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William Shatner

June 29, 2023

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).

William Shatner

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Shatner at GalaxyCon Richmond in 2023
Born (1931-03-22) March 22, 1931 (age 92)
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Other namesBill Shatner[1][2]
EducationMcGill University (BComm)
Occupations
  • Actor
  • author
  • director
  • musician
  • producer
Years active1951–present
WorksFilmography
Spouses
  • Gloria Rand
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    (m. 1956; div. 1969)​
  • Marcy Lafferty
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    (m. 1973; div. 1996)​
  • Nerine Kidd
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    (m. 1997; died 1999)​
  • Elizabeth Anderson Martin
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    (m. 2001; div. 2020)​
Children3, including Melanie
RelativesJoel Gretsch (son-in-law)
AwardsFull list
HonoursOfficer, Order of Canada
Websitewilliamshatner.com

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) and hosted the reality-based television series Rescue 911 (1989–1996), which won a People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Dramatic Series. His appearances as a guest star in two episodes of the television detective series Columbo, almost two decades apart, were among his many such contributions to television shows from the 1970s to the 2010s.

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 NBC series 3rd Rock from the Sun, he played the alien "Big Giant Head" to which the main characters reported. From 2004 until 2008, he starred as attorney Denny Crane in the final season of the legal show The Practice and in its spinoff Boston Legal, a role that earned him two Emmy Awards, one for his contribution to each series. 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.[5]

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) and Joseph Shatner, a clothing manufacturer.[14][15] He is the middle (and only son) of three children; his older sister is Joy Rutenberg (1928–) and his younger sister is Farla Cohen (1940–).[16][17] His patrilineal family name was Schattner; it was his grandfather, Wolf Schattner, who anglicized the spelling.[18] All four of Shatner's grandparents were Jewish immigrants: they came from settlements that are currently in Ukraine and Lithuania, but which were then under the rule of Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire.[19][20]

Shatner attended two schools in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Willingdon Elementary School[21] and West Hill High School,[22] and is an alumnus of the Montreal Children's Theatre.[23] He studied economics at the McGill University Faculty of Management in Montreal, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1952.[24] In 2011, McGill University awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Letters.[25] He was granted the same accolade by the New England Institute of Technology in May 2018.[26]

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".[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.[28] His roles at the Festival included a part in Marlowe's Tamburlaine, in which he made his Broadway debut in 1956. His brief appearance in the opening scene of a high-profile production of Sophocles's Oedipus Rex by Tyrone Guthrie introduced him to television viewers across the whole of Canada.[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.[31] (Plummer later appeared as a Klingon adversary of Captain Kirk's in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.) 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. 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. On the eve of his momentous casting as James Kirk, he was in Jordan's opinion seen merely as an actor who "showed up on time, knew his lines, worked cheap and always answered his phone".[29]

 
Shatner in a publicity photo in 1958

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 The Howdy Doody Show, he created the role of Ranger Bob, co-starring with a cast of puppets and Clarabell the Clown, whose dialogue with Shatner consisted entirely of honks on a bicycle horn.[32] It was four years before he won his first role in a major Hollywood movie, appearing in the MGM film The Brothers Karamazov as Alexei, the youngest of the brothers, in a cast that included Yul Brynner. 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. His US television profile was heightened further when he had a leading role in an episode in the third (1957–58) season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, "The Glass Eye".

 
Shatner (Archie Goodwin, left) and Kurt Kasznar (Nero Wolfe) in the aborted 1959 CBS television series Nero Wolfe

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.[33]

Shatner appeared in two episodes of The Twilight Zone, "Nick of Time" (1960) and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (1963); when the anthology film The Twilight Zone: The Movie was produced twenty years later, it was with a remake of the latter episode that the movie climaxed. He appeared twice as Wayne Gorham in NBC's Outlaws (1960), a Western series with Barton MacLane, and then returned to Alfred Hitchcock Presents for a 5th-season episode, "Mother, May I Go Out to Swim?". 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,[34] Matthau winning a Tony Award for his performance. 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). He took the lead role in Roger Corman's movie The Intruder (1962) and received very good reviews for his significant role in the Stanley Kramer film Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). In the 1963–64 season, he appeared in an episode of the ABC series Channing. In 1963, he starred in the Family Theater production called "The Soldier" and received credits in other programs of The Psalms series. That same year, he guest-starred in Route 66, in the episode "Build Your Houses with Their Backs to the Sea".

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 12 O'Clock High as Major Curt Brown in the episode "I Am the Enemy". 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. Shatner starred in the 1966 gothic horror film Incubus (Esperanto: Inkubo,) the second feature-length movie ever made with all dialogue spoken in Esperanto. He also starred in an episode of Gunsmoke in 1966 as the character Fred Bateman. He appeared as attorney-turned-counterfeiter Brett Skyler in a 1966 episode of The Big Valley, "Time to Kill". In 1968, he starred in the little known Spaghetti Western White Comanche, playing both a white-hat character and his black-hat evil twin: Johnny Moon, a virtuous half-Comanche gunslinger, and Notah, a bloodthirsty warlord.

1966–1969: Star Trek on television

 
Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek (1966–1969)
Main article: Star Trek: The Original Series

Shatner was cast as Captain James T. Kirk for the second pilot of Star Trek, titled "Where No Man Has Gone Before". He was then contracted to play Kirk for the remainder of the show, and he sat in the captain's chair of the USS Enterprise from 1966 to 1969. During its original run on NBC, the series achieved only modest ratings, and it was cancelled after three seasons and seventy-nine episodes. 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.[37][38][39] 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.

