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"A long and storied career is over, I knew Jim when he started out in Canada and I knew him in his last years in America, so we go way back. My condolences go out to his family."

-William Shatner commenting on the death of Actor James Doohan

Walter Koenig, who played Ensign Pavel Chekov on "Star Trek," said Doohan "was a delightful guy. He certainly could be irascible, but somehow I think that added to his charm. He was a person of emotional depth and could love you as well as be irritated with you all at the same time."

Doohan was born March 3, 1920, in Vancouver, Canada and served as a Canadian soldier in the Allied force that landed in Normandy on D-Day in June 1944.

Doohan was shot six times and lost a finger on Juno Beach, but returned to duty to become a military pilot.