William Shatner
William Shatner
Biography
William Shatner, OC 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). Shatner began his screen acting career in Canadian films and television productions before moving into guest-starring roles in various American 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), hosted the reality-based television series Rescue 911 (1989–1996), guest starred on the detective series Columbo, and acted in the comedy film Miss Congeniality (2000). After his last appearance as Captain Kirk, Shatner's television career 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. 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". 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". In 2021, Shatner flew into space aboard Blue Origin NS-18, 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. Minutes after the flight, he described experiencing the overview effect. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Shatner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
433
Gender
Male
Birthday
1931-03-22 (94 years old)
Place of Birth
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Acting

2019

The Masked Singer as Knight

2019

The Masked Singer as Knight (archive footage)

2019

WWE Backstage as William Shatner

2016

Private Eyes as Norm Glinski

2012

Gotham Comedy Live as Self - Host

2012

Honest Trailers as James T. Kirk (archive footage)

2012

Comic Book Men as Self

2010

The Talk as Not available

2010

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic as Grand Pear (voice)

2010

Hot in Cleveland as Sally

2010

Haven as Croatoan

2008

Murdoch Mysteries as Mark Twain

2008

Shatner's Raw Nerve as Self - Host

2007

The Big Bang Theory as William Shatner

2006

Psych as Frank O'Hara

2005

The Colbert Report as Not available

2005

The Reichen Show as Self - Guest

2005

Hell's Kitchen as Self

2004

The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest

2004

Boston Legal as Denny Crane

2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self

2003

Chilly Beach as The President

2001

Good Day Live as Self

2000

Click as Self

1999

Futurama as William Shatner (voice)

1997

The View as Self

1997

The View as Self - Guest

1994

Space Ghost Coast to Coast as Not available

1993

Raw as Not available

1993

Raw as William Shatner

1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest

1993

seaQuest DSV as Milos Tezlof

1992

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Not available

1992

The Larry Sanders Show as William Shatner

1989

Rescue 911 as Self - Host

1988

LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Not available

1977

The Oregon Trail as Not available

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Host

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

1974

The Six Million Dollar Man as Josh Lang

1974

Petrocelli as Adam North

1974

Police Woman as Not available

1974

Police Woman as Mark Ciprio

1973

Barnaby Jones as Phil Carlyle / Fred Williams

1973

Police Story as Not available

1972

The Rookies as Not available

1971

Columbo as Ward Fowler

1971

Columbo as Fielding Chase

1968

The Name of the Game as Peter

1968

Hawaii Five-O as Sam Tolliver

1967

Mannix as Adam Langer

1966

Star Trek as James T. Kirk

1965

The Big Valley as Brett

1965

The F.B.I. as Arthur Majors

1963

Miss USA as Host

1963

The Outer Limits as Gen. Jeff Barton

1961

Dr. Kildare as Dr. Toby Cunningham

1961

Dr. Kildare as Dr. Carl Noyes

1961

The Defenders as Jim McCleery

1961

The Defenders as Charles Terranova

1961

The Defenders as Gil Rawson

1961

The Defenders as Cliff Sellers

1961

The Defenders as Assistant District Attorney Earl Rhodes

1961

Alcoa Premiere as Dr William Grant

1961

The Dick Powell Show as Eric Tegman

1960

Route 66 as Not available

1960

Outlaws as Not available

1960

Thriller as Gil Thrasher

1960

Thriller as Paul Graves

1959

One Step Beyond as Carl Bremer

1959

The Twilight Zone as Bob Wilson

1959

The Twilight Zone as Don Carter

1958

77 Sunset Strip as Paul DeVinger

1954

Climax! as Ben Tate

1953

The Oscars as Self

1952

Omnibus as Not available

1952

Omnibus as Palace Messenger

1948

Studio One as Dr. David Coleman

1948

Studio One as Dr. Franck

1948

Studio One as Kenneth Preston

1948

Lamp Unto My Feet as Not available

1947

Kraft Television Theatre as Not available

1947

Kraft Television Theatre as Charles Best

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Host

NaN

Have I Got a Bit More News for You as Self - Presenter

2023

The UnXplained Special Presentation as Self - Presenter

2023

Stars on Mars as Self - Host

2022

Fireheart as Mayor of New York (voice)

