Yep- that is how he lost the finger. It was mentioned in a Retrospective i only just found a bit ago- they did a lot of clever camera work to keep it unnoticed during the original series run. I kept thinking surely that can't be true- but look at how many times the camera caught his hand here in only a few minutes!
Jimmy Doohan was a wonderful guy. A friend of mine was at a science fiction convention once, where they had a mockup of the Enterprise bridge. He was sitting in the captain's chair and hit the button, calling out, "More power Mr. Scott," not realizing Jimmy was standing right behind him. Jimmy replied, "Captain, I'm givin' her all I can!" My friend shot up out of the seat with a, "Gahh! It works!"
James Doohan grew up in my city, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. He was in the Rifle Club with my late dad at our High School in the early 1930's. Both served in the local militia, the 26th Field Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery. Our family has several pictures of James, my dad, and three other soldiers swimming in their army boxers in Lake Petawawa near the Artillery training base the summer before the war began. Both men were snapped up as soon as WW2, started but assigned to different Regiments. James was wounded on D-Day in "friendly fire". He was hit by a burst from a Bren Gun fired by a jumpy sentry. He took a round in the chest that was deflected by a steel cigarette case,that saved his life, and he lost a finger. My dad commanded a anti-tank artillery coy in a combat infantry regiment through France, Belgium, Germany, and into Holland, where he too was wounded in the Liberation. The Greatest Generation. I got to meet James at our High Schools 75th Anniversary Reunion. He was a fine gentleman. RIP
Love it. Older famous actor walks out into a British TV studio... _in a blazer with his old regimental crest on its breast-pocket..._ and everyone just *knows.*
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mark rylander: Only learned about the finger in the last few months. Watched everything over all these years, and realizing he was hiding it (even in this interview) in seamless ways no one would ever notice...makes me sad.
Lieutenant James Montgomery Doohan, born in Vancouver, BC, was a gun position officer with 13th Field Regiment on 6 June 1944. Late on D-Day, Lieutenant Doohan was returning from a patrol when he was hit by machine gun fire (possibly from a Canadian sentry). Doohan was hit by six bullets, four in his leg, one on his right hand (which required the amputation of his middle finger), and one in his chest which was deflected by his silver cigarette case. These wounds effectively ended Doohan’s war. He was evacuated to England where, upon his rehabilitation, he volunteered to be an air observation pilot. After earning his wings, he was posted to 666 Air Observation Post Squadron, RCAF in Holland in the closing days of the war. Following the war, Doohan returned to Canada where he trained as an actor. He is best known today for his role as Montgomery Scott (“Scotty”), Chief Engineer of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek.
People like him are the reason why the old Star Trek is so beloved. A warm genuine decent human being who is as relatable as your uncle or your grandpa.
What a gentleman. I met him as a kid in East Texas once. He made everyone feel like they were special, even if just for a minute. It meant a lot to me.
I love that he is proudly wearing his Royal Canadian Artillery crest on his blazer along with his Pilot wings. While he was never in the Royal Canadian Air Force he was trained as an observer pilot for the RCA during the war. A true hero.
He does come across as a genuinely nice person. Thanks for the great memories as a youngster, back in the 1970s. watching Star Trek. Only seems like yesterday, not over forty years ago.
My favorite Scotty quote was when McCoy gave him an antidote to the Tholian episode, and he was told if you took a shot of it you couldn’t feel a phaser being used on stun. He immediately goes: “Will it make a good mix with scotch?” Mccoy: “It should” “I’ll let you know!” And he took the whole bottle.
I always liked when they got into a fight with some Klingons over a few insults. But it wasn't the insult about Kirk that started it - but when the Klingons insulted the Enterprise and called in a 'garbage scow'. Kirk's disappointed reaction to Scotty's explanation was priceless.
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I fondly remember him at an opening of a video rental store signing copies of Star Trek IV. My friend and me were last in line waiting to have him sign our copies. While waiting, my buddy was arguing that engineering was located in the saucer section. I told him it was located on the hangar deck. Finally I told my friend to ask him to decide the issue. My buddy asked him when he was signing his video tape to validate his claim. His answer was priceless in his perfect Scottish accent: "No laddie, engineering be down below." This is something I will remember for the rest of my life. In my opinion, he truly loved the role he played in the Star Trek universe.
Noooo laddie. Twas behind the main deflector dish.Tthe hanger deck was behind engineering. Shuttle craft used the hanger deck. Why would engineering not have it's own space. The specs can be found online ya know.
That was something I had wrong most of my life. Because of the blueprints of the 70s, I believed for 40 years that engineering was at the rear of the saucer. Which left me confused as to why suddenly starting with the movies it was in the secondary hull. Only in the last couple of years did I find out that the blueprints were not cannon. Hard to give up a belief after 4 decades. BTW I thought the movie engineering should have been a modernized version of TOS engineering. TMP engineering was really "underdone" and looked small and confining.
That is exactly what I thought! That being said, the blueprints were pretty neat. To this day I wish I still had them. Last I saw them was the very early 80s. Not a clue what happened to them.
"The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank" was what he actually said. After reading your comment I had a taste to see it again. Just watched it. Thank You for giving me the idea. I had forgotten what a good episode it is.
Thanks for the flashback to one of Doohan's best. I always felt like Scotty was a engineering counterweight of equal measure to Kirks businessman persona.
I met him in 2001 roughly four years before he died, he was slower and didn't say quite as much by that point but I could still sense his kind of greatness. Oh yeah, and his autograph was a little more shaky and hesitant.
If you got to meet James Doohan, then you know what a wonderful guy he was. He showed so much kindness and respect to fans of Star Trek while interacting with them. He was a great man.
I would agree. He was very nice to me when I met him in 2001, of course by then he was a lot slower and didn't say as much, not very long before he stopped the convention circuit entirely and then passing in 2005. I met him right after he and his significant other had a new baby surprisingly.
Agree completely. I met him while in college when he came to promote the first ST film. He was gracious with his time, available for and interested in conversation, and happy to sign a few autographs in some books I had brought with me.
@jasonpye4649 Yeah, the school posted his appearance well in advance, so I put a couple of ST paperback books in my jacket pockets and carried one larger one that wouldn't fit. David Gerrold's World of Star Trek was one. I had marked each for the pages where he had a picture and he signed them. Nobody crowded around so we got to talk. I had an uncle at D-Day and he was there too, so we talked about that some. He had suffered some injuries, famously lost his finger there. He was pleased to be working steadily again. The previous decade had been pretty bad for him, which he mentioned in this video.
@@stantheman9072 i envy in many ways your chance to speak with him at length when he was in much better health and not as near the end of his life as I experienced. He didn't speak too much in the signing line itself, and only half as long as usual (in the past) on stage. Somehow he had just had a new baby when I met him in 2001. I appreciate you relaying your experience.
