After so many wonderful people passing on, it is good to hear about people still alive and well at the wonderful old age of 80. William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, the well known actors who played Kirk and Spock on the original STAR TREK show, celebrated their 80th birthdays this past week.
William Shatner was born near Montreal, Canada on March 22nd 1931. Leonard Nimoy was born in Boston, Massachusettes on March 26th, 1931. Both men made early steps in the 1950s to become stars in their own right. Leonard did bit parts and played a science fiction Zombie in the serial ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE in the early 1950s but Bill played alongside Yul Brunner in THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV and alongside Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland, Spencer Tracy, Richard Widmark and Burt Lancaster in JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG. Following that film, he worked with Roger Corman on THE INTRUDER and proceeded to star in a lot of television episodes and shows. Leonard and Bill also happened to meet and work together in a first season episode of THE MAN FROM UNCLE : The Project Strigas Affair.
Leonard Nimoy had to work hard to make ends meet before he struck gold with the SPOCK persona in STAR TREK. William Shatner had one part after the other for a long time, ranging from films and television. Their teaming on STAR TREK proved to be nothing less than legendary, lasting for 79 episodes and 6 films.
Of course, Leonard also did two episodes of Star Trek The Next Generation.
And Bill did Star Trek Generations, in which Kirk died.
And then Leonard was asked to be in J.J. Abrams' STAR TREK !!!
"LEONAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!"
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