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In the 1950s, the two would appear together on the Canadian science fiction series “Space Command”.
Around this time a young actor named William Shatner was playing Ranger Bill in the American version. He played “Timber Tom” the northern version of Buffalo Bob, the Canadian production of Howdy Doody. There he studied voice and acting with the likes of Leslie Nielsen, Tony Randall, and Richard Boone.ĭoohan appeared in over 4,000 radio programs and 450 television shows throughout the 1940s and ’50s. Knowing he could do it better, he recorded his voice at a local radio station, winning a two year scholarship to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. He became good at it too, a skill which would serve him well in his later career, as an actor.Īfter the war, Doohan listened to a radio drama. The man never was a formal member of the CAF, but the stunt forever marked his reputation as “the craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force”.ĭoohan was always interested in voices and accents which he practiced, since he was a kid. In spring 1945 he wove his aircraft through telegraph poles like a slalom skier, just to prove it could be done. That had to be amputated.įollowing a convalescent period Doohan served as courier and artillery spotter aboard a Taylorcraft Auster Mark IV. Doctors were able to save his life but not, the finger. Fortunately, the chest shot lost much of its punch when the bullet hit a cigarette case his brother had given him, for luck. A nervous sentry opened up with a Bren light machine gun, striking the Lieutenant four times in the leg, once in the chest and again on the middle finger of his right hand.
That night, Doohan had just finished a cigarette and was walking back to his command post. Leading his men to higher ground, Lieutenant Doohan personally shot two German snipers before taking up positions for the night. None of them were heavy enough to set one off. Crossing through a field of anti-tank mines, the Canadian’s luck held. By the outbreak of WWII “Jimmy” was a Lieutenant in the 14th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division.ĭoohan’s first taste of combat took place on D-Day, on the Normandy beach Canadian landing forces remember, as “Juno”. Born Main Vancouver, British Columbia, James Montgomery Doohan enrolled in the 102nd Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps in 1938.
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