I met Mr.Doohan at a convention in NYC my dad took me to in the early 90s'. He was SO NICE, just like this, so pleasant, so genuine so friendly. I remember he actually stood up to shake my dads hand, my old man was never one to get star stuck but he loved Star Trek and he got a little tongue tied at that moment. On the train ride home he just couldn't stop talking abut meeting Mr. Doohan, he was like a little kid. A fond childhood memory of mine that always comes to mind anytime I see our Mr. Scott.
I would have liked to hear some of those other accents! He never dropped out of character so it never ocurred to me that he wasn't! (Of course, just like the Man from U.N.C.L.E. everyone was convinced he was RUSSIAN!)
I met James Doohan at a gathering in Everett WA. in 1982 after the premiere of the wrath of Khan. I got his autograph , but then I had a special picture for him to sign. It was of the original engine room of the Enterprise. I said " you used to work there," Mr Doohan. said " Indeed , I did" .Then he signed it for me. To this day I still.have those autographs.
This is the first time I've seen James Doohan speaking in his natural Canadian accent. He does a cracking Scots accent though!RIP Mr Doohan, you were an integral part of the Star Trek series!
I gt to meet him in the early 90s at a convention. Several years later I got to talk with him at length at another convention that he came in a wheel chair. He had trouble speaking but we were able to understand each other. He seemed like a really good guy.
That line pops into my head every now and then when I'm fighting with my computer at work. No one else would understand why I start laughing to myself!
+ Rockhard Most indeed! Like he said, he got 'type-cast' too much; so he never eally got to stretch :/ but jus tlook @ Colm Meany for Comparison, not THAT GUY Too, is 1 hell of an actor that SHOULDA BEEN 1st String during Ds9 : I digress; good comment tho
+ Rockhard Most indeed! Like he said, he got 'type-cast' too much; so he never eally got to stretch :/ but jus tlook @ Colm Meany for Comparison, not THAT GUY Too, is 1 hell of an actor that SHOULDA BEEN 1st String during Ds9 : I digress; good comment tho
Behind ALL the actors in Star Trek is acting school, stage experience, or both. They know their craft. They're not faking it or phoning it in. They would be equally at ease doing Shakespeare.
He said Scotty never got to beam down on away missions and now my trekkiness is forcing me to comment: Scotty got to beam down in "the devil in the dark," "who mourns for Adonis," "wolf in the fold," "Spock's Brain," "Cat's Paw," probably some others but can't remember off-hand. The best is when they leave Scotty in command of the enterprise and he's always a hair away from blasting everything with the ship's phasers XD
Spectre of The Gun was the first one that came to mind. Classic, funny Scotty lines came out of that one. He was getting quite fond of 1881 Taos Lightning bourbon lol.
i am glad some one mentioned it.... because Scotty often joined the away party... however ... it seemed when he did... major stuff always happened... lol
O dang- what was the title of the episode where he gets taken over by Jack the Ripper? (Or actually it was the other nervous little guy) but he even had a romantic episode or two!
I'm so jealous of the people who were able to meet James Doohan in person. And if you put Doohan, Nimoy, and Kelley in the same place, that would have been an amazing thing to see.
He was great in person. Shook his hand, got his autograph. Funny, my regret is that he's the only one I have met, and now it's too late for De and Leonard.
I met him and Walter at a signing event, James as old as he was had the grip of grizzly bear when shaking hands, Walter was cool too, told him I really liked his Bestor character on B5, he sold that part very well, he seemed a little surprised he would be complemented on that, also told him I always thought they wrote Chekov to be stupid and gullible which I thought was a bad deal. But all that said James is my favorite Star Trek cast member
i saw him at a book signing - but i wasn't interested in the book - he was ruddy-faced and looked grim - maybe a touch angry - so i wasn't unhappy about not meeting him
RIP Jimmy Doohan. A WWII Normandy D-Day real deal Hero. A Gentleman. A fine actor. And an inspiration to many to become Engineers. I tip a pint of Bellhaven to ya Sir.
I had the pleasure of meeting him in 1991. Got to speak to him for about 5 minutes at a “Stars and Cars” event. I’d gotten there at the very beginning of the event, and hardly anyone had arrived yet. He jokingly flirted with my wife, and talked to me as if we’d known each other for years. He noticed the slip covers for all the VHS Trek movies I had in my camera bag (this was before DVD), and asked me about them. I told him I had intended to ask him what his favorite was, and ask him to autograph the movie he liked best. He smiled, and said, “well, then, I’ll just autograph them all”....
Rewatch this video and notice Mr. Doohan's right hand. You'll notice he's missing a finger. He lost it in combat during the war. When you watch an episode of Star Trek, notice how he always keeps that hand hidden. He truly was a master at dialects, a very good actor, and a hero in real life.
The only time I noticed it in the series, was in "The Trouble with Tribble", when he walks up to Kirk, carrying 2 armful of them. It's a very brief moment.
It' really nice to see this. James seems so happy and comfortable in his own skin. It looks like he is really satisfied in what he has accomplished in his life. I not sure if it was a line in the series. But, I always think of "Cap'n I don't know if she'll hold together".
If Wogan, good or bad interviewer, is going to bring up nationality, he shouldn't get it wrong. 95% of people wouldn't appreciate it. Look how fast Doohan responded.
Its amazing James Doohan's son, Chris, is playing the role of Scotty on "Star Trek Conrinues" fan series here on UA-cam. At times its like seeing his dad young again. Chris fills his dad's shoes nicely. Still the original Scotty is the real Scotty.
Star Trek Continues will be coming to a close soon, sadly. They've done an amazing job with that show though and they are providing a kind of closure to the original Star Trek series in the form of a final 2 part episode. Chris does a great job, very close to his Dad's performance but of course, there was only one true Scotty.
*Star Trek Continues* is, hands down, THE best fan-made incarnation of The Original Series. It makes me mad as hell what NBC did to all the fan based Trek productions by limiting them the way they did. Star Trek Continues is every bit as good as the original, and they managed to get actual Trek alumni to appear with them! Then NBC steps in and completely RUINS it for everyone. I'm done with NBC and everything within their purview.
Mike Hawk I have said almost the exact same thing about Star Trek Continues, it's great. At first, it was a little strange to get used to Vic Mignogna as Kirk, but he captures the essence of Kirk so amazingly without it coming off as a parody, he does an even better job than Chris Pine (who I thought did pretty well) and after watching a while, you can really start to think of them as those characters. The actor who plays Spock, and also, Bones' actor (the second guy to play him) are great as well, really the whole cast, crew, etc. Everything about the production is pro and top notch. I can see why NBC felt threatened enough to set those overly harsh guidelines for fan films, but they still suck major ass for doing that, and I will not support Discovery personally because of that. I honestly hope the fans who do watch it, enjoy it, but I choose not to. They screwed the pooch way too hard on this one by saying "fuck the longtime Star Trek fans" in so many ways, and I heard it loud and clear. And there are many others who feel that way.
