Thursday, July 21, 2005

 

James Montgomery Doohan

...passed away yesterday. All the obits will talkk about how he was best known as Scotty on Star Trek. Many of them will talk about how he enlisted in the Canadian army (back before Canada was weird) and was injured on D-Day, having part of a finger shot off. I think that part of his story that I enjoyed most was that he was a talented actor and was one of the most versatile voices in Hollywood. I listened to book that he read once, and he did about six different voices and if you didn't know that they were all him, you wouldn't be able to tell.

It's also less well known that he invented the Klingon Language. K'Plaugh Engineer Scott. You shall be missed.



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