William Daniels  Biography

William Daniels was born on March 31, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, The United States as William David Daniels. He is an American actor, best known for his roles as Dr. Mark Craig in the NBC drama St. Elsewhere, for which he won two Emmy Awards, and as Mr. Feeny in the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World.

William Daniels Age

William David Daniels is 92 years old as of 2019. He was born on March 31, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States.

William Daniels  Family

William Daniels was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, to Irene and David Daniels a bricklayer. He has two siblings namely Jacqueline and Carol.. Daniels was raised in East New York, Brooklyn.

William Daniels Wife

Daniels is married to Bonnie Bartlett, an actress and fellow Emmy Award-winner since since June 30, 1951. The couples had a son in 1961, died just 24 hours later after birth. The two later adopted two children: Michael, an assistant director and stage manager in Los Angeles, and Robert,an artist and computer graphics designer based in New York City.

William Daniels  Height

William David Daniels is an American actor,who stands at a height of 1.7m tall.

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William Daniels Career

Daniels started his career as a member of the singing Daniels family in Brooklyn. He made his television debut as part of a variety act (along with other members of his family) in 1943, on NBC, then a single station in New York. He made his Broadway debut in 1943 in Life With Father, and remained a busy Broadway actor for decades afterwards. His Broadway credits include roles in 1776, A Thousand Clowns, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, and A Little Night Music. He received an Obie Award for The Zoo Story (1960). Daniels’s motion picture debut was as a school principal in the 1963 anti-war drama film Ladybug Ladybug. In 1965, he reprised his Broadway role as a child welfare worker in the screen version of A Thousand Clowns. In 1967 he appeared in The Graduate as the father of Dustin Hoffman’s character. In 1969, Daniels starred as John Adams in the Broadway musical 1776; he also appeared in the film version in 1972. Two years later, he co-starred in Richard Donner’s telefilm Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic.
He reprised the voice-only role of KITT in 1991 for the television movie Knight Rider 2000, and again in the theatrical comedy movie The Benchwarmers. He performed the role in AT&T and GE commercials about talking machines, and twice in The Simpsons as well as at the Comedy Central Roast of his co-star David Hasselhoff.[7] He reprised the role of KITT in the 2015 Lego-themed action-adventure video game Lego Dimensions. Daniels portrayed strict but loving educator George Feeny at John Adams High School in Boy Meets World from 1993 to 2000. In addition to the previously mentioned 1967 superhero sitcom Captain Nice, he was a regular on the 1970s TV series Freebie and the Bean and The Nancy Walker Show.

William Daniels Net Worth

William Daniels has an estimated net worth of $5 million dollars.

William Daniels Book

• There I Go Again: How I Came to Be Mr. Feeny, John Adams, Dr. Craig, KITT, and Many Others 2017.

William Daniels The Graduate

The Graduate is a 1967 American romantic comedy-drama film, where William Daniels featured in as Mr. Braddock. The film follows the story of 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a recent college graduate with no well-defined aim in life, who is seduced by an older woman, Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), and then falls in love with her daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross).

William Daniels Knight Rider

William Daniels appeared in Knight Rider, an American television series, portraying the voice of KITT.

William Daniels Accent

Daniels speaks, with a Boston Brahmin accent that has transatlantic influences.

William Daniels St Elsewhere

William Daniels starred in St. Elsewhere, an American medical drama television series, appearing as Dr. Mark Craig portraying a teaching doctor at an aging, underrated Boston hospital.

William Daniels And Bonnie Bartlett

Bonnie Bartlett, is his wife an actress and his fellow Emmy Award-winner. The two are married since June 30, 1951.

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William Daniels  Interview

Published: 3/28/15 12:00am

Source: www.avclub.com

AVC: When 1776 went on to win all of its Tonys, did you sense that a film version was inevitable?

WD: No, I didn’t think anything like that. But the Tonys… [Hesitates.] Bonnie, was that when they nominated me for the supporting role?

The producers’ group—all of the Broadway producers—make these nominations for the Tonys, so it came up that I was nominated in a supporting role, and I said, “No, thank you, because who am I supporting?” I mean, John Adams is on the stage all the time. It was obviously a starring role. So Alexander Cohen called me and said, “Bill, you’re turning it down?” I said, “Yes! Who am I supporting?” He said, “Well, you came in late, we did it in the spring, and all those spots were filled for the starring role.” I said, “So? Fine! Go ahead and remove it.” He said, “You mean you’re not even going to come?” I said, “No, I’m not going to come. Take my name off it. I’m not supporting anybody!” So that was that. That was the closest I came to a Tony. [Laughs.] How ridiculous. But I don’t think much of awards anyway. We just went on, and we were very successful.

AVC: So were you excited about the idea of doing a film version?

WD: It was interesting, because I was surprised that I got the role. [Laughs.] But Jack Warner, who produced it, brought the entire New York cast to Hollywood to film it. And I just learned recently—via my wife, who seems to have her ear to the ground—that Jack brought in the whole cast because when he did My Fair Lady, he didn’t use Julie Andrews. He used Audrey Hepburn, and he realized that he made a mistake. So in this one, he was bringing the whole cast in. He stuck with the Broadway cast. Otherwise I would never have gotten the role. If it had been cast in the usual Hollywood manner, they would have put a star in the role.

AVC: You’re going to be appearing at the TCM Festival for a screening of 1776, and it’s been said that there’ll be some previously unseen footage this time around.