*Elricwulf* Funny you mention having to "get used to" Vic being Captain Kirk because I experienced the same thing as you. I quickly "adjusted" to the new crew and was enthralled to the point I felt like I was really watching the original series, and it impressed me beyond belief how they've been able get some of the original actors to reprise old roles or appear as new characters. I was blown away to see "Apollo" again, and seeing John de Lancie appear as a new Trek character really illustrates how high up in the fandom hierarchy STC is. They've managed to duplicate every nuance of the original show such to the point viewers truly feel as if they're back in the 1960's. Vic himself mixes the music used in each episode and he uses parts of the original scores mixed with various 'adjustments' to make it unique to the episode in question, but to viewers it looks and sounds like the original. I'm still reeling over CBS's bullshit "rules" fan productions must now follow, which was obviously designed to aquash any serious reproduction of ST. I'm absolutely *DONE* supporting CBS and anything within their purview. They apparently aren't capable of producing Trek on the level of these so-called 'amateurs' are so instead of embracing what could have been a great resurgence of the original series by working WITH them they stomp on it and threaten financial ruin of any and all who desire to make the show as good as it originally was. I have NO respect for any network that would leverage this over fans. CBS once again RUINED Star Trek by limiting fan-made productions.
Kirk: How much refit time till we can take [the Enterprise] out again? Scotty: Eight weeks, sir. But you don't have eight weeks, so I'll do it for ya in two. Kirk: Mr. Scott. Have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four? Scotty: Certainly, sir. How else can I keep my reputation as a miracle worker?
Remember sitting in the Cinema back in 1984 with 2 friends watching the film when Scotty delivered that line and my pall followed it by saying "and charge you for eight!" haha happy times. RIP Jimmy.
I saw James Doohan at a convention once, and he had the audience in hysterics with a variety of accents (including a pirate one). Later when he was signing autographs I asked if i could get a picture of him, and he actually invited me behind the table where he was signing so a friend of mine could get a picture of both of us! A delightful and classy man.
I recall 30+ years ago at a StarCon here in Denver - Both James Doohan and William Shatner were here. The line to see James was at least 200-300 people long. We walked right up to William Shatner after waiting about 2 minutes. I always laughed at that.
A very brave man during the war. King George VI, King of the United Kingdom, and Canada, made him a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order for his service to the Empire.
He was my favorite character on the show and series. Working in one of the engineering fields for 30 years I told people I learned my skills at the Montgomery Scott Engineering School. If you know the job is going to take three hours to complete, you “seven hours and then when you are done in four, you have achieved hero status.😂
what made the series so great was the diversity of all the characters in their on screen roles. they all contributed something and gene roddenberry made them so they worked together to give a first class performance. sttng has the same idea but they put too much emphasis on this fact which is why sttos will always rule as number one.
Wow, he is the real deal. Alton Towers was Britain's main artillery college during WWII and it is now a huge amusement park. But - and this is the funny thing - the actual castle, "Alton Towers" - which is still there (or the shell of it) - was used by the artillery gunners for target practice while they learned to kick Nazi asses. I guess that's why it's a shell. Anyway, hats off to a Canadian war hero and the most famous engineer in the world, the late James Doohan.
Jimmy Doohan, and my dad fired off hundreds of practice artillery rounds long before their trip to England. Camp Ipperwash on the southern most shores of Lake Huron. With the 26th Field Battery of the Royal Canadian Artillery. A local militia unit. And, before that both were on our High Schools Rifle team. Our high school actually had a rifle range.
These were a different grade of actors... Began their careers in the "mainstream" in a doomed sci-fi prime time joke, that turned into a network seed, that bloomed into the cast of a hopeless 60's television experiment - now starring in a Hollywood project almost 15 years after it's inception. All of the cast have interesting back stories, and credits that the most devoted fan could see as evidence of a more diversive career. Yet, for the fans, they all returned 15 years later, and gave another decade of films, visits, and embraced what they became to their fans. You have to give it to the original cast, they gave their whole careers, and lives, into what started as an experimental sci-fi TV show. They all wanted to do more, but instead embraced (even begrudgingly) who the were to the people that loved them for who they were on screen. Here, you can see that James really is struggling with staying in both characters, 1-as "Scotty", and 2-as "James Doohan", known widely as 'Scotty'. You get that he really wants you to see him as a person, AND as an accomplished actor, obviously good in other roles. BUT, he goes along with the scripted interview, as late as 1989 - He made more appearances, and faded slightly from the public until his death. HE NEVER CURSED HIS FOLLOWERS, OR HIS CAREER. Even if there was a mishap here or there, well, put that against who he was. What a friendly, patient, dedicated man. If I could have met him, the words "star" and "trek" would have never left my mouth in his presence.
That was the great thing about him. He EMBRASSED his Scotti-ness. He knew we looked at him with admiration and maybe even a little jealousy of his coolness, knowledge of his character even "under fire". He was just a great fellow, all the way around.
I'm from Glasgow and James is such an inspiration to us because in the 60s we didn't have much representation in tv or fil so to see a Scot in a tv show and Star Trek of all things was just magical to us as I imagine it was for African Americans seeing Nichelle. What a man, he is surely missed.
I always loved the idea that he was having such a good time one the convention circuit for all those years. Being Scotty did typecast him, and his roles outside of Star Trek were very limited, but he often talked about how much he enjoyed the conventions. It's hard to believe that he's been gone more than 15 years now. RIP James Doohan, thank you for the gifts you gave us.
I really have fond memories of the "Final Frontier" hitting the movie theaters. It was just a great movie, with a lot of catchphrases to pick up, tongue-in-cheek lines and you can really see the actors enjoying themselves and having a great time.
Had the pleasure of meeting him at a convention around 1990.. Awesome fellow and even had the courtesy of complimenting my Mom, when he was signing my autograph. He absolutely loathed 'Star Trek V', very public about during his speech at the convention.
Doohan was a really gifted voice actor. He did so many uncredited voiceovers in the original show, and later for the animated series. His voice for Sargon, especially, was so nicely done it was decades before I realized it was even him.
It was a memorable day when I got James Doohan's autograph at a Sci-Fi convention. I had purchased a photo of Marina Sirtis (Counselor Troi) and was standing in line waiting to get his autograph. I didn't see any souvenir photos of James anywhere so I plopped down Marina's photo and he signed it on the back.
