William Shatner filmography

William Shatner filmography
Movies	65
Television series	111
Advertising	6
Others	8

William Shatner (born 1931) is a Canadian actor. He has had a career in movies and television for seven decades. Shatner is best known for was his portrayal of James T. Kirk in Star Trek.

Movies

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
1951	The Butler's Night Off	Crook		^[1]
1957	Oedipus the King	Chorus
1958	The Brothers Karamazov	Alexey Karamazov
1961	The Explosive Generation	Peter Gifford
1961	Judgment at Nuremberg	Captain Harrison Byers
1962	The Intruder	Adam Cramer
1963	Alexander the Great	Alexander the Great
1964	The Outrage	Preacher
1965	Incubus	Marc
1968	White Comanche	Johnny Moon / Notah
1971	Vanished	Dave Paulick	Two-part made-for-TV movie (NBC)
1972	Four Economic Functions of Capitalism	William Shatner	Four-part made-for-TV documentary (Phillips Petroleum)
1973	Pioneer Woman	Johnny Sergeant
1974	Impulse	Matt Stone
1974	Big Bad Mama	William J. Baxter
1975	The Devil's Rain	Mark Preston
1975	Patent Pending	Narrator	A documentary movie about patents.	^[2]
1976	A Whale of a Tale	Dr. Jack Fredericks
1977	Kingdom of the Spiders	Rack Hansen
1978	Land of No Return	Curt Bunell
1978	The Third Walker	Munro Maclean
1979	Star Trek: The Motion Picture	James T. Kirk
1980	The Kidnapping of the President	Jerry O'Connor
1982	Visiting Hours	Gary Baylor
	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan	James T. Kirk
	Airplane II: The Sequel	Commander Buck Murdock
1984	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	James T. Kirk
1986	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
1989	Star Trek V: The Final Frontier		Also director and co-writer
1991	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1993	Loaded Weapon 1	General Mortars
1994	Star Trek Generations	James T. Kirk
1995	Trinity and Beyond	Narrator
1998	Land of the Free	Aidan Carvell
1998	Free Enterprise	Bill
2000	Miss Congeniality	Stan Fields
2000	Falcon Down	Major Robert Carson
2001	Osmosis Jones	Mayor Phlegmming	Voice
2001	Mind Meld: Secrets Behind the Voyage of a Lifetime	Co-host	Direct-to-video, also producer
2002	Shoot or Be Shot	Harvey Wilkes
	Showtime	Himself
	American Psycho 2	Starkman
	Groom Lake	John Gossner	Also director and co-writer
2004	DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story	Dodgeball Chancellor
2005	Lil' Pimp	Tony Gold	Voice; Direct-to-video
2005	Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous	Stan Fields
2006	The Wild	Kazar	Voice
	Over the Hedge	Ozzie	Voice
	Stalking Santa	Narrator
2008	Gotta Catch Santa Claus	Santa Claus	Voice
2009	Fanboys	Himself
	The True History of Puss 'N Boots	Puss 'N Boots	Voice
	William Shatner's Gonzo Ballet	Himself
2010	Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey	Core	Voice
2010	Horrorween	Himself
2011	The Captains	Host	Also director and producer
2012	Get A Life! (A Documentary About Star Trek Fandom)	Host	Also writer, director and co-producer
2013	Escape from Planet Earth	General Shanker	Voice
2014	William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge (A Documentary About the Conception and Creation of Star Trek: The Next Generation)	Host	Also writer, director and co-producer
2015	A Christmas Horror Story	Dangerous Dan
	A Sunday Horse	Kenneth Roubidoux
	When Elephants Were Young	Narrator
	Being Canadian	Himself	Documentary
2016	Range 15	Richard Chindler
2017	Batman vs. Two-Face	Harvey Dent / Two-Face	Voice; Direct-to-video
2017	The Truth is in the Stars	Narrator Host
2018	Aliens Ate My Homework	Phil the Plant	Voice
2019	Creators: The Past	Lord Ogmha
	To Your Last Death	The Overseer	Voice
	Devil's Revenge	Hayes	Also co-writer
2021	Senior Moment	Victor Martin
2021	Shatner in Space	Himself	Made-for-TV documentary (Amazon)	^[3]
2022	Fireheart	Jimmy Murray	Voice

