In 2004, she co-wrote the song "Together" on Shatner's album Has Been. [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. Film [ edit] Television [ edit] Video games [ edit] Commercials [ edit] See also [ edit] William Shatner's musical career 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. Scott Stewart Bakula (/ b k j l /; born October 9, 1954) is an American actor. 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. Shatner was raised in Montreal. 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. Leonard (sober many years) took Nerine to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, but she did not want to quit. Calcutta!) Rescue 911: With William Shatner, David Teschendorf, Dick Warlock, John Sherrod. He also had a supporting role in the comedy DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004), which starred Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn. He also mined this vein of self-deprecating comedy as the lynchpin of Priceline's television advertising campaign. [131][bettersourceneeded] The divorce was finalized in January 2020. His father was . 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". 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. 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. In February, he appeared on Broadway in a one-man show called Shatner's World: We Just Live in It. The episodes' story involves Shatner's character becoming attracted to Nolan and trying to insert himself into her defence. 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. 17:00 American Pickers. Shatner appeared in two episodes of The Twilight Zone, "Nick of Time" (1960) and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (1963); when a Twilight Zone portmanteau film was produced twenty years later, it was with a remake of the latter episode that the movie climaxed. They wed at the Toronto house where her. He was best known for playing Capt. On December 11, 2005, he launched Comedy Central's Last Laugh 2005 with a skit in which he appeared as a Lucifer celebrating how well the year had gone from the point of view of Hell. . with Children, Melrose Place, Friends and Saved by the Bell: The New Class. [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. [102] A tenth album, Bill, was announced by Shatner on August 26, 2021, and released on September 24.[103][104]. Digital Pictures, a special effects studio that operated from 1994 to 2010. William Shatner looks back on 'the terror' of attending his first fan convention The legendary Star Trek actor recalls his fear of being on stage with "no lines." By Clark Collis July 21, 2022. [73], Shatner's 2012 began with his return to his roots in theatre. [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. In 2001, Shatner married Elizabeth Anderson Martin. 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. Of course, it's also noteworthy that there's been a feud between William Shatner and George Takei for years now. William Shatner, the "Star Trek" alum, has written a new book titled "Boldly Go: Reflections on a life of Awe and Wonder." In it, he detailed his experience traveling to space in 2021. In the October 2004 issue of Star Trek Communicator, Manny Coto, one of the producers of Star Trek: Enterprise, revealed that he was planning a three-episode story arc guest-starring Shatner, but the cancellation of the series shortly afterwards meant that Shatner was denied the opportunity to take part in it. 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. [25] He was granted the same accolade by the New England Institute of Technology in May 2018. The "Star Trek" star spent 10 minutes on the edge of space during a flight with Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos. His growing success on television and in movie theatres in the 1980s did not lead him to stop working for advertisers. After David E. Kelley saw Shatner's commercials,[29] he brought Shatner on to the final season of the legal drama The Practice. She was in rehab for 30 days three different times. It's my favorite show, and I sorta kind of said, 'Shouldn't I be William Shatner's illegitimate daughter, or his love interest?'". Shatner began his screen acting career in Canadian films and television productions before moving into guest-starring roles in various US television shows. 03:00 Without a Trace. 01:00 NCIS: Los Angeles. William Shatner, (born March 22, 1931, Montreal, Quebec, Canada), Canadian actor whose prolific output and self-deprecating sense of humour secured him a place in the North American pop culture pantheon. 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. [153][154][155], Many of Shatner's public appearances reflect Captain Kirk's status as one of science fiction's best known icons. [31] (Plummer later appeared as a Klingon adversary of Captain Kirk's in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.) 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. Later that year, his career as a comic television actor reached its zenith in a CBS sitcom based on Justin Halpern's Twitter feed Shit My Dad Says, $#*! 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 Interview 'Take it easy, nothing matters in the end': William Shatner at 90, on love, loss and Leonard Nimoy Hadley Freeman His career has taken him from Shakespeare to Star. Shatner has been friends with actress Heather Locklear since 1982, when she began co-starring with him on T. J. Hooker. Later, after doing his research, Shatner found a connection between testosterone (he was regularly taking hormone supplements) and prostate cancer. [29][51] 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. And she met a tragic ending because of it."