Love his service career - the thick end of four years training for D-Day and less than 24 hours of combat, being shot six times (four in the legs, one right hand - missing index finger - and once in the chest, the classic cigarette case taking some of the zing out of that one). After convalescing trained to be a pilot but the war ended before he got back to combat.
I met him at a Star Trek convention and got his autograph from him. He was a kind and gentle person . I was last in line and was able to talk to him a little bit and he didn’t mind
He landed with the Canadian troops on D day and was shot 6 times ... I think he took out a machine gun battery too ... miracle he is alive ... he lost part of one of his fingers with one of the bullets -- and that is the reason his one hand is rarely shown.
Such a lovely, warm-hearted man. I met him at one of those conventions just a couple of years before this interview and he was so patient and friendly with every single person, so open and genuine in his affection for the fans. A wonderful person all around.
Doohan was a prolific radio performer in the 1940s. He also played character parts in many TV series in the 1950s. I really wish the interviewer would have asked about those experiences.
My father was a world war II vet an American hero! So was James Doohan I was lucky enough to get too meet James Doohan and shake hands with him, I got his autograph 2 times!! James Doohan like my father you are a true hero!!
I'd seen and met him at a convention in Boston many years ago. I'd remarked how nice it was that he was actually technically literate, and he autographed my copy of Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time." Many years passed, and while I was away doing technical consulting in another state, my parents' basement flooded. Among the casualties was that book, which didn't just get water-logged, but disintegrated! Unfortunately, Mr. Doohan is presently playing engagements far from here, and is not immediately available for a replacement autograph.
When James was finally beamed up for the final time I wept. Not only was a real life hero gone but also a very important piece of a historic movement not only in Television but in Movies as well.
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Shatner might have played a hero, but Jimmy Doohan WAS a hero.
John Cardinal Liked them both. Liked ALL the Original Star Trek Series actors and actresses, liked only the Original Star Trek Series.
@@danbasta3677 I think he referenced that Doohan was in WWII.
@@Zeithri Juno Beach.
Yep- that is how he lost the finger. It was mentioned in a Retrospective i only just found a bit ago- they did a lot of clever camera work to keep it unnoticed during the original series run. I kept thinking surely that can't be true- but look at how many times the camera caught his hand here in only a few minutes!
Love Scotty
Jimmy Doohan was a wonderful guy. A friend of mine was at a science fiction convention once, where they had a mockup of the Enterprise bridge. He was sitting in the captain's chair and hit the button, calling out, "More power Mr. Scott," not realizing Jimmy was standing right behind him. Jimmy replied, "Captain, I'm givin' her all I can!" My friend shot up out of the seat with a, "Gahh! It works!"
Bet that was a hoot! 😂😂😂
Gahh! That's exactly the kind of sound that comes outta someone who's surprised from behind
Bs !!!!!
@@4gegtyreeyuyeddffvyt Can't imagine why you say that.
Great story! Thank you for sharing!
James Doohan grew up in my city, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. He was in the Rifle Club with my late dad at our High School in the early 1930's. Both served in the local militia, the 26th Field Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery. Our family has several pictures of James, my dad, and three other soldiers swimming in their army boxers in Lake Petawawa near the Artillery training base the summer before the war began. Both men were snapped up as soon as WW2, started but assigned to different Regiments. James was wounded on D-Day in "friendly fire". He was hit by a burst from a Bren Gun fired by a jumpy sentry. He took a round in the chest that was deflected by a steel cigarette case,that saved his life, and he lost a finger. My dad commanded a anti-tank artillery coy in a combat infantry regiment through France, Belgium, Germany, and into Holland, where he too was wounded in the Liberation. The Greatest Generation. I got to meet James at our High Schools 75th Anniversary Reunion. He was a fine gentleman. RIP
Wow what a story :) Both legends.
Thank God for cigarettes it would seem.
Love it. Older famous actor walks out into a British TV studio... _in a blazer with his old regimental crest on its breast-pocket..._ and everyone just *knows.*
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@Micah Ira Instablaster :)
Doohan is a real hero. Left pieces of himself on Normandy. A show business legend and pop culture icon, but the real deal.
And he stopped a young woman from committing suicide
mark rylander: Only learned about the finger in the last few months. Watched everything over all these years, and realizing he was hiding it (even in this interview) in seamless ways no one would ever notice...makes me sad.
Actually, he sustained his injuries in a training accident when someone fired his gun accidentally. He did participate on the beaches on D-Day though.
Lieutenant James Montgomery Doohan, born in
Vancouver, BC, was a gun position officer with 13th
Field Regiment on 6 June 1944. Late on D-Day,
Lieutenant Doohan was returning from a patrol
when he was hit by machine gun fire (possibly from
a Canadian sentry). Doohan was hit by six bullets,
four in his leg, one on his right hand (which required
the amputation of his middle finger), and one in his
chest which was deflected by his silver cigarette
case. These wounds effectively ended Doohan’s
war. He was evacuated to England where, upon his
rehabilitation, he volunteered to be an air observation
pilot. After earning his wings, he was posted to 666
Air Observation Post Squadron, RCAF in Holland
in the closing days of the war. Following the war,
Doohan returned to Canada where he trained as
an actor. He is best known today for his role as
Montgomery Scott (“Scotty”), Chief Engineer of the
USS Enterprise, on Star Trek.
Sarah Kinsey How?
People like him are the reason why the old Star Trek is so beloved. A warm genuine decent human being who is as relatable as your uncle or your grandpa.
Facts
What a gentleman. I met him as a kid in East Texas once. He made everyone feel like they were special, even if just for a minute. It meant a lot to me.
I love that he is proudly wearing his Royal Canadian Artillery crest on his blazer along with his Pilot wings. While he was never in the Royal Canadian Air Force he was trained as an observer pilot for the RCA during the war. A true hero.
Necroposting: Thank you, I wondered what that was when he walked on set.
What a wonderful, loving man. He motivated me to become an engineer. Love him.
Wonderful he Inspired you!!
He does come across as a genuinely nice person.
Thanks for the great memories as a youngster, back in the 1970s. watching Star Trek.
Only seems like yesterday, not over forty years ago.
He inspired me to become a Marine Engineer.
I also became an Engineer because of his portrayal of Mr. Scott!
My favorite Scotty quote was when McCoy gave him an antidote to the Tholian episode, and he was told if you took a shot of it you couldn’t feel a phaser being used on stun. He immediately goes:
“Will it make a good mix with scotch?”
Mccoy: “It should”
“I’ll let you know!”
And he took the whole bottle.
I always liked when they got into a fight with some Klingons over a few insults. But it wasn't the insult about Kirk that started it - but when the Klingons insulted the Enterprise and called in a 'garbage scow'. Kirk's disappointed reaction to Scotty's explanation was priceless.
