film Senior Moment, which co-starred Jean Smart and Christopher Lloyd. The movie was released in March 2021 on the same week Shatner turned 90.
In 2022, Shatner competed in
Shatner hosted and executive produced
Professor Sarah Parcak criticized the show's presentation of archaeology. She labeled it as "horribly racist"; and wrote "as it turns out, 'A great archaeological mystery' is a code phrase for 'We are too lazy to read or even Google and honestly, racism is far easier than admitting non white people were/are brilliant innovators.'"[96]
Career as a recording artist
The Transformed Man and other albums
Shatner made his recording debut in 1968, with the release of an album titled The Transformed Man. It offered readings from classic plays followed by dramatically inflected recitations of the texts of thematically related popular songs, both set against a background of instrumental accompaniment. Among the hits that Shatner covered were Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" and the Lennon–McCartney song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".[97] Shatner would stay loyal to his idiosyncratic, talk-singing style from this album throughout his recording career.
In 1977, a performance that Shatner had given during a tour in 1971 was released on a Lemli Records double album, William Shatner Live. The LPs' bill of fare included him reminiscing about his work on Star Trek and reading excerpts from
Shatner's second studio album did not materialize until over 30 years after his first:
Shatner's fifteen-track album
As well as recording his own series of discs, Shatner has taken part in other artists' releases too.
Performances of songs on television and in films
Television audiences were introduced to Shatner's unorthodox musicianship not long after Star Trek had made him famous. In 1978, while hosting the
Several of the movies in which Shatner participated featured him in a musical context. 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 Miss Congeniality, he performed the song "Miss United States", which was included in the movie's soundtrack album. He contributed the voice of Buzz Lightyear to the Star Command anthem "To Infinity And Beyond" in the 2000 film Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins.
In 2007, one of Shatner's albums, Has Been, was taken up by the writer and choreographer Margo Sappington (notable for her work on Oh! Calcutta!) as the basis for a dance project, Common People, created for the Milwaukee Ballet. Shatner attended the premiere of the work and arranged for it to be filmed. 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.
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. Instances include his versions of the five nominees in the Best Song from a Movie category at the
Space career
Space Shuttle Discovery
Ever since its Apollo 15 lunar mission, NASA has woken up its astronauts with specially tailored recordings. On March 7, 2011, the crew of STS-133 on the Space Shuttle Discovery began their last day docked to the International Space Station with Alexander Courage's title theme for Star Trek and Shatner reciting an adapted version of the show's famous introduction: "Space, the final frontier. These have been the voyages of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Her 30-year mission: To seek out new science. To build new outposts. To bring nations together on the final frontier. To boldly go, and do, what no spacecraft has done before."[115]
2021 spaceflight
Shatner took part in
Personal life
Shatner dislikes watching himself perform. He says that there are episodes of the original Star Trek television show that he has never seen,[118] and he is just as averse to watching his performance in Boston Legal. 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,[119] 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.[120]: 201
Shatner is a longtime U.S. resident and has a green card.[121]
Family
Shatner has been married four times. His first wife was a Canadian actress,[122] Gloria Rand (née Rabinowitz),[123] whom he married on August 12, 1956.[124][125] The couple had three daughters: Leslie (born in 1958), Lisabeth (born in 1961) and Melanie (born in 1964). Shatner left Rand while acting in Star Trek: The Original Series, after which he divorced her in March 1969.[126][127][128]
Shatner's second wife was Marcy Lafferty, the daughter of the television producer Perry Lafferty. Lasting from 1973 to 1996, their marriage was Shatner's longest, but did not produce any children.[129]
Shatner's third wife was Nerine Kidd, whom he married in 1997. Returning home at around 10 p.m. on August 9, 1999, he found her lying lifeless at the bottom of their backyard swimming pool. She was forty years old. 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. Speaking to the press shortly after his wife's death while visibly still in a state of shock, Shatner said that she had "meant everything" to him and described her as his "beautiful soulmate".[130] He urged the public to support Friendly House, a non-profit organization that helps women to rebuild their lives after trying to free themselves from alcoholism or other forms of drug addiction.[131] 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. And she met a tragic ending because of it".[130]
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. After Nerine and I had been to dinner with Leonard and Susan Nimoy one evening, Leonard called and said: "Bill, you know she's an alcoholic?" I said I did. I married Nerine in 1997, against the advice of many and my own good sense. But I thought she would give up alcohol for me. We had a celebration in Pasadena, and Leonard was my best man. I woke up about eight o'clock the next morning and Nerine was drunk. She was in rehab for 30 days three different times. Twice she almost drank herself to death. Leonard (sober many years) took Nerine to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, but she did not want to quit.
