William DanielsFilmography

Touched by an Angel: And A Nightingale Sang

Synopsis: A snowbound Denver eatery called the Ritz Restaurante ends up as the Valentine's Day rendezvous for three troubled couples: Marty (Louis Mandylor) and Tricia (Wendie Jo Sperber), Amanda (Tembi Locke) and Riley (Cress Williams), and Ben (Lennie Loftin) and Charlotte (Kate Fuglei). While carrying Read More

Boy Meets World: Season 07

Actors: Ben Savage, Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, Matthew Lawrence, Maitland Ward, William Daniels, Betsy Randle, Lindsay Ridgeway

Synopsis: The seventh and final season of Boy Meets World opens on a less than lighthearted note, with Cory Matthews (Ben Savage) and Topanga Lawrence (Danielle Fishel) having broken off their engagement, and Cory's pal Shawn Hunter (Rider Strong) splitting up with his sweetie Angela Moore (Trina McGee-Davis Read More

Boy Meets World: Season 06

Actors: Ben Savage, Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, Matthew Lawrence, Maitland Ward, William Daniels, Betsy Randle, Lindsay Ridgeway

Synopsis: Season six of Boy Meets World instantly resolves the cliffhanger ending of season five, with 18-year-old Cory Matthews (Ben Savage) saying yes to the marriage proposal delivered by his childhood sweetheart Topanga Lawrence (Danielle Fishel) -- though he balks when Topanga suggests that they elope Read More

Boy Meets World: Season 05

Actors: Ben Savage, Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, Matthew Lawrence, William Daniels, William Russ, Betsy Randle, Lindsay Ridgeway

Synopsis: When Boy Meets World began its ABC run in 1993, hero Cory Matthews (Ben Savage) and his friends Shawn (Rider Strong) and Topanga (Danielle Fishel) were all 11-year-old sixth graders. But as the series launched its fifth season in the fall of 1997, Cory, Shawn, and Topanga had all miraculously aged Read More

Touched By an Angel: Birthmarks

Synopsis: TV talk show host Kathie Lee Gifford is cast as Jolene, a professional surrogate mother hired to provide a baby to childless couple Michael and Penny Russell (David Naughton, Barbara Alyn Woods). The fly in the ointment is Michael's old-fashioned grandfather Whit (William Daniels) who is deeply Read More

The Lottery

Actors: Keri Russell, William Daniels, Dan Cortese

Synopsis: Based on one of Shirley Jackson's spookier stories, this made-for-TV thriller recounts a small New England town's chilling annual ritual, a quasi-pagan affair involving human sacrifice performed in a particularly horrific manner. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Boy Meets World: Season 04

Actors: Ben Savage, Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, William Daniels, William Russ, Betsy Randle, Lindsay Ridgeway, Anthony Tyler Quinn, Alex Désert

Synopsis: Season four of Boy Meets World finds the now 16-year-old Cory Matthews (Ben Savage) still trying to make sense of the world around him and the people in it. More specifically, Cory's relationship with classmate Topanga Lawrence (Danielle Fishel) has gone far beyond mere friendship...but is he Read More

Boy Meets World: Season 03

Actors: Ben Savage, Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, William Daniels, William Russ, Betsy Randle, Lily Nicksay, Anthony Tyler Quinn, Alex Désert, Lindsay Ridgeway

Synopsis: Just as seasons one and two of Boy Meets World were seemingly separated by a two year time lapse, so too does season three apparently begin two years after the previous season. How else can one explain how Cory Matthews (Ben Savage), Shawn Hunter (Rider Strong), and Topanga Lawrence (Danielle Fishel Read More

Boy Meets World: Season 02

Actors: Ben Savage, Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, William Daniels, William Russ, Betsy Randle, Lily Nicksay, Anthony Tyler Quinn

Synopsis: Season two of Boy Meets World evidently takes place two years after season one, because series protagonist Cory Matthews (Ben Savage), an 11-year-old attending sixth grade in the first season, has now become a 13-year-old high school freshman. Likewise aging rather rapidly are Cory's best friend Read More

Boy Meets World: Season 01

Actors: Ben Savage, Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, William Daniels, William Russ, Betsy Randle, Lily Nicksay, Lee Norris

Synopsis: Series protagonist Cory Matthews (Ben Savage) is all of 11 years old as Boy Meets World launches its first season, but even at that tender age he has drawn up what he considers a definitive list of friends and enemies. In the "friends" column are his best friends, Topanga (Danielle Fishel), Shawn (Rider Strong Read More