I dont know why anyone would click dislike on this. What a great guy. Loved his acting.
Dislikes simply can be a way of someone telling youtube's AI not to suggest more of the same type of video. It doesn't mean they hate this one. Perhaps they simply aren't trek nuts, and don't want to watch the actors in real life. Not everyone who enjoys the show wants to know about the actor, or perhaps didn't like the interviewer.
Probably seven people whose molecules didn't rearrange themselves in a pleasing fashion.
Black Terminal Yeah I don't get it????????
If someone doesnt like a video you like they do it to hear you whine..LOL...who cares, enjoy the video.
Perhaps William Shatner fans who resent Jimmy's calling him out?
We miss you Scotty and Spock and Bones...Hope you're all somewhere kicking it together. Peace!
Maybe bad taste, but I assume James Doohan has a sense of humor. ua-cam.com/video/TL43EISgVYA/v-deo.html
With Romulan Brandy
@@rebeccacahill1000 Romulan ALE, or Saurian Brandy.
@@seandunn6417 I stand corrected.
I'm an atheist with no belief in an afterlife, but it is a beautiful image.... the crew re-uniting for a toast to 'the good old days'.
I fondly remember him at an opening of a video rental store signing copies of Star Trek IV. My friend and me were last in line waiting to have him sign our copies. While waiting, my buddy was arguing that engineering was located in the saucer section. I told him it was located on the hangar deck.
Finally I told my friend to ask him to decide the issue. My buddy asked him when he was signing his video tape to validate his claim. His answer was priceless in his perfect Scottish accent: "No laddie, engineering be down below."
This is something I will remember for the rest of my life. In my opinion, he truly loved the role he played in the Star Trek universe.
That is one awesome story.
He owned it didn't he. And then when he was 72 he did it perfectly again in TNG. I love that episode.
Noooo laddie. Twas behind the main deflector dish.Tthe hanger deck was behind engineering. Shuttle craft used the hanger deck. Why would engineering not have it's own space. The specs can be found online ya know.
That was something I had wrong most of my life. Because of the blueprints of the 70s, I believed for 40 years that engineering was at the rear of the saucer. Which left me confused as to why suddenly starting with the movies it was in the secondary hull. Only in the last couple of years did I find out that the blueprints were not cannon. Hard to give up a belief after 4 decades. BTW I thought the movie engineering should have been a modernized version of TOS engineering. TMP engineering was really "underdone" and looked small and confining.
That is exactly what I thought! That being said, the blueprints were pretty neat. To this day I wish I still had them. Last I saw them was the very early 80s. Not a clue what happened to them.
What a gentleman, and a war hero! May he rest in peace.
Miss you terribly Mr. Scott.
James Doohan You were such a great actor and entertainer.
great actor ?? lol .. what ... you having a laugh ???
Yes, he was
rebecca sabet lol, he was an utter SHIT actor.. and as a Scottish person, his accent was laughable ..
To each their own.
James Demos i liked him, decent movies, iconic even, but he was NOT a good actor ..
"The best diplomat I know is a fully charged phaser bank" .. Scotty in "A Taste of Armageddon"
He's not wrong
"The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank" was what he actually said. After reading your comment I had a taste to see it again. Just watched it. Thank You for giving me the idea. I had forgotten what a good episode it is.
Spock:"Cowboy diplomacy?"
Thanks for the flashback to one of Doohan's best. I always felt like Scotty was a engineering counterweight of equal measure to Kirks businessman persona.
Bill Somrak Scotty would have made an excellent starship captain. He didn’t want the job, but he would have been great.
I had relatives that were his neighbors. They told me he was the sweetest man. So friendly and affable. I wish I could have met him.
I met him in 2001 roughly four years before he died, he was slower and didn't say quite as much by that point but I could still sense his kind of greatness. Oh yeah, and his autograph was a little more shaky and hesitant.
If you got to meet James Doohan, then you know what a wonderful guy he was. He showed so much kindness and respect to fans of Star Trek while interacting with them. He was a great man.
I would agree. He was very nice to me when I met him in 2001, of course by then he was a lot slower and didn't say as much, not very long before he stopped the convention circuit entirely and then passing in 2005. I met him right after he and his significant other had a new baby surprisingly.
Agree completely. I met him while in college when he came to promote the first ST film. He was gracious with his time, available for and interested in conversation, and happy to sign a few autographs in some books I had brought with me.
@@stantheman9072 oh cool. What kinda books if you don't mind saying? So you planned to bring them cuz they advertised his appearance prior, yea?
@jasonpye4649 Yeah, the school posted his appearance well in advance, so I put a couple of ST paperback books in my jacket pockets and carried one larger one that wouldn't fit. David Gerrold's World of Star Trek was one. I had marked each for the pages where he had a picture and he signed them. Nobody crowded around so we got to talk. I had an uncle at D-Day and he was there too, so we talked about that some. He had suffered some injuries, famously lost his finger there. He was pleased to be working steadily again. The previous decade had been pretty bad for him, which he mentioned in this video.
@@stantheman9072 i envy in many ways your chance to speak with him at length when he was in much better health and not as near the end of his life as I experienced. He didn't speak too much in the signing line itself, and only half as long as usual (in the past) on stage. Somehow he had just had a new baby when I met him in 2001. I appreciate you relaying your experience.
I met Mr.Doohan at a convention in NYC my dad took me to in the early 90s'. He was SO NICE, just like this, so pleasant, so genuine so friendly. I remember he actually stood up to shake my dads hand, my old man was never one to get star stuck but he loved Star Trek and he got a little tongue tied at that moment. On the train ride home he just couldn't stop talking abut meeting Mr. Doohan, he was like a little kid. A fond childhood memory of mine that always comes to mind anytime I see our Mr. Scott.
In the Animated Series, he did most of the voices that weren't done by then credited actors. A trooper to the last.
yes he was a great voice actor also
I would have liked to hear some of those other accents! He never dropped out of character so it never ocurred to me that he wasn't! (Of course, just like the Man from U.N.C.L.E. everyone was convinced he was RUSSIAN!)
He also did the voice of Trelane's father.
I met James Doohan at a gathering in Everett WA. in 1982 after the premiere of the wrath of Khan. I got his autograph , but then I had a special picture for him to sign. It was of the original engine room of the Enterprise. I said " you used to work there," Mr Doohan. said " Indeed , I did" .Then he signed it for me. To this day I still.have those autographs.
There was an animated series? When was that? I remember great star trek comics.
Jimmy has pulled the wool over my ears for 25 years. I had no idea he was acting his voice in Star Trek. A truly great man.
Really?
Wow, you're not the brightest, are you?