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 Big Bad Mama (1974), the horror film The Devil's Rain (1975)[29] and Kingdom of the Spiders (1977). On television, he made a critically praised appearance as a prosecutor in a 1971 PBS adaptation of Saul Levitt's play The Andersonville Trial, and was also seen in major parts in the movies The People (1972) and The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973). He had a starring role too in the western-themed secret agent series Barbary Coast during 1975 and 1976, and appeared as a guest of the week in many popular shows of that decade, including Columbo, Ironside, Kung Fu, Mission: Impossible, The Rookies and The Six Million Dollar Man. 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.[citation needed]

To supplement his income from acting, Shatner performed as a celebrity guest in a multitude of television game shows, among them Beat the Clock, Celebrity Bowling, The Hollywood Squares, Match Game, Tattletales and Mike Stokey's Stump the Stars.[29] His curriculum vitae in this genre included several visits to The $10,000 Pyramid and its more generous sequels, shows in which contestants attempted to guess a word or phrase with the help of hints from a famous partner. 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". In a 1977 episode, he perpetrated a blunder that has been preserved on YouTube: at the climax of the show, attempting to guide his partner to the phrase "things that are blessed", he blurted out the word "blessed" instead of, as he had intended, citing the Virgin Mary. His mistake meant that the contestant paired with him was automatically disqualified from receiving what would have been a prize of $20,000. Shatner was so furious at himself over his error that he leapt out of his chair, picked it up and threw it out of the show's iconic Winner's Circle.[40] During an Archive of American Television interview, Richard Dawson disclosed that when Mark Goodson was considering whom to employ as the host of the pilot of Family Feud (1976), he would have chosen Shatner if had not been intimidated into awarding the position to Dawson by a threat from Dawson's agent.[41][42]

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 cult following among people watching syndicated reruns of the series, and Captain Kirk became a cultural icon.[29] Fans of the show—so-called Trekkies—began 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. Many of the actors who had crewed the Enterprise became frequent guests at these events, Shatner included.[45]

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. 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. 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. 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) and—in a story that culminated in the captain's self-sacrificial death—Star Trek Generations (1994). 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.

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 Saturday Night Live sketch about a Star Trek convention, he advised a room full of Trekkies to "get a life".[46][29] The comment was an apt summary of the view of his fans that he had expressed in several interviews.[46] 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.[47] 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. He also mocked the cavalier, almost superhuman, persona of Captain Kirk in the films Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) and National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993).

 
Shatner's star on Canada's Walk of Fame

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. The success of T. J. Hooker led to Shatner's hosting the popular dramatic re-enactment series Rescue 911 from 1989 to 1996. His career diversified further in the 1980s when he began working as a director, taking charge of many episodes of T. J. Hooker. A clause in his Star Trek contract giving him parity with Leonard Nimoy meant that after Nimoy's directing of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Shatner was entitled to direct a Star Trek movie too: he exercised his right in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, although many Trekkies were disappointed by the film that he delivered, something that he attributed principally to the weakness of the movie's visual effects. His growing success on television and in movie theatres in the 1980s did not lead him to stop working for advertisers. The VIC-20 home computer, for example, was endorsed by him both on television and in print.

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 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.[50] In 1994, Shatner revisited Columbo to play the murderer-of-the-week in the episode Butterfly in shades of grey. 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. In 1996, an episode entitled Eye, Tooth saw him guest-starring in Will Smith's television show, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. He narrated a television miniseries shot in New Zealand A Twist in the Tale (1998). In the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun, Shatner appeared in several 1999–2000 episodes as the "Big Giant Head", a high-ranking officer from the same alien planet as the Solomon family who becomes a womanizing party-animal on Earth. The role earned Shatner an Emmy Award nomination.[51]

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.[29][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

 
Shatner, c. 2005

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 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. (Life imitated art in Gary, Indiana in 2001, when Shatner visited the town to host the Miss USA Pageant for real). 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. 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 invention—a 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. In 2003, Shatner appeared in Brad Paisley's Celebrity and Online music videos along with Little Jimmy Dickens, Jason Alexander and Trista Rehn. He also had a supporting role in the comedy DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004), which starred Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn. 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.

After David E. Kelley saw Shatner's commercials,[29] he brought Shatner on to the final season of the legal drama The Practice. 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."[29] Shatner took the Crane role to Boston Legal and won a Golden Globe and an Emmy in 2005, and was Emmy nominated again in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. With his 2005 Emmy accolade, he became one of the few actors (along with co-star James Spader as Alan Shore) to win an Emmy Award while playing the same character in two different shows. Shatner remained with Boston Legal until, after five seasons and one hundred and one episodes, it ended in 2008.

Two high-profile animated pictures released in 2006 featured Shatner in their cast. 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. 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.[57][58] In December 2008, he experimented with the chat show genre in the humorous Shatner's Raw Nerve, which aired until March 2011. He expanded his work on YouTube in 2009, supplying the voice of Don Salmonella to the animated series The Gavones.[59]

Shatner made several guest appearances on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, including in cameos in which he made fun of the Republican politician Sarah Palin. 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.[60][61][62][63] Two days later, he ridiculed some of the tweets that she and Levi Johnston, the father of her grandchild, had published on Twitter.[64] On December 11, 2009, he returned to Palin once more to read excerpts from her autobiography, Going Rogue: An American Life, and she, taking his teasing in good part, responded by reciting extracts from his own memoir, Up Till Now.[65][66][67] (Co-written with David Fisher, later to collaborate with Shatner on a book about Leonard Nimoy and Shatner's relationship with him, Up Till Now had been published in 2008.) 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. It's the future, man".