Back to the Streets of San Francisco

Actors: Karl Malden

Synopsis: Hard-boiled San Francisco police detective Captain Mike Stone returns to his old beat in order to find the crook who killed his partner (played during the 1972- 1977 series by Michael Douglas, whose scenes are taken from clips of the original series) in this crime drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Knight Rider 2000

Actors: David Hasselhoff, Susan Norman, Edward Mulhare

Synopsis: Michael returns to the Knight coroporation to help them build a new KITT for the 21st century. Gunrunners and evil cops provide the first crime the new Kitt foils. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story

Actors: Rachel Crawford, Charles Stratton, William Daniels

Synopsis: As indicated by the title, this made-for-TV movie charts the rise and fall of Olympic figure skater Tai Babilonia. Partnered since childhood with Randy Gardner, Tai skated her way to the 1979 World Championship. Her hopes for Olympics success in 1980 are scuttled when her partner Gardner suffers a Read More

Her Alibi

Actors: Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova, William Daniels, James Farentino, Hurd Hatfield

Synopsis: A frustrated writer helps save a woman being railroaded by the law -- or is she? -- in this comic mystery with romantic overtones. Phil Blackwood (Tom Selleck) is a best-selling mystery novelist who has run into a bad case of writer's block. Hoping to find inspiration for his next book, Phil goes Read More

Howard Beach: Making a Case for Murder

Synopsis: The controversial case of a black man killed in Howard Beach, a working-class all white neighborhood of Queens, NY provides the basis of this docudrama. Much of the story centers around the attempts of Joe Hynes, the state prosecutor to bring the case to trial. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Blind Date

Actors: Joyce Van Patten, Kim Basinger, Bruce Willis, John Larroquette, William Daniels, Phil Hartman, George Coe

Synopsis: When speaking of Laurel and Hardy's first feature film Pardon Us, Stan Laurel described it as "a three-story building on a one-story base"-in other words, a 2-reeler stretched and bloated into 6 reels. Much the same could be said of Blake Edwards's Blind Date, though one wonders if Stan Laurel Read More

The Little Match Girl

Actors: Keshia Knight Pulliam

Synopsis: Keshia Knight-Pulliam stars as the title character, an orphaned waif of the 1920s who helps instill the Christmas spirit into a contentious New England family. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

St. Elsewhere: Season 06

Actors: Ed Flanders, William Daniels, Ed Begley, Jr., David Morse

St. Elsewhere: Season 05

Actors: Ed Flanders, William Daniels, Ed Begley, Jr., David Morse

St. Elsewhere: Season 04

Actors: Ed Flanders, William Daniels, Ed Begley, Jr., David Morse

Knight Rider: Season 04

Actors: David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Patricia McPherson, William Daniels, Peter Parros

Synopsis: The fourth and final season of Knight Rider stars David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight, a former cop who after being saved from death by a billionaire do-gooder becomes an undercover agent for the Knight Foundation for Law and Order. Michael continues to take his marching orders from the Read More

St. Elsewhere: Season 03

Actors: Ed Flanders, William Daniels, Ed Begley, Jr., David Morse

Knight Rider: Season 03

Actors: David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Patricia McPherson, William Daniels, Rebecca Holden

Synopsis: In the third season of Knight Rider, Devon Miles (Edward Mulhare), head of the Knight Industries Foundation for Law and Order, continues dispatching his best agent, Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff) -- who before being snatched from the jaws of death by the late billionaire Wilton Knight had been Read More

St. Elsewhere: Season 02

Actors: Ed Flanders, William Daniels, Ed Begley, Jr., David Morse

Knight Rider: Season 02

Actors: David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Rebecca Holden, William Daniels

Synopsis: Season two of Knight Rider finds professional do-gooder Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff) still behind the wheel of his high-tech, computerized, weapon-festooned Trans Am, K.I.T.T., which, just as in season one, "speaks" in the imperious voice of actor William Daniels. And also just as in season Read More

Drop-Out Father

Synopsis: Dick Van Dyke is the Drop-Out Father in this lighthearted TV movie. A successful but unsatisfied insurance executive, Van Dyke decides one day to kick over the traces. As his wife (Mariette Hartley) and family listen in fascinated horror, our hero announces his plans to move from the suburbs to a Read More

Rooster

Synopsis: In this comedy, a suspicious fire brings two disparate detectives together. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Knight Rider: Season 01

Actors: David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Patricia McPherson, William Daniels

