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William Shatner is a famous Canadian actor, and a very well-known novelist, as well as a spokesperson. Shatner’s net worth is estimated to be $100 million as of 2014.

Speaking about Shatner’s early life, he was born on the 22th of March in 1931 in Cote-Saint-Luc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. William is a graduate of three schools that he attended while still in Quebec. Those are the West Hill High School, Baron Byng High School and Willingdon Elementary School all of which are in Notre-Dame-de-Grace. He has a degree in commerce which he obtained at the well-known McGill University. His University even awarded him an honorary Doctorate.

The star’s first role was in a show called The Canadian Howdy Doody Show. He then went on to debut in the movie called The Butler’s Night Off, but his first truly successful feature role was when he was cast in the movie The Brothers Karamazov. The same year he appeared in a TV production called The Christmas Tree. Before launching his big movie career in such productions as Star Trek William Shatner appeared in the infamous show called Nero Wolfe that was eventually cancelled.

Shatner kick-started his movie career when he was cast in the role of Captain Kirk in the series Star Trek. However, this is not the only way this famous actor and writer is involved in science fiction arena, as he has also written a short series of novels Tek War, that were also adapted for TV. He also starred in such shows as Boston Legal, The Practice in which he was cast as an attorney and the one that was highly praised by critics called T. J. Hooker. For his work on both of the former shows Shatner has received his three awards, one of them being Golden Globe and the other two being Emmy. It is estimated that William Shatner makes over $100,000 per episode of the show he stars in. He then went on to star in the series called Rescue 911 for which he was nominated and won the People’s Choice Award in the category of the Favorite New TV Dramatic Series. He is currently a star in the show called $#*! My Dad Says which airs on CBS.

Speaking about personal life, William has been married four times: the first one was to Gloria Rabinowitz Rand. Together they have three daughters: Melanie, Lisabeth, Leslie. Shatner then married Kathy McNeil with whom he has a son named Peter. Then Shatner married Marcy Lafferty and their marriage lasted for more than two decades, until Shatner reportedly left his wife. His next marriage was to Nerine Kidd Shatner and it lasted until her death. Shatner has written a book in which he talks about his last wife.

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William Shatner Quick Info

William Shatner Trademarks

1. Radio disc jockey voice
2. Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek (1966) and seven of the Star Trek films
3. Clipped, dramatic narration

William Shatner Quotes

• [on the death of Leonard Nimoy] I loved him like a brother. We will all miss his humor, his talent and his capacity to love.
• [on the pyrotechnic opening to the 2012 Juno Awards] Sure there were flames, but if the drummer survived, what’s the point?
• [on the popularity of Star Trek (1966)] It has action-adventure, with lots of fights and villains, so the kids like it. On another level, we deal with a philosophical concept – that what’s alien isn’t necessarily evil – so we reach their parents. Many of our episodes deal with scientific concepts, so our program entertains the technicians and space scientists. And with the hippies, we have a far-out show. They think we’re psychedelic.
• I’m not going to have a tombstone. I’m going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.
• On his most memorable money mistake: When I was a young actor at Canada’s Stratford Festival, one of the older actors told me that Canadian uranium is the future and you must buy into it. So I bought it on Thursday with the entire $500 I had saved. The following day, the Canadian prime minister said the country would no longer buy uranium. I was wiped out. It actually hurt my performance on stage. Since then, I’ve led a very conservative financial life.
• On what money means to him: For the longest time, I could never get ahead more than a few hundred dollars, no matter how well I did or what job I got, and no matter how hard I tried to pare expenses down. With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don’t want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts. I never spend more than what I can afford, and I don’t owe anything.
• What he tells his kids about money: Don’t buy anything on time, and that includes cars and houses. (Money magazine, 2007)
• We were basically one and the same, although Jim [Kirk] was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.
• I am not a Starfleet commander, or T.J. Hooker. I don’t live on Starship NCC-1701, or own a phaser. And I don’t know anybody named Bones, Sulu or Spock. And no, I’ve never had green alien sex, though I’m sure it would be quite an evening. I speak English and French, not Klingon! I drink Labatt’s, not Romulan ale! And when someone says to me “Live long and prosper”, I seriously mean it when I say, “Get a life.” My doctor’s name is not McCoy, it’s Ginsberg. And tribbles were puppets, not real animals. PUPPETS! And when I speak, I never, ever talk like every. Word. Is. Its. Own. Sentence. I live in California, but I was raised in Montreal. And yes, I’ve gone where no man has gone before, but I was in Mexico and her father gave me permission! My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
• [When asked if he was a fan of technology] I love technology. Matches, to light a fire is really high tech. The wheel is REALLY one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that I am an ignoramus about technology. I once looked for the ‘ON’ button on the computer and came to find out it was on the back. Then I thought, anyone who would put the ‘on’ switch on the back, where you can’t find it, doesn’t do any good for my psyche. The one time I did get the computer on, I couldn’t turn the damn thing off!
• [When asked if he wore a hairpiece] It’s a question that I find like asking somebody, “Did you have a breast implant?” or “When did you get your lobotomy?”.