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 Discovery Channel show Weird or What, which aired until August 2012. Each episode of the series supplied lovers of arcana with several segments exploring news reports relating to left-field topics such as UFOs and cryptozoology.[72] 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, $#*! My Dad Says, which was cancelled in May 2011 three months after the first broadcast of its final episode.[73] 2011 also saw him guest-starring in one episode of the USA Network's Psych, "In for a Penny", playing the estranged father of Junior Detective Juliet O'Hara (Maggie Lawson) (a role that he reprised in the show's 2012 season). 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 point—Patrick 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. 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.[74]

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 Music Box, the show toured throughout the United States.[75] In May, he was the guest presenter on the British satirical television quiz show Have I Got News for You, earning a footnote in the history of neologisms by melding "pioneer" and "pensioner" into the portmanteau coinage "pensioneer".[76][77] 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.[78][79] 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".[80]

 
Shatner at Destination Star Trek Europe, 2016

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 My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, where in the seventh season episode "The Perfect Pear", he supplied the voice of Grand Pear, the estranged maternal grandfather of Applejack and her siblings. 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.[90] 2017 also saw him appearing in a second music video with Brian Evans, this time promoting Evans's cover of the Dolly Parton song "Here You Come Again".[91]

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"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 RT, formerly known as Russia Today, from July 12. RT's editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, said that "Captain Kirk has come over to the good side." 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.[93] Four days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Shatner issued a statement via Twitter expressing unqualified support for the Ukrainians in the resistance that they were mounting against their assailants. On March 2, he withdrew from his show, citing the invasion as his reason for doing so. RT America ceased transmitting altogether on March 3.[94]

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 season eight of The Masked Singer as "Knight" (depicted as a knight riding a golden goose). A running gag is that the golden goose that "Knight" rides keeps trying to attack Nick Cannon. He was eliminated in the first episode alongside Eric Idle as "Hedgehog" and Chris Kirkpatrick as "Hummingbird".

Shatner hosted and executive produced The UnXplained on History from 2019 to 2022.[citation needed] Since its premiere the show has received very negative reviews from critics. Writing in Irish Film Critic, Thomas Tunstall reported that the show's "subject matter runs all over the board", as if designed for an audience with attention deficit disorder. Though Shatner enthusiastically poses many questions, he provides far fewer satisfactory answers than he should – perhaps by design in order to retain the sense of mystery."[95]

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 debut on the shelves of record shops 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 the LP subjected to Shatnerfication were Bob Dylan's "Mr Tambourine Man" and the Lennon–McCartney song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".[97] The idiosyncratic way with songs that Shatner chose for this LP, an approach so amusical that it scarcely even qualified as Sprechstimme, was a style to which he remained loyal 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 Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds and Bertolt Brecht's Galileo.[98] A year later, the recording was reissued by another company, again as a double LP, now titled William Shatner Live: Captain of the Starship. Devoid of Star Trek branding because of licensing restrictions, the album's sleeve was decorated with a photograph of Shatner brandishing an upturned camera tripod in the style of Jim Kirk going into battle with a phaser rifle.[99]

Shatner's second studio album did not materialize until a third of a century after his first: Has Been was released in October 2004. 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. Seeking Major Tom followed in October 2011. 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.[100][101] 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.[101] Astronautically themed and with a general flavour of heavy metal, the album featured covers of Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly", David Bowie's "Space Oddity" and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody".[7]

Shatner's fifteen-track album Ponder the Mystery, produced by Billy Sherwood, was issued in October 2013. Among the musicians who contributed to it were Mick Jones, Simon House, Steve Vai, Al Di Meola, Steve Howe's Yes colleague Rick Wakeman, Joel Vandroogenbroeck, Edgar Winter, Nik Turner, Vince Gill, Edgar Froese, Robby Krieger, Dav Koz, George Duke and Zoot Horn Rollo. The record's credits attributed all its music to Sherwood and all its song texts to Shatner. 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. Released on the Heartland Records Nashville label, this album also included guest vocals by Neal McCoy, Home Free and Cash Creek.[102] 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.[103] Shatner's ninth album, The Blues, was released on October 2, 2020,[104] and reached the number one slot of the Billboard Blues Chart fifteen days later.[105] A tenth album, Bill, was announced by Shatner on August 26, 2021, and released on September 24.[106][107]

As well as recording his own series of discs, Shatner has taken part in other artists' releases too. Ben Folds's 1998 album Fear of Pop: Volume 1 features Shatner on two tracks, "In Love" and "Still in Love". (Jamie Halliday, the founder of Audio Antihero, named the former as his "favourite song of all time".)[108][109][110][111] 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. In 2005, he was heard in the track "'64 - Go" on the Lemon Jelly album '64 - '95. And he provided the lead vocals on the progressive rock artist Ben Craven's track "Spy In The Sky Part 3" in Craven's album Last Chance To Hear, released in March 2016.[112] 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.

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 fifth presentation of Saturn Awards bestowed by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, he performed a version of Elton John's Rocket Man that went on to become a staple of comedic parody. In an episode of Dinah Shore's talk show, Dinah!, he used his appearance on it to perform Harry Chapin's "Taxi". On June 9, 2005, he contributed his version of "My Way" to the presentation of George Lucas's AFI Life Achievement Award, backed by a chorus line of dancers in Imperial Stormtrooper costumes who ended Shatner's segment by picking him up and carrying him offstage. 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. On March 29, 2006, TV Land aired a Shatner-centred episode of their Living in TV Land series subtitled "William Shatner in Concert". 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. 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.[113] In the fourth episode of his sitcom $♯*! My Dad Says, his character, Ed Goodson, delivered a Shatner-style Karaoke treatment of Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy". In the same scene, a waitress asked Ed if he wanted to tackle "Rocket Man" and he answered "Not tonight!". On November 4, during a television appearance on the Lopez Tonight show, he performed a cover of Cee Lo Green's song "F**k You".[114]

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 1992 MTV Movie Awards. He also mined this vein of self-deprecating comedy as the lynchpin of Priceline's television advertising campaign. In one commercial for the company, he joined with his frequent collaborator Ben Folds in an ironic version of the Diana Ross hit "Do You Know Where You're Going To?".