In 2000, a Reuters story reported that Shatner was planning to write and direct The Shiva Club, a dark comedy about the grieving process inspired by his wife's death.[132] Shatner's 2004 album Has Been included a spoken word piece, "What Have You Done", that describes his anguish upon discovering Nerine's body.
In 2001, Shatner married Elizabeth Anderson Martin. In 2004, she co-wrote the song "Together" on Shatner's album Has Been.[133] Shatner filed for divorce from Elizabeth in 2019.[134] The divorce was finalized in January 2020.[135]
Relationships with other actors
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". Much like their characters on Star Trek, Shatner and Nimoy had a professional rivalry that developed into a close friendship. After the show's cancellation in 1969, they reunited in Star Trek: The Animated Series, and they also worked together on both The $20,000 Pyramid and T. J. Hooker. 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.[136]
Nimoy spoke about their mutual rivalry during the Star Trek years:[137]
Bill's energy was very good for my performance, because Spock could then be the cool individual. Our chemistry was successful right from the start. [We were] very competitive, with a sibling rivalry up to here, and after the show had been on the air a few weeks and they started to get a lot of mail about Spock, then the dictum came down from NBC: "Oh, give us more of that guy! They love that guy!" Well, that can be a problem for a leading man who's hired as the star of the show.
On an episode of the
Shatner has been friends with actress Heather Locklear since 1982, when she began co-starring with him on T. J. Hooker. As she combined her work on Hooker with a semi-regular role in Dynasty—also an Aaron Spelling production—she was asked by Entertainment Tonight whether she was finding her schedule difficult. She said that working with both Shatner and her experienced colleagues on Dynasty could be daunting, but that her nervousness motivated her to turn up on set well prepared. 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. 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 episodes' story involves Shatner's character becoming attracted to Nolan and trying to insert himself into her defence.[clarification needed] Asked how she came to be cast in the series, Locklear said, "I love the show. It's my favorite show, and I sorta kind of said, 'Shouldn't I be William Shatner's illegitimate daughter, or his love interest?'"
For years, some of Shatner's Star Trek co-stars accused him of being difficult to work with, particularly George Takei, Walter Koenig, and James Doohan. Shatner acknowledged the resentment that Koenig and Doohan felt towards him; in Star Trek Movie Memories, Shatner recalled having to work with them again while filming 1994's Star Trek Generations:[138][139][140]
I was a lot more worried about working with Walter Koenig and Jimmy Doohan, two men who have made it clear on any number of occasions that my name is generally near the top of their shit lists.
Takei wrote about his issues with Shatner in his 2004 memoir, To the Stars. 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. All of us have had problems with him.... There is this fiction that Bill and Leonard [Nimoy] were good friends, but we know better—Leonard privately expressed his irritation with Bill. Bill is an egocentric, self-involved prima donna."[141] 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.[142] Doohan too achieved a warmer relationship with Shatner eventually, although it took a long time for the two men to build a rapport. 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. But Doohan did contribute to Shatner's sequel, and an Associated Press article published at the time of Doohan's final convention appearance in August 2004, when he was already suffering from severe health problems, reported that he had forgiven Shatner and that the two actors had achieved the friendship as seniors that had eluded them in their youth. 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. Behind the scenes and before they went on stage, they hugged each other, apologized and expressed their love and admiration for each other. Bill specifically asked me to get them together so he could make amends and clear the air between the two of them before it was too late."[143]
Health
Shatner began suffering from tinnitus, a hearing disorder, in the early 1990s[citation needed]. 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". 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". He is a supporter of a tinnitus charity, the American Tinnitus Association.[144]
Shatner revealed in 2020 that he suffers from swollen joints and various age-related "aches and pains". He treats his discomfort with cannabidiol oil, a dietary supplement extracted from cannabis.[145]
Work with horses
In his spare time, Shatner enjoys breeding and showing American Saddlebreds[28] and Quarter Horses.[146] He rode one of his own mares, Great Belles of Fire, in Star Trek Generations.[147] He has a 360-acre (150 ha) farm near Versailles, Kentucky, named Belle Reve Farm (from the French beau rêve, "Beautiful Dream" – Belle Reve was the name of Blanche Dubois' and her sister Stella's family home in A Streetcar Named Desire), where he raises American Saddlebreds. Three of his notable horses are Call Me Ringo, Revival, and Sultan's Great Day.
