Ted Knight was a member of A Company, 296th Combat Engineer Battalion, earning five battle stars while serving in the European Theatre.
20 Facts About Ted Knight
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Ted Knight became proficient with puppets and ventriloquism, which led to steady work as a television children's show host at WJAR-TV in Providence, Rhode Island, from 1950 to 1955.
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Ted Knight was a radio announcer for sister station WROW radio and briefly for WFNS in Burlington NC.
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Ted Knight left the station in 1957 after receiving advice from station manager Thomas Murphy that he should take his talents to Hollywood.
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Ted Knight spent most of the 1950s and 1960s creating commercial voice-overs and playing minor television and movie roles.
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Ted Knight had a small part playing a police officer seen guarding the room where Norman Bates, now in custody, sat wrapped in a blanket at the end of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
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Ted Knight played Phil Buckley on the ABC soap opera The Young Marrieds in the early 1960s.
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Ted Knight received six Emmy Award nominations for the role, winning the Emmy for "Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Comedy" in 1973 and 1976.
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In 1975, Ted Knight recorded an album of mostly novelty songs, Hi Guys, on the Ranwood label.
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Ted Knight was the special guest star on the first episode of The Bobby Vinton Show in September 1975.
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Ted Knight was featured in a production number based on one of the songs from the Hi Guys album, "I'm in Love with Barbara Walters".
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Ted Knight returned to Albany to film promo spots for his former employer, WTEN's local news show.
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The Ted Knight Show lasted for only six episodes in the spring of 1978.
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Ted Knight appeared in a few episodes of The Love Boat, including one episode as a rival cruise captain, Captain Gunner Nordquist, versus Mary Tyler Moore Show co-star Gavin MacLeod's Captain Merrill Stubing.
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Ted Knight was cast in the lead role as the kind, curmudgeonly cartoonist Henry Rush in the series Too Close for Comfort in 1980.
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In 1986, the show became The Ted Knight Show and saw Henry Rush retire from cartooning and become part-owner of a weekly newspaper.
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In January 1985, Ted Knight was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the television industry.
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Ted Knight experienced complications from the surgery and was advised not to resume work on Too Close For Comfort until he recovered.
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Ted Knight's condition worsened and he died on August 26,1986, at age 62.
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Ted Knight was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.