ACTOR
William Daniels
- Known for
- The Blue Lagoon (1980), Boy Meets World (1993), The Parallax View (1974), Two for the Road (1967)
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William Daniels is an actor best known for The Blue Lagoon, Boy Meets World and The Parallax View.
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Performing in both St. Elsewhere (1982) and Knight Rider (1982) in the 1980s, Daniels made goodwill visits to children's hospitals. He discovered that many children were not excited to meet an actor who played a doctor, but that his voicing of the talking car KITT always appealed to them, so he shifted the emphasis during his visits. He entertained the children with KITT-style sentences and answered their questions about "Knight Rider" while barely mentioning his other, bigger acting role.
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He has mostly played members of the famous Adams family of early American history. He played John Adams (in the feature film 1776 (1972), the miniseries The Rebels (1979) and the original play "1776," which opened on Broadway in March 1969), his son John Quincy Adams (in the miniseries The Adams Chronicles (1976)) and his cousin Samuel Adams (in the television miniseries The Bastard (1978)).
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