Ted Knight

Actor
Date Of Birth:
7 December 1923
Date Of Death:
26 August 1986
cancer
Place Of Birth:
Terryville, Connecticut
Best Known As:
Newscaster Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Ted Knight played buffoonish and bombastic newscaster Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show from 1970-77. Knight won two Emmys and stole countless scenes on the show, which was one of the highest-rated comedies of its era. White-haired and firm-jawed, Knight made something of a specialty of pompous egotists; he played the hilarious Judge Smails in the 1980 film Caddyshack. Knight later starred in the sitcom Too Close For Comfort (1980-86), which morphed into The Ted Knight Show shortly before his death in 1986.
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Knight had a small nonspeaking part as a guard at the end of Alfred Hitchcock‘s 1960 film PsychoToo Close for Comfort was based on a British series, Keep It in the Family… Some sources list Knight’s real name as Tadeus Wladyslaw Konopka or Tadewurz Wladzui Konopka; his gravestone, however, reads Theodore C. Konopka.

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