In the animated series he voiced a lot of characters
@@markfox1545 And did you need to be nasty?
James will live forever in the hearts and minds of Star Trek fans. I'm proud to call myself one of them.
Same!
I'm an aeronautical engineer thanks to this man. Thank you Mr. Scott. Beam me up when I'm too old.
This is the first time I've seen James Doohan speaking in his natural Canadian accent. He does a cracking Scots accent though!RIP Mr Doohan, you were an integral part of the Star Trek series!
No one in Scotland speaks like Scotty!!!! Lovely guy nevertheless.
Great actor, but a terrible accent. From a scot.
What canadian accent?
I gt to meet him in the early 90s at a convention. Several years later I got to talk with him at length at another convention that he came in a wheel chair. He had trouble speaking but we were able to understand each other. He seemed like a really good guy.
Another amazing Canadian who served our country!!!
Rest in Peace, Mr Scotty. "Computer? Hello Computer?" Aww, sniff.
That line pops into my head every now and then when I'm fighting with my computer at work. No one else would understand why I start laughing to myself!
"A keyboard? How quaint!"
you know, its not said enough but,
this guy was a HELL of an actor
+ Rockhard Most indeed! Like he said, he got 'type-cast' too much; so he never eally got to stretch :/ but jus tlook @ Colm Meany for Comparison, not THAT GUY Too, is 1 hell of an actor that SHOULDA BEEN 1st String during Ds9 :
I digress; good comment tho
+ Rockhard Most indeed! Like he said, he got 'type-cast' too much; so he never eally got to stretch :/ but jus tlook @ Colm Meany for Comparison, not THAT GUY Too, is 1 hell of an actor that SHOULDA BEEN 1st String during Ds9 :
I digress; good comment tho
Behind ALL the actors in Star Trek is acting school, stage experience, or both. They know their craft. They're not faking it or phoning it in. They would be equally at ease doing Shakespeare.
This whole comment section is about how great he was. Try again.
Yup. Him and Barney Rubble!.
He said Scotty never got to beam down on away missions and now my trekkiness is forcing me to comment:
Scotty got to beam down in "the devil in the dark," "who mourns for Adonis," "wolf in the fold," "Spock's Brain," "Cat's Paw," probably some others but can't remember off-hand.
The best is when they leave Scotty in command of the enterprise and he's always a hair away from blasting everything with the ship's phasers XD
Spectre of The Gun was the first one that came to mind. Classic, funny Scotty lines came out of that one.
He was getting quite fond of 1881 Taos Lightning bourbon lol.
i am glad some one mentioned it.... because Scotty often joined the away party... however ... it seemed when he did... major stuff always happened... lol
I Mudd, The Deadly Years, The Galileo 7 (although obviously he didn't "beam down" in that one).
O dang- what was the title of the episode where he gets taken over by Jack the Ripper? (Or actually it was the other nervous little guy) but he even had a romantic episode or two!
@@deborahhanna6640 Wolf in the Fold
I'm so jealous of the people who were able to meet James Doohan in person. And if you put Doohan, Nimoy, and Kelley in the same place, that would have been an amazing thing to see.
He was great in person. Shook his hand, got his autograph. Funny, my regret is that he's the only one I have met, and now it's too late for De and Leonard.
Yeah, he sounded like a cool guy.
I met him and Walter at a signing event, James as old as he was had the grip of grizzly bear when shaking hands, Walter was cool too, told him I really liked his Bestor character on B5, he sold that part very well, he seemed a little surprised he would be complemented on that, also told him I always thought they wrote Chekov to be stupid and gullible which I thought was a bad deal. But all that said James is my favorite Star Trek cast member
i saw him at a book signing - but i wasn't interested in the book - he was ruddy-faced and looked grim - maybe a touch angry - so i wasn't unhappy about not meeting him
I not Jealous.. Im just very envious. I woild have loved to meet him myself.
"I just want to be the best actor I can be...and I work hard." Words you rarely hear these days.
So True!!!
Great comment. He is an example of why they truly were the greatest generation. Integrity and humility in spades.
RIP Jimmy Doohan. A WWII Normandy D-Day real deal Hero. A Gentleman. A fine actor. And an inspiration to many to become Engineers. I tip a pint of Bellhaven to ya Sir.
Totally charming man. Got to meet him several times in the 1980's.
I think he most enjoyed talking about his younger years in his 20's.
Wish I could've met this man before he died. He seemed like a wonderful man. And when he died, NASA beamed him up.
I met him at a convention in Dallas and he signed a star trek magazine in about 1988.
Met him three times. A class act!
I had the pleasure of meeting him in 1991. Got to speak to him for about 5 minutes at a “Stars and Cars” event. I’d gotten there at the very beginning of the event, and hardly anyone had arrived yet. He jokingly flirted with my wife, and talked to me as if we’d known each other for years. He noticed the slip covers for all the VHS Trek movies I had in my camera bag (this was before DVD), and asked me about them. I told him I had intended to ask him what his favorite was, and ask him to autograph the movie he liked best. He smiled, and said, “well, then, I’ll just autograph them all”....
Rewatch this video and notice Mr. Doohan's right hand. You'll notice he's missing a finger. He lost it in combat during the war. When you watch an episode of Star Trek, notice how he always keeps that hand hidden. He truly was a master at dialects, a very good actor, and a hero in real life.
The only time I noticed it in the series, was in "The Trouble with Tribble", when he walks up to Kirk, carrying 2 armful of them. It's a very brief moment.
James Doohan you were an inspiration for us. We still miss you till this day.
"Any actor loves a good story." Truth that, and it is what makes an audience faithful.
This is the first time I’ve seen Doohan as himself. What a nice man. He’ll live forever on film so he’s not really gone.
Absolute Legend..RIP James Doohan, but at least your son, Chris, is doing a fantastic job with his rendition of Scotty with Star Trek Continues....
I had no idea and I'm totally AMAZED that James Doohan faked Mr. Scott's accent! .... very impressive actor INDEED!
It' really nice to see this. James seems so happy and comfortable in his own skin. It looks like he is really satisfied in what he has accomplished in his life. I not sure if it was a line in the series. But, I always think of "Cap'n I don't know if she'll hold together".
Aw, just love him. He immediately corrected the host when he thought James was American. It was such a Cdn response. lol!
If Wogan, good or bad interviewer, is going to bring up nationality, he shouldn't get it wrong. 95% of people wouldn't appreciate it. Look how fast Doohan responded.
Todd Hurry Wogan corrected himself before Doohan replied.
Its amazing James Doohan's son, Chris, is playing the role of Scotty on "Star Trek Conrinues" fan series here on UA-cam. At times its like seeing his dad young again. Chris fills his dad's shoes nicely. Still the original Scotty is the real Scotty.
