James Doohan

James Montgomery Jimmy Doohan was a Canadian character actor and voice actor best known for his role as Montgomery Scotty Scott in the television and film series Star Trek. Doohans characterization of the Scottish Chief Engineer of the Starship Enterprise was one of the most recognizable elements in the Star Trek franchise, for which he also made several contributions behind the scenes for example, he contributed to developing the Klingon and Vulcan languages. Many of the characterizations, mannerisms, and expressions that he established for Scotty and other Star Trek characters have become entrenched in popular culture.

Doohan was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the youngest of four children of William and Sarah Doohan, who emigrated from Bangor, County Down, Ireland. His mother, Sarah Frances , was a homemaker. His father, William Patrick Doohan, born in Belfast, was a pharmacist, veterinarian, and dentist and a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland. William Doohan owned a chemist shop in Main Street in Bangor, beside Trinity Presbyterian Church. Doohans father reportedly invented an early form of highoctane gasoline in 1923. Doohans 1996 autobiography recounted his fathers serious alcoholism. Doohans paternal grandfather Thomas Doohan was Head Constable in the Royal Irish Constabulary.

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