William Daniels - Filmography

Filmography

• Played Fred Pearson, an efficiency expert, in McCloud episode "The Day New York Turned Blue".
• The father of the character Benjamin Braddock, played by Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate (1967), despite being only ten years older than Hoffman.
• John Adams in both the Broadway and film version of 1776.
• Played agent to Gayle Hunnicuts's character in "Marlowe" (1969), starring James Garner
• G. Gordon Liddy in the 1979 TV adaptation of John Dean's book "Blind Ambition".
• Albert Amundsen, an officious social worker who tries to strip the protagonist of the custody of his nephew in A Thousand Clowns (1965).
• Captain Nice, a comedy TV series that ran from January–May 1967 on NBC. Riding the tide of the camp superhero craze of the 1960s, the show's premise involved police chemist Carter Nash, a mild-mannered mama's boy who discovered a secret formula that, when taken, transformed him into Captain Nice.
• A physician named John Bonifant in Death in the Family, the second made-for-TV movie of the 1970s Incredible Hulk TV series.
• The voice of KITT in Knight Rider.
• Played Theatre producer Walter Lamb in the 1982 whodunnit Rehearsal for Murder, opposite Robert Preston and Lynn Redgrave.
• Played Austin Tucker in the 1974 film The Parallax View, across from Warren Beatty.
• Played Police Lt. Jack Matteo in Kolchak: The Night Stalker episode 'The Vampire', opposite Darren McGavin's Carl Kolchak
• Played New York Socialist leader Julius Gerber in Warren Beatty's 1981 historical drama, Reds.
• An episode of The Rockford Files as high-handed District Attorney Gary Bevins, who conducts a grand-jury hearing at which Jim Rockford is subpoenaed to testify.
• Another "Rockford Files" episode as an art collector who hires Rockford to acquire rare Cormorant statues (similar to "Maltese Falcon".)
• Norman, a radio executive attending a Halloween party with coworkers; he appears dressed as a clown for the party, and unwittingly picks up Cylon hitchhikers in the Galactica 1980, episode "The Night the Cylons Landed".
• Reverend Hutchinson in the 1996 film adaptation of Shirley Jackson' "The Lottery"
• The voice of Scythe 2.0. in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, episode "Scythe 2.0.".
• The voice of a robot in an episode of Kim Possible.
• Judge Harold Bedford in the 1987 film Blind Date, with Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger.
• Guest starred in an episode of Scrubs. His appearance involved three other cast members from St. Elsewhere; they played hospitalized doctors.
• Howard Manchester in 1967's Two for the Road.
• George Summers in the 1977 Carl Reiner film Oh, God!
• Arthur Spooner's nemesis, Philip Waldecott in The King of Queens.
• The unnamed judge in the 2007 film Code Name: The Cleaner.
• He played the skating commissioner who bans the two main characters from skating in Blades of Glory.
• "Andrew Schmidt" Season 2 The Closer.
• Scandal-sheet publisher "Reardon" Quincy, M.E. Episode: A Star Is Dead
• Forensic pathologist "Dr. Charlie Volmer" Quincy, M.E. Episode: Last Rights
• The father of Richard Lestrange in the 1980 film The Blue Lagoon.
• An average American suburban father in The President's Analyst.
• A card-player coming over to the house of Uncle Bob in Magic Kid 2.
• Mr. George Feeny, teacher and neighbor on Boy Meets World.
• Judge Milton Brody, during the fifth season of Boston Legal.
• The son of a patient of Dr. Robert Hartley in the TV series The Bob Newhart Show.
• The senior social worker in the Jason Robards film A Thousand Clowns.
• The agent of Tom Selleck's character in Her Alibi.
• Dr. Thomas in season 9 of Grey's Anatomy.