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Ted Knight
Highest Rated: 72% Caddyshack (1980)
Lowest Rated: 71% Countdown (1968)
Birthday: Dec 7, 1923
Birthplace: Terryville, Connecticut, USA
With a booming voice and a pompous, yet easily flustered elitist persona, actor Ted Knight was a comic tour de force on television and in film for decades. While often remember by the Gen-X set for his stick-in-the-mud, golf-obsessed judge in "Caddyshack" (1980), it was his Emmy-winning characterization as the vain and vastly untalented Ted Baxter on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (CBS, 1970-77) that first endeared Knight to the public. He went on to create another loveable buffoon, Henry Rush, on the hit sitcom, "Too Close for Comfort" (ABC, 1980-86), cementing a legacy that few in Hollywood ever hope to achieve.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet |
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Scooby-Doo Meets Batman | Unknown (Character) | - | 2002 |
| 72% |
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Caddyshack | Judge Smails (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Anatomy of a Crime | Nick Ames (Character) | - | 1969 |
| 71% |
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Countdown | Walter Larson (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nightmare in Chicago | Unknown (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Candidate | Frank Carlton (Character) | - | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Swingin' Along | Priest (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cry for Happy | Lt. Glick (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cage of Evil | Lt. Dan Ivers (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Twelve Hours to Kill | Denton (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 13 Fighting Men | Samuel (Character) | - | 1960 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 64% | Family Guy | Judge Elihu Smails (archive footage) (Guest Voice) | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Too Close for Comfort | Henry Rush (Character) | 1980-1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Super Friends | Narrator (Voice) | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | Saturday Night Live | Host | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Ted Baxter (Character) | 1970-1977 |
| 94% | 81% | Star Trek: The Animated Series | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 1966 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantastic Voyage | Commander Jonathan Kidd (Voice) | 1968-1969 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | The Wild, Wild West | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967-1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Professor Oliver Lindenbrook (Voice) | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 82% | Get Smart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966-1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fugitive | Dr. Rains (Guest Star) | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. | Don Mills (Guest Star) | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 12 O'Clock High | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Bill Miller (Guest Star) | 1959 1965 |
| 92% | 88% | The Outer Limits | Mr. Jerome (Character) | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Combat! | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963-1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lieutenant | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Untouchables | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Surfside 6 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Lucky | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Mr. Maynard (Character) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lock Up | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
| 92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | Adams (Character) | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Timmy & Lassie | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lassie | Mr. Ventrilo (Guest Star) | 1959 |