[127]. [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. He also starred in an episode of Gunsmoke in 1966 as the character Fred Bateman. [28] His roles at the Festival included a part in Marlowe's Tamburlaine, in which he made his Broadway debut in 1956. On Wednesday, the 90-year-old Star Trek star went up with Blue Origin, the company founded by Jeff Bezos, as one of four. [71] Radio Vol.4! Now Shatner has released a new book that may reveal another reason why. To boldly go, and do, what no spacecraft has done before. Twice she almost drank herself to death. 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. [7], Shatner's fifteen-track album Ponder the Mystery, produced by Billy Sherwood, was issued in October 2013. The Best of Star Trek: The Original Series. She was forty years old. In 1961, co-starring with Julie Harris, he appeared on Broadway in A Shot in the Dark, directed by Harold Clurman; Gene Saks and Walter Matthau took part in the play too, Matthau winning a Tony Award for his performance. Getty Images Just like that unexpectedly productive afternoon in London, Shatner,. [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. 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. 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). 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. 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. Peter Bradshaw. His career diversified further in the 1980s when he began working as a director, taking charge of many episodes of T. J. Hooker. William Shatner (born 1931) is a Canadian actor who has had a career in film and television for seven decades. To build new outposts. 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). During his recent appearance on 'The Daily Show,' 'Star Trek' icon William Shatner calls Elon Musk a 'supervillain' and an 'annoying dude.' . ", "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. They love that guy!" 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. (Life imitated art in Gary, Indiana in 2001, when Shatner visited the town to host the Miss USA Pageant for real). On March 29, 2006, TV Land aired a Shatner-centred episode of their Living in TV Land series subtitled "William Shatner in Concert". He had hit songs and that sort of thing. Initially announced by Shatner under that title on February 4, it was later promoted by him as Searching for Major Tom before reverting to the name that he had given it originally. [clarification needed] Asked how she came to be cast in the series, Locklear said, "I love the show. Shatner remained with Boston Legal until, after five seasons and one hundred and one episodes, it ended in 2008. Shatner was cast as Captain James T. Kirk for the second pilot of Star Trek, titled "Where No Man Has Gone Before". 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. [127] 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. 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. [99] A holiday collection, Shatner Claus, appeared in October 2018, with Shatner now aided and abetted by Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins, Todd Rundgren, Billy Gibbons and others. 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. [45][29] The comment was an apt summary of the view of his fans that he had expressed in several interviews. [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. Shatner, on having to work again with two of his Star Trek co-stars in the 1994 movie, Star Trek Generations[135], 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. 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. In 1963, he starred in the Family Theater production called "The Soldier" and received credits in other programs of The Psalms series. [123][124][125], Shatner's second wife was Marcy Lafferty, the daughter of the television producer Perry Lafferty. "[140], Shatner began suffering from tinnitus, a hearing disorder, in the early 1990s. My Dad Says, which was cancelled in May 2011 three months after the first broadcast of its final episode. 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. 1964 saw him too as the titular Alexander in the pilot for a proposed series called Alexander the Great alongside Adam West as Cleander. Instead, the voyage left him filled with grief, an "overwhelming sadness" and a . Three of his notable horses are Call Me Ringo, Revival, and Sultan's Great Day. 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. [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. In Osmosis Jones (2001), a high-concept satirical movie that blended live action with animation, Shatner voiced Mayor Phlegmming; the film depicted the cells and microbiota of a human body as the citizens of a community, the city of Frank, governed by an egoistic politician who prioritizes his convenience and political self-interest over the welfare of his public. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences before, during and after his time in a Starfleet uniform. [49] In 1994, Shatner revisited Columbo to play the murderer-of-the-week in the episode Butterfly in shades of grey. But I thought she would give up alcohol for me. But, by gosh, the price is right. 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. LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu. 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