ImTheDaveman He also voiced his dad's Scotty character in Star Trek Online in "Night of the Comet" mission!
Star Trek Continues will be coming to a close soon, sadly. They've done an amazing job with that show though and they are providing a kind of closure to the original Star Trek series in the form of a final 2 part episode. Chris does a great job, very close to his Dad's performance but of course, there was only one true Scotty.
*Star Trek Continues* is, hands down, THE best fan-made incarnation of The Original Series. It makes me mad as hell what NBC did to all the fan based Trek productions by limiting them the way they did. Star Trek Continues is every bit as good as the original, and they managed to get actual Trek alumni to appear with them! Then NBC steps in and completely RUINS it for everyone. I'm done with NBC and everything within their purview.
Mike Hawk I have said almost the exact same thing about Star Trek Continues, it's great. At first, it was a little strange to get used to Vic Mignogna as Kirk, but he captures the essence of Kirk so amazingly without it coming off as a parody, he does an even better job than Chris Pine (who I thought did pretty well) and after watching a while, you can really start to think of them as those characters. The actor who plays Spock, and also, Bones' actor (the second guy to play him) are great as well, really the whole cast, crew, etc. Everything about the production is pro and top notch. I can see why NBC felt threatened enough to set those overly harsh guidelines for fan films, but they still suck major ass for doing that, and I will not support Discovery personally because of that. I honestly hope the fans who do watch it, enjoy it, but I choose not to. They screwed the pooch way too hard on this one by saying "fuck the longtime Star Trek fans" in so many ways, and I heard it loud and clear. And there are many others who feel that way.
*Elricwulf* Funny you mention having to "get used to" Vic being Captain Kirk because I experienced the same thing as you. I quickly "adjusted" to the new crew and was enthralled to the point I felt like I was really watching the original series, and it impressed me beyond belief how they've been able get some of the original actors to reprise old roles or appear as new characters. I was blown away to see "Apollo" again, and seeing John de Lancie appear as a new Trek character really illustrates how high up in the fandom hierarchy STC is. They've managed to duplicate every nuance of the original show such to the point viewers truly feel as if they're back in the 1960's. Vic himself mixes the music used in each episode and he uses parts of the original scores mixed with various 'adjustments' to make it unique to the episode in question, but to viewers it looks and sounds like the original. I'm still reeling over CBS's bullshit "rules" fan productions must now follow, which was obviously designed to aquash any serious reproduction of ST. I'm absolutely *DONE* supporting CBS and anything within their purview. They apparently aren't capable of producing Trek on the level of these so-called 'amateurs' are so instead of embracing what could have been a great resurgence of the original series by working WITH them they stomp on it and threaten financial ruin of any and all who desire to make the show as good as it originally was. I have NO respect for any network that would leverage this over fans. CBS once again RUINED Star Trek by limiting fan-made productions.
Kirk: How much refit time till we can take [the Enterprise] out again?
Scotty: Eight weeks, sir. But you don't have eight weeks, so I'll do it for ya in two.
Kirk: Mr. Scott. Have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four?
Scotty: Certainly, sir. How else can I keep my reputation as a miracle worker?
Remember sitting in the Cinema back in 1984 with 2 friends watching the film when Scotty delivered that line and my pall followed it by saying "and charge you for eight!" haha happy times. RIP Jimmy.
Well, that's the way I do it at work when my boss asks such a question.
What a class act! He was so, well, normal. It's like he doesn't have an ego at all. He is the quintessential Canadian.
War is humbling
Admiral! There be whales here !!
James Doohan I really love his kind heart. Mr. Scot is always in my mind.
I saw James Doohan at a convention once, and he had the audience in hysterics with a variety of accents (including a pirate one). Later when he was signing autographs I asked if i could get a picture of him, and he actually invited me behind the table where he was signing so a friend of mine could get a picture of both of us! A delightful and classy man.
One of the nicest guys in Star Trek bring interviewed by one of the nicest guys from Ireland. Both Jimmy Doohan and Terry Wogan sorely missed! #RIP
Really pleased to hear James was an Irish-Canadian.
His name gives it away douchebag!
There is no need to be rude joe.
Watching star trek the original series at times depresses me when you remember most of them are gone now. They are missed.
He seems like a genuinely nice, down-to-earth guy.
I recall 30+ years ago at a StarCon here in Denver - Both James Doohan and William Shatner were here. The line to see James was at least 200-300 people long. We walked right up to William Shatner after waiting about 2 minutes. I always laughed at that.
I got to meet him at a Star Trek convention in the early '90s.
A very nice man and not at all surprised to see an adult....R.I.P.
Thank you for your service, James. What a great actor and person.
"Brings a tear to me eye," to see Scotty again. Farewell Jimmy we'll miss you.
P.S.- He would be pleased to know that with all of the turmoil in 2021 we still love Star Trek.
Rest in Peace
Bones
Scotty
& Mr. Spock
Yaaaaaas
Simply great. Brilliant man.
I'm not seeing why anyone thinks the host is being an asshole. It seems like they're having a good time.
A very brave man during the war. King George VI, King of the United Kingdom, and Canada, made him a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order for his service to the Empire.
He was my favorite character on the show and series. Working in one of the engineering fields for 30 years I told people I learned my skills at the Montgomery Scott Engineering School. If you know the job is going to take three hours to complete, you “seven hours and then when you are done in four, you have achieved hero status.😂
He was a member of the greatest generation. Well done Mr. Doohan.
what made the series so great was the diversity of all the characters in their on screen roles. they all contributed something and gene roddenberry made them so they worked together to give a first class performance. sttng has the same idea but they put too much emphasis on this fact which is why sttos will always rule as number one.
Wow, he is the real deal. Alton Towers was Britain's main artillery college during WWII and it is now a huge amusement park. But - and this is the funny thing - the actual castle, "Alton Towers" - which is still there (or the shell of it) - was used by the artillery gunners for target practice while they learned to kick Nazi asses. I guess that's why it's a shell. Anyway, hats off to a Canadian war hero and the most famous engineer in the world, the late James Doohan.
Here... Here...
@@OfficiallySanctionedKATG - you need to ease up on those funny cigarettes, I've never read such nonsense.
Jimmy Doohan, and my dad fired off hundreds of practice artillery rounds long before their trip to England. Camp Ipperwash on the southern most shores of Lake Huron. With the 26th Field Battery of the Royal Canadian Artillery. A local militia unit. And, before that both were on our High Schools Rifle team. Our high school actually had a rifle range.
William Roache's grandmother Zillah looked after the catering there between WW1&2, not really his ancestral home.
@@boxwoodgreen Wonderful to know, sir. Bless them both!
