William Shatner

Person · Open Library

Born

22 March 1931

Works

129

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Film & TV

Acting · Montreal, Quebec, Canada

William Shatner, OC (born March 22, 1931) 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…

Known for

• The Eagle Obsession — Self2025
• William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill — Self2024
• 765874: Unification — Kirk2024
• Aliens Among Us with William Shatner2024
• Masters of the Universe: Revolution — Keldor (voice)2024
• The UnXplained: Mysteries of the Universe — Self - Presenter2024
• The D-Con Chamber — Self2024
• Full Moon's Roadshow Revisited — Self (archive footage)2023
• Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic — Self2023
• Stars on Mars — Self - Host2023

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

Canada

Active from

1931

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

220,116

Total plays

2,230,852

William Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor, writer, performer of the spoken word, and director, best known for having gained fame for his starring role as Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the television show Star Trek from 1966 to 1969, also appearing in seven of the subsequent movies. Shatner has written several books chronicling his experiences playing James T. Kirk and being a part of the Star Trek franchise. He's also recorded several albums <a href="https://www.

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

   · 1996 · cited 62,861x

2. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 44,803x

3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 39,507x

4. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,939x

5. Preparation of Graphitic Oxide

   · 1958 · cited 28,676x

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Music

Quotes

• “Jason [Alexander] says he was inspired by me. Why is everyone who's inspired by me such a fat, fucking loser? You know, I look back on this amazing evening and I can't help but think to myself, "Who the hell are you people?" What right do you have to make fun of me; what have you ever done?"”
• “You know who I am?! I'm William Tiberius Shatner!”
• “My being Jewish does not inform the things I do, necessarily. 'Exodus' is a wonderful piece, no matter what religion you are. 'The Shiva Club,' which is a movie I am attempting to make sometime soon, is about crashing a shiva, if you will. A couple of comics crash a shiva. I could have, I suppose, made it an Irish wake, but the shiva I was more familiar with.”
• “Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.”
• “You, HP, promised me a toxic-free COMPUTER by 2009. Now my friends at Greenpeace tell me that I'll have to wait till 2011. What's up with that?"”
• “They said I was this William Shatner character, and I figured I had to be it, pompous, takes himself seriously, hardheaded. So I played it. But I didn’t see it. That character doesn’t seem like me to me. I know the real William Shatner.”

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Official website

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