Canadian Game Show Hosts - William Shatner, Alex Trebek, Howie Mandel, Colin Mochrie, Alan Thicke, Monty Hall, George Stroumboulopoulos (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: William Shatner, Alex Trebek, Howie Mandel, Colin Mochrie, Alan Thicke, Monty Hall, George Stroumboulopoulos, Gregory Charles, Stewart Francis, Ben Mulroney, Yvan Ponton, Normand Brathwaite, Veronique Cloutier, Julie Snyder, Fred Davis, Yves Corbeil, Blake Emmons, Bill Guest, Pat Kiernan, Mike Darrow, Remy Girard, Roy Ward Dickson, Adam Growe, Alan Hamel, Fergie Olver, Guy Mongrain, Dan Gallagher, Robin Ward, Pierre Lalonde, Pat Bullard, Al Dubois, Kevin Frank. Excerpt: William Alan Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor, musician, recording artist, and author. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T. Kirk, captain of the USS Enterprise, in the science fiction television series Star Trek from 1966 to 1969, Star Trek: The Animated Series from 1973 to 1974, and in seven of the subsequent Star Trek feature films from 1979 to 1994. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing Captain Kirk and being a part of Star Trek and has co-written several novels set in the Star Trek universe. He has also authored a series of science fiction novels called TekWar that were adapted for television. Shatner also played the eponymous veteran police sergeant in T. J. Hooker from 1982 to 1986. He has since worked as a musician, author, producer, 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. Shatner was born in Cote Saint-Luc, a neighbourhood in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Anne (nee Garmaise) and Joseph Shatner, a clothing manufacturer. He has two sisters, Joy and Farla. His paternal grandfather, Wolf Schattner, anglicized the family name to "Shatner." Shatner's grandparents were Jewish immigrants...