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William Shatner - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Born March 22, 1931, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - Canadian actor and writer.
He attended Willingdon Primary School, Notre Dame de Grasse (NDG) and Baron Bean High School in Montreal, and West Hill High School, NDG. Shatner is a graduate of the Montreal Children's Theater. He earned a BA in Commerce from McGill University.
Shatner studied to be a classical Shakespearean actor and therefore took part in the Shakespeare Stratford Festival of Canada in Stratford, Ontario. He played a number of Shakespearean roles at the Stratford Festival: a minor role in the opening scene of Sophocles' famous play Oedipus King by Tyrone Guthrie (broadcast on national television), Shakespeare's Henry V and Marlowe's Tamerlane the Great, Scythian Shepherd. After a while, Shatner played on Broadway. In 1954, he was cast as Ranger Bob in the Canadian version of The Howdy-Doody Show. Shatner was a stunt double for Christopher Plummer - they both starred as two opponents in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
Despite the fact that his official film debut took place in 1951 in the Canadian film "The Butler's Night Off", Shatner played his first character role - Alyosha Karamazova - in the film "The Brothers Karamazov" (MM) in 1958 together with Yul Brynner. In 1959, he received good reviews for his work on the role of Lomax in the Broadway production of Suzy Wong's World. In 1960, Shatner starred as Wayne Gorem in two episodes of the western "Outlaw" (NBC) opposite Barton MacLaine. In 1961, he starred in the Broadway play Shot in the Dark opposite Julie Harris, directed by Harold Clerman. Also in the play were Walter Matthau (he received a Tony Theater Award for his performance in this production) and Gene Sachs. Shatner also starred in two episodes of NBC's Thriller, The Demon of Death and The Hungry Glass.
In 1962 Shatner starred in Roger Corman's Invader. He also starred in Stanley Kramer's The Nuremberg Trials and two episodes of the science fiction series The Twilight Zone - Nick of Time and Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. In the 1963/1964 season, Shatner appeared in episodes of two TV series - "Channing" and "Beyond the Possible" ("Cold Hands, Warm Heart"). In 1963, he starred in the film Soldier (Family Theater), as well as in several programs of the TV series Psalms. In 1964, Shatner guest starred on the episode "He Stuck in His Thumb" on the television series "The Reporter" (CBS - journalist Danny Taylor of the fictional New York Globe starring Harry Guardino .
Shatner guest-starred in the TV series Man From Uncle in one episode with Leonard Nimoy, with whom he soon starred in Star Trek. In 1965, Shatner also starred as Assistant District Attorney in For the People, along with supporting actress Jessica Walter (13 episodes). In 1965, he starred in the gothic novel Evil Spirit, the second feature film in which all dialogues were spoken in the artificial language Esperanto.
Shatner also starred as a seasoned police sergeant on the TJ Hooker television series from 1982 to 1986. He is a musician, author, producer, director and renowned advertiser. From 2004 to 2008, he played the role of attorney Danny Crane in the television drama Boston Lawyers, for which he won an Emmy and Golden Globe. In 2009 Shatner voiced the main character Don Salmonella Gavona in the animated series Gavona.
