William Shatner
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1931-03-22
Place of Birth
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
William Shatner
Biography
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 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.
Also Known For
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Jun 04, 1982
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Dec 07, 1979
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Jun 01, 1984
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Nov 26, 1986
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Jun 09, 1989
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Dec 06, 1991
Star Trek: Generations
Nov 18, 1994
Miss Congeniality
Dec 22, 2000
Mitzi & 100 Guys
Mar 24, 1975
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
Jan 01, 1985
Judgment at Nuremberg
Dec 18, 1961
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Mar 11, 2005
A Town Has Turned to Dust
Jun 19, 1958
Expedition Unknown: Shark Trek
Jul 12, 2021
Airplane II: The Sequel
Dec 10, 1982
American Psycho II: All American Girl
Jun 18, 2002
Nukes in Space
Jan 01, 1999
Kingdom of the Spiders
Aug 24, 1977
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Sep 29, 1995
Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored
Jan 01, 2011
Showtime
Mar 14, 2002
How William Shatner Changed The World
Nov 13, 2005
Over the Hedge
May 17, 2006
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
Sep 17, 2010
Star Trek: The Captain's Summit
Apr 12, 2009
Mind Meld: Secrets Behind the Voyage of a Lifetime
Nov 06, 2001
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Feb 04, 1993
William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill
Mar 22, 2024
The Wild
Apr 06, 2006
Free Enterprise
Jun 04, 1998
Fanboys
Feb 06, 2009
Mysteries of the Gods
Mar 17, 1976
Gotta Catch Santa Claus
Dec 11, 2008
Falcon Down
Apr 17, 2001
The Horror at 37,000 Feet
Feb 13, 1973
Impulse
Oct 01, 1974
The Brothers Karamazov
Feb 20, 1958
Merry F#%$in' Christmas
Nov 27, 2005
Shatner in Space
Dec 15, 2021
Trekkies
Oct 18, 1997
Big Bad Mama
Sep 19, 1974
Voices That Care
Feb 28, 1991
2021 and Done with Snoop Dogg & Kevin Hart
Dec 28, 2021
The Devil's Rain
Jul 01, 1975
Visiting Hours
May 21, 1982
White Comanche
Jun 21, 1968
Shoot or Be Shot!
Jan 25, 2002
Escape from Planet Earth
Feb 14, 2013
Whale Shark Hunters of the Philippines
Oct 24, 2001
The Captains
Jul 22, 2011
Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero
Oct 03, 2000
Sole Survivor
Jan 09, 1970
A Carol Christmas
Dec 07, 2003
Operation Bikini
Mar 26, 1963
Stalking Santa
Mar 31, 2006
Groom Lake
Sep 21, 2002
Corman's World
Dec 16, 2011
The Outrage
Oct 07, 1964
Incubus
Oct 26, 1966
Pray for the Wildcats
Jan 23, 1974
William Shatner's Mysteries of the Way We Feel
Aug 11, 1986
The Intruder
May 14, 1962
Disaster on the Coastliner
Oct 28, 1979
The Space Shuttle
Jul 01, 2011
Heroes Manufactured
Mar 10, 2017
The Kidnapping of the President
Aug 15, 1980
Jefftowne
Sep 08, 1997
Land of No Return
Aug 01, 1978
Go Ask Alice
Jan 24, 1973
The Atomic Bomb Collection
Get a Life!
Jul 28, 2012
TekWar: TekLords
Feb 20, 1994
TekWar: TekJustice
May 14, 1994
TekWar: TekLab
Feb 27, 1994
William Shatner's Gonzo Ballet
Apr 17, 2009
A Tear in the Sky
May 22, 2022
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
Aug 05, 2003
The Explosive Generation
Oct 19, 1961
Secrets of a Married Man
Sep 24, 1984
Pioneer Woman
Dec 19, 1973
To Be Takei
Aug 22, 2014
The People
Jan 22, 1972
Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Christmas Music Tale
Dec 11, 2013
Universe
Jan 01, 1976
Swing Out, Sweet Land
Jan 01, 1970
Spplat Attack
Nov 10, 2002
Star Trek Story
Aug 26, 1996
The Third Walker
Jan 01, 1978
The Pixar Story
Aug 28, 2007
The Prisoner of Zenda, Inc.
