DeForest Kelley. Early life[edit] In 1934, the family left Conyers for the community of Decatur. He attended the Decatur Boys High School where he played on the Decatur Bantams baseball team. Kelley also played football and other sports. Before his graduation, Kelley got a job as a drugstore car hop. He spent his weekends working in the local theatres. During World War II, Kelley served as an enlisted man in the United States Army Air Forces between March 10, 1943, and January 28, 1946, assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit. Career[edit] Early roles[edit] Star Trek[edit] Kelley as Dr. After refusing Roddenberry's 1964 offer to play Spock, Kelley played Dr. Kelley became good friends with Star Trek cast mates William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy from their first meeting in 1964.
Later career[edit] Later in life, Kelley developed an interest in poetry, eventually publishing the first of two books in a series, The Big Bird's Dream and The Dream Goes On – a series he would never finish. Death[edit] Film[edit] James Doohan. James Montgomery "Jimmy" Doohan (/ˈduːən/ DOO-ən; March 3, 1920 – July 20, 2005) was a Canadian character and voice actor best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television and film series Star Trek. Doohan's characterization of the Scottish Chief Engineer of the Starship Enterprise was one of the most recognizable elements in the Star Trek franchise, for which he also made several contributions behind the scenes. Many of the characterizations, mannerisms, and expressions that he established for Scotty and other Star Trek characters have become entrenched in popular culture.
Following his success with Star Trek, he supplemented his income and showed continued support for his fans by making numerous public appearances. Doohan inspired fans to pursue careers in engineering and other fields, as a result of his portrayal of Scotty.[1] Early life[edit] Doohan was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Military service[edit] Early acting career[edit] Star Trek[edit] Walter Koenig. Early life[edit] Koenig was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of businessman Isadore Koenig and his wife Sarah (née Strauss).[1][2] They moved to Manhattan when Walter was a child, where he went to school. Koenig's parents were Russian Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union; his family lived in Lithuania when they emigrated, and shortened their surname from "Königsberg" to "Koenig".[3] Koenig's father was a communist who was investigated by the FBI during the McCarthy era.[4] Koenig attended Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa with a pre-med major.
He transferred to UCLA and received a BA in psychology. After a professor encouraged Koenig to become an actor, he attended the Neighborhood Playhouse with fellow students Dabney Coleman, Christopher Lloyd, and James Caan.[3] Career[edit] Star Trek[edit] Later work[edit] Koenig at ComicCon in Dallas, 2007 In 1987, Koenig directed his original one-act play The Secret Life of Lily Langtree at the Theatre of N.O.T.E. in Los Angeles. References[edit] George Takei. Early life[edit] Early career[edit] He originated the role of George in the musical Fly Blackbird! , but when the show traveled from Los Angeles to Broadway the west coast actors were forced to audition and the role went to William Sugihara instead. Eventually Sugihara had to give up the role and Takei closed out the show's final months.[13] Star Trek[edit] Takei as Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu Takei is one of a number of Star Trek supporting cast members whose difficulties with William Shatner have become public.[16][17][18][19] However, in an interview in the 2004 DVD set for the second season of Star Trek, Takei said of Shatner: "He's just a wonderful actor who created a singular character.
Takei is also one of six actors (the other actors being Jonathan Frakes, Kate Mulgrew, Michael Dorn, Avery Brooks and Majel Barrett) to lend his voice to Star Trek: Captain's Chair, reprising his role of Captain Hikaru Sulu when users visit the bridge of the original Enterprise in the computer game. Persis Khambatta. Persis Khambatta (2 October 1948 – 18 August 1998) was an Indian model, actress and author.[1] She was best known for her role as Lieutenant Ilia in the 1979 feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Early life[edit] Persis Khambatta was born into a middle-class Parsee home in Mumbai, then known as Bombay.
