Trackbacked at Don Surber:
William Shatner, born March 22, 1931, turned 75 years old Wednesday.
William Shatner was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and is of Ukrainian Jewish descent. He attended Willingdon Elementary School and Baron Byng High School in Montreal, Quebec, and earned a Bachelor’s degree in commerce from Montreal’s McGill University in 1952. Trained as a classical Shakespearean actor, he performed at the famed Shakespearean Stratford Festival of Canada in Stratford, Ontario before going to the United States to work.
Leonard Nimoy, born March 26, 1931, will turn 75 years old Sunday.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants, Leonard Nimoy spent much of his early career in the 1950s doing small parts in B-movies, TV shows such as ‘Dragnet’, and serials such as Republic Pictures ‘Zombies of the Stratosphere’ in 1952.
Both of these actors would become captains of the starship USS Enterprise, NCC-1701, on the TV show “Star Trek“.
Congratulations to both of you. May you both live long, and prosper. Just please try to refrain from interference with the natural development of any primitive society.
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1 quicksilver // Mar 24, 2006 at 9:54 am
When was Spock the captain? I certainly don’t remember that. Also, point of interest: my birthday is on the 27th of March. Close but no cigar I guess.