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William Alan Shatner a Canadian actor was honored by Emmy, Saturn Award and Golden Globe award.
Birth details
William Alan Shatner was born on March 22, 1931.
William Alan Shatner was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to Joseph Shatner.
Personal details
- William Alan Shatner did his schooling from Willingdon Elementary School, in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in Montreal, Quebec.
- In 1952 William Alan Shatner earned his Bachelor's degree in commerce from Montreal's McGill University.
- Shatner go married four times: to Gloria Rand (1956-1969), Marcy Lafferty (1973-1994), Nerine Kidd (1997-1999), and his current wife Elizabeth Martin whom he ied he knot in 2001.
- On August 9, 1999, Shatner discovered the body of William Alan Shatner wife Nerine at the bottom of their back yard swimming pool. Alcohol and Valium were detected in an autopsy; it was termed as accidental drowning.
- William Alan Shatner's friendship with Leonard Nimoy began in 1964. Nimoy said of his friend of over 40 years they both share lots of things in common.
Characteristics
- After William Alan Shatner third wife’s death in 1999, which was called an accidental drowning William Alan Shatner said that she "meant everything" to him and called her his "beautiful soul mate".
- William Alan Shatner requested public to support Friendly House, a non-profit organization that helps women to re-establish themselves in the community after woes from alcoholism and drug addiction.
- William Alan Shatneroften jogged for charity from 1976-1980.
Career
William Alan Shatner has performed at the Shakespearean Stratford Festival of Canada in Stratford, Ontario.
In 1951, William Alan Shatner gave his debutant in a Canadian film named The Butler's Night Off.
In the year 1958, Shatner's first feature role came.
In 1959, William Alan Shatner received good enough reviews when William Alan Shatner managed to take the role of Robert Lomax in the Broadway production of The World of Suzie Wong.
- 1961, he starred in the Broadway play.
- William Alan Shatner starred in Roger Corman's award-winning movie The Intruder in William Alan Shatner year 1962.
- From 1979 to 1991, in the first six Star Trek films William Shatner played the role of Captain Kirk in the first six Star Trek films, and later on directed the fifth.
- In 1997, William Alan Shatner made the final appearance as Captain Kirk in Starfleet Academy.
- On October 19, 2005, while working on the set of Boston Legal, Shatner was hospitalised for lower back pain. William Alan Shatner finally passed a kidney stone, but recovered and soon got back to work.
- In January 2007, William Alan Shatner set up a series of daily vlogs on his life called ShatnerVision.
- On November 20, 2007, William Shatner became a part of the national television commercial series.
- In the Hollywood Home games William Alan Shatner also plays on the World Poker Accomplishments.
- William Alan Shatner gained fame for playing Captain James Tiberius Kirk, in the television show Star Trek from 1966 to 1969 and in seven of the subsequent movies.
- On The $20,000 Pyramid in the 1970s Shatner was an occasional celebrity guest.
- William Alan Shatner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1983.
Initiatives
- William Alan Shatner apart from being an actor is a good writer as well. William Alan Shatner has written book that describes his experiences playing James T. Kirk and being a part of Star Trek.
- In the year 1968, Shatner got notice for having participated in the first interracial kiss in a U.S. television drama series between fictional characters, with Nichelle Nichols.
- William Alan Shatner also wrote and directed a college musical ...."The Red, White and Blue Revue".
- William Alan Shatner runs paintball recreation center in the U.S. called SPLATT.
Awards
- William Alan Shatner has won many awards until now.
- William Alan Shatner also received the Saturn Award for Best Actor (film) Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982).
- William Alan Shatner won the Golden Raspberry Awards for the following:
Worst Actor (1989) Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Worst Director (1989), Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
- William Alan Shatner won the Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actor - Miniseries/TV Movie (2005 Boston Legal).
- William Alan Shatner won a Golden Globe, an Emmy in 2005 and got nominated again in 2006.
- William Alan Shatner got nominated for the Golden Globe again in 2008.
- William Alan Shatner has won an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for playing the role of Denny Crane on the television drama Boston Legal.
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