Some thoughts of Ted Danson
Ted Danson
He played basketball while at Kent School Connecticut, and then moved on to Stanford University. It was in the process of getting acquainted with an aspiring actress at Stanford that Danson found himself attending his first audition– and by years’ end had transferred to the drama department at Carnegie Tech. Marking time in non-speaking roles, Danson left the stage for the more lucrative world of TV commercials, some of which have been well-circulated on videotape since Danson has become famous. Danson’s first steady TV work was as a slimy villain on the NBC soap opera Somerset. Shortly afterward, the actor attained his first film role, as a murdered cop, in The Onion Field (1978). 3
Decades ago, when he was first appearing on ?Cheers,? Another critic noted that ?Help?s? Charlie Finn bears a striking resemblance to Jason Ritter (who is starring on the CBS comedy ?The Class?). 2
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Making his debut as a producer with the 1986 critically acclaimed telefilm, “When the Bough Breaks,” Danson also starred in the project as a child psychologist who helps the police solve a children’s murder case. In addition he performed the dual role of actor/executive producer throughout his run on the comedy series “Ink.” 6
Damages star Ted Danson is no stranger to the Emmy Awards. He was nominated for eleven straight years—one for each year of his stay in the sitcom Cheers as bartender Sam Malone—and won two of them, in 1990 and 1993. Now he is back on the nominations list, this time for his role as self-made billionaire Arthur Frobisher in the FX legal drama, and he says it means much more for him. 1
During the show’s 12-year run, he was nominated nine times for an Emmy Award as Best Actor in a Comedy Series and won twice, in 1990 and 1993. The role earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 1989 and 1990. He and his wife, actress Mary Steenburgen, starred in and were executive producers of the CBS comedy series “Ink” (1996). 5
Becker will be Danson’s first television project since 1996’s Ink, a comedy in which he played a grizzled newspaper reporter. The show had production trouble from the get-go and was quickly canceled. 7
Danson charmed television audiences worldwide with his portrayal of the tall, dark and handsome Sam Malone, a role he played for 11 seasons on the hit comedy series “Cheers.” The role earned him the Golden Globe in 1990 and 1991, the Emmy Award in 1990 and 1993, as well as several additional Emmy nominations. He made his return to network television in 1998 in the series “Becker,” for which he received a Golden Globe nomination in 2001. The show ran for six years. 4
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