A man that liked what he did and loved the fans, he will always be missed.
These were a different grade of actors... Began their careers in the "mainstream" in a doomed sci-fi prime time joke, that turned into a network seed, that bloomed into the cast of a hopeless 60's television experiment - now starring in a Hollywood project almost 15 years after it's inception. All of the cast have interesting back stories, and credits that the most devoted fan could see as evidence of a more diversive career. Yet, for the fans, they all returned 15 years later, and gave another decade of films, visits, and embraced what they became to their fans. You have to give it to the original cast, they gave their whole careers, and lives, into what started as an experimental sci-fi TV show. They all wanted to do more, but instead embraced (even begrudgingly) who the were to the people that loved them for who they were on screen. Here, you can see that James really is struggling with staying in both characters, 1-as "Scotty", and 2-as "James Doohan", known widely as 'Scotty'. You get that he really wants you to see him as a person, AND as an accomplished actor, obviously good in other roles. BUT, he goes along with the scripted interview, as late as 1989 - He made more appearances, and faded slightly from the public until his death. HE NEVER CURSED HIS FOLLOWERS, OR HIS CAREER. Even if there was a mishap here or there, well, put that against who he was. What a friendly, patient, dedicated man. If I could have met him, the words "star" and "trek" would have never left my mouth in his presence.
That was the great thing about him. He EMBRASSED his Scotti-ness. He knew we looked at him with admiration and maybe even a little jealousy of his coolness, knowledge of his character even "under fire". He was just a great fellow, all the way around.
May not be Scottish but to us who are Thankyou James Doohan. You are an honorary Scotsman. Alba Gu Brath !! Forever in our hearts James
His extended scenes in Wrath of Khan are legendary. Really felt his candor in each scene. Beam me up Saint Scotty. 💖
i'm re-watching the original series, for the umpteenth time... right now in 2019.
Same here in 2020.
I am re-watching both TOS and TNG im 2020.
I'm from Glasgow and James is such an inspiration to us because in the 60s we didn't have much representation in tv or fil so to see a Scot in a tv show and Star Trek of all things was just magical to us as I imagine it was for African Americans seeing Nichelle. What a man, he is surely missed.
I always loved the idea that he was having such a good time one the convention circuit for all those years. Being Scotty did typecast him, and his roles outside of Star Trek were very limited, but he often talked about how much he enjoyed the conventions. It's hard to believe that he's been gone more than 15 years now. RIP James Doohan, thank you for the gifts you gave us.
I really have fond memories of the "Final Frontier" hitting the movie theaters. It was just a great movie, with a lot of catchphrases to pick up, tongue-in-cheek lines and you can really see the actors enjoying themselves and having a great time.
My favorite star trek movie!❤
Lots of people think this is the worst movie but it clearly is not!
i think it's really entertaining..
like an extended episode
Had the pleasure of meeting him at a convention around 1990.. Awesome fellow and even had the courtesy of complimenting my Mom, when he was signing my autograph. He absolutely loathed 'Star Trek V', very public about during his speech at the convention.
I loved him. He was cool and crazy. I miss him dearly.
Doohan was a really gifted voice actor. He did so many uncredited voiceovers in the original show, and later for the animated series. His voice for Sargon, especially, was so nicely done it was decades before I realized it was even him.
his face when Sir Terry called him an American... LOL "I'm a Canadian!"
It was a memorable day when I got James Doohan's autograph at a Sci-Fi convention. I had purchased a photo of Marina Sirtis (Counselor Troi) and was standing in line waiting to get his autograph. I didn't see any souvenir photos of James anywhere so I plopped down Marina's photo and he signed it on the back.
God bless his soul i miss him so much and God bless Canada.
Sadly both no longer with us
He was great simple man.
You should read up on his WW2 involvement, being a pilot and so much more.
Love his service career - the thick end of four years training for D-Day and less than 24 hours of combat, being shot six times (four in the legs, one right hand - missing index finger - and once in the chest, the classic cigarette case taking some of the zing out of that one).
After convalescing trained to be a pilot but the war ended before he got back to combat.
I met him at a Star Trek convention and got his autograph from him. He was a kind and gentle person .
I was last in line and was able to talk to him a little bit and he didn’t mind
After all these years I finally saw the missing finger when he shook hands.
He hid it so well on the original series.
RIP. Scotty.
Mr Doohan. A gentleman all the way. Sleep with the angels, Mr. Scott!
I don't see why people call it sleep. They are more real and more awake on the other side than here according a ton of NDE accounts.
Only now am I discovering that he was Canadian.
so is Shatner
He landed with the Canadian troops on D day and was shot 6 times ... I think he took out a machine gun battery too ... miracle he is alive ... he lost part of one of his fingers with one of the bullets -- and that is the reason his one hand is rarely shown.
With a name like James Doohan it's easy to assume that he was Scottish. I thought so too.
Eamonn . WILIAM SHATNER. IS ALSO Canadian.!!!.
of irish descent
Such a lovely, warm-hearted man. I met him at one of those conventions just a couple of years before this interview and he was so patient and friendly with every single person, so open and genuine in his affection for the fans. A wonderful person all around.
James Doohan was always amazing. So nice to see a clip of him like this. Love bless him! Pretty sure he is flying around in space for sure
Doohan was a prolific radio performer in the 1940s. He also played character parts in many TV series in the 1950s. I really wish the interviewer would have asked about those experiences.
What a great guy! WW2 combat veteran, to boot! Truly unique. A real hero. :)
A true war hero of Normandy and a true Star Trek legend who I had a pleasure of meeting an unforgettable experience RIP MR Doohan
Such a nice man. Served in the war, successful acting career. Well done.
My father was a world war II vet an American hero! So was James Doohan I was lucky enough to get too meet James Doohan and shake hands with him, I got his autograph 2 times!! James Doohan like my father you are a true hero!!
With the great Terry Wogan. Terry WAS Eurovision. No point in watching it after he died. Both of them are sadly missed.
It would have been a true honor to have met James Doohan. And a war hero .
there will never be another like James Doohan RIP scotty
I'd seen and met him at a convention in Boston many years ago. I'd remarked how nice it was that he was actually technically literate, and he autographed my copy of Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time." Many years passed, and while I was away doing technical consulting in another state, my parents' basement flooded. Among the casualties was that book, which didn't just get water-logged, but disintegrated! Unfortunately, Mr. Doohan is presently playing engagements far from here, and is not immediately available for a replacement autograph.
very very good my favorite was always scotty RIP you will never be forgotten ever
When James was finally beamed up for the final time I wept. Not only was a real life hero gone but also a very important piece of a historic movement not only in Television but in Movies as well.
What an absolute legend, seems like a great guy. RIP Scotty 🖖