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William Shatner, who as all know played Captain James T. Kirk in both the small and big screen versions of Star Trek, turns 86 today. He also starred in the 1980s crime series T. J. Hooker, played the Big Giant Head on 3rd Rock from the Sun, and won two Emmys in the role of Denny Crane on The Practice and Boston Legal. That’s not to mention his writing career, which includes Star Trek fiction and the Tek War novels.

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William Shatner is turning 88 today. Shatner grew up in Montreal and graduated from McGill University. He began his career as a stage actor, making several appearances with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario. Shatner made a few Broadway appearances beginning in the late 1950s, notably in Joshua Logan’s The World of Suzie Wong.

Shatner made his feature film debut in an MGM adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov, as Alyosha, and also had a prominent role in the historical drama Judgment at Nuremburg. He did a lot of TV guest work in the 1960s, and starred on a short-lived legal drama, For the People. But it was his second regular TV role that made Shatner famous.

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Shatner starred as Captain James T. Kirk on three seasons of Star Trek. He returned to the role for an early 1970s animated series, and in seven feature films. He would probably prefer that we forget the Razzies he won for Worst Actor and Worst Director for Star Trek V.

Shatner’s non-Star Trek career had ups and downs. After a relatively dry era in the seventies, he starred on ABC’s T. J. Hooker in the early eighties, and then hosted the CBS docudrama Rescue 911 for several years. In the late 1990s, Shatner received his first Emmy nomination, in a guest appearance as the Big Giant Head on 3rd Rock from the Sun. He then won two Emmys in the 2000s in the role of Denny Crane, first as a guest on The Practice, then starring on Boston Legal.

In addition to his long screen career, Shatner has become a prolific author. He began writing in the late 1980s, with the first of several TekWar novels he co-write with Ron Goulart. He also has written several Star Trek novels with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, and a number of autobiographical volumes, beginning with Star Trek Memories.