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 Blue Origin's second sub-orbital human spaceflight, Blue Origin NS-18, on October 13, 2021.[116][117] 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. 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.[8][10] In a televised post-flight conversation with Bezos, Shatner articulated experiencing the overview effect, a deepened understanding of the fact that the ecosphere of the Earth is but a thin, fragile skin enveloping its planet.[9]

Personal life

 
Shatner (center) with Brent Spiner and LeVar Burton in 2010

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.

— Leonard Nimoy

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? No. Not the Bill Shatner I know." When Nimoy died in 2015, Shatner said, "I loved him like a brother. We will all miss his humor, his talent, and his capacity to love." Although Shatner was unable to take part in Nimoy's funeral due to other commitments, his daughters attended in his place, and he celebrated his friend's life in an online memorial.

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?'"

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.

—Shatner, on having to work again with two of his Star Trek co-stars in the 1994 movie, Star Trek Generations[138]

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, and Takei wrote about his issues with Shatner in his 2004 memoir, To the Stars.[139][140]

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. 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

 
Shatner on horseback, wearing saddle seat attire at a horse show in 2011

In his spare time, Shatner enjoys breeding and showing American Saddlebreds[29] 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 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.[154][155] 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.

Public appearances

On New Year's Day 1994, Shatner was the Grand Marshal of the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California. Instead of leading the event in the customary classic car, he presided over it from horseback. He also took part in the coin toss before the subsequent 80th Rose Bowl college football game. (The teams vying for Rose Bowl honours that year were the University of Wisconsin Badgers and the University of California Los Angeles Bruins; the Badgers beat the Bruins by 21–16.) Twenty years later, he discharged the duties of a Grand Marshal again at an event in his native Canada, the 102nd Calgary Stampede.[156][157][158]

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 Salt Lake Comic Con invited him to attend their event as their special guest.[159] 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.[160] 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."[161] Among the many other Kirk-related dates in his diary were visits to the replica Star Trek: The Original Series set built by James Cawley in Ticonderoga, New York, which saw him guiding small groups of Trekkies on tours of Cawley's version of the Enterprise,[162][163] and a December 4, 2022, star guest beam-down to the L.A. Comic Con.[164]

Social media controversy

In 2017, Shatner tweeted support for Autism Speaks, a controversial charity disliked by some autism self-advocates. He spent the next few days arguing with autistic people and allies, including citing anti-vaccination website NaturalNews. Days later, Shatner suggested his critics should have kept quiet, eventually calling the episode a misunderstanding.[165][166]

Filmography

Main article: William Shatner 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

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by William Shatner
 
 
Shatner has a star on both the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Canada's Walk of Fame.

Entertainment

Equestrian

National

Organizational

Halls of Fame

Honorary Degrees

  • 2011 Honorary Doctorate of Letters from McGill University[175]

Mock/Satirical

Bibliography

Fiction

Non-fiction

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

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Further reading

  • "William Shatner and the Fromage Frontier", eight-page interview by Claire Connors, seven photos including by Jeff Lipsky. , 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.