In 2018, Shatner was awarded the National Reining Horse Association Lifetime Achievement Award in the National Reining Horse Association Hall of Fame.[148] 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.[149]
Philanthropy
Shatner participates in the Hollywood Home Games of the World Poker Tour, in which celebrities try to win money for their favourite charities.[150] But most of his philanthropic work is associated with his love of horses. Since 1990, he has been one of the most important supporters of the Hollywood Charity Horse Show, which raises money for organizations serving children,[151][152] and his horse farm works with the Central Kentucky Riding for Hope "Horses for Heroes" program.[153]
In 2006, Shatner sold a
Public appearances
On New Year's Day 1994, Shatner was the
Many of Shatner's public appearances reflect Captain Kirk's status as one of science fiction's best known icons. In September 2016, for example, the organizers of the
Social media controversies
In 2017, Shatner
In 2020, again on Twitter, he argued with other Twitter users for over a month about being called a "straight white cis man".[167][168]
In 2021, The Forward noted that he was dismissive of a Jewish convert of color, comparing the incident to his arguments about the term "cis" and Autism Speaks.[169]
Filmography
Shatner has starred in movies and television shows for seven decades. He has also appeared in video games, primarily as James T. Kirk, as well as a number of commercials.
Awards and honours
Entertainment
- Three-time Saturn Awardwinner
- 1980 Life Career Award
- 1983 Best Actor (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
- 2015 Guest Actor (Haven)
- Two-time Emmy Awardwinner
- 2004 Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (The Practice)
- 2005 Outstanding Supporting Actor in A Drama Series (Boston Legal)
- 2005 Golden Globe Award
- 2009 Prism Award[170]
- 2009 Streamy Award – Best Reality Web Series
- 2015 Voice Arts Icon Award[171]
Equestrian
- Multiple time World Champion breeder
- 1985 American Saddlebred Horse Association(ASHA) Meritorious Service Award
- 2017 National Reining Horse Association Dale Wilkinson Lifetime Achievement Award[172]
- 2021 ASHA C.J Cronan Sportsmanship Award
National
- 2011 Governor General's Performing Arts Award[173][174]
- 2019 Appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada by Canadian Governor General Julie Payette[175]
Organizational
- 2014 NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal – highest award NASA gives a non-government employee[176]
- 1983 Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- 1995 ASHA Breeders Hall of Fame
- 2000 Star on Canada's Walk of Fame
- 2006 Television Hall of Fame
- 2020 WWE Hall of Fame – Celebrity Wing inductee[177]
Honorary Degrees
- 2011 Honorary Doctorate of Letters from McGill University[178]
Mock/Satirical
- Two-time Golden Raspberry Awardwinner
- 1989 Worst Actor (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier)
- 1989 Worst Director (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier)
Bibliography
Fiction
- The TekWar series, co-written with Ron Goulart
- ISBN 0-399-13495-6
- TekLords (1991) ISBN 0-399-13616-9
- TekLab (1991) ISBN 0-399-13736-X
- Tek Vengeance (1993) ISBN 0-399-13788-2
- Tek Secret (1993) ISBN 0-399-13892-7
- Tek Power (1994) ISBN 0-399-13997-4
- Tek Money (1995) ISBN 0-399-14109-X
- Tek Kill (1996) ISBN 0-399-14202-9
- Tek Net (1997) ISBN 0-399-14339-4
- Star Trek series, with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
- ISBN 0-671-52035-0
- ISBN 0-671-52610-3
- ISBN 0-671-55132-9
- ISBN 0-671-00878-1
- ISBN 0-671-00882-X
- ISBN 0-671-02125-7
- Star Trek: Captain's Peril, 2002, ISBN 0-7434-4819-7
- Star Trek: Captain's Blood, 2003, ISBN 0-671-02129-X
- Star Trek: Captain's Glory, 2006, ISBN 0-7434-5343-3
- Star Trek: The Academy – Collision Course, 2007 ISBN 1-4165-0396-X
- War series
- Man o' War, 1996, ISBN 0-399-14131-6
