Shatner sans hairpiece?

[AUSSIE-Rebooted-AMM]

I don't really care about world peace or saving the whales. . . .just so long as we can get to the root of these really important Issues, Like Will Shatners Toupee! J/K.

[mego73]

And it's nothing unusual as well. Jack Klugman wore a piece for Odd Couple (but he didn't wear it for interviews and awards). I bet Tony Randell had one too. Richard Anderson wore one for Oscar Goldman (I saw him in a Cannon made before 6mill dollar man recently where he didn't wear a piece). Martin Landau wore one in Space 1999 (I don't know about Mission Impossible) but didn't wear one in 1979's "Meteor".

[JediJaida]

Maybe they didn't want him and Leonard Nimoy competing as to who had the most chest hair! LOL!

It could have been worst, he could have gone shirtless with a serious case of body hair, and REALLY grossed out people on the set and those watching.

[MysteryWho]

Shatner probably has a few stray tufts of hair on his noggin', but he's been going bald since the Sixties. During the original series of Star Trek he has a receding hairline with a bit of a Friar Tuck in the back. A couple of my friends went bald this way in their late twenties/early thirties. In Turnabout Intruder, when he's kinda spinning around, the thing almost flies off his head. By the early seventies he is wearing one terrible rug after another, presumably 'cause he couldn't afford to get something better or it just wasn't available at the time (i.e. transplants) I think the people who made the first Star Trek movie probably advanced him and said "Get yourself a new wig, my friend".
At the time Shatner went bald, it actually might have harmed his career. Aside from a few defiantly bald guys like Brynner and Savalas, a full head of hair was a must have to be a leading man. Especially in the seventies when hair was big, literally as well as figuratively. I can't blame him for wanting to cover it up. People still do it now, look at Nicholas Cage or Travolta. I don't know if it was entirely a personal hang-up or a job thing or both. But the man's bald.
The Shatner/hair thing that's always perplexed me much more is the chest shaving. His chest just looks creepy on the old show sometimes, bald and covered in make-up. What was that about?

[Werewolf]

Yvonne Craig said she pulled out Shatner's hairpiece during the filming of "Whom Gods Destroy", I think she described it as being somewhat small.

Yep, his hair loss was never as pronounced as many have wanted or claimed it to be. Plus, like I mentioned earlier, he got hair plugs a long time ago and now has a full head of hair.

[palitoy]

Yvonne Craig said she pulled out Shatner's hairpiece during the filming of "Whom Gods Destroy", I think she described it as being somewhat small.

[ODBJBG]

There's never been any proof that Shatner's bald to any degree. It's more urban legend than "fact", as no photos have ever surfaced. He clearly wore some wigs at some point though, but how bald he was or if he was just thinning is debateable. The Shatner's Toupee blog is fun though, as they have come close to the elusive Bigfoot shot, but thus far have found none. That one is clearly a photoshop.

Vince's hair is real, he had it shaved a while back. It never grew back as full as it once was or he started styling it slightly different though.

[LonnieFisher]

on robot chicken it was a toupee...

[Gorn Captain]

I think that, in emergencies, he can detach it -Enterprise style- and separate the "saucer section"....

[Nostalgiabuff]

he probably has plugs to replace the plugs he lost at this point, the guy is like 80.

[Meule]

Those pics are photoshopped. I doubt there are even pics of him sans toupee around. No way he'd let himself be photographed that way.
And with his kind of money why would he bother with a toupee when he can get inplanted hair?

[fallensaviour]

Jeez you know who shops at the same store...
I think vince asked for the Shat!!!

[starsky]

i read somewhere a while back that he had the best rug money could buy!

[kingdom warrior]

He should just go bald...freek it better than wearing a wig That's why I always dug Sean Connery. He was like freak you all I'm still sexier than all of you with hair!

[Hector]

Well...regardless...mother nature took his real hair.