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william, shatner, born, march, 1931, canadian, actor, career, spanning, seven, decades, best, known, portrayal, james, kirk, star, trek, franchise, from, 1966, debut, captain, starship, enterprise, second, pilot, first, star, trek, television, series, final, a. 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 William ShatnerOCShatner at GalaxyCon Richmond in 2023Born 1931 03 22 March 22 1931 age 92 Notre Dame de Grace Montreal Quebec CanadaOther namesBill Shatner 1 2 EducationMcGill University BComm OccupationsActorauthordirectormusicianproducerYears active1951 presentWorksFilmographySpousesGloria Rand m 1956 div 1969 wbr Marcy Lafferty m 1973 div 1996 wbr Nerine Kidd m 1997 died 1999 wbr Elizabeth Anderson Martin m 2001 div 2020 wbr Children3 including MelanieRelativesJoel Gretsch son in law AwardsFull listHonoursOfficer Order of CanadaWebsitewilliamshatner wbr comShatner 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 and hosted the reality based television series Rescue 911 1989 1996 which won a People s Choice Award for Favorite New TV Dramatic Series His appearances as a guest star in two episodes of the television detective series Columbo almost two decades apart were among his many such contributions to television shows from the 1970s to the 2010s 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 NBC series 3rd Rock from the Sun he played the alien Big Giant Head to which the main characters reported From 2004 until 2008 he starred as attorney Denny Crane in the final season of the legal show The Practice and in its spinoff Boston Legal a role that earned him two Emmy Awards one for his contribution to each series 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 5 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 Contents 1 Early life 2 Acting and literary career 2 1 1951 1966 Early stage film and television work 2 2 1966 1969 Star Trek on television 2 3 1970 1978 overcoming typecasting 2 4 1979 1989 Star Trek movies and T J Hooker 2 5 1989 1999 TekWar and other diversifications 2 6 2000 2009 Further films and Denny Crane 2 7 2010 present a miscellany of projects 3 Career as a recording artist 3 1 The Transformed Man and other albums 3 2 Performances of songs on television and in films 4 Space career 4 1 Space Shuttle Discovery 4 2 2021 spaceflight 5 Personal life 5 1 Family 5 2 Relationships with other actors 5 3 Health 5 4 Work with horses 5 5 Philanthropy 5 6 Public appearances 5 7 Social media controversy 6 Filmography 7 Awards and honours 8 Bibliography 8 1 Fiction 8 2 Non fiction 8 3 Audiobooks 9 Discography 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External linksEarly life EditShatner was born on March 22 1931 in the Notre Dame de Grace neighbourhood of Montreal Quebec Canada to a Conservative Jewish household 13 His parents were Ann nee Garmaise and Joseph Shatner a clothing manufacturer 14 15 He is the middle and only son of three children his older sister is Joy Rutenberg 1928 and his younger sister is Farla Cohen 1940 16 17 His patrilineal family name was Schattner it was his grandfather Wolf Schattner who anglicized the spelling 18 All four of Shatner s grandparents were Jewish immigrants they came from settlements that are currently in Ukraine and Lithuania but which were then under the rule of Austria Hungary and the Russian Empire 19 20 Shatner attended two schools in Notre Dame de Grace Willingdon Elementary School 21 and West Hill High School 22 and is an alumnus of the Montreal Children s Theatre 23 He studied economics at the McGill University Faculty of Management in Montreal where he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1952 24 In 2011 McGill University awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Letters 25 He was granted the same accolade by the New England Institute of Technology in May 2018 26 Acting and literary career Edit1951 1966 Early stage film and television work Edit 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 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 28 His roles at the Festival included a part in Marlowe s Tamburlaine in which he made his Broadway debut in 1956 His brief appearance in the opening scene of a high profile production of Sophocles s Oedipus Rex by Tyrone Guthrie introduced him to television viewers across the whole of Canada 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 31 Plummer later appeared as a Klingon adversary of Captain Kirk s in Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country 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 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 On the eve of his momentous casting as James Kirk he was in Jordan s opinion seen merely as an actor who showed up on time knew his lines worked cheap and always answered his phone 29 Shatner in a publicity photo in 1958 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 The Howdy Doody Show he created the role of Ranger Bob co starring with a cast of puppets and Clarabell the Clown whose dialogue with Shatner consisted entirely of honks on a bicycle horn 32 It was four years before he won his first role in a major Hollywood movie appearing in the MGM film The Brothers Karamazov as Alexei the youngest of the brothers in a cast that included Yul Brynner 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 His US television profile was heightened further when he had a leading role in an episode in the third 1957 58 season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Glass Eye Shatner Archie Goodwin left and Kurt Kasznar Nero Wolfe in the aborted 1959 CBS television series Nero Wolfe 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 33 Shatner appeared in two episodes of The Twilight Zone Nick of Time 1960 and Nightmare at 20 000 Feet 1963 when the anthology film The Twilight Zone The Movie was produced twenty years later it was with a remake of the latter episode that the movie climaxed He appeared twice as Wayne Gorham in NBC s Outlaws 1960 a Western series with Barton MacLane and then returned to Alfred Hitchcock Presents for a 5th season episode Mother May I Go Out to Swim 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 34 Matthau winning a Tony Award for his performance 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 He took the lead role in Roger Corman s movie The Intruder 1962 and received very good reviews for his significant role in the Stanley Kramer film Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 In the 1963 64 season he appeared in an episode of the ABC series Channing In 1963 he starred in the Family Theater production called The Soldier and received credits in other programs of The Psalms series That same year he guest starred in Route 66 in the episode Build Your Houses with Their Backs to the Sea 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 12 O Clock High as Major Curt Brown in the episode I Am the Enemy 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 Shatner starred in the 1966 gothic horror film Incubus Esperanto Inkubo the second feature length movie ever made with all dialogue spoken in Esperanto He also starred in an episode of Gunsmoke in 1966 as the character Fred Bateman He appeared as attorney turned counterfeiter Brett Skyler in a 1966 episode of The Big Valley Time to Kill In 1968 he starred in the little known Spaghetti Western White Comanche playing both a white hat character and his black hat evil twin Johnny Moon a virtuous half Comanche gunslinger and Notah a bloodthirsty warlord 1966 1969 Star Trek on television Edit Shatner as Captain James T Kirk in Star Trek 1966 1969 Main article Star Trek The Original Series Shatner was cast as Captain James T Kirk for the second pilot of Star Trek titled Where No Man Has Gone Before He was then contracted to play Kirk for the remainder of the show and he sat in the captain s chair of the USS Enterprise from 1966 to 1969 During its original run on NBC the series achieved only modest ratings and it was cancelled after