[net.startrek] James Doohan isn't exactly "American"

brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) (10/28/84)

at least if you take American to mean from the USA as is coloquially
done.  He's actually from the same nation Bill Shatner is from.
And that isn't Scotland.  I heard him speak once on the matter, and he said
he didn't want to do a funny accent, but they liked it so much the part
got made that way.  He likes to do accents, but likes to use his own voice
too.
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Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473

tom@utcsrgv.UUCP (Tom Nadas) (11/04/84)

> at least if you take American to mean from the USA as is coloquially
> done.  He's actually from the same nation Bill Shatner is from.
> And that isn't Scotland.  I heard him speak once on the matter, and he said
> he didn't want to do a funny accent, but they liked it so much the part
> got made that way.  He likes to do accents, but likes to use his own voice
> too.
> -- 
> Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473

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While we're on the topic, have you noticed that all the great starship
commanders in history are Canadian?

Witness:  William Shatner/James T. Kirk of Star Trek
          Leslie Neilsen/J. J. Adams of Forbidden Planet
          Lorne Green/Adama of Battlestar Galactica

Oh, and let's not forget Percy Rodriguez/Commadore Stone from the Trek
episode Court Martial.  Other notable Canadians include HAL 9000 (Douglas
Rain), Raymond Massey (the film Things to Come), Barry Morse (Space: 1999),
Raymond Burr (the reporter in the orginal Godzilla), and Dorothy Stratten
(Galaxina).  And we'd all be lying in the gutter with our blood clotted
if it hadn't been for Canucks Arthur Hill and Kate Reid in The Andromeda
Strain.  Donald Sutherland wasn't quite as adept at defending us from
the Invasion of the Body Snatchers.