2019

The UnXplained as Self - Host

2019

My Life Is Murder as Barton Wallwork

2018

Star Trek: Short Treks as Capt. James T. Kirk (voice) (archive footage)

2017

The Indian Detective as David Marlowe

2016

The Shannara Chronicles as Captain Kirk (archive footage)

2015

WWE Breaking Ground as Himself (narrator)

2013

Escape from Planet Earth as General Shanker (voice)

2010

William Shatner's Weird or What? as Not available

2010

$#*! My Dad Says as Dr. Edison Milford Goodson III

2010

The Fran Drescher Show as Not available

2010

Rookie Blue as Henry McLeod

2010

Aftermath with William Shatner as Self - Host

2008

Extraordinary Animals as Not available

2007

Mars Rising as Narrator (voice)

2006

The Henry Rollins Show as Not available

2006

Show Me the Money as Not available

2006

Over the Hedge as Ozzie (voice)

2006

The Wild as Kazar (voice)

2004

Atomic Betty as Jim

2002

One-Hit Wonders as Not available

2002

Cosmic Odyssey as Not available

2001

Osmosis Jones as Mayor Phlegmming (voice)

1999

A Twist in the Tale as Not available

1994

Star Trek: Generations as Captain James T. Kirk

1993

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 as General Mortars

1991

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as Captain James T. Kirk

1989

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier as Captain James T. Kirk

1984

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock as Admiral James T. Kirk

1982

Madame's Place as Self

NaN

Inner Space as Narrator

2024

The D-Con Chamber as Self

2021

Senior Moment as Victor Martin

2020

Creators: The Past as Lord Oghma

2019

To Your Last Death as The Overseer (voice)

2019

Devil's Revenge as Hayes

2018

The Steam Engines of Oz as Oscar "Oz" Diggs (voice)

2018

Aliens Ate My Homework as Phillogenus esk Piemondum (Phil) (voice)

2017

Batman vs. Two-Face as Harvey Dent / Two-Face (voice)

2017

Heroes Manufactured as Self (archive footage)

2017

Not a War Story as Not available

2016

A Sunday Horse as Kenneth Roubidoux

2016

Range 15 as Richard Chindler

2015

A Christmas Horror Story as Dangerous Dan

2015

Being Canadian as Self

2015

Baby, Baby, Baby as Actor

2015

Just in Time for Christmas as Coachman Nick

2014

Chaos on the Bridge as Self

2014

To Be Takei as Self

2012

Get a Life! as Himself

2011

The Captains as Himself

2011

Corman's World as Self - Actor

2011

The Space Shuttle as Narrator

2009

Fanboys as Himself

2008

Million Dollar Password as Not available

2008

Everest as Norman Kelly

2008

Gotta Catch Santa Claus as Santa Claus (voice)

2007

The Pixar Story as James T. Kirk (archive footage)

2005

Invasion Iowa as Col. Shane Yeager

2005

Lil' Pimp as Tony Gold (voice)

2004

Birth of a Timeless Legacy as Not available

2003

A Carol Christmas as Dr. Bob / Ghost of Christmas Present

2002

Showtime as William Shatner

2002

Groom Lake as John Gossner

2001

Bob Patterson as Warren Wellman

2001

Festival in Cannes as Self

1998

Land of the Free as Aidan Carvell

1998

Free Enterprise as Bill

1997

Trekkies as Self

1996

Star Trek Story as Self (archive footage)

1994

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold as Adam Harland (uncredited)

1994

TekWar as Walter H. Bascom

1992

Boomerang as Captain James Tiberius Kirk (archive footage)