three seasons and seventy nine episodes 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 37 38 39 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 1970 1978 overcoming typecasting Edit 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 Big Bad Mama 1974 the horror film The Devil s Rain 1975 29 and Kingdom of the Spiders 1977 On television he made a critically praised appearance as a prosecutor in a 1971 PBS adaptation of Saul Levitt s play The Andersonville Trial and was also seen in major parts in the movies The People 1972 and The Horror at 37 000 Feet 1973 He had a starring role too in the western themed secret agent series Barbary Coast during 1975 and 1976 and appeared as a guest of the week in many popular shows of that decade including Columbo Ironside Kung Fu Mission Impossible The Rookies and The Six Million Dollar Man 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 citation needed To supplement his income from acting Shatner performed as a celebrity guest in a multitude of television game shows among them Beat the Clock Celebrity Bowling The Hollywood Squares Match Game Tattletales and Mike Stokey s Stump the Stars 29 His curriculum vitae in this genre included several visits to The 10 000 Pyramid and its more generous sequels shows in which contestants attempted to guess a word or phrase with the help of hints from a famous partner 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 In a 1977 episode he perpetrated a blunder that has been preserved on YouTube at the climax of the show attempting to guide his partner to the phrase things that are blessed he blurted out the word blessed instead of as he had intended citing the Virgin Mary His mistake meant that the contestant paired with him was automatically disqualified from receiving what would have been a prize of 20 000 Shatner was so furious at himself over his error that he leapt out of his chair picked it up and threw it out of the show s iconic Winner s Circle 40 During an Archive of American Television interview Richard Dawson disclosed that when Mark Goodson was considering whom to employ as the host of the pilot of Family Feud 1976 he would have chosen Shatner if had not been intimidated into awarding the position to Dawson by a threat from Dawson s agent 41 42 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 Edit 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 29 Fans of the show so called Trekkies began 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 Many of the actors who had crewed the Enterprise became frequent guests at these events Shatner included 45 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 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 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 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 and in a story that culminated in the captain s self sacrificial death Star Trek Generations 1994 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 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 Saturday Night Live sketch about a Star Trek convention he advised a room full of Trekkies to get a life 46 29 The comment was an apt summary of the view of his fans that he had expressed in several interviews 46 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 47 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 He also mocked the cavalier almost superhuman persona of Captain Kirk in the films Airplane II The Sequel 1982 and National Lampoon s Loaded Weapon 1 1993 Shatner s star on Canada s Walk of Fame 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 The success of T J Hooker led to Shatner s hosting the popular dramatic re enactment series Rescue 911 from 1989 to 1996 His career diversified further in the 1980s when he began working as a director taking charge of many episodes of T J Hooker A clause in his Star Trek contract giving him parity with Leonard Nimoy meant that after Nimoy s directing of Star Trek IV The Voyage Home Shatner was entitled to direct a Star Trek movie too he exercised his right in Star Trek V The Final Frontier although many Trekkies were disappointed by the film that he delivered something that he attributed principally to the weakness of the movie s visual effects His growing success on television and in movie theatres in the 1980s did not lead him to stop working for advertisers The VIC 20 home computer for example was endorsed by him both on television and in print 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 Edit 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 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 50 In 1994 Shatner revisited Columbo to play the murderer of the week in the episode Butterfly in shades of grey 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 In 1996 an episode entitled Eye Tooth saw him guest starring in Will Smith s television show The Fresh Prince of Bel Air He narrated a television miniseries shot in New Zealand A Twist in the Tale 1998 In the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun Shatner appeared in several 1999 2000 episodes as the Big Giant Head a high ranking officer from the same alien planet as the Solomon family who becomes a womanizing party animal on Earth The role earned Shatner an Emmy Award nomination 51 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 29 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 amp 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 Edit Shatner c 2005In 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 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 Life imitated art in Gary Indiana in 2001 when Shatner visited the town to host the Miss USA Pageant for real 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 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 invention a 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 In 2003 Shatner appeared in Brad Paisley s Celebrity and Online music videos along with Little Jimmy Dickens Jason Alexander and Trista Rehn He also had a supporting role in the comedy DodgeBall A True Underdog Story 2004 which starred Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn 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 After David E Kelley saw Shatner s commercials 29 he brought Shatner on to the final season of the legal drama The Practice 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 29 Shatner took the Crane role to Boston Legal and won a Golden Globe and an Emmy in 2005 and was Emmy nominated again in 2006 2007 2008 and 2009 With his 2005 Emmy accolade he became one of the few actors along with co star James Spader as Alan Shore to win an Emmy Award while playing the same character in two different shows Shatner remained with Boston Legal until after five seasons and one hundred and one episodes it ended in 2008 Two high profile animated pictures released in 2006 featured Shatner in their cast 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 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 57 58 In December 2008 he experimented with the chat show genre in the humorous Shatner s Raw Nerve which aired until March 2011 He expanded his work on YouTube in 2009 supplying the voice of Don Salmonella to the animated series The Gavones 59 Shatner made several guest appearances on The Tonight Show with Conan O Brien including in cameos in which he made fun of the Republican politician Sarah Palin 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 60 61 62 63 Two days later he ridiculed some of the tweets that she and Levi Johnston the father of her grandchild had published on Twitter 64 On December 11 2009 he returned to Palin once more to read excerpts from her autobiography Going Rogue An American Life and she taking his teasing in good part responded by reciting extracts from his own memoir Up Till Now 65 66 67 Co written with David Fisher later to collaborate with Shatner on a book about Leonard Nimoy and Shatner s relationship with him Up Till Now had been published in 2008 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 