William Shatner
Known for Acting · 391 credits
- Born
- 1931-03-22 (age 95)
- Place of birth
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Also known as
- ویلیام شاتنر
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.
Known For
TV Shows (180)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
The Daily Show
1996
as Narrator
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Raw
1993
as Self / William Shatner
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest
Star Trek
1966
as James T. Kirk
Columbo
1971
as Ward Fowler / Fielding Chase
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host / Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
as Self
Psych
2006
as Frank O'Hara
The Colbert Report
2005
as Self - Guest
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
The View
1997
as Self / Self - Guest
Mannix
1967
as Adam Langer
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993
as Captain James T. Kirk
The Big Bang Theory
2007
as William Shatner
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self
Futurama
1999
as William Shatner (voice)
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
2010
as Grand Pear (voice)
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Presenter / Self - Nominee / Self - Host
The Fugitive
1963
as Tony Burrell
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
as Self - Guest
Ironside
1967
as Bill Parkins / Marty Jessup
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Guest
Boston Legal
2004
as Denny Crane
The Practice
1997
as Denny Crane
Murdoch Mysteries
2008
as Mark Twain
Hawaii Five-O
1968
as Sam Tolliver
Mission: Impossible
1966
as Joseph Conrad
Have I Got News for You
1990
as Self - Host
Hell's Kitchen
2005
as Self
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
as Self - Guest
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
The Twilight Zone
1959
as Bob Wilson / Don Carter
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest / Self - Musical Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
The Virginian
1962
as Luke Milford
The Six Million Dollar Man
1974
as Josh Lang
Climax!
1954
as Ben Tate
3rd Rock from the Sun
1996
as Big Giant Head
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Dr. Toby Cunningham / Dr. Carl Noyes
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
T. J. Hooker
1982
as Sgt TJ Hooker
Studio One
1948
as Dr. David Coleman / Kenneth Preston / Dr. Franck
The F.B.I.
1965
as Arthur Majors
Haven
2010
as Croatoan
Naked City
1958
as Roger Barmer / Maung Tun
Hot in Cleveland
2010
as Sally
Barnaby Jones
1973
as Phil Carlyle / Fred Williams
Burke's Law
1963
as Arthur Reynolds
The Big Valley
1965
as Brett
The Masked Singer
2019
as Knight / Knight (archive footage)
Police Woman
1974
as Mark Ciprio
Hercules
1998
as Jason of the Argonauts (voice)
Route 66
1960
seaQuest DSV
1993
as Milos Tezlof
Click
2000
as Self
Movies (211)
Over the Hedge
2006
as Ozzie (voice)
Miss Congeniality
2000
as Stan Fields
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004
as Dodgeball Chancellor
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
1979
as Admiral James T. Kirk
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
1986
as Admiral James T. Kirk
The Wild
2006
as Kazar (voice)
Airplane II: The Sequel
1982
as Cdr. Buck Murdock
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
2005
as Stan Fields
Fanboys
2009
as Himself
Escape from Planet Earth
2013
as General Shanker (voice)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
1982
as Admiral James T. Kirk
Osmosis Jones
2001
as Mayor Phlegmming (voice)
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
1989
as Captain James T. Kirk
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
as General Mortars
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961
as Harrison Byers
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
1984
as Admiral James T. Kirk
Virtuosity
1995
as Captain James T. Kirk (archive footage) (uncredited)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991
as Captain James T. Kirk
Star Trek: Generations
1994
as Captain James T. Kirk
Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special
2003
as Self
American Psycho II: All American Girl
2002
as Starkman
Fireheart
2022
as Mayor of New York (voice)
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
as Self
Showtime
2002
as William Shatner
The Pixar Story
2007
as James T. Kirk (archive footage)
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
1994
as Adam Harland (uncredited)
The Brothers Karamazov
1958
as Alexi Karamazov
Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
Batman vs. Two-Face
2017
as Harvey Dent / Two-Face (voice)
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
1998
as James T. Kirk
Big Bad Mama
1974
as William J. Baxter
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
1995
as Narrator
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self
For the Love of Spock
2016
as Self
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
2002
as Self
Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner
2006
as Self
Corman's World
2011
as Self - Actor
The Outrage
1964
as Preacher
Lil' Pimp
2005
as Tony Gold (voice)
Disaster on the Coastliner
1979
as Stuart Peters
Being Canadian
2015
as Self
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
2010
as Core (voice)
Heroes Manufactured
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Baby, Baby, Baby
2015
as Actor
A Christmas Horror Story
2015
as Dangerous Dan
Trekkies
1997
as Self
To Your Last Death
2019
as The Overseer (voice)
The Captains
2011
as Self
Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond
1996
as Self
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
1985
as Self (archive footage)
The Devil’s Rain
1975
as Mark Preston
Incubus
1966
as Marc
A Sunday Horse
2016
as Kenneth Roubidoux
Visiting Hours
1982
as Gary Baylor
The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next
1988
as Self
Tom Felton Meets the Superfans
2015
as Self
Senior Moment
2021
as Victor Martin
The Intruder
1962
as Adam Cramer
Voices That Care
1991
as Self - Choir Member
Just in Time for Christmas
2015
as Coachman Nick
Kingdom of the Spiders
1977
as Dr. Robert 'Rack' Hansen
WWE: The Best of Raw 15th Anniversary
2007
as Himself
Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored
2011
as Captain James T. Kirk (archive footage)
Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Christmas Music Tale
2013
as Self
Range 15
2016
as Richard Chindler
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023
as Self
2021 and Done with Snoop Dogg & Kevin Hart
2021
as Self
The Prisoner of Zenda, Inc.
