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Ted Knight

1923 - 1986

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Ted Knight (born Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka; December 7, 1923 – August 26, 1986) was an American actor known for playing the comic roles of Ted Baxter in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Henry Rush in Too Close for Comfort and Judge Elihu Smails in Caddyshack. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Ted Knight is the 9,615th most popular actor (down from 9,237th in 2024), the 14,396th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,553rd in 2019) and the 4,482nd most popular American Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Ted Knight ranks 9,615 out of 13,578. Before him are Alicia Coppola, Laurie Bartram, Charlotte Greenwood, Tika Sumpter, Barbara Billingsley, and Rosie Malek-Yonan. After him are Daisuke Hirakawa, Mary Pat Gleason, Dominic Sherwood, Lenny Henry, Luke Ford, and Miriam Leone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Ted Knight ranks 479. Before him are Chuck Daigh, Don Barksdale, Kuldip Nayar, Larry Rivers, Giorgio Pellini, and Nicholas Parsons. After him are Moira Lister, Gene Reynolds, Norman Kirk, Ram Jethmalani, Hugh Shearer, and Dora Bryan. Among people deceased in 1986, Ted Knight ranks 304. Before him are Gian-Carlo Coppola, Martin Gabel, Paul Frees, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Giorgio Pellini, and Jerry Paris. After him are Len Bias, Noel Streatfeild, Gordon MacRae, and Jerry Colonna.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ted Knight ranks 14,400 out of 20,380. Before him are George M. Whitesides (1939), Barbara Billingsley (1915), Hans Reiser (1963), Timothy Creamer (1959), Patrick G. Forrester (1957), and Sabrina Harman (1978). After him are Joe Fortenberry (1911), Archie Williams (1915), Katherine Schwarzenegger (1989), Jack Valenti (1921), Joshua Malina (1966), and Pat Finn (1965).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Ted Knight ranks 4,484. Before him are Naomi Grossman (1975), Alicia Coppola (1968), Laurie Bartram (1958), Charlotte Greenwood (1890), Tika Sumpter (1980), and Barbara Billingsley (1915). After him are Joshua Malina (1966), Pat Finn (1965), Sally O'Neil (1908), Peter DeLuise (1966), Bill Sage (1962), and Dimitri Diatchenko (1968).

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