It s the future man 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 Edit In April 2010 Shatner began hosting the Discovery Channel show Weird or What which aired until August 2012 Each episode of the series supplied lovers of arcana with several segments exploring news reports relating to left field topics such as UFOs and cryptozoology 72 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 My Dad Says which was cancelled in May 2011 three months after the first broadcast of its final episode 73 2011 also saw him guest starring in one episode of the USA Network s Psych In for a Penny playing the estranged father of Junior Detective Juliet O Hara Maggie Lawson a role that he reprised in the show s 2012 season 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 point Patrick 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 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 74 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 Music Box the show toured throughout the United States 75 In May he was the guest presenter on the British satirical television quiz show Have I Got News for You earning a footnote in the history of neologisms by melding pioneer and pensioner into the portmanteau coinage pensioneer 76 77 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 78 79 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 80 Shatner at Destination Star Trek Europe 2016 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 My Little Pony Friendship is Magic where in the seventh season episode The Perfect Pear he supplied the voice of Grand Pear the estranged maternal grandfather of Applejack and her siblings 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 90 2017 also saw him appearing in a second music video with Brian Evans this time promoting Evans s cover of the Dolly Parton song Here You Come Again 91 William Shatner Twitter 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 amp 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 RT formerly known as Russia Today from July 12 RT s editor in chief Margarita Simonyan said that Captain Kirk has come over to the good side 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 93 Four days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24 2022 Shatner issued a statement via Twitter expressing unqualified support for the Ukrainians in the resistance that they were mounting against their assailants On March 2 he withdrew from his show citing the invasion as his reason for doing so RT America ceased transmitting altogether on March 3 94 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 season eight of The Masked Singer as Knight depicted as a knight riding a golden goose A running gag is that the golden goose that Knight rides keeps trying to attack Nick Cannon He was eliminated in the first episode alongside Eric Idle as Hedgehog and Chris Kirkpatrick as Hummingbird Shatner hosted and executive produced The UnXplained on History from 2019 to 2022 citation needed Since its premiere the show has received very negative reviews from critics Writing in Irish Film Critic Thomas Tunstall reported that the show s subject matter runs all over the board as if designed for an audience with attention deficit disorder Though Shatner enthusiastically poses many questions he provides far fewer satisfactory answers than he should perhaps by design in order to retain the sense of mystery 95 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 EditThe Transformed Man and other albums Edit This section s tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia See Wikipedia s guide to writing better articles for suggestions May 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message Shatner made his debut on the shelves of record shops 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 the LP subjected to Shatnerfication were Bob Dylan s Mr Tambourine Man and the Lennon McCartney song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds 97 The idiosyncratic way with songs that Shatner chose for this LP an approach so amusical that it scarcely even qualified as Sprechstimme was a style to which he remained loyal 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 Edmond Rostand s Cyrano de Bergerac H G Wells s The War of the Worlds and Bertolt Brecht s Galileo 98 A year later the recording was reissued by another company again as a double LP now titled William Shatner Live Captain of the Starship Devoid of Star Trek branding because of licensing restrictions the album s sleeve was decorated with a photograph of Shatner brandishing an upturned camera tripod in the style of Jim Kirk going into battle with a phaser rifle 99 Shatner s second studio album did not materialize until a third of a century after his first Has Been was released in October 2004 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 Seeking Major Tom followed in October 2011 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 100 101 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 101 Astronautically themed and with a general flavour of heavy metal the album featured covers of Pink Floyd s Learning to Fly David Bowie s Space Oddity and Queen s Bohemian Rhapsody 7 Shatner s fifteen track album Ponder the Mystery produced by Billy Sherwood was issued in October 2013 Among the musicians who contributed to it were Mick Jones Simon House Steve Vai Al Di Meola Steve Howe s Yes colleague Rick Wakeman Joel Vandroogenbroeck Edgar Winter Nik Turner Vince Gill Edgar Froese Robby Krieger Dav Koz George Duke and Zoot Horn Rollo The record s credits attributed all its music to Sherwood and all its song texts to Shatner 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 Released on the Heartland Records Nashville label this album also included guest vocals by Neal McCoy Home Free and Cash Creek 102 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 103 Shatner s ninth album The Blues was released on October 2 2020 104 and reached the number one slot of the Billboard Blues Chart fifteen days later 105 A tenth album Bill was announced by Shatner on August 26 2021 and released on September 24 106 107 As well as recording his own series of discs Shatner has taken part in other artists releases too Ben Folds s 1998 album Fear of Pop Volume 1 features Shatner on two tracks In Love and Still in Love Jamie Halliday the founder of Audio Antihero named the former as his favourite song of all time 108 109 110 111 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 In 2005 he was heard in the track 64 Go on the Lemon Jelly album 64 95 And he provided the lead vocals on the progressive rock artist Ben Craven s track Spy In The Sky Part 3 in Craven s album Last Chance To Hear released in March 2016 112 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 Performances of songs on television and in films Edit Television audiences were introduced to Shatner s unorthodox musicianship not long after Star Trek had made him famous In 1978 while hosting the fifth presentation of Saturn Awards bestowed by the Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror Films he performed a version of Elton John s Rocket Man that went on to become a staple of comedic parody In an episode of Dinah Shore s talk show Dinah he used his appearance on it to perform Harry Chapin s Taxi On June 9 2005 he contributed his version of My Way to the presentation of George Lucas s AFI Life Achievement Award backed by a chorus line of dancers in Imperial Stormtrooper costumes who ended Shatner s segment by picking him up and carrying him offstage 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 On March 29 2006 TV Land aired a Shatner centred episode of their Living in TV Land series subtitled William Shatner in Concert 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 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 113 In the fourth episode of his sitcom My Dad Says his character Ed Goodson delivered a Shatner style Karaoke treatment of Right Said Fred s I m Too Sexy In the same scene a waitress