Ted Knight

• Birthplace: Terryville, Connecticut, USA
• Birthday: December 7, 1923

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�…more