Sep 01, 1996
The Tenth Level
Aug 26, 1976
Dead Man's Island
Mar 05, 1996
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Feb 12, 1972
The Andersonville Trial
May 17, 1970
Hollywood Ghost Stories
Oct 30, 1998
Full Moon's Roadshow Revisited
Jun 30, 2023
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special
Sep 28, 1991
The Babysitter
Nov 28, 1980
Super Duper Bloopers
Jan 01, 1986
Alexander The Great
Jan 26, 1968
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
May 05, 2002
UFO Cover-Up Live with Larry King
Jan 01, 1994
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
Jun 10, 1994
Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen
Sep 19, 2011
Osmosis Jones
Aug 10, 2001
The Bastard
May 22, 1978
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Dec 21, 2023
Hypnosis and Beyond
Mar 12, 1980
Microworld
Jan 01, 1976
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
Jan 01, 1998
Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner
Aug 20, 2006
Being Canadian
Sep 18, 2015
Science Fiction: A Journey Into the Unknown
Dec 13, 1994
Land of the Free
Nov 24, 1998
Chaos on the Bridge
Aug 25, 2014
A Christmas Horror Story
Jul 20, 2015
A Star Is Drawn: Rob Simone's Look Inside Comic-Con
Nov 01, 2014
Tom Felton Meets the Superfans
Mar 23, 2015
Broken Angel
Mar 13, 1988
Night of 100 Stars II
Mar 10, 1985
Just in Time for Christmas
Dec 05, 2015
Baby, Baby, Baby
Oct 30, 2015
Christmas in Hollywood
Nov 13, 2003
A Sunday Horse
Feb 15, 2016
William Shatner's Star Trek Memories
Jan 01, 1995
Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond
Oct 06, 1996
The Colorful Montreal Expos
Jan 29, 2016
When Elephants Were Young
Aug 12, 2016
For the Love of Spock
Sep 09, 2016
North Beach and Rawhide
Nov 12, 1985
They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé
Apr 19, 2016
Range 15
Jun 15, 2016
William Shatner Sings O Canada
Jul 26, 2011
William Shatner in Concert
Mar 22, 2006
The Star Trek Dream
Sep 24, 1975
The Crash of Flight 401
Oct 29, 1978
Remembering 'The Intruder'
Mar 27, 2001
Star Trek: A Captain's Log
Nov 30, 1994
A Whale of a Tale
Sep 03, 1976
Oedipus Rex
Jan 06, 1957
City Out of Time
Apr 15, 1959
Your Guide to Star Trek: Generations
Jan 01, 1993
The Canadian Conspiracy
Jun 08, 1986
Seasons
Jun 11, 1987
The Truth Is in the Stars
May 01, 2017
Batman vs. Two-Face
Nov 14, 2017
Amazon: Land of the Flooded Forest
Jan 10, 1990
To Your Last Death
Nov 30, 2019
Not a War Story
Jun 30, 2017
William Shatner: Captain's Log
Nov 30, 1994
Indict and Convict
Jan 06, 1974
Aliens Ate My Homework
Mar 06, 2018
NASA: A Space Odyssey Vol. 3
Jan 01, 2001
NASA: A Space Odyssey Vol. 1
Jan 01, 2001
NASA: A Space Odyssey Vol. 2
Jan 01, 2001
Incident on a Dark Street
Jan 12, 1973
The Captains: Still Kicking
Jan 08, 2013
Horrorween
Oct 26, 2012
The Steam Engines of Oz
May 08, 2018
Perilous Voyage
Jul 29, 1976
TekWar
Jan 23, 1994
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
Jun 18, 2004
Life Beyond Trek: William Shatner
Jan 01, 2011
Sci-Fi Visionaries
Jan 01, 2004
Billy Blackburn's Treasure Chest: Rare Home Movies and Special Memories
Jan 01, 2011
Kiss 'N' Tell: Romance in the 23rd Century
Jan 01, 2004
Birth of a Timeless Legacy
Jan 01, 2004
Creators: The Past
Oct 08, 2020
40 Years of Star Trek
Jan 01, 2006
Lil' Pimp
Jan 11, 2005
The Christmas Tree
Dec 14, 1958
Devil's Revenge
Oct 01, 2019
WWE: The Best of Raw 15th Anniversary
Dec 26, 2007
The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next
Oct 03, 1988
Family of Strangers
Feb 21, 1993
Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault
Dec 05, 2016
Gahan Wilson's The Kid
Oct 30, 2001
Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man
Mar 27, 2010
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
Dec 20, 1994
Star Wars vs. Star Trek: The Rivalry Continues
Jan 01, 2002
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Nov 07, 2002
Senior Moment
Mar 26, 2021
Shadow Game
May 07, 1969
The Defender (Studio One)
Feb 25, 1957
Last Laugh '05
Dec 11, 2005
Last Laugh '04
Dec 12, 2004
WWE Hall Of Fame 2020
Apr 06, 2021
Fireheart
Jan 16, 2022
Festival in Cannes
Nov 03, 2001
Hollywood on Horses
Jan 01, 1989
Night of 100 Stars
Mar 08, 1982
Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People
Jun 15, 2016
The Butler's Night Off
Sep 01, 1951
The Rose Parade: A Pageant for the Ages
Mar 06, 2004
Keeper of the Cup
Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special
Sep 14, 2003
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!
