1. Ted Knight withdrew from high school to enlist in the United States Army during World War II and was a member of Company A, 296th Combat Engineer Battalion, earning five campaign stars while serving in the European Theater of Operations.
21 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, North Carolina.
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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 voiceovers and playing minor television and film roles.
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Ted Knight had a small part playing a police officer guarding the room where Norman Bates 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.
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Ted Knight guest-starred in "Mr Dennis Steps Out", the October 26,1977 episode of the situation comedy Busting Loose, as Roger Dennis, the owner of an escort service in New York City.
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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 several episodes of The Love Boat, including one episode as a rival cruise captain.
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Ted Knight was cast in the lead role as the curmudgeonly cartoonist Henry Rush in the series Too Close for Comfort in 1980.
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In 1986, the show was retitled The Ted Knight Show and saw Henry 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 to not 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 at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.