Her father left the family when she was 2 years old.[2] She first gained fame when a set of her pictures casually taken by a well-known Bombay photographer[who?] Was used for a successful campaign for a popular soap brand. This led eventually to her becoming a model. She entered and won the Miss India contest in 1965.[3] Career[edit] Persis first appeared, at age 13, in advertisements for the popular soap brand Rexona and set on her way to becoming a popular model. Khambatta was seriously injured in a car crash in Germany in 1980, which left her with a huge scar on her head. Death[edit] In 1998, Khambatta was taken to the Marine Hospital in south Mumbai, complaining of chest pains. Stephen Collins. Early life[edit] Career[edit] Personal life[edit] Collins was married to Marjorie Weinman from 1970 to 1978.[5][6] He married actress Faye Grant on April 21, 1985 and they have a daughter, Kate (born in 1989).
On May 7, 2012 Collins filed for divorce from Grant. Collins is an Episcopalian[7] as well as a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation and has taken part in the advanced TM Yogic Flying technique since 1980.[8] He is a national co-director of the Committee for Stress-Free Schools, which advocates practicing TM in schools and funds TM research.[9] Filmography[edit] Television[edit] Films[edit] Discography[edit] 1993: Sondheim: Putting It Together (Off Broadway cast recording)2003: Stephen Collins2005: The Hits of Rick Nelson Books[edit] Collins is the author of two novels: Eye Contact (1994) and Double Exposure (1998).
References[edit] External links[edit] Leonard Nimoy. Leonard Simon Nimoy (/ˈniːmɔɪ/ NEE-moy; born March 26, 1931) is an American actor, film director, poet, singer and photographer. Nimoy is best known for his role of Spock in the original Star Trek series (1966–1969), and in multiple film, television, and video game sequels. Nimoy began his career in his early twenties, teaching acting classes in Hollywood and making minor film and television appearances through the 1950s, as well as playing the title role in Kid Monk Baroni. Foreshadowing his fame as a semi-alien, he played Narab, one of three Martian invaders in the 1952 movie serial Zombies of the Stratosphere.
Leonard Nimoy also voiced Sentinel Prime in Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Nimoy and the Spock character are frequently mentioned in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory; in one episode ("The Transporter Malfunction"), Nimoy provides the voice of Sheldon Cooper's Spock action figure during a dream sequence. Early life[edit] Career[edit] Before and during Star Trek[edit] Star Trek[edit] Nichelle Nichols. Early life[edit] Nichols was born in Robbins, Illinois, near Chicago, to Samuel Earl Nichols, a factory worker who was both the town mayor of Robbins and its chief magistrate, and his wife Lishia (Parks) Nichols.[3] Later, the family moved into an apartment in Chicago.
She studied in Chicago as well as New York and Los Angeles. Her break came in an appearance in Kicks and Co., Oscar Brown's highly touted, but ill-fated 1961 musical.[4] In a thinly veiled satire of Playboy magazine, she played Hazel Sharpe, a voluptuous campus queen who was being tempted by the devil and Orgy Magazine to become "Orgy Maiden of the Month". Nichols toured the United States, Canada and Europe as a singer with the Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton bands. On the West Coast, she appeared in The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd, For My People, and garnered high praise for her performance in the James Baldwin play Blues for Mister Charlie.
Star Trek[edit] Nichols as Lieutenant Uhura NASA work[edit] William Shatner. Shatner also played the eponymous veteran police sergeant in T. J. Hooker from 1982 to 1986. Afterwards, he hosted the reality-based television series Rescue 911 from 1989 to 1996, which won a People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Dramatic Series. He has since worked as a musician, author, director and celebrity pitchman. From 2004 to 2008, he starred as attorney Denny Crane in the television dramas The Practice and its spin-off Boston Legal, for which he won two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
Early life[edit] Acting career[edit] Early stage, film, and television work[edit] Star Trek[edit] Shatner was first cast as Captain James T. 1970s[edit] Shatner's wife Gloria Rand divorced him in March 1969.[19] After Star Trek was cancelled that year, Shatner experienced difficulty in finding work in the early 1970s having been somewhat typecast from his role as Kirk.