Oct 08, 2022
T.J. Hooker: Blood Sport
May 21, 1986
765874: Unification
Nov 18, 2024
Corwin
Jun 14, 1996
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
May 18, 1987
Star Trek: The Menagerie
Nov 17, 1966
The Eagle Obsession
William Shatner's Spplat Attack II
Jan 01, 2003
Return to the Forest
Apr 25, 2013
Riel
Apr 11, 1979
Aliens Among Us with William Shatner
Aug 08, 2024
Virtuosity
Aug 04, 1995
The Grim Reaper
Jun 13, 1961
Columbo
Sep 15, 1971
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Sep 22, 1964
The Dick Powell Show
Sep 26, 1961
Star Trek
Sep 08, 1966
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Sep 08, 2003
The Tony Danza Show
Sep 13, 2004
Burke's Law
Sep 20, 1963
Perversions of Science
Jun 07, 1997
The Rookies
Sep 11, 1972
Futurama
Mar 28, 1999
Best Week Ever
Jan 23, 2004
Police Surgeon
Sep 10, 1960
T. J. Hooker
Mar 13, 1982
The F.B.I.
Sep 19, 1965
Atomic Betty
Sep 17, 2004
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Sep 10, 1990
seaQuest DSV
Sep 12, 1993
The Larry Sanders Show
Aug 15, 1992
Hawaii Five-O
Sep 20, 1968
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
Route 66
Oct 07, 1960
Star Trek
Sep 08, 1973
The View
Aug 11, 1997
Comic Book Men
Feb 12, 2012
E! True Hollywood Story
Aug 21, 1996
Omnibus
Nov 09, 1952
Space Cadets
Jul 15, 1997
Naked City
Sep 30, 1958
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
May 25, 1992
Show Me the Money
Nov 14, 2006
Gunsmoke
Sep 10, 1955
Studio One
Nov 07, 1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
Jun 20, 1948
The View
Aug 11, 1997
Mission: Impossible
Sep 17, 1966
The Colbert Report
Oct 17, 2005
The Ray Bradbury Theater
May 21, 1985
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
Late Night with David Letterman
Feb 01, 1982
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
The Twilight Zone
Oct 02, 1959
The Henry Rollins Show
Apr 01, 2006
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Apr 20, 2015
Ironside
Mar 28, 1967
Muppets Tonight
Mar 08, 1996
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Oct 02, 1955
Boston Legal
Oct 03, 2004
Million Dollar Password
Jun 01, 2008
TekWar
Dec 22, 1994
Outlaws
Sep 26, 1960
Shatner's Raw Nerve
Dec 02, 2008
Battle of the Network Stars
Nov 13, 1976
Police Woman
Sep 13, 1974
The Name of the Game
Sep 20, 1968
Bob Patterson
Oct 02, 2001
Police Story
Mar 20, 1973
The Fugitive
Sep 17, 1963
Invasion Iowa
Mar 29, 2005
The Virginian
Sep 19, 1962
Thriller
Sep 13, 1960
Amy Prentiss
Dec 01, 1974
One Step Beyond
Jan 20, 1959
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Oct 04, 1963
Climax!
Oct 07, 1954
The Big Valley
Sep 15, 1965
Rescue 911
Sep 05, 1989
The Magician
Oct 02, 1973
The Sixth Sense
Jan 15, 1972
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Jan 03, 2005
Barbary Coast
Sep 08, 1975
Vanished
Mar 08, 1971
CBS Playhouse
Dec 08, 1966
Reporter
Sep 25, 1964
A Twist in the Tale
Feb 06, 1999
Cosmic Odyssey
Feb 20, 2002
Dr. Kildare
Sep 27, 1961
The Masked Singer
Jan 02, 2019
The Defenders
Sep 16, 1961
The Defenders
Sep 16, 1961
The Defenders
Sep 16, 1961
The Outer Limits
Sep 16, 1963
The Defenders
Sep 16, 1961
The Defenders
Sep 16, 1961
The Oregon Trail
Sep 21, 1977
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Mar 30, 1999
Good Day Live
Sep 17, 2001
The Masked Singer
Jan 02, 2019
Click
Apr 06, 2000
Stars on Mars
Jun 05, 2023
Extraordinary Animals
Jan 02, 2008
For the People
Jan 31, 1965
Off to See the Wizard
Sep 08, 1967
Channing
Sep 18, 1963
William Shatner's Weird or What?
