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17 unusual facts about William Shatner


Charley Wilkinson

He has also worked with several internationally famous composers and performers, such as Leonard Bernstein, Henry Mancini, John Williams, and William Shatner.

Fear of Pop

Perhaps most notably, William Shatner provided vocals on "In Love" (as well as the reprise, "Still in Love").

Fear of Pop is the name of an experimental recording project by Ben Folds (of Ben Folds Five) and Caleb Southern (Ben Folds Five's long-time producer), along with John Mark Painter (of Fleming and John), William Shatner and others.

Fred Catona

Tapping William Shatner as a celebrity spokesperson, Catona developed a campaign for this new website, now called Priceline.com.

Has Been

This footage became William Shatner's Gonzo Ballet, a feature film with a very well received world première at the Nashville Film Festival on 17 April 2009.

Jason

Jason appeared in the Hercules episode "Hercules and the Argonauts" voiced by William Shatner.

Jeff Burk

Burk is best known for his short novel Shatnerquake which is about the actor William Shatner battling the various fictional characters he has played over the years.

Leonard Nimoy discography

Full title Spaced Out - The Very Best of Leonard Nimoy & William Shatner

Loblaws

Actor William Shatner did a number of television commercials for Loblaws in the 1970s, and finished the ad spots by saying originally, "At Loblaws, more than the price is right; but, by gosh the price is right!" later shortened to, "At Loblaws, more than the price is right."

Mark Leiren-Young

His celebrity interviews can be found at the Georgia Straight Online, detailing a range of celebrities from William Shatner to Salman Rushdie and including such A-Listers as Emily Blunt, Michael Cera, and Terry Gilliam.

Overacting

William Shatner's performance in the original Star Trek series has been frequently parodied across numerous comedy television shows.

Rev-Ola Records

The label was originally a subsidiary of the Creation Records publishing arm, Creation Songs, in which guise it also issued spoken word recordings by William Shatner and Ivor Cutler, as well as first-time reissues by favoured artists, such as Fred Neil and Yma Sumac.

Savannah Smith Boucher

In 1984, Boucher appeared as Eadie Wright in the episode "The Two Faces of Betsy Morgan" of ABC’s T.J. Hooker with William Shatner and in the television movie Sweet Revenge, one of several films of that same title, in the role of Anne Haggarty Cheever.

Shatner

William Shatner (born 1931), Canadian actor, recording artist, and author

Shit My Dad Says

In November 2009, CBS announced that it was developing a television sitcom based on the Twitter feed, which would star William Shatner.

Students' Society of McGill University

The SSMU leases and runs events out of the William Shatner University Centre building, renamed after the Star Trek hero in 1992 by a referendum vote.

William Shatner's Gonzo Ballet

William Shatner's Gonzo Ballet is a feature-length documentary film about a ballet by Margo Sappington called "Common People", which was set to the music of William Shatner and Ben Folds from their album Has Been.


Airplane II: The Sequel

First released on December 10, 1982, the film was written and directed by Ken Finkleman and stars Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett, William Shatner, Rip Torn, and Sonny Bono.

Amy Morrison

Morrison has also played small roles in feature films Jack Be Nimble and Every Woman's Dream as well as appearances on Jack of All Trades, Shortland Street and William Shatner's A Twist in the Tale among other work in television and film.

Don Post

In the 1970s, Post made masks of such actors as Tor Johnson and William Shatner, the latter of which was slightly altered in the 1978 film, Halloween, into the infamous Michael Myers mask.

Geodesium

The music of Geodesium has been featured in planetarium shows narrated by well-known screen personalities including James Earl Jones, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Patrick Stewart.

George Reinblatt

He has also been a writer for Rick Mercer's Monday Report, was the head writer for Canada's Walk of Fame in 2006, and has been a writer at Montreal's Just for Laughs comedy festival, where he has written for the likes of John Cleese, Tina Fey, Kelly Ripa, William Shatner, Howie Mandel, Jason Alexander, Dame Edna, Joan Rivers, George Lopez, Tom Arnold and James Belushi, amongst others.

George Weston Limited

Meanwhile, a new advertising campaign featured Canadian actor William Shatner of Star Trek fame, who told television audiences to "Come on over to Loblaws" and "More than the price is right....but by gosh the price is right." In 1974, W. Galen Weston was appointed Chairman and Managing Director of George Weston Limited, and subsequently company President.

Guillermo Toledo

In 2008 he played in a Spanish commercial for the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft, in a series of commercials that also featured Mr. T, William Shatner, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Verne Troyer.

James Kahn

Among the series he worked on were Family Medical Center, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beyond Reality, TekWar (created by William Shatner), Medicine Ball, Xena: Warrior Princess, Melrose Place (which he also co-executive produced in its last years), Star Trek: Voyager (also Supervising Producer) and All My Children (for which he and the writing staff were Emmy-nominated).

John Korty

The film starred Kim Darby and William Shatner, was produced by Francis Ford Coppola, and was based on the science-fiction novel The Pilgrimage by Zenna Henderson.

Manfred Baumann

After that he set up shootings with international celebrities like: Jaimie Alexander, Paul Anka, Tony Curtis, Steve Guttenberg, Juliette Lewis, Bai Ling, Dolph Lundgren, Hayley Hasselhoff, John Malkovich, Sofia Milos, Kathleen Turner, Madeline Zima, William Shatner, Holly Madison, Chevy Chase, Jay Mohr, Michelle Rodriguez, Leah Remini, Barbara Eden, Tobin Bell, Rachel Hunter, Bruce Willis and a lot more.

Merry F %$in' Christmas

Since the holiday season of 2005, Comedy Central has periodically aired Denis Leary's Merry F#%$in' Christmas, an hour-long (with commercials) Christmas special featuring Leary and several celebrity guests, including Charlie Murphy, Carmen Electra, William Shatner, and the Barenaked Ladies.

Patti Yasutake

Her television acting career began in 1985 with an appearance on the show T.J. Hooker alongside William Shatner, Richard Herd, James Darren and Michelle Phillips.

Raymond Thompson

Since 1994, Thompson has created and produced several television series and movies, including The Enid Blyton Adventure Series, The Enid Blyton Secret Series, The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson (starring Richard Thomas), Return to Treasure Island, The Legend of William Tell (created by Thompson), William Shatner's A Twist in the Tale (also created by Thompson).

Robert Vavra

Jane Goodall and William Shatner have introduced his documentary film on primitive equine behavior, Such Is The Real Nature of Horses, the culmination of 20 years of research.

Sarah Major

Major's other work includes the 1998 short film Flying, a role as Gaela's daughter in a television production of Hercules and as Emily Watson in William Shatner's A Twist in the Tale.

The Transformed Man

It was released in 1968, while Shatner was still starring in the original Star Trek series, and began his musical career.

Toronto City Hall

In the 1980 film The Kidnapping of the President starring William Shatner and Hal Holbrook the city hall and Nathan Phillips Square provided the location for a protracted hostage scene.

Visiting Hours

Visiting Hours (also known as Get Well Soon and The Fright) is a 1982 slasher film starring Michael Ironside, Lee Grant, Linda Purl, William Shatner and Lenore Zann.

Zenna Henderson

In 1971, Henderson's story "Pottage" was made into an ABC-TV Movie, The People, starring William Shatner, Kim Darby, and Diane Varsi, and following the story of a group of humanoid extraterrestrials who live in an isolated rural community.