William Shatner Important Facts

• 20,000 plus 7 1/2 percentage of the gross
• Apprehensive about using a cell phone in public due to constant cat calls i.e., “Beam me up Scotty!”. Badgering by passerby’s, especially in Airports, restaurants.
• Alongside Norman Lloyd, William Daniels, Angela Lansbury, Ernest Borgnine, Mickey Rooney, Christopher Lee, Betty White, Dick Van Dyke, Larry Hagman, Adam West, Edward Asner, Marla Gibbs, Florence Henderson, Shirley Jones and Alan Alda, Shatner is one of the few actors in Hollywood who lived into their 80s and/or 90s without ever either retiring from acting or having stopped getting work.
• He is widely known to be a social butterfly.
• Along with Patrick McGoohan, Jack Cassidy, Robert Culp and George Hamilton, he is one of only five actors to play two or more murderers on Columbo (1971): Ward Fowler in Columbo: Fade in to Murder (1976) and Fielding Chase in Columbo: Butterfly in Shades of Grey (1993).
• Was one of the many celebrities who liked to make weekend visit’s to Ralph Helfer’s “Africa U.S.A.” Ranch in Soledad Canyon, California.
• Pictured as the character Captain James T. Kirk on one of a set of five Canadian commemorative postage stamps celebrating the 50th anniversary of the television series Star Trek (1966), issued May 5, 2016. Price on day of issue was 85¢. Other stamps in the set honored Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley and John Colicos.
• Was considered for the role of Detective Buddy Russo in The French Connection (1971), which went to Roy Scheider.
• “Captain Kirk” is the only lyric that is identical in both the English and German mixes of the song “99 Red Balloons”.
• With the death of Grace Lee Whitney on May 1, 2015, he is now the oldest living cast member of the original Star Trek (1966) series.
• He did not attend Leonard Nimoy’s funeral. Nimoy was the best man at Shatner’s wedding to Nerine Kidd.
• His series T.J. Hooker (1982) was parodied as “T.J. Lazer” in RoboCop (1987). Lead actor Peter Weller later appeared in the Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) remake, Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), as the future grandfather of Kirk’s son.
• Celebrity spokesperson for Priceline.com since 1997.
• In an episode of American Dad! (2005), Roger the Alien is caught by the FBI and strapped down to be vivisected. He cries out: “I can’t die! Not before Shatner!”.
• On February 28, 2010, he made an appearance at the 2010 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony. Shatner used his camera time to tell the audience how great a country Canada truly is, citing their “magnificent lakes” and “stunning sunsets” as reasons why the country demands so much appreciation.
• Received a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario in 2000.
• Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6901 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on May 19, 1983.
• In 1981, he directed a stage production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” starring his wife Marcy Lafferty in Los Angeles, California.
• Was reunited with ex-T.J. Hooker (1982) co-star, Heather Locklear, on one episode of Boston Legal (2004).
• Best known by the public for his starring roles as Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek (1966) and as the title character on T.J. Hooker (1982).
• Acting mentor and friends with Adrian Zmed, Heather Locklear and James Spader.
• Friends with: Shirley Jones, Florence Henderson, Leonard Nimoy, Angie Dickinson, James Drury, Doug McClure, Betty White, Adam West, Bill Bixby, Candice Bergen, James Darren, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, Richard Herd, Gene Roddenberry, Aaron Spelling, David E. Kelley, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Paul Reubens, Martin Short, Jim Varney, Regis Philbin, John Lithgow, Raymond Burr, Lee Majors, Peter Graves, Majel Barrett, Grace Lee Whitney, Richard Chamberlain, Gene Rayburn, Peter Marshall, Dick Clark, E.G. Marshall, Robert Reed, Joan Collins, Edward Asner, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Buddy Ebsen, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Larry Hagman, Robert Wagner and Reese Witherspoon.
• Owned a red Doberman in the 1970s, nicknamed “Kirk”.