1991

Voices That Care as Self - Choir Member

1986

The Canadian Conspiracy as Not available

1984

Secrets of a Married Man as Chris Jordan

1983

Prime Times as Self

1982

Night of 100 Stars as Self

1982

Visiting Hours as Gary Baylor

1980

The Kidnapping of the President as Jerry O'Connor

1980

The Babysitter as Dr. Jeff Benedict

1979

Disaster on the Coastliner as Stuart Peters

1978

Little Women as Friedrich Bhaer

1978

The Bastard as Paul Revere

1977

Kingdom of the Spiders as Dr. Robert 'Rack' Hansen

1977

Testimony of Two Men as Adrian Ferrier

1976

Universe as Narrator

1976

The Tenth Level as Prof. Stephen Turner

1975

The Devil's Rain as Mark Preston

1975

Mitzi & 100 Guys as Self

1974

Big Bad Mama as William J. Baxter

1974

Impulse as Matt Stone

1974

Indict and Convict as Sam Belden

1973

Pioneer Woman as John Sergeant

1973

Incident on a Dark Street as Deaver G. Wallace

1973

The Horror at 37,000 Feet as Paul Kovalik

1973

Go Ask Alice as Sam

1972

The Hound of the Baskervilles as George Stapleton

1972

The People as Dr. Curtis

1971

Vanished as Dave Paulick

1970

Sole Survivor as Lt. Col. Josef Gronke

1968

Alexander The Great as Alexander

1968

White Comanche as Johnny Moon / Notah

1966

Incubus as Marc

1964

The Outrage as Preacher

1964

Reporter as Horner

1963

Operation Bikini as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1962

The Intruder as Adam Cramer

1960

Police Surgeon as Joe Flatt

1958

The Brothers Karamazov as Alexi Karamazov

1957

The Defender (Studio One) as Kenneth Preston

2024

765874: Unification as Kirk

2023

Full Moon's Roadshow Revisited as Self (archive footage)

2022

A Tear in the Sky as Not available

2021

Shatner in Space as Self

2021

WWE Hall Of Fame 2020 as Himself

2016

When Elephants Were Young as Narrator

2016

The Colorful Montreal Expos as Narrator (voice)

2012

Horrorween as Himself

2011

Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored as Captain James T. Kirk (archive footage)

2011

Life Beyond Trek: William Shatner as Not available

2006

Stalking Santa as Narrator

2005

Last Laugh '05 as Lucifer

2005

How William Shatner Changed The World as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)

2004

Best Week Ever as Not available

2004

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story as Dodgeball Chancellor

2004

Last Laugh '04 as Self

2004

Sci-Fi Visionaries as Not available

2003

Christmas in Hollywood as Self (archive footage)

2003

Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2002

Shoot or Be Shot! as Harvey Wilkes

2002

Spplat Attack as Not available

2001

Gahan Wilson's The Kid as Professor

2001

Falcon Down as Major Robert Carson

2000

Miss Congeniality as Stan Fields

1999

Nukes in Space as Narrator

1998

Hercules as Jason of the Argonauts (voice)

1998

Hollywood Ghost Stories as Himself

1997

Perversions of Science as Admiral Kornfeld

1997

The Practice as Denny Crane

1997

Space Cadets as Self

1997

Jefftowne as Himself

1996

3rd Rock from the Sun as Big Giant Head

1996

Muppets Tonight as Self

1996

Dead Man's Island as Chase Prescott

1996

Corwin as Self

1996

The Prisoner of Zenda, Inc. as Michael Gatewick

1994

TekWar as Walter H. Bascom

1994

TekWar: TekLab as Walter H. Bascom

1994

Star Trek: A Captain's Log as Himself/Host

NaN

Keeper of the Cup as Not available

1994

TekWar: TekLords as Walter H. Bascom

1994

TekWar: TekJustice as Walter H. Bascom

1993

Family of Strangers as Earl

1992

Eek! The Cat as Santa Claus (voice)

