Published video “I'll Be with You”.
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William Shatner
William Shatner is a Canadian actor. From 1966 to 1994, he starred as Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek franchise, from his 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.
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Born 22 March 1931 · Q16297
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There have always been rumors of haunted occurrences & mysterious premonitions, even secret societies connected to historic moments & events. Tonight, we will focus on such stories that exist during one of the nation's darkest periods: the United State's Civil War. At 9PM on #HISTORY!
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2026· 6 entries
Published video “The Great Mystery”.
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Published video “I'll Be with You (Preview)”.
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Published video “The Great Mystery (Preview)”.
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Public attention spiked: 35,286 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.2× the usual 5,726, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: Health link edit
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2025· 10 entries
“There have always been rumors of haunted occurrences & mysterious premonitions, even secret societies connected to historic moments & events. Tonight, we will focus on such stories that exist during one of the nation's darkest periods: the United State's Civil War. At 9PM on #HISTORY!”
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“Los Angelenos! It has come to my attention that the LAPD's History museum was vandalized in the civil unrest surrounding the recent Federal immigration enforcement operations. The museum is seeking donations for repairs and related expenses. Donate here: www.laphs.org/donation-1”
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“Wishing all Canadians a very Happy Canada Day! Love, The Shatner Family! ❤️”
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“Pensacolians! I'll be in your fair city on August 2nd doing a Q&A after a @StarTrek Wrath of Khan screening! Come down, it'll be fun! VIP Packages available. See williamshatnertour.com for details.”
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“Happy #Juneteenth to all who are celebrating! Love, The Shatner Family”
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“Hey #Dallasites! I hear everything is bigger and better in Texas...is that true? You don't have me..yet. Did you know 🤔 I'll be coming to the Majestic Theatre in July? 🙌🏻 Come join me on row 30th for a fun night of Star Trek and stories. Visit the Majestic site or williamshatnertour.com!”
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“For those that are celebrating today; HAPPY FATHER'S DAY from the Shatner Family!”
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“Didn't get that signed item you wanted in my charity silent auction yesterday? You can still get a signed Thank You letter with my hand signed signature by donating $50 or more. Visit: www.silentauctionpro.com/fanpage.php?... to donate and read the text of the graphic if you have questions.”
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Shatner received a Special Lifetime Achievement Saturn Award
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2024· 7 entries
Released album “Where Will the Animals Sleep? Songs for Kids and Other Living Things”.
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Published video “Birdsong Symphony”.
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Published video “I'm A Coral See In The Coral Sea”.
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Published video “Secret Agent Whale”.
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Published video “Elephants and Termites”.
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Released album “So Fragile, So Blue”.
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Ed Dwight, also age 90, but 48 days older than Shatner, flew on the suborbital Blue Origin NS-25 spaceflight
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2023· 3 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim ““Star Trek” actor William Shatner said of his time in space: “Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe…”” Mostly True.
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Released album “Ponder the Mystery Revisited”.
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Snopes rated the claim “Actor William Shatner died in March 2023.” False.
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2022· 2 entries
Shatner issued a statement via Twitter expressing unqualified support for the Ukrainians in the resistance that they were mounting against their assailants
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Shatner competed in season eight of The Masked Singer as "Knight" (depicted as a knight riding a golden goose)
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2021· 8 entries
Reported claimRated This one photo does not prove anything. The image is faked, but that doesn’t mean the space mission was. There is extensive footage of Shatner before the launch, in space and after landing. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “A photo of William Shatner in uniform for the Blue Origin space mission was clearly photoshopped using an image of Jeff Bezos in the same uniform. This is proof the mission didn’t happen.” This one photo does not prove anything. The image is faked, but that doesn’t mean the space mission was. There is extensive footage of Shatner before the launch, in space and after landing..
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USA Today rated the claim “Photo of Bezos and Shatner in matching jackets show flight were hoax” Altered.
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Snopes rated the claim “William Shatner, who famously played Captain Kirk in the original "Star Trek" series, will go to space.” True.
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Released album “Bill”.
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Shatner flew into space aboard Blue Origin NS-18, a Blue Origin sub-orbital mission
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Shatner starred in the film Senior Moment, which co-starred Jean Smart and Christopher Lloyd
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Career landmark: spaceflight.
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When it was revealed that a popular science documentary show that he would host, I Don't Understand with William Shatner, was scheduled to be aired on RT, formerly known as Russia Today, from July 12
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2020· 5 entries
And reached the number one slot of the Billboard Blues Chart fifteen days later
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Released album “The Blues”.
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Awarded Television Hall of Fame (2020).
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Awarded WWE Hall of Fame (2020).
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Shatner revealed in 2020 that he suffers from swollen joints and various age-related "aches and pains".
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2019· 1 entry
Shatner filed for divorce from Elizabeth in 2019.
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2018· 2 entries
Released album “Shatner Claus: The Christmas Album”.
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Released album “Why Not Me”.
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2017· 2 entries
Awarded Officer of the Order of Canada (2017).
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Was in the second season of Better Late Than Never: a preview episode of December 11, 2017, was followed by an official season premiere on the New Year's Day of 2018
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2016· 2 entries
The NBC reality miniseries Better Late Than Never followed Shatner and a quartet of other aging celebrities—Terry Bradshaw, Jeff Dye, George Foreman and Henry Winkler—as they took a grand tour around Japan, South Korea a
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2017 and 2018, Shatner 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
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2015· 2 entries
“I loved him like a brother. We will all miss his humor, his talent, and his capacity to love.”