• His Priceline commercials have not only reunited him with Leonard Nimoy, but have also paired him with Robert Pine, the father of Chris Pine, who succeeded him in the role of James T. Kirk.
• Received the 2011 Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award in the Performing Arts. Received an honorary doctorate of letters from his alma mater, McGill University in June 2011.
• Attended and graduated from West Hill High School in Montreal, Quebec.
• 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 7, 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.”.
• His fondness for motorcycle riding in the 1950s and 1960s influenced the same for young James T. Kirk in the Star Trek (2009) remake.
• Remained friends with Leonard Nimoy during and after Star Trek (1966).
• Remained friends with Heather Locklear during and after T.J. Hooker (1982).
• Grew up in the Notre-Dame-de-Grace (NDG) section of Montreal, Quebec.
• Once performed in Incubus (1966), a movie whose entire dialogue was in Esperanto.
• He expressed his sadness at not being asked to reprise his iconic role of Captain James T. Kirk for the Star Trek (2009) remake. 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 teenaged Kirk gets into criminal trouble and is given a choice: Go to prison or join Starfleet. Of course, he joins Starfleet and meets Spock. But he does not meet any other major character from the original Star Trek (1966) series. However, the story does tie into the first season episode Star Trek: The Conscience of the King (1966) and Kirk meets his Starfleet bully, Finnigan, from Star Trek: Shore Leave (1966).
• In the June 17, 2009 episode of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (2009), this was revealed he cannot perform the Vulcan salute (“live long and prosper”) hand gesture.
• He and his wife, Elizabeth Shatner, have two Dobermans.
• Reprised the title character of T.J. Hooker (1982) for the comedy films Showtime (2002) and Fanboys (2009).
• When recording the narration for his “Shatnerverse” Trek novels, he pronounces the name “Cardassian” (normally pronounced “car-DASS-ian”) as with Kim Kardashian West.
• Once resided on Giraud Street in Montreal, Quebec.
• Underwent right hip replacement surgery. [June 2008]
• “Trek” novel cover artist Keith Birdsong names Shatner as the most difficult to render. His cheekbone structure, especially, when painting either the series or motion picture eras.
• Father-in-law of Andy Clement and Joel Gretsch.
• After the success of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) and the rise of The X-Files (1993), he was interviewed as believing in UFOs’ existence, claiming he, himself, had seen the unexplained when he was younger.
• 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.
• One of his favorite restaurants to eat at while in Montreal is Vichy’s.
• Was mentioned in David Fincher’s drama film Fight Club (1999). When Tyler asks the Narrator who he would fight, the Narrator ponders for a moment and replies, “Shatner. I’d fight William Shatner.”.
• The unofficial hometown of his alter-ego Captain James T. Kirk, Riverside, Iowa is known by hardcore Trekkers as “the other Kirkland”. Kirkland, Canada is a few miles from Montreal, Quebec.
• His old house on Bag Avenue, in Laval, Quebec was bought by a millionaire.
• Nearly ten years after acting in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), whose plot involved rescuing humpback whales, he narrated a television documentary about endangered species (including humpbacks), in which he became emotional to the point of weeping.
• Overcame his greatest phobia of falling, while directing the Yosemite National Park scenes of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989).
• Dr. James Kirkland, Ph.D, wrote a 1996 Star Trek novel titled “First Frontier”. And in his acknowledgments, thanked Captain Kirk (original series episode Star Trek: Arena (1967)) for inspiration and being his childhood hero.
• He wielded a lightsaber towards the ending of “Invasion Iowa” (2005). George Lucas was so flattered that he invited him to speak and croon “My Way” for his Lifetime Achievement ceremony in 2005.
• Money from his father’s Laval, Quebec hardware and furniture business supported him during the actor’s job hunt in the United States.
• Lieutenant Lemli, a character from the original Star Trek (1966) series, played by Roger Holloway, was named after his three daughters: Elizabeth, Leslie and Melanie.
