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William Shatner Facts
| Sign | Aries |
| Born |
Mar 22, 1931 Montreal, Canada |
| Age | 95 |
| Total Facts | 84 |
Often jogged for charity from 1976-1980. Running to support the Olympics held in his hometown of Montreal and for late Canadian amputee Terry Fox and his cross country marathon.
On August 9, 1999, his third wife, Nerine Kidd, accidentally drowned in the swimming pool at their house in Studio City, California.
Once lived on Giraud Street, in Montreal.
Once performed in Incubus (1966), a movie whose entire dialogue was in Esperanto.
One of his favorite restaurants to eat at while in Montreal is Vichy's.
Overcame his greatest phobia of falling, while directing the Yosemite National Park scenes of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989).
Received 2011 Governor General's Lifetime Achievement Award in the Performing Arts. Received an honorary Doctorate from his alma mater, McGill University.
Recorded a special message for the crew of NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-133 that woke up them at 3:23 a.m. (EST), March 7th 2011. The message included the Star Trek theme song along with Shatner's narration: "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.".
Released an album titled 'Has Been' in 2004. The album was produced by Ben Folds who also plays on the album. Other guest performers on the album include Joe Jackson, Aimee Mann, Henry Rollins and Adrian Belew.
Remained friends with Leonard Nimoy during and after "Star Trek" (1966).
Remained friends with Heather Locklear during and after "T.J. Hooker" (1982).
Reprised his Sergeant "T.J. Hooker" (1982) character for Showtime (2002) and Fanboys (2009).
Runs "SPLATT ATTACK!", a paintball recreation center in the US, and sometimes participates in the competitions.
Shatner attended the McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its student university center is now named after him.
Shatner breeds and shows American saddlebreds and quarter-horses.
Shatner did most of his own stunts for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), even though he had a stunt man, John Meier, to do the more difficult ones.
Shatner has appeared in episodes of six different TV series along with Leonard Nimoy: "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (1964); "Mission: Impossible" (1966); "Star Trek" (1966); "Star Trek" (1973); "T.J. Hooker" (1982), and "Futurama" (1999).
Shatner has joined Sylvester Stallone, Prince, Kevin Costner, Roberto Benigni, and Tom Green as being the few actors who have directed themselves in performances that "won" them Razzie Awards for "Worst Actor".
Shatner is of Ukrainian-Jewish descent, and he was mentioned in the TV episode of "The Simpsons" "The Simpsons: Like Father, Like Clown (#3.6)" (1991) as being a famous Jewish entertainer. He was also mentioned by Adam Sandler in "The Hanukkah Song" ("You don't need Deck The Halls or Jingle Bell Rock / When you can spin a dreidel with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock").
Shatner is the CEO of the Toronto-based Core Digital Effects company that did the effects for the 1996 film Fly Away Home (1996).
Shatner was born to Ann and Joseph Shatner on March 22, 1931, in Montreal, Quebec.
Shatner was the first person to appear in the sketch on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1993) of "Celebrity Secrets". This became a regular sketch on this show featuring major celebrities such as Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks, and his fellow "Star Trek" captains, Patrick Stewart and George Takei.
Shatner wielded a lightsabre towards the end of "Invasion Iowa". George Lucas was so flattered that he invited him to speak and croon "My Way" for his Lifetime Achievement ceremony in 2005.
Shortly after the original series of "Star Trek" (1966) was canceled, his wife Gloria Rand left him and took a lot of money with here. With very little money and his acting prospects low, he lived in a pick-up truck camper until continually acting in bit parts led into higher-paying roles.
Suffers from tinnitus (ringing in the ears), along with "Star Trek" (1966) co-star Leonard Nimoy. Nimoy's right ear and Shatner's left ear are affected. Their hearing was apparently damaged during the filming of the episode, "Star Trek: Arena (#1.18)" (1967), when they were both too close to a special effects explosion.
The most popular TV-star in Germany, elected in on-line-voting by the spectators of the national TV-channel KabelEins. Appeared in the final TV-show (aired 10/19/ 2005) to receive the honor personally.
The unofficial hometown of his alter-ego Capt. Kirk, Riverside, Iowa is known by hardcore Trekkers as "the other Kirkland". Kirkland, Canada is a few miles from Montreal, Quebec.
To this day, still hasn't fully recovered from the depression brought on by the 1968 death of his father, Joseph Shatner. Roddenberry personally gave permission to postpone shooting scenes with Nimoy (Trek episode "Devil in the Dark") for him to attend funeral and return within a week.
Two of his daughters, Melanie Shatner and Lisabeth Shatner. appeared in the "Star Trek: Miri (#1.8)" (1966) in small uncredited parts.
Underwent right hip replacement surgery on June 2008.
Was mentioned in David Fincher's 1999 film, Fight Club (1999). When Tyler asks the Narrator who he'd fight, the Narrator ponders for a moment and replies, "Shatner. I'd fight William Shatner".
When recording the narration for his "Shatnerverse" Trek novels, he pronounces the name "Cardassian" (normally pronounced "car-DASS-ian") as with Kim Kardashian.
William Shatner expressed his sadness at not being asked to reprise his iconic role of "Captain James T. Kirk" for the new Star Trek (2009) film. In response, Shatner wrote "Star Trek: Academy Collision Course" (with Judith and Garfield Reeves) as his own version of how Kirk and Spock met. In his version of the story, a teen-aged Kirk gets into criminal trouble and is given a choice: Go to prison or join Starfleet. He, of course, joins Starfleet and meets Spock. But he does not meet any other major character from the "Star Trek" (1966) series. However, the story does tie into the first season episode "Star Trek: The Conscience of the King (#1.13)" (1966) and Kirk meets his Starfleet bully, Finnigan, from "Star Trek: Shore Leave (#1.15)" (1966).
Wrote the TekWar (1994) (TV) series of sci-fi books, completely unrelated to "Star Trek". These were turned into several made-for-TV movies and a short-lived series. Shatner himself costarred, and directed several episodes.