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Played Mark Twain in an episode of the Canadian historical crime drama series Murdoch Mysteries, and Croatoan – the dangerous, interdimensional father of Audrey Parker – in the last episodes of the fifth and final sea
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2014· 1 entry
Shatner performed an autobiographical one-man show on Broadway, which was filmed for subsequent screening in more than 700 theatres across Australia, Canada and the United States
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “Ponder the Mystery”.
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “Seeking Major Tom”.
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McGill University awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Letters
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2010· 1 entry
Shatner described the film as "wonderful"
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2009· 3 entries
Returned to Palin once more to read excerpts from her autobiography, Going Rogue: An American Life, and she, taking his teasing in good part, responded by reciting extracts from his 2008 memoir, Up Till Now (co-writte
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With a poetry slam-inspired recitation of the speech in which she had resigned the governorship of Alaska
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Supplying the voice of Don Salmonella to the animated series The Gavones
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “Exodus: An Oratorio”.
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2006· 3 entries
Awarded Television Hall of Fame (2006).
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TV Land aired a Shatner-centred episode of their Living in TV Land series subtitled "William Shatner in Concert"
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Featured Shatner in their cast
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2005· 5 entries
Launched Comedy Central's Last Laugh 2005 with a skit in which he appeared as a Lucifer celebrating how well the year had gone from the point of view of Hell
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Boston Legal (2005).
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Contributed his version of "My Way" to the presentation of George Lucas's AFI Life Achievement Award, backed by a chorus line of dancers in Imperial Stormtrooper costumes who ended Shatner's segment by picking him up
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Was heard in the track "'64 – Go" on the Lemon Jelly album '64–'95
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And was Emmy nominated again in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009
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2004· 3 entries
Released album “Has Been”.
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for The Practice (2004).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for Boston Legal (2004).
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2003· 1 entry
Shatner appeared in Brad Paisley's Celebrity and Online music videos along with Little Jimmy Dickens, Jason Alexander and Trista Rehn
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2002· 1 entry
Shatner appeared with Brian Evans at the San Carlos Institute Theatre in Key West, Florida and duetted with him in the songs "What Kind of Fool Am I" and "The Lady Is a Tramp": the concert was later released as the album
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2001· 1 entry
When Shatner visited the town to host the Miss USA Pageant for real)
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Canada's Walk of Fame (2000).
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Spaced Out: The Very Best of Leonard Nimoy & William Shatner”.
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1996· 1 entry
An episode entitled Eye, Tooth saw him guest-starring in Will Smith's television show, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
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1995· 1 entry
Narrated Peter Kuran's documentary film Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie, and his TekWar franchise expanded into the world of computer games with a first-person shooter release, William Shatner's TekWar
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1994· 1 entry
Shatner revisited Columbo to play the murderer-of-the-week in the episode "Butterfly in Shades of Grey"
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1990· 2 entries
Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1990).
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Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1990).
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1989· 1 entry
And launched a sequence of books that sold hundreds of thousands of copies
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1983· 1 entry
The iconic status of Captain Kirk was acknowledged with a ceremony celebrating Shatner's being awarded the 1,762nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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1982· 1 entry
Shatner was once again the leading character of a high-profile television show when he was cast as a veteran Los Angeles police sergeant in T
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1978· 2 entries
While hosting the fifth presentation of Saturn Awards bestowed by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, he performed a version of Elton John's Rocket Man that went on to become a staple of comedic par
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Released album “Live”.
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1977· 2 entries
The studio decided that Star Trek would earn them more money if the next adventure of the Enterprise took place not on television but in theatres
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A performance that Shatner had given during a tour in 1971 was released on a Lemli Records double album, William Shatner Live
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1973· 2 entries
Shatner returned to the role of Kirk, albeit only in voice, in the animated Star Trek series, which ran for two seasons and twenty-two episodes
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Lasting from 1973 to 1996, their marriage was Shatner's longest, but did not produce any children.
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1969· 1 entry
Shatner had difficulty finding employment, being somewhat typecast as James Tiberius Kirk
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1968· 4 entries
Earned Shatner a footnote in the history of American race relations: a kiss that Captain Kirk planted on the lips of Lieutenant Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) is often cited as the first example of a white man kissing a black
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Starred in the little known Spaghetti Western White Comanche, playing both a white-hat character and his black-hat evil twin: Johnny Moon, a virtuous half-Comanche gunslinger, and Notah, a bloodthirsty warlord
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With the release of an album titled The Transformed Man
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Released album “The Transformed Man”.
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1965· 1 entry
Shatner guest-starred in 12 O'Clock High as Major Curt Brown in the episode "I Am the Enemy"
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1964· 2 entries
Played the titular Alexander in the pilot for a proposed series called Alexander the Great alongside Adam West as Cleander
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Shatner guest-starred in the second episode of the second season of the ABC science fiction anthology series The Outer Limits, "Cold Hands, Warm Heart"
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1963· 1 entry
Starred in the Family Theater production called "The Soldier" and received credits in other programs of The Psalms series
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1961· 1 entry
Co-starring with Julie Harris, he appeared on Broadway in A Shot in the Dark, directed by Harold Clurman; Gene Saks and Walter Matthau took part in the play too, Matthau winning a Tony Award for his performance
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1959· 2 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (1959).
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Shatner received good reviews in the role of Lomax in The World of Suzie Wong on Broadway
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1954· 1 entry
Shatner decided to leave Stratford and move to New York City in the hope of building a career on the Broadway stage
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1952· 1 entry
Studied at Desautels Faculty of Management (1952).
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1951· 1 entry
Had a small role in a Canadian comedy drama, The Butler's Night Off: its credits list him as Bill Shatner, and describe his role simply as "a crook"
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1931· 2 entries
Born 1931-03-22.
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In the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a Conservative Jewish household
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