Denny Crane is a legendary lawyer & name partner in Crane, Poole & Schmidt, who is also best friends with Alan Shore. He is portrayed by William Shatner.

Denny Crane is a renowned attorney of some fifty years of practice, who claims to have won 6043 cases & will never lose one.

As revealed in Hired Guns, Denny served in the US Marine Corps, though he couldn't remember if he was a sniper or a pilot, leaving it ambiguous.

After completing his military service, Denny studied in law school & started practicing it in 1957 with his father, who was also a renowned lawyer, but who also disapproved of Denny's deceitful tactics & later suffered from the late stages of Alzheimer's, eventually being given a fatal morphine drip by his doctor on Denny's insistence to end their suffering.

Prior to the series, Denny had a one night stand with a woman, who was supposedly impregnated by him & sued Denny in a successful paternity case. She gave birth to a boy, Donny Crane, but admitted years later that Donny wasn't really his son. Nevertheless, Denny financially supported Donny, who finished law school & became a lawyer, even saying out loud his name just like Denny does.

William Alan Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor. In a career spanning seven decades, he is best known for his portrayal of James T. Kirk in the Star Trek series.

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