Synopsis: Opening with a two-hour "TV movie" pilot (which has since been edited into two separate hour-long episodes), season one of Knight Rider affords viewers their first glimpses of former cop-turned-independent crime fighter Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff), his ill-tempered boss, Devon Miles (Edward Mulhare Read More

Rehearsal for Murder

Synopsis: Richard Levinson and William Link serve up another Thinking Man's murder mystery with the made-for-television Rehearsal for Murder. Playwright Robert Preston is on the verge of marrying glamorous film star Lynn Redgrave. But a scant few hours after her Broadway debut, Redgrave is found dead, an Read More

St. Elsewhere: Season 01

Actors: Ed Flanders, William Daniels, Ed Begley, Jr., David Morse

All Night Long

Actors: Gene Hackman, Barbra Streisand, Diane Ladd, Dennis Quaid, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: Gene Hackman plays a disgruntled suburbanite who manages the Ultra-Sav, an all-night drugstore. He hates his job, hates his debts and responsibilities, and isn't overly fond of his wife (Diane Ladd) and son (Dennis Quaid). Partly as a form of protest, Hackman enters into an affair with Barbra Streisand Read More

The Million Dollar Face

Actors: Gayle Hunnicutt, Lee Grant

Synopsis: The expensive face of the title belongs to Sylvia Kristel, who actually levies a price of $2.5 million upon the fictional cosmetics firm of Glamour Inc. Ms. Kristel's story is but one of the many intrigues within the hallowed halls of Glamour. Tony Curtis stars as the company's CEO, beset with Read More

Reds

Actors: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski, Jack Nicholson

Synopsis: Few filmmakers other than Warren Beatty would have had the courage and vision to fashion an epic film from the life of famed American Communist John Reed (who is the only US citizen buried in the Kremlin). The film is an effort to humanize a political movement that has previously been depicted on Read More

City in Fear

Actors: David Janssen, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: In his last appearance before the cameras, David Janssen plays an alcoholic journalist desperate for a comeback. Janssen hitches his star to ruthless publisher Robert Vaughn, who is exploiting a rash of brutal murders to sell papers. The danger here is that the unknown serial killer, who preys Read More

Damien: The Leper Priest

Synopsis: More formally known as Father Damien: The Leper Priest, this made-for-TV biopic stars a heavily-wigged Ken Howard in the title role. Father Damien was a Belgian priest who, in 1873, was assigned a far-from-desirable congregation: the leper colony of Molokai in the Hawaiian islands. At first Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Last Rights

Synopsis: The sixth season of Quincy M.E. begins as pugnacious, compassionate medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman) shows up in a small mill town to lend a helping hand to his colleague Charles Volmer (William Daniels. No sooner has he arrived than Quincy finds himself waist-deep in a brace of ethical Read More

Conquest of the Earth

Synopsis: This TV movie consists of two episodes of Galactica 1980 edited together. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Blue Lagoon

Actors: Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels, Elva Josephson

Synopsis: This 1980 version of the oft-filmed Henry Devere Stackpoole novel The Blue Lagoon was the first to be stamped with an "R" rating. The basic story remains unchanged. Two very small children, a boy and a girl, are shipwrecked on a lush tropical island. They are cared for by fellow castaway Leo Read More

Sunburn

Actors: Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Charles Grodin, Art Carney, Joan Collins, Eleanor Parker, William Daniels

Synopsis: Jake (Charles Grodin), an insurance investigator, is assigned to probe the killing of a wealthy businessman in Acapulco. To help him, he hires a beautiful New York model, Ellie (Farah Fawcett), to act as his wife, and they pretend to be tourists on vacation. Art Carney plays Marcus, a local Read More

Blind Ambition

Actors: Martin Sheen, Theresa Russell, Michael Callan, Lonny Chapman, William Daniels

Synopsis: The 8-hour TV miniseries Blind Ambition was originally telecast May 20 through 23, 1979. This 105-minute feature-film version, prepared in 1982, seems a bit rushed at times, but overall does a credible and coherent job of storytelling. Based on John Dean's book Blind Ambition, with elements of Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Dark Angel

Synopsis: Veteran police officer Tommy Bates (Neville Brand) catches Billy Harris (Richard Stanley), a young car thief whose wild behavior indicates that he is high on "angel dust." During the arrest, Harris dies, and his accomplice Steve (Michael Horton) accuses Bates of choking the boy to death. Lt. Read More