- The Law of War, 1998, ISBN 0-399-14360-2
- Man o' War, 1996,
- Quest for Tomorrow series
- Delta Search, 1997, ISBN 0-06-105274-4
- In Alien Hands, 1997, ISBN 0-06-105275-2
- Step into Chaos, 1999, ISBN 0-06-105276-0
- Beyond the Stars, 2000, ISBN 0-06-105118-7
- Shadow Planet, 2002, ISBN 0-06-105119-5
- Delta Search, 1997,
- Believe (with ISBN 978-0-425-13296-8
- Comic book adaptations
- ISBN 0-87135-985-5)
- Star Trek: The Ashes of Eden, ISBN 1-56389-235-9
- Samuel Lord Series
- Zero-G: Book 1, with ISBN 978-1501111556
- Zero-G: Green Space , with Jeff Rovin, 2017, ISBN 978-1501111587
- Zero-G: Book 1, with
Non-fiction
- Captain's Log: William Shatner's Personal Account of the Making of "ISBN 0-671-68652-6
- ISBN 0-06-017734-9
- Star Trek Movie Memories, with Chris Kreski, 1994, ISBN 0-06-017617-2
- Get a Life!, with Chris Kreski, 1999, ISBN 0-671-02131-1
- Star Trek: I'm Working on That: A Trek from Science Fiction to Science Fact, with Chip Walter, 2002, ISBN 0-671-04737-X
- ISBN 0-283-07058-7
- Shatner Rules, with ISBN 0-525-95251-9
- Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man, with David Fisher, 2016, ISBN 0-316-38837-8
- Spirit of the Horse: A Celebration in Fact and Fable, with Jeff Rovin, 2017, ISBN 978-1250130020
- Live long And ... : What I Might Have Learned Along the Way, with David Fisher, 2018, ISBN 978-1250166692
- Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder, with Joshua Brandon, 2022, ISBN 978-1668007327
Audiobooks
- 1994: Star Trek Movie Memories - with Chris Kreski - (read by William Shatner), Harper Audio, ISBN 0-06-017617-2
- 2008: Up Till Now – with David Fisher – (read by William Shatner), Highroads Media, ISBN 978-1427204158
- 2011: Shatner Rules – with Chris Regan – (read by William Shatner), Penguin Audio, ISBN 978-1611760231
- 2016: Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man – with David Fisher – (read by William Shatner), Macmillan Audio, ISBN 978-1427273239
- 2018: Live Long And …: What I Learned Along the Way – with David Fisher – (read by William Shatner), Macmillan Audio, ISBN 978-1250299116
- 2022: Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder – with Joshua Brandon – (read by William Shatner), Simon & Schuster Audio, ISBN 978-1797147567
Discography
- The Transformed Man (1968) – Decca Records
- Imperial Houseas Captain of the Starship – William Shatner Live!)
- Spaced Out: The Very Best of Universal (Includes 7 tracks from The Transformed Man + 17 tracks by Leonard Nimoy)
- Shout! Factory
- Exodus: An Oratorio in Three Parts (2008) – JMG/Jewish Music
- Seeking Major Tom (2011) – Cleopatra Records
- Ponder the Mystery (2013) with Billy Sherwood – Cleopatra Records
- Why Not Me (2018) with Jeff Cook – Heartland Records Nashville
- Shatner Claus (2018) – with Iggy Pop, Brad Paisley and Judy Collins – Cleopatra Records[179]
- The Blues (2020) – with Brad Paisley, Kirk Fletcher, Sonny Landreth, Canned Heat – Cleopatra Records
- Bill (2021) – Produced and arranged by Daniel Miller. - guest artists include Brad Paisley, Joe Walsh, Robert Randolph, John Lurie, Joan as Police Woman and Dave Koz - Republic Records.
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Further reading
- "William Shatner and the Fromage Frontier", eight-page interview by Claire Connors, seven photos including cover by Jeff Lipsky. Cheese Connoisseur, summer 2013, cover story, pages 26–33. Published by Phoenix Media Network, Inc., Boca Raton, Florida. Shatner discusses his career, health, current and future projects, and, especially, his appreciation of cheese.
External links
- Official website
- William Shatner on Twitter
- William Shatner at IMDb
- William Shatner at AllMovie
- William Shatner at Rotten Tomatoes
- William Shatner at the Internet Broadway Database
- William Shatner at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
- William Shatner interview about Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home in 1986 by Texas Archive of the Moving Image