Awards
Refused 1969 Tony Award nomination for Featured Actor in a Musical in "1776."
In 1986, both Daniels and his wife Bonnie Bartlett, who also played his fictional wife on St. Elsewhere and Boy Meets World, won Emmy Awards on the same night, becoming the first married couple to accomplish the feat since Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1965. Lunt and Fontanne were the first to win Emmy Awards for a film, and Bartlett and Daniels were the first couple to win for a television series.
Northwestern University's annual William Daniels Awards honors the top performers, directors, choreographers, etc. in campus theater productions throughout the year.
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