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
1954	The Canadian Howdy Doody Show	Ranger Bob
1955	Encounter	Lucky / Billy Budd1974	2 episodes
1957	Studio One	Dr. David Coleman / Kenneth Preston / Dr. Franck	5 episodes, including The Defender
1957	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Jim Whitely	Season 3 Episode 1: "The Glass Eye"
1958	A Town Has Turned to Dust	Jerry Paul	Playhouse 90 television play by Rod Serling
1959	Nero Wolfe	Archie Goodwin	Pilot episode: "Count the Man Down"	^[4]^[5]
1960	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	John Crane	Season 5 Episode 26: "Mother, May I Go Out to Swim?"
1960	One Step Beyond	Carl Bremer	Episode: "The Promise"
1960–1963	The Twilight Zone	Bob Wilson / Don Carter	2 episodes
1961	Thriller	Paul Graves / Gil Thrasher	2 episodes
1961–1965	The Defenders	Various	5 episodes
1962	Naked City	Maung Tun / Roger Barme	2 episodes
1963	Premiere - Presented by Fred Astaire	Doctor Lloyd	Episode 28, Season 2: "Million Dollar Hospital"
1963	The Nurses	Dr. Adam Courtlandt	Episode 24, Season 1: "A Question of Mercy"
1963	Route 66	Menemsha Faxon	Episode: "Build Your Houses with Their Backs to the Sea"
1964	The Outer Limits	Brig. Gen. Jeff Barton	Episode: "Cold Hands, Warm Heart"
	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	Michael Donfield	Episode: "The Project Strigas Affair"
	Burke's Law	Arthur Reynolds	Episode: "Who Killed Carrie Cornell?"
1965	The Fugitive	Tony Burrell	Episode "Stranger in the Mirror"
	For the People	David Koster	13 episodes
	Twelve O'Clock High	Major Kurt Brown	Episode: "I Am the Enemy"
1965–1969	The Virginian	Henry Swann / Luke Milford	2 episodes
1966	The Big Valley	Brett Skyler	Episode: "A Time to Kill"
	Gunsmoke	Fred Bateman	Episode: "Quaker Girl"
	Dr. Kildare	Dr. Carl Noyes / Toby Cunningham, M.D.	6 episodes
1966–1969	Star Trek: The Original Series	James T. Kirk	Main role; 3 seasons
1969	Medical Center	Dr. Eli Neily	Episode: "The Combatants"
1970	Sole Survivor	Lt. Col. Josef Gronke	Television movie
	The F.B.I.	Artie	Episode: "Antennae of Death"
	The Andersonville Trial	Colonel Chipman	Television movie
1970–1974	Ironside	Bill Parkins / Don Brand / Marty Jessup	4 episodes
1971–1972	Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law	Gary / District Attorney Dave Blankenship	2 episodes
1971–1972	Mission: Impossible	Joe Conrad / Tommy Kroll	2 episodes
1972	The Hound of the Baskervilles	George Stapleton	Television movie
	The People	Dr. Curtis	Television movie
	Hawaii Five-O	Sam Tolliver	Episode: "You Don't Have to Kill to Get Rich, but It Helps"
	The Sixth Sense	Edwin Danbury	Episode: "Can a Dead Man Strike from the Grave?"
1973–1974	Star Trek: The Animated Series	James T. Kirk	Voice role
1973	Incident on a Dark Street	Deaver G. Wallace	Television movie
	The Horror at 37,000 Feet	Paul Kovalik	Television movie
	Barnaby Jones	Phil Carlyle / Fred Williams	Episode: "To Catch a Dead Man"
	Mannix	Adam Langer	Episode: "Search For a Whisper"
	Go Ask Alice	Sam	Television movie
1974	The Six Million Dollar Man	Josh Lang	Episode: "Burning Bright"
	Flick Flack	Host
	Kung Fu	Captain Brandywine Gage	1 episode
	Kung Fu	Captain Brandywine Gage	1 episode
	Pray for the Wildcats	Warren Summerfield	Television movie
	Indict and Convict	Sam Belden	Television movie
1975–1976	Barbary Coast	Jeff Cable	14 episodes
1976	The Tenth Level	Professor Stephen Turner	Television movie
1976; 1994	Columbo	Ward Fowler / Detective Lucerne, Fielding Chase	Episode: "Fade in to Murder" and "Butterfly Shades of Grey"
1977	The Oregon Trail	Master Sgt. Buford Cole	Episode: "The Scarlet Ribbon"
	Testimony of Two Men	Adrian Ferrier	Television movie
	Mysteries of the Gods	Narrator	Documentary
1978	How the West Was Won	Captain Harrison	Miniseries
	Little Women	Professor Friedrich Bhaer	Episode: "Pilot"
	The Bastard	Paul Revere	Television movie
	Crash	Carl Tobias
1979	Riel	The Barker
1979	Disaster on the Coastliner	Stuart Peters
1980	The Babysitter	Dr. Jeff Benedict
1982	Police Squad!	Poisoned Man	Episode: "Revenge and Remorse (The Guilty Alibi)"
	Madame's Place	Self	Episode: "No Fun Without Practice"
	The Vegetarian World	Himself: host & narrator	Documentary	^[6]