asked Ed if he wanted to tackle Rocket Man and he answered Not tonight On November 4 during a television appearance on the Lopez Tonight show he performed a cover of Cee Lo Green s song F k You 114 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 1992 MTV Movie Awards He also mined this vein of self deprecating comedy as the lynchpin of Priceline s television advertising campaign In one commercial for the company he joined with his frequent collaborator Ben Folds in an ironic version of the Diana Ross hit Do You Know Where You re Going To Space career EditSpace Shuttle Discovery Edit 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 Edit Shatner took part in Blue Origin s second sub orbital human spaceflight Blue Origin NS 18 on October 13 2021 116 117 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 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 8 10 In a televised post flight conversation with Bezos Shatner articulated experiencing the overview effect a deepened understanding of the fact that the ecosphere of the Earth is but a thin fragile skin enveloping its planet 9 Personal life Edit Shatner center with Brent Spiner and LeVar Burton in 2010 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 Edit Shatner has been married four times His first wife was a Canadian actress 122 Gloria Rand nee 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 Edit 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 Leonard Nimoy On an episode of the A amp 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 No Not the Bill Shatner I know When Nimoy died in 2015 Shatner said I loved him like a brother We will all miss his humor his talent and his capacity to love Although Shatner was unable to take part in Nimoy s funeral due to other commitments his daughters attended in his place and he celebrated his friend s life in an online memorial 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 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 Shatner on having to work again with two of his Star Trek co stars in the 1994 movie Star Trek Generations 138 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 and Takei wrote about his issues with Shatner in his 2004 memoir To the Stars 139 140 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 Edit Shatner began suffering from tinnitus a hearing disorder in the early 1990s 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 Edit Shatner on horseback wearing saddle seat attire at a horse show in 2011 In his spare time Shatner enjoys breeding and showing American Saddlebreds 29 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 reve 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 Edit 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 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 154 155 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 Public appearances Edit On New Year s Day 1994 Shatner was the Grand Marshal of the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena California Instead of leading the event in the customary classic car he presided over it from horseback He also took part in the coin toss before the subsequent 80th Rose Bowl college football game The teams vying for Rose Bowl honours that year were the University of Wisconsin Badgers and the University of California Los Angeles Bruins the Badgers beat the Bruins by 21 16 Twenty years later he discharged the duties of a Grand Marshal again at an event in his native Canada the 102nd Calgary Stampede 156 157 158 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 Salt Lake Comic Con invited him to attend their event as their special guest 159 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 160 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 161 Among the many other Kirk related dates in his diary were visits to the replica Star Trek The Original Series set built by James Cawley in Ticonderoga New York which saw him guiding small groups of Trekkies on tours of Cawley s version of the Enterprise 162 163 and a December 4 2022 star guest beam down to the L A Comic Con 164 Social media controversy Edit In 2017 Shatner tweeted support for Autism Speaks a controversial charity disliked by some autism self advocates He spent the next few days arguing with autistic people and allies including citing anti vaccination website NaturalNews Days later Shatner suggested his critics should have kept quiet eventually calling the episode a misunderstanding 165 166 Filmography EditMain article William Shatner 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 EditMain article List of awards and nominations received by William Shatner Shatner has a star on both the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Canada s Walk of Fame Entertainment Two time Saturn Award winner 1980 Life Career Award 1983 Best Actor Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan Two time Emmy Award winner 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 167 2009 Streamy Award Best Reality Web Series 2015 Voice Arts Icon Award 168 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 169 2021 ASHA C J Cronan Sportsmanship AwardNational 2011 Governor General s Performing Arts Award 170 171 2019 Appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada by Canadian Governor General Julie Payette 172 Organizational 2014 NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal highest award NASA gives a non government employee 173 Halls of Fame 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 174 Honorary Degrees 2011 Honorary Doctorate of Letters from McGill University 175 Mock Satirical Two time Golden Raspberry Award winner 1989 Worst Actor Star Trek V The Final Frontier 1989 Worst Director Star Trek V The Final Frontier Bibliography EditFiction Edit The TekWar series co written with Ron Goulart TekWar 1989 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 Star Trek The Ashes of Eden 1995 ISBN 0 671 52035 0 Star Trek The Return 1996 ISBN 0 671 52610 3 Star Trek Avenger 1997 ISBN 0 671 55132 9 Star Trek Spectre 1998 ISBN 0 671 00878 1 Star Trek Dark Victory 1999 ISBN 0 671 00882 X Star Trek Preserver 2000 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 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 Believe with Michael Tobias 1992 ISBN 978 0 425 13296 8 Comic book adaptations William Shatner s TekWorld 129 pages February 1994 ISBN 0 87135 985 5 Star Trek The Ashes of Eden DC Comics graphic novel 1995 ISBN 1 56389 235 9 Samuel Lord Series Zero G Book 1 with Jeff Rovin 2016 ISBN 978 1501111556 Zero G Green Space with Jeff Rovin 2017 ISBN 978 1501111587Non fiction Edit Captain s Log William Shatner s Personal Account of the Making of Star Trek V The Final Frontier as told by Lisabeth Shatner 1989 ISBN 0 671 68652 6 Star Trek Memories with Chris Kreski 1993 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 Up Till Now The Autobiography with David Fisher 2008 ISBN 0 283 07058 7 Shatner Rules with Chris Regan 2011 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 1668007327Audiobooks Edit 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 amp Schuster Audio ISBN 978 1797147567Discography EditThe Transformed Man 1968 Decca Records William Shatner Live 1977 live double album Lemli Records reissued the following year by Imperial House as Captain of the Starship William Shatner Live Spaced Out The Very Best of Leonard Nimoy amp William Shatner 1996 compilation album Universal Includes 7 tracks from The Transformed Man 17 tracks by Leonard Nimoy Has Been 2004 produced and arranged by Ben Folds guest artists include Folds Joe Jackson Aimee Mann Lemon Jelly Henry Rollins Adrian Belew and Brad Paisley 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 176 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 References Edit Moon Barbara October 26 1957 Bill Shatner s adventures in Hollywood archive macleans ca Maclean s Archived from the original on December 12 2021 Retrieved December 12 2021 Hahn Jason Duaine 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