1992

Eek! The Cat as Commander Berzerk (voice)

1990

Dream On as Not available

1989

Hollywood on Horses as Self

1988

Broken Angel as Chuck Coburn

1987

Seasons as Narrator (voice)

1986

T.J. Hooker - Blood Sport as Sgt. T.J. Hooker

1985

The Ray Bradbury Theater as Charles Underhill

1985

Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers as Self (archive footage)

1985

North Beach and Rawhide as Rawhide MacGregor

1982

Police Squad! as Poisoned Man

1982

T. J. Hooker as Sgt TJ Hooker

1982

Airplane II: The Sequel as Cdr. Buck Murdock

1982

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan as Admiral James T. Kirk

1980

Hypnosis and Beyond as Himself

1979

Star Trek: The Motion Picture as Admiral James T. Kirk

1978

The Crash of Flight 401 as Carl Tobias

1978

Land of No Return as Curt Benell

1978

The Third Walker as Munro Maclean

1977

How the West Was Won as Captain Harrison

1976

Battle of the Network Stars as Not available

1976

Perilous Voyage as Steve Monroe

1976

A Whale of a Tale as Jack Fredericks

1976

Microworld as Not available

1975

Barbary Coast as Jeff Cable

1975

The Star Trek Dream as Self

1974

Flick Flack as Host

1974

Kodiak as Buzz Howard

1974

Amy Prentiss as Not available

1974

Pray for the Wildcats as Warren Summerfield

1973

Star Trek as James T. Kirk (voice)

1973

The Magician as Ed Cassidy

1972

The Sixth Sense as Not available

1972

Kung Fu as Capt. Brandywine Gage

1970

Swing Out, Sweet Land as John Adams

1970

The Andersonville Trial as Col. Chipman

1969

Shadow Game as Not available

1967

Ironside as Not available

1967

Ironside as Bill Parkins

1967

Ironside as Marty Jessup

1967

Off to See the Wizard as Alexander the Great

1966

Mission: Impossible as Joseph Conrad

1966

CBS Playhouse as Not available

1966

Star Trek: The Menagerie as Captain James T. Kirk

1965

For the People as David Koster

1964

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Not available

1963

The Fugitive as Tony Burrell

1963

Burke's Law as Arthur Reynolds

1963

Arrest and Trial as Larry Tavener

1963

Channing as Tom Ericson

1962

The Virginian as Luke Milford

1961

Judgment at Nuremberg as Harrison Byers

1961

The Explosive Generation as Peter Gifford

1960

Insight as Mike Burnett

1959

City Out of Time as Narrator (voice)

1958

Naked City as Roger Barmer

1958

Naked City as Maung Tun

1958

A Town Has Turned to Dust as Jerry Paul

1958

The Christmas Tree as Philo

1957

Suspicion as Eli

1957

Oedipus Rex as Chorus

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Jim Whitely

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents as John Crane

1955

Gunsmoke as Fred Bateman

1954

On Camera as Not available

1953

Space Command as Not available

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Philo

1951

The Butler's Night Off as Not available
Crew

2024

765874: Unification Executive Producer

2023

The UnXplained Special Presentation Executive Producer

2019

The UnXplained Executive Producer

2017

God Woke Executive Producer

2017

The Truth Is in the Stars Executive Producer

2014

Chaos on the Bridge Director

2014

Chaos on the Bridge Executive Producer

2012

Get a Life! Executive Producer

2012

Get a Life! Director

2011

The Captains Director

2011

The Captains Writer

2011

The Captains Executive Producer

2007

Fire Serpent Creator

2007

Fire Serpent Executive Producer

2005

Squidbillies Theme Song Performance

2002

Groom Lake Director

2002

Groom Lake Story

1994

TekWar: TekLords Novel

1994

TekWar Director

1994

TekWar Novel

1994

TekWar: TekJustice Characters

1994

TekWar Director

1994

TekWar Producer

1994

TekWar Creator

1982

T. J. Hooker Director