1982–1986	T. J. Hooker	Sergeant Thomas Jefferson "T. J." Hooker	Main role; 5 seasons
1984	Secrets of a Married Man	Chris Jordan	Television movie
1985	The Ray Bradbury Theater	Charles Underhill	Episode: "The Playground"
1988	Broken Angel	Chuck Coburn
1989–1996	Rescue 911	Host	7 seasons & 2 specials
1992	The Larry Sanders Show	Himself	Episode: "The Promise"
1993	Family of Strangers	Earl	Television movie
	SeaQuest DSV	President Milos Teslo	Episode: "Hide and Seek"
	A Celebration of Horses: The American Saddlebred	Himself	Television special
1994–1996	TekWar	Walter H. Bascom	18 episodes
1995, 2010	WWE Raw	Himself	Celebrity guest appearance for three episodes; two in 1995 and one in 2010.	^[7]
1996	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Captain James T. Kirk	Archive footage used episode: "Trials and Tribble-ations"
	Prisoner of Zenda, Inc.	Michael Gatewick	Television movie
	Dead Man's Island	Chase Prescott	Television movie
	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air	Himself	Episode: "Eye, Tooth"
1998	A Twist in the Tale	The Storyteller / Narrator	15 episodes
1998	Hercules	Jason of the Argonauts	Voice; Episode: "Hercules and the Argonauts"
1999–2000	3rd Rock from the Sun	The Big Giant Head	5 episodes
2002	Futurama	Himself	Voice; Episode: "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"
2003	A Carol Christmas	Dr. Bob / Ghost of Christmas Present	2 episodes
2003	Space Ghost Coast to Coast	Himself	Episode: "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"
2004	The Practice	Denny Crane	Recurring role, 5 episodes in season 8
2004–2008	Boston Legal	Denny Crane	Main role; 5 seasons
2005	Atomic Betty	Jim Barrett	2 episodes
	Invasion Iowa	Star	10 episodes
	Star Trek: Enterprise	James T. Kirk	Voice; Archive audio used in episode: "These Are the Voyages..."
	How William Shatner Changed the World	Host	Television movie
2006	Show Me the Money	Host	7 episodes
2006	Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner	Roastee	Television special
2007	Everest '82	Norman Kelly	Miniseries
	Fire Serpent	Creator and co-executive producer	Television movie
	Mars Rising	Narrator	12 episodes	^[8]
2007; 2021	WWE Hall of Fame	Himself	2007: Inducted Jerry Lawler. 2021: Class of 2020 inductee.	^[7]
2008–2011	Shatner's Raw Nerve	Host	39 episodes
2010–2011	$#! My Dad Says*	Dr. Edison "Ed" Milford Goodson	18 episodes
2010–2011	Aftermath with William Shatner	Host	12 episodes
2010–2012	Weird or What?	Host	30 episodes
2011–2012	Psych	Frank O'Hara	2 episodes
2011	Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen	Roaster	Television special
2012	Rookie Blue	Henry McLeod	Episode: "The First Day of the Rest of Your Life"
2012	Have I Got News for You	Host	1 episode
2013	Hot in Cleveland	Sally	Episode: "It's Alive"
	85th Academy Awards	James T. Kirk	Television special
	Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Christmas Music Tale	NBC Television Executive	Television special
2014	The Shatner Project	Himself	6 episodes	^[9]
2014	Chaos on the Bridge	Interviewer	Documentary Also writer and director	^[10]
2015	WWE Breaking Ground	Narrator	WWE Network documentary; 10 episodes
	Murdoch Mysteries	Mark Twain	Episode: "Marked Twain"
	Haven	Croatoan	4 episodes
2015–present	Clangers	Narrator	Voice; English dub
2016	Cutthroat Kitchen	Himself	Episode: "The One With William Shatner"
2016–2018	Better Late Than Never	Himself
2017	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic	Grand Pear	Voice; Episode: "The Perfect Pear"
2017, 2019	Private Eyes	Norm Glinski	Episodes: "The P.I. Code", "Glazed and Confused"
2017	The Indian Detective	David Marlowe	4 episodes
2019	The UnXplained	Host
	The Big Bang Theory	Himself	Episode: "The D&D Vortex"	^[11]
	Star Trek: Short Treks	James T. Kirk	Voice; Archive audio used in episode: "Eraphim and Dot"
2021	WWE PPV	William Shatner	Episode: "WrestleMania 37"
2021	My Life is Murder	Barton Wallwork	Episode: "Sleep No More"
2021	I Don't Understand with William Shatner	William Shatner	Episode: "Sleep No More"
2022	The Masked Singer	Knight	Eliminated in first episode
2023	Stars on Mars	Himself	Presentor
TBA	The Elevator	Ben		Completed