The Rebels

Synopsis: The Rebels was the second "Operation Prime Time" miniseries to be based on author John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles (the first was The Bastard). The saga of Philip Kent (Andrew Stevens), illegitimate son of a British blueblood, picks up with Kent fighting in the Continental Army during the Read More

The One and Only

Actors: Henry Winkler, Kim Darby, Gene Saks, William Daniels, Polly Holliday

Synopsis: Brash young Andy Schmidt (Henry Winkler) can't make a go of it as an actor in the early 1950s. Still, he wins the hand of Mary Crawford (Kim Darby), and the two of them try to make ends meet in New York City. Andy is on the verge of starvation when he befriends wrestling-promoter Sidney Seltzer (Gene Saks Read More

Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus

Actors: Charles Napier, Robert Stoneman, William Daniels

Synopsis: Nice to see veteran hardcase character actor Charles Napier in a leading role, even if it's in something as eminently forgettable as Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus. The eponymous Big Bob (Napier) is head man of a spit-and-vinegar auto racing team. Bob's aggregation makes a brief Read More

The Bastard

Synopsis: Produced for the syndicated "Operation Prime Time" series, The Bastard is the first of John Jakes' "Kent Family Chronicles" (followed by The Rebels and The Seekers). Presented in two parts, the story begins in 1771, with 17-year-old French commoner Philippe Charboneau (Andrew Stevens) discovering Read More

Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie begins in 1975, when Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich (Brad Dourif), a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, faces a court-martial and possible discharge. Matlovich's "offense:" He is an admitted homosexual. Knowing full well that the military has a long-standing ban on Read More

Black Sunday

Actors: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Steven Keats

Synopsis: Bruce Dern is ideally cast as Lander, a crazed Vietnam veteran, in Black Sunday. Lander joins terrorists Dahlia (Marthe Keller) and Fasil (Bekim Fehmu) in a plot to create a bloodbath at the annual Super Bowl. Piloting the ubiquitous Goodyear blimp, Lander is to ram the aircraft into the capacity Read More

Killer on Board

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV thriller, a group of tourists aboard a cruise ship must be quarantined after they become afflicted with a lethal virus. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Oh, God!

Actors: George Burns, John Denver, Teri Garr, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis: Adapted by Larry Gelbart from the novel by Avery Corman, the film stars John Denver as Jerry Landers, the assistant manager of a grocery store who is chosen by God (George Burns) to spread the Word to the rest of the world. Not surprisingly, Jerry is soon labelled a basket case: even his loving Read More

The Rockford Files: The Italian Bird Fiasco

Synopsis: Jim (James Garner) is hired by antiques dealer Thomas Caine (William Daniels) to bid on a rare sculpted bird at an auction. Unfortunately, our hero "gets the bird" in more ways than one when, after purchasing the statue on Caine's behalf, he is attacked by hooligans and the artifact is broken. At Read More

The Adams Chronicles [TV Series]

Actors: George Grizzard, Kathryn Walker, Nancy Marchand, William Daniels

Quincy, M.E.: A Star is Dead

Synopsis: In the third of the feature-length Quincy, M.E. episodes produced for the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie package, the LA County Coroner's Officer swings into action when movie star Roberta Rhodes dies under mysterious circumstances (note the repetitious initials, and then guess who "Roberta Rhodes" is Read More

The Rockford Files: So Help Me God

Synopsis: This episode is a sobering lesson in civil liberties--or rather, the lack of those liberties when an innocent citizen is brought before a Federal Grand Jury. Much to his dismay, Jim Rockford (James Garner) is repeatedly subpoenaed and harrassed by zealous Federal prosecutor Gary Bevins (William Read More

Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident

Synopsis: Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy is a TV dramatization of the notorious Cold War incident of 1960. The story is told from the point of view of Powers (Lee Majors), an American pilot who was shot down over Russia while taking photographs on behalf of the CIA. The event occurs just Read More

One of Our Own

Synopsis: One of Our Own stars George Peppard as Dr. Jake Goodwin, the chief neurosurgeon of an inordinately busy hospital. As he makes his rounds, Goodwin becomes involved in a vast array of medical cases, solving virtually every problem he's confronted with. It looks, however, as though he's going to have Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Fathers & Sons & Mothers

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: Bob's parents are briefly uprooted while their house is being painted. While Dad Hartley (Barnard Hughes) goes off on a fishing trip, Mom Hartley (Martha Scott) stays with Bob and Emily -- and the viewers brace themselves for another round of concentrated maternal smothering. Meanwhile, Bob has to Read More

