William Daniels

ActorDirector Mar 31 (age 98) Brooklyn, New York, USA 1951–2025 (74 year career)

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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.

Known For

Film

The Graduate

Mr. Braddock

Film

Knight Rider

KITT (voice)

Film

Boy Meets World

George Feeny

Film

The Blue Lagoon

Arthur Lestrange

Film

Blades of Glory

Commissioner Ebbers

Film

Reds

Julius Gerber

Film

The Parallax View

Austin Tucker

Film

Two for the Road

Howard Manchester

Filmography

Acting (106)

Movies (56)

115

2025

as Kraft Intelligence (voice)

Superintelligence

2020

as KITT (voice)

6.0

Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff

2010

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

6.9

Blades of Glory

2007

as Commissioner Ebbers

6.1

NBC 75th Anniversary Special

2002

as Self

The Lottery

1996

as Reverend Hutchinson

5.3

Magic Kid II

1994

as Manny

5.0

Back to the Streets of San Francisco

1992

as Julius Burns

5.5

Clara

1991

as Detective Lieutenant Fine

On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story

1990

as John Nicks

Making a Case for Murder

1989

as Slaney

Her Alibi

as Sam

Blind Date

as Harold Bedford

The Little Match Girl

1987

as Haywood Dutton

4.5

The Princess Who Had Never Laughed

1986

as Narrator

Night of 100 Stars II

1985

as Self

8.0

Laugh Busters

1984

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

Rehearsal for Murder

1982

as Walter Lamb

6.1

Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix

as KITT (voice)

Rooster

as Dr. DeVega

Drop-Out Father

as Draper Wright

Reds

as Julius Gerber

All Night Long

as Richard H. Copleston

5.1

The Million Dollar Face

1981

as Henry Burns

The Blue Lagoon

1980

as Arthur Lestrange

6.1

Conquest of the Earth

as Norman

City in Fear

as Freeman Stribling

Damien: The Leper Priest

1980

as Bishop Koeckemann

Sunburn

1979

as Crawford

4.9

The Rebels

1979

as John Adams

Bleacher Bums

1979

The Chinese Typewriter

1979

as C. Donald Devlin

The Bastard

as Samuel Adams

The One and Only

as Mr. Crawford

Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force

1978

as Father Veller

3.5

Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus

1978

as Lawrence Stepwell III

Oh, God!

as George Summers

Black Sunday

as Pugh

The Return of the Incredible Hulk

1977

as John Bonifant

5.8

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

as Major Marcus Reno

Killer on Board

as Marshall Snowden

Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident

1976

as Bissell

Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic

1975

as Matt Hodges

5.3

One of Our Own

1975

as Dr. Moresby

The Parallax View

as Austin Tucker

A Case of Rape

as Leonard Alexander

Murdock's Gang

as Roger Bates

The Lie

as Albert

The Fabulous Doctor Fable

1973

as Elliot Borden

1776

as John Adams

Marlowe

as Mr. Cromwell

The Graduate

as Mr. Braddock

Two for the Road

as Howard Manchester

The President's Analyst

as Wynn Quantrill

A Thousand Clowns

as Albert Amundsen

Ladybug Ladybug

as Mr. Calkins

Television (50)

Girl Meets World

as George Feeny

Grey's Anatomy

as Craig Thomas

Dancing with the Stars

2005

as Self - Guest Dancer

The Closer

as Andrew Schmidt

Boston Legal

as Milton Brody

Comedy Central Roasts

as Self

The Lyon's Den

Kim Possible

as Robot Pilot (voice)

Scrubs

as Dr. Douglas

Scrubs

as Dr. Douglas

The King of Queens

as Phillip Waldscott

Maybe This Time

as George Feeny

Touched by an Angel

as Whit Russell

The American Revolution

1994

as John Adams

Boy Meets World

as George Feeny

The Simpsons

as KITT (voice)

Knight Rider

as KITT (voice)

St. Elsewhere

as Mark Craig

Faerie Tale Theatre

as Narrator (voice)

Galactica 1980

as Norman Blore

Freebie and the Bean

as Walter Cruikshank

Hart to Hart

as Simon Richardson

Trapper John, M.D.

Blind Ambition

as G. Gordon Liddy

The Rebels

as John Adams

Diff'rent Strokes

1978

7.1

Grandpa Goes to Washington

1978

5.0

The Bastard

1978

as Samuel Adams

The Incredible Hulk

as Dr. John Bonifant

Soap

as Heinrich Himmel

Quincy, M.E.

as Paul Reardon

The Adams Chronicles

as John Quincy Adams

The Nancy Walker Show

1976

as Kenneth Kitteridge

Barbary Coast

as Harry Boyle

The Rockford Files

as Thomas Caine

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

1974

as Police Lt. Jack Matteo

Toma

Cannon

McMillan & Wife

as Commander Campbell

McCloud

The Mod Squad

The Good Guys

Ironside

Judd for the Defense

Captain Nice

as Carter Nash

T.H.E. Cat

as Tony Webb

The Defenders

as Malloy

Naked City

as Harry Culverin

Tony Awards

as Self - Performer

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as John Quincy Adams

8.6

Crew (1)

Television (1)

St. Elsewhere

1982

Director

5.6