Actors / Actresses

Patrick Stewart in 2019

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Patrick Stewart was born on July 13, 1940, in Mirfield, West Riding, Yorkshire, England. Patrick Stewart agreed to work in American productions for purely economic reasons. This allowed him to be noticed and picked to play Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show “Star Trek: The Next Generation”. At the time there was skepticism about the possibility of modernizing the Star Trek saga and the actor expected to return to England after one season. In the end, the show lasted seven seasons, Stewart also participated in some movies connected to the saga and lent his voice to some video games connected to the show.

Throughout his life, Patrick Stewart got married three times and had a total of two children. His son Daniel also became an actor. For his acting activity, Patrick Stewart has received various awards and honors. Not only has he not stopped working, but he recently reprised the role of Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show “Star Trek: Picard”. This role gave him international fame, but the actor helped to shape him and is continuing to influence his evolution.

Bruce Boxleitner in 2011

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Bruce William Boxleitner was born on May 12, 1950, in Elgin, Illinois, USA. Bruce Boxleitner began working on television productions while roles in film productions were rare in the 1970s. Fame came to him playing Luke Macahan in the TV show “How the West Was Won”, which aired between 1976 and 1979. In the 1990s, what perhaps is the role for which he’s best known, John Sheridan in the TV show “Babylon 5”, arrived for Bruce Boxleitner. The actor was a regular character in the show from the second to the fifth and last season, between 1994 and 1998. He reprised that role in the following years in some TV movies connected to it that are set in different periods before, during, and after the show.

Happy birthday Lance Henriksen!

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Lance James Henriksen was born on May 5, 1940 in New York, USA. In 1970 Lance Henriksen had the opportunity to join the cast of a stage play for which he had painted the scenarios with the complication that he was illiterate. Gradually he learned to read, also thanks to the scripts of the works in which he started finding roles, in theater, television and cinema. He reached the pinnacle of fame in television when Cris Carter created the TV show “Millennium” thinking of him as the protagonist. The show ran for three seasons and he was nominated for a Golden Globe for three straight years. The show had a sort of ending in an episode of “The X-Files”.

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Patrick George Troughton was born on March 25, 1920 in Mill Hill, Middlesex, England. After the end of World War II, Patrick Troughton returned to work as an actor on stage. After a couple of years he started getting roles in television and cinema productions. His career developed mainly on television and in 1953 he became the first actor to play Robin Hood on TV in a BBC miniseries. During the 1950s, he earned increasing fame by participating in many television productions.

In 1966 the production staff of “Doctor Who” was struggling with the problem of choosing whether to end the show due to actor William Hartnell’s health problems or try to replace him as the Doctor. Patrick Troughton agreed to take over and played the Second Doctor until 1969, when he left the show for fear of getting typecast.

James Doohan

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James Montgomery Doohan was born on March 3, 1920, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. After attending high school, he enlisted in the 102nd Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps and joined the Canadian Royal Artillery at the beginning of World War II. After begin commissioned a Lieutenant, he was sent to England and took part to the D-Day operations after training. He got wounded and lost his right hand’s middle finger, but still served, even as an aviator.

James Doohan auditioned for the role of chief engineer of the Enterprise in the TV show “Star Trek” doing different accents, but said to the producer Gene Roddenberry that in his experience the best engineers are Scottish, and in the end the Scottish accent became one of Montgomery “Scotty” Scott’s trademarks. His character didn’t appear in all episodes but still had an impact on the audience which included inspiration to study engineering.

Throughout his life, James Doohan has been married three times and had a total of 7 children. In the last years of his life he had a series of health problems, and on July 20, 2005, he died following complications of pulmonary fibrosis. He got cremated and part of his ashes were sent into space on SpaceX’s Dragon space cargo ship on May 22, 2012. His son Chris played Scott in “Star Trek Continues”, a web series that pays homage to the original series. It’s another demonstration of how much that show influenced James Doohan’s life.