Sarah T.: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic

Actors: Linda Blair

Synopsis: Fresh from her success in The Exorcist (and several years away from her tenure as queen of the women in prison flicks), Linda Blair stars in this searing TV movie. Sarah (Blair), a normal teenaged girl, begins drinking socially at high school parties. She soon finds that she can't stop--and even Read More

The Parallax View

Actors: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: While the Watergate scandal filled the headlines, Alan J. Pakula's 1974 thriller took its inspiration from the conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination. Journalist Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) misses witnessing the assassination of a senator at Seattle's Space Needle, but his Read More

A Case of Rape

Synopsis: Of the two rape-oriented TV movies of the 1973-74 season, A Case of Rape, first telecast February 20, 1974, is far and away the finer film (the other was the compelling but contrived Cry Rape). Elizabeth Montgomery stars as a housewife who is sexually assaulted not once but twice by a so-called Read More

Ironside: All Honorable Men

Synopsis: All the experts have declared that it is impossible to rob a safety-deposit vault surrounded by a sophisticated, high-tech alarm system--but that's just what happens. Clearly the heist was the work of a well-trained team, and the cops are able to arrest one of the suspects almost immediately. Read More

Murdock's Gang

Synopsis: Murdock's Gang stars former TV newscaster Alex Dreier as celebrated trial attorney Bartley James Murdock. Framed for a crime, Murdock is disbarred and incarcerated. Upon his release, he becomes a private detective, assembling a gang of reformed criminals as his assistants. Murdock's team is Read More

1776

Actors: William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard, David Ford

Synopsis: The first independent production of former studio mogul Jack Warner, 1776 was adapted from the hit 1969 Broadway musical by Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards. William Daniels, Ken Howard, and Howard Da Silva are among the many actors who recreate their Broadway roles. The story is set during the Read More

Marlowe

Actors: James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O'Connor, Rita Moreno, Sharon Farrell

Synopsis: James Garner is so good as Raymond Chandler's philosophical gumshoe Philip Marlowe that you forget he's totally wrong for the part. Based on Chandler's The Little Sister, Marlowe involves the detective's efforts to locate the missing brother of Orfamay Quest (Sharon Farrell). He follows the clues Read More

Two for the Road

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney, Eleanor Bron, William Daniels, Claude Dauphin

Synopsis: In preparing his romantic comedy Two For the Road, director Stanley Donen decided to utilize many of the cinematic techniques popularized by the French "nouvelle vague" filmmakers. Jump cutting back and forth in time with seeming abandon, Donen and scriptwriter Frederic Raphael chronicle the Read More

The Graduate

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels, Elizabeth Wilson, Murray Hamilton

Synopsis: "Just one word: plastic." "Are you here for an affair?" These lines and others became cultural touchstones, as 1960s youth rebellion seeped into the California upper middle-class in Mike Nichols' landmark hit. Mentally adrift the summer after graduating from college, suburbanite Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman Read More

The President's Analyst

Actors: James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden, Joan Delaney, Pat Harrington, Jr.

Synopsis: The President's Analyst is James Coburn, whose position makes him privy to any number of delicate government secrets. Thus Coburn becomes a most desirable prize for several secret-agent organizations, including the CEA and the FBR (we know who these folks are really supposed to be, even though the Read More

A Thousand Clowns

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam, Gene Saks, William Daniels

Synopsis: Jason Robards Jr. superbly re-creates his Broadway role in this 1965 film version of Herb Gardner's play. Robards plays Murray Burns, head writer of TV's popular Chuckles the Chipmunk show. Fed up with the rat race, Murray quits his job and retreats to his cluttered Manhattan apartment, where he Read More

Ladybug, Ladybug

Actors: Jane Connell, William Daniels, James Frawley, Richard Hamilton, Kathryn Hays

Synopsis: This thought-provoking and only slightly heavy handed anti-war tract is based on a real incident that occurred during the atomic terror of the Cuban missile crisis. The tragedy begins when a civil defense siren is accidentally tripped while a school is in session. The panic-stricken children are Read More

Family Honeymoon

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, William Daniels, Rita Johnson, Gigi Perreau, Jimmy Hunt

Synopsis: In this family farce, an older couple falls in love and decide to marry and embark upon a peaceful honeymoon without the bride's three bratty children. Unfortunately, the way things work out, the whole family ends up tagging along. The little darlings are less than pleased that their widowed Read More