William Daniels

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1927-03-31 (98 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York, USA

William Daniels

Biography

William David Daniels (born March 31, 1927) is an American actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild (1999 to 2001). He is known for his performance as Dustin Hoffman's father in The Graduate (1967), as John Adams in 1776, as Carter Nash in Captain Nice, as Mr. George Feeny in ABC's Boy Meets World, as the voice of KITT in Knight Rider, and as Dr. Mark Craig in St. Elsewhere, for which he won two Emmy Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Daniels, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1987

Blind Date

as Harold Bedford

1969

Marlowe

as Mr. Cromwell

1980

The Blue Lagoon

as Arthur Lestrange

1967

Two for the Road

as Howard Manchester

1978

The Bastard

as Samuel Adams

2007

Blades of Glory

as Commissioner Ebbers

1991

Clara

as Detective Lieutenant Fine

1965

A Thousand Clowns

as Albert Amundsen

1972

1776

as John Adams

1967

The Graduate

as Mr. Braddock

1989

Her Alibi

as Sam

1978

The One and Only

as Mr. Crawford

1974

The Parallax View

as Austin Tucker

1981

Reds

as Julius Gerber

1977

1963

Ladybug Ladybug

as Mr. Calkins

1981

All Night Long

as Richard H. Copleston

1979

Sunburn

as Crawford

1974

A Case of Rape

as Leonard Alexander

1982

Drop-Out Father

as Draper Wright

1977

Killer on Board

as Marshall Snowden

1977

Oh, God!

as George Summers

1994

Magic Kid II

as Manny

1984

Laugh Busters

as K.I.T.T. (voice)

1979

The Rebels

as John Adams

1980

Damien: The Leper Priest

as Bishop Koeckemann

1967

The President's Analyst

as Wynn Quantrill

1981

1982

Rehearsal for Murder

as Walter Lamb

1980

City in Fear

as Freeman Stribling

1996

The Lottery

as Reverend Hutchinson

1973

The Lie

as Albert

1987

The Little Match Girl

as Haywood Dutton

1973

Murdock's Gang

as Roger Bates

2020

Superintelligence

as KITT (voice)

1975

One of Our Own

as Dr. Moresby

1982

Rooster

as Dr. DeVega

1979

The Chinese Typewriter

as C. Donald Devlin

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