James Montgomery Doohan was a Canadian actor and author, best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television and film series Star Trek.
34 Facts About James Doohan
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James Doohan made contributions behind the scenes, such as the initial development of the Klingon and Vulcan languages.
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James Doohan saw combat in Europe during World War II, including the D-Day invasion of Normandy, in which he was wounded, apparently by friendly fire.
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James Doohan was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the youngest of four children of William Patrick James Doohan and Sarah Frances, who both emigrated from Bangor, Northern Ireland.
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James Doohan's father, born in Belfast, was a pharmacist, veterinarian and dentist, and a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland.
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William James Doohan owned a chemist shop in Main Street in Bangor beside Trinity Presbyterian Church and reportedly invented an early form of high-octane gasoline in 1923.
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James Doohan attended high school at Sarnia Collegiate Institute and Technical School, where he excelled in mathematics and science.
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James Doohan enrolled in the 102nd Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps in 1938.
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James Doohan first saw combat landing in the 2nd Wave in a Recce Party at Juno Beach on D-Day.
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James Doohan graduated from Air Observation Pilot Course 40 with eleven other Canadian artillery officers and flew Taylorcraft Auster Mark V aircraft for 666 Squadron, RCAF as a Royal Canadian Artillery officer in support of 1st Army Group Royal Canadian Artillery.
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James Doohan made his TV debut as a detective on the show Martin Kane, Private Eye, and appeared in 54 episodes.
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James Doohan estimated he performed in over 4,000 radio programs and 450 television programs during this period, and earned a reputation for versatility.
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James Doohan played an assistant to the United States president in two episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
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James Doohan had an uncredited role in The Satan Bug, appeared in the Daniel Boone episode "A Perilous Passage", appeared as a state trooper in Roger Vadim's film Pretty Maids All in a Row, and played opposite Richard Harris in the movie Man in the Wilderness.
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Auditioning for the role of chief engineer of the USS Enterprise, James Doohan did several different accents.
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In later years, James Doohan reenacted the casting process at Star Trek conventions, demonstrating a variety of possible voices and characters.
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James Doohan returned to the role of Scotty in the early 1970s for Star Trek: The Animated Series.
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Walter Koenig was not hired for this series due to budget limitations, so James Doohan voiced a replacement character: alien navigator Arex.
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James Doohan rejoined the entire regular cast of Star Trek for the feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture, for which he devised the Vulcan and Klingon language dialogue.
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James Doohan continued in the role of Scotty for sequels The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, The Voyage Home, The Final Frontier and The Undiscovered Country.
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James Doohan hoped that Star Trek would benefit his acting career.
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James Doohan was Commander Canarvin in the short-lived Saturday morning live-action kids' show Jason of Star Command, and had a cameo in the made-for-TV movie Knight Rider 2000 as "Jimmy Doohan, the guy who played Scotty on Star Trek".
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James Doohan played himself in an episode of The Ben Stiller Show.
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James Doohan played Damon Warwick, father of James Warwick, on the daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.
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James Doohan says that he convinced her to attend his next convention appearance, and later learned that his encouragement and kind words had not only saved her life, but inspired her to go back to school and become an electronics engineer.
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For Star Trek Into Darkness in 2012, fans campaigned for Christopher James Doohan gaining him a credited cameo in the transporter room.
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Chris James Doohan played Scotty in the award-winning web series Star Trek Continues.
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On July 20,2005, at 5:30 in the morning, James Doohan died at his home in Redmond, Washington, due to complications of pulmonary fibrosis, which was believed to be from exposure to noxious substances during World War II.
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Some of James Doohan's ashes are hidden under the floor cladding of the International Space Station's Columbus module - after being smuggled aboard in 2008 by Richard Garriott.
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The rest of James Doohan's ashes were scattered over Puget Sound in Washington.
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On May 22,2012, a small urn containing some of James Doohan's remains in ash form was flown into space aboard the Falcon 9 rocket as part of COTS Demo Flight 2.
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James Doohan was immortalized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 31,2004.
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James Doohan's birthplace is attributed to Aberdeen, where Doohan learned the doric accent, or Elgin.
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However, Scotty's accent chosen by James Doohan is not the relatively harsh Aberdonian accent; the specific accent James Doohan used implies most of Scotty's formative years were spent at or near Edinburgh, something that is supported by original script notes.