• To this day, he still has not 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 (episode Star Trek: The Devil in the Dark (1967)) for him to attend funeral and return within a week.
• Runs “SPLATT ATTACK!”, a paintball recreation center in the United States, and sometimes participates in the competitions.
• 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.
• Wrote the TekWar (1994) series of science fiction books, completely unrelated to Star Trek. These were turned into several made-for-TV movies and a short-lived series. Shatner himself co-starred and directed several episodes.
• Is an expert equestrian (horse rider), which was put to good use in Star Trek: Generations (1994). Co-star Patrick Stewart, despite his classical background, had very little experience with horses, so Shatner helped teach him. One of Shatner’s tips was to wear pantyhose under his pants, to reduce chafing.
• Auctioned a kidney stone to GoldenPalace.com for $75,000. The money went to Habitat for Humanity, a charity that builds houses for the needy.
• 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 (1967), when they were both too close to a special effects explosion.
• The most popular television star in Germany, elected in on-line-voting by the spectators of the national television channel KabelEins. Has appeared in the final television show (aired 10/19/2005) to receive the honor personally.
• He was one of the guests at the wedding of Sandra Bullock and Jesse James.
• During his marriage to Marcy Lafferty, he was the son-in-law of Perry Lafferty.
• His paternal grandparents, Volf Schattner and Fruma Freyda Lecker, were Jewish immigrants from Kuty, Ukraine and Bukovina, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, respectively. William’s father, Joseph Shatner, was born in Bukovina. William’s maternal grandparents, Yaakov Garmaise and Yetta Kahn, were Jewish immigrants from Vilkaviskis, in Lithuania. He was mentioned in the episode The Simpsons: Like Father, Like Clown (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”).
• Has appeared in episodes of three different series with George Takei and Nichelle Nichols: Star Trek (1966), Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973) and Futurama (1999).
• He once bought a horse from the father of Chelsea Field, a man who is also the father-in-law of Scott Bakula.
• 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”.
• Had some worries about appearing in Futurama: Where No Fan Has Gone Before (2002). He spoke with Billy West, who told Shatner that the cast and crew had nothing but respect for him. He agreed to continue.
• Has appeared in episodes of six different series with Leonard Nimoy: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), Mission: Impossible (1966), Star Trek (1966), Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973), T.J. Hooker (1982) and Futurama (1999).
• Did a concert with crooner Brian Evans in Key West, Florida, joining the singer for his own style and rendition of the songs “Lady Is a Tramp” and “What Kind of Fool Am I”.
• His appearance on Saturday Night Live (1975) in 1986 mocked the Iran-Contra Affair figure Oliver North (with Shatner standing mute in a green uniform); his own series T.J. Hooker (1982), recently canceled, and some overzealous Star Trek (1966) fans. This last sketch had him grimly addressing the fans at a Star Trek convention with the phrase “Get a life!” Many Trekkers asked him later if he had meant anything by the sketch. He claimed he had not, but that that had been written by the comedy writers of Saturday Night Live. Shatner later made “Get a Life!” the title of his Star Trek fan memoir.
• In his early performing days, he was once required to play the piano in a scene (with music supplied off-camera), then pull a weapon from a drawer to kill another actor. First the piano cue went badly, then the only “weapon” available turned out to be a corkscrew. Shatner carried on, and in his own words, “I screwed him to death!”.
• At first, he believed that as the star of Star Trek (1966), he was supposed to “outshine” the rest of the actors and actresses. He later said that he had come to appreciate the merits of having an ensemble cast, with each member’s contribution while working on Star Trek.
• He once worked as a camp counselor as a teenager at the Camp B’nai Brith in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec.
