Top Ten Shatner Roles (not Star Trek)

[DeMilburn]

Found this an interesting article

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/wil...-william-shatner-performances-that-arent-kirk

didnt know Shatner had done so much haha!

 

[Melakon]

One they missed...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080997/

 

[HIjol]

Good catch, and a Classic, for sure.

I always liked him in those quirky Twilight Zone/Outer Limits/Hitchcock roles.

 

[Melakon]

Good catch, and a Classic, for sure.

Saw it at the theater and haven't seen since. I remember it as being played completely in earnest, but that its aspirations were heavily limited by its low budget.

 

[HIjol]

It was nominated for two Genies, sound and editing...wow!

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Another one they missed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intruder_(1962_film)

The Intruder is a 1962 American film directed by Roger Corman, after a 1959 novel by Charles Beaumont, starring William Shatner. The story depicts the machinations of a racist named Adam Cramer (portrayed by Shatner), who arrives in the fictitious small southern town of Caxton in order to incite townspeople to racial violence against the town's black minority and court-ordered school integration.

I only saw The Intruder once, just after high school, under the title Shame, but it blew me away.

 

[Melakon]

I think it's on the Internet Archive as a free download, since it's public domain or something now. I had it on my other machine.

They filmed parts of it in Southeast Missouri that I was familiar with, and when the local cops learned what the film was about, they were chased out of town a few times.

 

[Captain Mike]

I loved this movie,..IMO another they missed:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061497/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_158

 

[Push The Button]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sole_Survivor_(1970_film)

One of my favorite non-Trek Shat performances was in Sole Survivor, with fellow Trek alums Lou Antonio and John Winston.

 

[Lexx Shrapnel]

Big Bad Mama is one the most fun times i ever had watching a movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071216/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

[DS9forever]

Airport 2, if only for the scene his character sees the Enterprise.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Oh yeah. Buck Murdock, definitely.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG-0V-85H_0[/yt]

SSH!!

 

[eyeresist]

Interesting, but oddly most of his iconic non-Trek roles were mentioned in the comments, not the article itself.

Denny Crane: "Denny Crane!"

 

[BigJake]

Those two little words that tend to shock and awe. Denny Crane.

Well played by eyeresist, that's exactly the one that always comes to mind for me.

(Also, watching that clip from the Brothers Karamazov -- in which Shatner is quite brilliant in an unfamiliar type of role, BTW -- brings up an old and poignant fantasy-casting yen of mine: a world in which Yul Brynner had been cast as a starship captain on Star Trek. Ahhh, what bliss that would have been...)

 

[mythme]

^ Oh yeah. Buck Murdock, definitely.



SSH!!

Ah yes that "thing with the blinking lights that goes back and forth" - not only Trek but the sci-fi universe in general has gotten A LOT of mileage out of that simple non-descript prop.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ See if you can find the other Trek actor in that scene.

 

[Captain Rob]

"Judgement of Nuremburg" was one of my favorite WW2 movies as a kid.
It had the extra benefit of having Captain Kirk in it.

 

[Tim Walker]

I believe it was an old Outer Limits episode.....

Project Vulcan was a plan to send an astronaut to Venus....played by Shatner.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Has anyone here ever seen the 1984 TV movie Secrets of a Married Man? A TJ Hooker-era Shatner stars as a husband who develops a predilection for prostitutes, and a pre-Moonlighting Cybill Shepherd as a high-class escort. Shatner gets involved with a sting to take down Shepherd's pimp. I watched it years back, and I remember it being rather unintentionally hilarious, but good cheesy fun.

Here's our beloved Captain trolling for hookers (SFW). Kirk's a hard negotiator!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKerEhGUtSU

 

[BigJake]

Wait, the Shat was in Judgment at Nuremberg? I don't remember that, I'm going to have to watch that movie again.