Apr 21, 2010
$#*! My Dad Says
Sep 23, 2010
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
One-Hit Wonders
May 10, 2002
Dream On
Jul 08, 1990
Psych
Jul 07, 2006
Naked City
Sep 30, 1958
Hell's Kitchen
May 30, 2005
My Life Is Murder
Jul 17, 2019
Everest
Aug 31, 2008
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Oct 10, 2010
The Practice
Mar 04, 1997
WWE Backstage
Nov 05, 2019
Murdoch Mysteries
Jan 24, 2008
The Mike Douglas Show
Dec 11, 1961
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
Dr. Kildare
Sep 27, 1961
WWE Breaking Ground
Oct 25, 2015
Better Late Than Never
Aug 23, 2016
Space Command
Mar 13, 1953
Hercules
Aug 31, 1998
Kraft Television Theatre
May 07, 1947
The Six Million Dollar Man
Jan 18, 1974
Haven
Jul 09, 2010
Gotham Comedy Live
Nov 15, 2012
Arrest and Trial
Sep 15, 1963
Masters of the Universe: Revolution
Jan 25, 2024
The UnXplained Special Presentation
Oct 03, 2023
The Indian Detective
Nov 23, 2017
Police Squad!
Mar 04, 1982
Eek! The Cat
Sep 11, 1992
Eek! The Cat
Sep 11, 1992
Columbo
Sep 15, 1971
Lamp Unto My Feet
Nov 21, 1948
Piers Morgan Uncensored
Apr 25, 2022
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Apr 15, 1994
Thriller
Sep 13, 1960
Flick Flack
Jan 07, 1974
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Oct 02, 1955
Kodiak
Sep 13, 1974
After They Were Famous
Mar 30, 2002
Ironside
Mar 28, 1967
The Reichen Show
Nov 11, 2005
Studio One
Nov 07, 1948
Studio One
Nov 07, 1948
The Talk
Oct 18, 2010
Unlocked: The World of Games, Revealed
Dec 14, 2016
The Fran Drescher Show
Nov 26, 2010
3rd Rock from the Sun
Jan 09, 1996
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Prime Times
Apr 04, 1983
Raw
Jan 11, 1993
The Big Bang Theory
Sep 24, 2007
Raw
Jan 11, 1993
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jan 26, 2003
Ironside
Mar 28, 1967
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sep 09, 2019
The UnXplained
Jul 19, 2019
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Sep 04, 2022
Real Time with Bill Maher
Feb 21, 2003
Private Eyes
May 26, 2016
77 Sunset Strip
Oct 10, 1958
The Captains Close Up
May 16, 2013
Aftermath with William Shatner
Aug 02, 2010
Comedy Central Roasts
Aug 10, 2003
The UnXplained: Mysteries of the Universe
May 03, 2024
The Real History of Science Fiction
Apr 19, 2014
Hot in Cleveland
Jun 16, 2010
Madame's Place
Sep 20, 1982
Rookie Blue
Jun 24, 2010
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
Police Woman
Sep 13, 1974
Little Women
Oct 02, 1978
The Twilight Zone
Oct 02, 1959
The D-Con Chamber
May 19, 2024
Star Trek: Short Treks
Oct 03, 2018
Barnaby Jones
Jan 28, 1973
How the West Was Won
Feb 06, 1977
The Shannara Chronicles
Jan 05, 2016
Suspicion
Sep 30, 1957
Mars Rising
Oct 07, 2007
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Apr 27, 2014
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Oct 01, 1962
Inner Space
Petrocelli
Sep 11, 1974
Miss USA
Jul 17, 1963
Kraft Television Theatre
May 07, 1947
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Mannix
Sep 16, 1967
Omnibus
Nov 09, 1952
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
On Camera
Oct 02, 1954
Science Fiction Film Awards
Alcoa Premiere
Oct 10, 1961
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Kung Fu
Oct 14, 1972
Testimony of Two Men
May 09, 1977
Have I Got News for You
Sep 28, 1990
The Merv Griffin Show
Oct 01, 1962
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Jan 03, 1993
Fridays
Apr 11, 1980
Chilly Beach
Sep 03, 2003