The 80s - William Shatner #2: He will always be our fav Captain James T. Kirk, Commander of the Starship U.S.S. Enterprise.

**My Kind Of Crazy** · 12-23-2019, 04:47 PM

William Shatner has notched up an impressive 50-plus years in front of the camera, displaying heady comedic talent and being instantly recognizable to several generations of cult television fans as the square-jawed Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise.

Shatner spent many years honing his craft before debuting alongside Yul Brynner in The Brothers Karamazov (1958). He was kept busy during the 1960s in films such as Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and The Intruder (1962) and on television guest-starring in dozens of series such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955), The Defenders (1961), The Outer Limits (1963) and The Twilight Zone (1959). In 1966, Shatner boarded the USS Enterprise for three seasons of Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), co-starring alongside Leonard Nimoy, with the series eventually becoming a bona-fide cult classic with a worldwide legion of fans known as "Trekkies".

After "Star Trek" folded, Shatner spent the rest of the decade and the 1970s making the rounds guest-starring on many prime-time television series, including Hawaii Five-O (1968), Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969) and Ironside (1967). He has also appeared in several feature films, but they were mainly B-grade (or lower) fare such as the embarrassingly bad Euro western White Comanche (1968) and the campy Kingdom of the Spiders (1977). However, the 1980s saw a major resurgence in Shatner's career with the renewed interest in the original Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) series culminating in a series of big-budget "Star Trek" feature films including Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). In addition, he starred in the lightweight police series T.J. Hooker (1982) from 1982 to 1986, alongside spunky Heather Locklear, and surprised many fans with his droll comedic talents in Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) and Miss Congeniality (2000).

He has most recently been starring in the David E. Kelley television series The Practice (1997) and its spin-off Boston Legal (2004).

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CONDEMNED666 · 12-23-2019, 05:55 PM

hes 88 years old! holy cow!

**Melis** · 12-23-2019, 07:42 PM

hard to believe

**Barrybgb** · 12-24-2019, 08:28 AM

Thanks for the new thread.

**Melis** · 12-24-2019, 04:23 PM

Wish i had more to say about him.

**My Kind Of Crazy** · 03-03-2020, 10:33 AM

William Shatner Refuses To Reprise His Role As Captain Kirk, ‘Star Trek’ Icon Says Character Is “Played Out”

**Barrybgb** · 03-03-2020, 11:43 AM

Probably for the best.

**Melis** · 03-03-2020, 05:49 PM

He's a bit old now.

**BlackWhiteRose** · 03-04-2020, 02:51 AM

That man becomes 89 this month.

**Barrybgb** · 03-04-2020, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by BlackWhiteRose (View Post)

That man becomes 89 this month.

He certainly doesn't look it though.

**My Kind Of Crazy** · 03-04-2020, 04:42 PM

**Melis** · 03-04-2020, 06:16 PM

Uh, eww

**BlackWhiteRose** · 03-05-2020, 05:21 AM

Eww (The Horse semen)

**Melis** · 03-05-2020, 07:07 PM

Yeah, not what we wanted to hear.

**BlackWhiteRose** · 03-06-2020, 02:12 AM

That´s what I meant...

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