• According to Debra Hill, a Halloween mask in Shatner’s likeness was painted white and used as the mask of Michael Myers in the original Halloween (1978).
• Has appeared in productions at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.
• He 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.
• During the filming of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), a fire broke out on the studio lot that threatened to destroy the Genesis Planet sets. Shatner was one of several cast and crew members who helped to put the fire out, wielding a fire hose to spray that at the fire.
• Did most of his own stunts for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), even though he had a stuntman, John Meier, to do the more difficult ones.
• Is a vegetarian.
• His version of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was voted as the worst massacre of a The Beatles song ever. [May 2003]
• During the late 1960s, he recorded an LP record titled “The Transformed Man”, that is considered to be a camp classic today. One track was a spoken cover version of “Mr. Tambourine Man” — one in which he gave an overdramatic performance that some compared to a man on a bad drug trip. Shatner embraces his checkered reputation as a “camp” performer now.
• His clipped, dramatic delivery of his lines, peppered with dramatic pauses, is often referred to as “Shatnerian”.
• His favorite Star Trek (1966) episode is Star Trek: The Devil in the Dark (1967).
• He was the understudy of Christopher Plummer in a stage production of Shakespeare’s play “Henry V” in Canada.
• He wrote and directed a college musical: “The Red, White and Blue Revue”.
• Produces and hosts the annual “Hollywood Charity Horse Show” that he founded in 1990. More than $1.25 million has been raised for children’s charities, such as “Ahead With Horses”, “L.A.’s BEST” and the “Children’s Museum of Los Angeles”.
• His face appears on the cover of the official first aid handbook issued by the National Safety Council, stemming from his time hosting Rescue 911 (1989).
• In 2001, he married Elizabeth Shatner (Elizabeth Anderson Martin), 30 years his junior. She is a horse trainer who had lost her husband to cancer in 1997. Their grief (Shatner was a widower) and their love of horses drew them together. They reside in Southern California and in Kentucky.
• His daughter Melanie Shatner had a small role in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) that was directed by her father.
• Two of his daughters, Melanie Shatner and Lisabeth Shatner, appeared in the episode Star Trek: Miri (1966) in small uncredited roles.
• His daughter Lisabeth Shatner was “Miss Golden Globe” 1985.
• His children with Gloria Rand: Leslie Carol (born on August 31, 1958, married to Gordon Walker, and the mother of two children, Grant and Eric); Lisabeth Mary (born on June 12, 1960, married to Andy Clement); and Melanie Ann (born on August 1, 1964, married to the actor Joel Gretsch).
• Has written several Star Trek novels, including “The Ashes of Eden”, “The Return” and “Avenger”.
• Speaks English and French fluently, from his bilingual upbringing in Montreal, Quebec.
• Is the CEO of the Toronto-based Core Digital Effects company that did the effects for the adventure drama Fly Away Home (1996).
• Shortly after the original Star Trek (1966) series was canceled, his wife Gloria Rand left him and took a lot of money with her. 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.
• Received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Its student university center is currently named after him.
• He appeared in the music video, and he sang in the choir, in the song “Voices That Care”.
• His hobbies are horses, horseback riding and playing tennis.
• Has three daughters: Leslie Carol (born 1958), Lisabeth Shatner (born 1960) and Melanie Shatner (born 1964). He and his wife live in Southern California, and they also own a 360-acre horse farm in Kentucky.
• Breeds and shows American saddlebreds and quarter-horses.
• His daughter Lisabeth Shatner wrote the script for the episode T.J. Hooker: Partners in Death (1986).
• On August 9, 1999, his third wife, Nerine Kidd, drowned in the swimming pool at their house in Studio City, California. The tragedy was ruled an accident.

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