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role	Notes
1994	Star Trek: 25th Anniversary	James T. Kirk	CD-ROM version
1995	Star Trek: Judgment Rites		CD-ROM version
	Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
	William Shatner's Tekwar	Walter Bascom
1997	Star Trek Generations	James T. Kirk
2006	Star Trek: Legacy
	Star Trek: Encounters		Narrator
	Star Trek: Tactical Assault
2007	The Tuttles: Madcap Misadventures	Vance Shepherd

Commercials

Year	Title	Role	Ref(s)
1970s	Promise Margarine	Spokesman	^[12]
1980s	Commodore Computers	VIC-20 spokesman	^[13]
1997–present	Priceline.com	Chief Negotiating Officer
2007	World of Warcraft	Himself	^[14]
2007–present	Hupy and Abraham Law Firm	Himself	^[15]
2013	Star Trek video game commercial	Himself	^[16]

References

↑ Lewis, Nick (18 February 2006). "Shatner having time of his life". The Windsor Star – via Newspapers.com.
↑ "Science Books & Films". 1975.
↑ Lowry, Brian Lowry. "'Shatner in Space' joins William Shatner on his trip to the final frontier". CNN. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
↑ "Television's Lost Classics Volume 2: Rare Pilots". MVD Entertainment Group. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
↑ Television's Lost Classics: Volume Two (DVD). VCI Entertainment. 2018. ASIN B07D3KSS69.
↑ The Vegetarian world / producer and director, Jonathon Kay
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 Salvador, Joseph (March 30, 2021). "William Shatner Will Be Inducted Into The WWE Hall of Fame". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved April 1, 2021.
↑ Mars Rising
↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-05-02. Retrieved 2023-09-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-04-23. Retrieved 2023-09-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ Starr, Michael (February 12, 2019). "How 'Big Bang Theory' snared 'Star Trek' legend William Shatner". New York Post. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
↑ "William Shatner for Promise Margarine 1974 TV commercial" – via www.youtube.com.
↑ "Commodore VIC-20 ad with William Shatner" – via www.youtube.com.
↑ "New WoW ads featuring Shatner and Mr. T". Joystiq. November 20, 2007. Archived from the original on May 11, 2013. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
↑ "Introducing Our Hupy and Abraham Spokesperson, William Shatner". Hupy and Abraham, S.C.
↑ Couch, Aaron (March 28, 2013). "William Shatner Fights Lizard-Man in 'Star Trek' Game Ad (Video)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 30, 2020.

Other websites

[1] Lewis, Nick (18 February 2006). "Shatner having time of his life". The Windsor Star – via Newspapers.com.

[2] "Science Books & Films". 1975.

[ShatnerInSpace-3] Lowry, Brian Lowry. "'Shatner in Space' joins William Shatner on his trip to the final frontier". CNN. Retrieved 31 December 2021.

[4] "Television's Lost Classics Volume 2: Rare Pilots". MVD Entertainment Group. Retrieved 18 October 2018.

[5] Television's Lost Classics: Volume Two (DVD). VCI Entertainment. 2018. ASIN B07D3KSS69.

[6] The Vegetarian world / producer and director, Jonathon Kay

[WWEHoF-7] 7.0 ^7.1 Salvador, Joseph (March 30, 2021). "William Shatner Will Be Inducted Into The WWE Hall of Fame". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved April 1, 2021.

[8] Mars Rising

[9] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-05-02. Retrieved 2023-09-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[10] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-04-23. Retrieved 2023-09-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[11] Starr, Michael (February 12, 2019). "How 'Big Bang Theory' snared 'Star Trek' legend William Shatner". New York Post. Retrieved 24 February 2019.

[12] "William Shatner for Promise Margarine 1974 TV commercial" – via www.youtube.com.

[13] "Commodore VIC-20 ad with William Shatner" – via www.youtube.com.

[14] "New WoW ads featuring Shatner and Mr. T". Joystiq. November 20, 2007. Archived from the original on May 11, 2013. Retrieved April 13, 2013.

[15] "Introducing Our Hupy and Abraham Spokesperson, William Shatner". Hupy and Abraham, S.C.

[16] Couch, Aaron (March 28, 2013). "William Shatner Fights Lizard-Man in 'Star Trek' Game Ad (Video)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 30, 2020.

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