William Daniels
Born: 1927-03-31 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- 115 as Kraft Intelligence (voice)
2020
- Superintelligence as KITT (voice)
2014
- Girl Meets World as George Feeny
2010
- Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff as K.I.T.T. (voice)
2007
- Blades of Glory as Commissioner Ebbers
2005
- Grey's Anatomy as Craig Thomas
- Dancing with the Stars as Self - Guest Dancer
- The Closer as Andrew Schmidt
2004
- Boston Legal as Milton Brody
2003
- Comedy Central Roasts as Self
- The Lyon's Den
2002
- Kim Possible as Robot Pilot (voice)
- NBC 75th Anniversary Special as Self
2001
- Scrubs as Dr. Douglas
1998
- The King of Queens as Phillip Waldscott
1996
- The Lottery as Reverend Hutchinson
1995
- Maybe This Time as George Feeny
1994
- Touched by an Angel as Whit Russell
- Magic Kid II as Manny
- The American Revolution as John Adams
1993
- Boy Meets World as George Feeny
1992
- Back to the Streets of San Francisco as Julius Burns
1991
- Clara as Detective Lieutenant Fine
1990
- On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story as John Nicks
1989
- The Simpsons as KITT (voice)
- Her Alibi as Sam
- Making a Case for Murder as Slaney
1987
- Blind Date as Harold Bedford
- The Little Match Girl as Haywood Dutton
1985
- Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1984
- Laugh Busters as K.I.T.T. (voice)
1982
- Knight Rider as KITT (voice)
- St. Elsewhere as Mark Craig
- Faerie Tale Theatre as Narrator (voice)
- Rooster as Dr. DeVega
- Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix as KITT (voice)
- Drop-Out Father as Draper Wright
- Rehearsal for Murder as Walter Lamb
1981
- Reds as Julius Gerber
- All Night Long as Richard H. Copleston
- The Million Dollar Face as Henry Burns
1980
- The Blue Lagoon as Arthur Lestrange
- Galactica 1980 as Norman Blore
- City in Fear as Freeman Stribling
- Damien: The Leper Priest as Bishop Koeckemann
- Conquest of the Earth as Norman
- Freebie and the Bean as Walter Cruikshank
1979
- Hart to Hart as Simon Richardson
- Trapper John, M.D.
- Sunburn as Crawford
- The Rebels as John Adams
- Bleacher Bums
- Blind Ambition as G. Gordon Liddy
- The Chinese Typewriter as C. Donald Devlin
1978
- The Bastard as Samuel Adams
- Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force as Father Veller
- Diff'rent Strokes
- Grandpa Goes to Washington
- The One and Only as Mr. Crawford
- Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus as Lawrence Stepwell III
1977
- The Incredible Hulk as Dr. John Bonifant
- Soap as Heinrich Himmel
- Black Sunday as Pugh
- Oh, God! as George Summers
- The Return of the Incredible Hulk as John Bonifant
- The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer as Major Marcus Reno
- Killer on Board as Marshall Snowden
1976
- Quincy, M.E. as Paul Reardon
- Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident as Bissell
- The Adams Chronicles as John Quincy Adams
- The Nancy Walker Show as Kenneth Kitteridge
1975
- One of Our Own as Dr. Moresby
- Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic as Matt Hodges
- Barbary Coast as Harry Boyle
1974
- The Rockford Files as Thomas Caine
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker as Police Lt. Jack Matteo
- The Parallax View as Austin Tucker
- A Case of Rape as Leonard Alexander
1973
- The Lie as Albert
- Toma
- Murdock's Gang as Roger Bates
1972
- 1776 as John Adams
1971
- Cannon
- McMillan & Wife as Commander Campbell
1970
1969
- Marlowe as Mr. Cromwell
1967
- Ironside
- The Graduate as Mr. Braddock
- Judd for the Defense
- Two for the Road as Howard Manchester
- The President's Analyst as Wynn Quantrill
- Captain Nice as Carter Nash
1966
- T.H.E. Cat as Tony Webb
1965
- A Thousand Clowns as Albert Amundsen
1963
- Ladybug Ladybug as Mr. Calkins
1961
- The Defenders as Malloy
1958
- Naked City as Harry Culverin
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Performer
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as John Quincy Adams