William Shatner

William Alan Shatner, , is a Canadian actor, author, director, producer, musician, and former astronaut. He is best known for his role as James T. Kirk in the original television series, as well as . He is also well-known for hosting the long-running CBS docudrama series . Additionally, he voiced General Shanker, the main antagonist of , Mayor Phlegmming in the 2001 hybrid film , and Ozzie the opossum in the 2006 animated film .
His Disney roles include voicing Kazar, the main antagonist of the Disney CGI film The Wild, as well as Jason of the Argonauts in the Hercules episode "Hercules and the Argonauts". He also made a cameo in Episode 109 of and was a singer for the song "To Infinity and Beyond" in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.
Shatner was born in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighborhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a Conservative Jewish household. His parents were Ann (née Garmaise) and Joseph Shatner, a clothing manufacturer. He is the middle (and only son) of three children; his older sister was Joy Rutenberg (1928–2023) and his younger sister is Farla Cohen. His patrilineal family name was Schattner; it was his grandfather, Wolf Schattner, who anglicized the spelling. All four of Shatner's grandparents were Jewish immigrants; they came from settlements in Ukraine and Lithuania, which were then under the rule of Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire.
Shatner attended two schools in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Willingdon Elementary School and West Hill High School, and is an alumnus of the Montreal Children's Theatre. He studied economics at the McGill University Faculty of Management in Montreal, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1952. In 2011, McGill University awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Letters. He was granted the same accolade by the New England Institute of Technology in May 2018.
==Roles==
Jason Hercules.jpg|Jason(Hercules TV series)
Kazar profile.jpg|Kazar(The Wild)
==Gallery==
Disney adventures magazine cover January 1995 star trek william shatner.jpg|William Shatner with Huey, Dewey, and Louie on the cover of Disney Adventures (January 1995).
Celeb.shatner.jpg|William Shatner with Miss Piggy.
William Shatner SDCC.jpg|William Shatner speaks at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con. 
==Trivia==
*In 2021, Shatner flew to outer space aboard a sub-orbital capsule. At age 90, he became the oldest person to fly into space and one of the first 600 to do so. Minutes after the flight, Shatner articulated his instance experiencing the overview effect.
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