Editing James Doohan (section)

==Early acting career==
After the war, Doohan moved to [[London, Ontario]], for further technical education. After hearing a radio drama and believing he could do better, he recorded his voice at the local radio station, and learned about the [[Lorne Greene Academy of Radio Arts]] in Toronto. There he won a two-year scholarship to the [[Neighborhood Playhouse]] in New York City,<ref name=FusionNY>{{cite journal|last=Koolstra|first=Jeffrey D.|title=An Interview with James "Scotty" Doohan|journal=Infinite Energy|date=July–August 1999|issue=26|url=http://www.infinite-energy.com/iemagazine/issue26/scotty.html|access-date=May 15, 2013}}</ref> where his classmates included [[Leslie Nielsen]], [[Tony Randall]], and [[Richard Boone]].

In 1946, he had several roles for [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] radio,<ref name=CBCroles>{{cite news |title=James Doohan: Giving it all he's got – CBC 75th Anniversary |url=http://www.cbc.ca/75/2011/07/james-doohan-giving-it-all-hes-got.html |date=July 13, 2011 |publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] |access-date=May 15, 2013}}</ref> starting January 12. For several years, he shuttled between Toronto and New York as work demanded. He made his TV debut as a detective on the show ''[[Martin Kane, Private Eye]]'', and appeared in 54 episodes. He estimated he performed in over 4,000 radio programs and 450 television programs during this period,<ref name= AccentAberdeen/> and earned a reputation for versatility.<ref name=versatile>{{cite web|title=Star Trek Doohan, James|url=http://www.startrek.com/database_article/doohan|work=Star Trek.com|publisher=[[CBS Studios Inc.]]}}</ref>

In the mid-1950s, he appeared as forest ranger Timber Tom (the northern counterpart of Buffalo Bob) in the Canadian version of ''[[Howdy Doody]]''. Coincidentally, fellow ''Star Trek'' cast member [[William Shatner]] appeared simultaneously as Ranger Bill in the American version. Doohan and Shatner both appeared in the 1950s Canadian science fiction series ''[[Space Command (TV series)|Space Command]]''.<ref name=CBCroles/> Doohan also appeared in several episodes of ''Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans'' in 1957–58.

For ''[[General Motors Theatre|GM Presents]]'', he played the lead role in the [[CBC Television]] drama ''[[Flight into Danger]]'' (1956) by [[Arthur Hailey]], then in ''The Night they Killed [[Joseph Howe|Joe Howe]]'' (1960).<ref>{{cite news |title=Joseph Howe Subject of Show |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19601001&id=s4wtAAAAIBAJ&pg=6786,138915 |newspaper=[[The Gazette (Montreal)|The Gazette]] |date=October 1, 1960 |page=26}}</ref> ([[Arthur Hailey]] rewrote the former into the novel ''Runway Zero-Eight'', then adapted to ''Terror in the Sky''. This story was later satirized in ''[[Airplane!]]''.)

Doohan's credits included ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' (Season 4, Episode 3 "Valley of the Shadow" - 17 January 1961), ''[[GE True]]'', ''[[Hazel (TV series)|Hazel]]'' ("Hazel's Highland Fling" as Gordon "Gordy" MacHeath). ''[[The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)|The Outer Limits]]'', ''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]'', ''[[Bewitched]]'', ''[[Fantasy Island]]'', ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]'', ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' (Season 1, Episode 4 "The Shark Affair" - 1964 - and Season 2, Episode 20 "The Bridge of Lions Affair, Part 1" - 1966), and ''[[Bonanza]]''. In the ''Bonanza'' episode "Gift of Water" (1962), he co-starred with actress [[Majel Barrett]] who would later play ''Star Trek''{{'}}s Nurse [[Christine Chapel]]. He played an assistant to the United States president in two episodes of ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)|Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea]]''. He had an uncredited role in ''[[The Satan Bug]]'' (1965), appeared in the ''[[Daniel Boone (1964 TV series)|Daniel Boone]]'' episode "A Perilous Passage" (1970), appeared as a state trooper in [[Roger Vadim]]'s film ''[[Pretty Maids All in a Row]]'' (1971, which was produced by ''Star Trek'' creator [[Gene Roddenberry]]), and played opposite Richard Harris in the movie ''[[Man in the Wilderness]]'' (1971).<ref name=AccentAberdeen/>