William Shatner
With a slew of wives and decades of adventures under his ever-widening belt, Shatner really isn't that different from his legendary TV alter ego, Captain James Tiberius Kirk on the original Star Trek....
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03/21/1931
Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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| Mask of killer Michael Myers in the original Halloween (1978) was a likeness of his Star Trek character, Captain Kirk, painted white. |
| Shared TV's first interracial kiss on the Star Trek episode "Plato's Stepchildren" with Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura. |
| Early TV career included memorable turns on The Twilight Zone and an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. with future Star Trek costar Leonard Nimoy. |
| Began acting career as a child on Canadian radio. |
| Title of his memoir Get a Life! (1999) was derived from a 1986 Saturday Night Live skit spoofing fans of Star Trek. |
| Varied (and much spoofed) music career includes cult classic The Transformed Man (1968), featuring unique covers of "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," and Has Been |
