William Shatner is a Canadian actor, born the March 22nd 1931 with Montreal (Canada). It appeared with the general public in the role of the captain James T. Kirk, in the televised series Star Trek .

Biography

William Shatner begins her studies at the Willington school then with Our-Lady-Of-Grace. It is besides with the latter establishment that one of the buildings bears its name.

He then dissociated himself in Strarford Ontario Festival where it made a intepretation Shakespearienne there.

He made his beginnings on television as “Ranger Bill” and with the cinema in The Brothers Karamazov

Shatner obtains also its first successes with the Théâtre then with the Télévision in series like Alfred Hitchcock presents , the Fourth Dimension , Beyond reality and Fugitive the .

For the pilot episode of Star Trek, The Cage , the captain of WORN Enterprise is Christopher Pike, interpreted by Jeffrey Hunter. This one refused to take again the role for the second pilot ( Where the man exceeds the man / Where No man has gone before ). Williams Shatner, already present in a few series SF, inherited the role of the captain renamed James T. Kirk. He also plays the part of the brother of Kirk, George Samuel ( the light which kills / Operation: annihilate! ).

After Star Trek , it is a long time without being able to take down role because one too strongly associated it with his role of James T. Kirk. It is after the turning of first film of this series Star Trek: The Motion Picture which it will be of return.

It always on television is found (in particular the wild Coast and Hooker ), with the theater, but also with the cinema. He is the hero of the first six films resulting from the series TV Star Trek , as well as seventh film, Generations , which makes the connection between the two series. The fifth opus Star Trek the ultimate border is Co-writing and carried out by Shatner.

Its most recent roles were held in the feature-length films: Osmosis Jones , American Psycho 2 , Showtime , Dodgeball . It will be with the poster of Miss FBI in 2005. It is also the eccentric Denny Crane in Justice in Boston since 2004 and it makes a voice in Over the egde , a cartoon film.

It gained two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe for its role in Justice in Boston .

Since November 2006, it agreed to animate the spectable televised Show me the money diffused by the network ABC.

It also made appearance in the show TV of the WWE " Monday Night Raw". It has at the time of the ceremony of the " WWE Hall off Famed 2007" intonized Jerry " the King" Lawler. It is currently couples some, although it had three wives in the past.

Its Career

With the Cinema

On television

As a Realizer

As a Scenario writer

As an Author

William Shatner wrote several work of the Star Trek series, who was published, in French version, with the editions black Fleuve.

He also wrote his " mémoires" , and reflections, on Star Trek, in Star Trek Memories .

It also prefaced the work of photography of Robert Vavra: horses of the sun .

As a Singer

He left several albums, of which, in 2004 Has been at Sony and Transformed Man at Universal

Anecdote

William Shatner began studies with the Université McGill, which it did not finish. Following gift of the actor, a house - University Centers - bears the name of the actor in an not-official way in his honor. Students and professors use this name besides.

See too

External bonds

  • Official site
  • William Shatner on Internet Movie Database
  • William Shatner on AlloCiné
  • the video chain of William Shatner on the Web

Simple: William Shatner

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