1996
as Michael Gatewick
Sole Survivor
1970
as Lt. Col. Josef Gronke
Festival in Cannes
2001
as Self
The Crash of Flight 401
1978
as Carl Tobias
To Be Takei
2014
as Self
40 Years of Star Trek
2006
as Self
TekWar
1994
as Walter H. Bascom
Get a Life!
2012
as Self
A Star Is Drawn: Rob Simone's Look Inside Comic-Con
2014
as Self
Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen
2011
as Self - Roaster
Last Laugh '05
2005
as Lucifer
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002
as Self
Swing Out, Sweet Land
1970
as John Adams
Not a War Story
2017
Falcon Down
2001
as Major Robert Carson
Merry F#%$in' Christmas
2005
as Self
Christmas in Hollywood
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Land of the Free
1998
as Aidan Carvell
The Horror at 37,000 Feet
1973
as Paul Kovalik
Aliens Ate My Homework
2018
as Phillogenus esk Piemondum (Phil) (voice)
Go Ask Alice
1973
as Sam
The Tenth Level
1976
as Prof. Stephen Turner
Groom Lake
2002
as John Gossner
Perilous Voyage
1976
as Steve Monroe
Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault
2016
as Self
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special
1991
as Self - Host
Mitzi & 100 Guys
1975
as Self
Dead Man's Island
1996
as Chase Prescott
The Explosive Generation
1961
as Peter Gifford
The Andersonville Trial
1970
as Col. Chipman
Devil's Revenge
2019
as Hayes
Horrorween
2012
as Self
Riel
1979
as The Barker
Corwin
1996
as Self
Alexander The Great
1968
as Alexander
Gotta Catch Santa Claus
2008
as Santa Claus (voice)
The Steam Engines of Oz
2018
as Oscar 'Oz' Diggs (voice)
Family of Strangers
1993
as Earl
The Kidnapping of the President
1980
as Jerry O'Connor
White Comanche
1968
as Johnny Moon / Notah
Super Duper Bloopers
1986
as Self
The Canadian Conspiracy
1986
as Self
Star Trek: The Captain's Summit
2009
as Self
William Shatner's Star Trek Memories
1996
as Host
TekWar: TekJustice
1994
as Walter H. Bascom
A Carol Christmas
2003
as Dr. Bob / Ghost of Christmas Present
Creators: The Past
2020
as Lord Oghma
Impulse
1974
as Matt Stone
The Babysitter
1980
as Dr. Jeff Benedict
How William Shatner Changed the World
2005
as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
Incident on a Dark Street
1973
as Deaver G. Wallace
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
1994
as Bodosh
About William Shatner
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 Ame… With 391 credits spanning from 1944 to 2025, William Shatner has appeared in 211 films and 180 TV shows.
Fans searching for William Shatner movies, William Shatner filmography, or the latest projects starring William Shatner can stream many of these titles on Bowood.TV, free and in HD, with no subscription required.
Most Popular William Shatner Movies
- Over the Hedge (2006) — as Ozzie (voice)
- Miss Congeniality (2000) — as Stan Fields
- DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004) — as Dodgeball Chancellor
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) — as Admiral James T. Kirk
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) — as Admiral James T. Kirk
Where to Watch William Shatner Films
Most William Shatner movies and series are available to stream on Bowood.TV in full HD, completely free and without signup. Browse the complete filmography above to jump directly to any title. For more films and the latest web series featuring William Shatner, check our movies catalogue and browse page.