![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: December 29, 1947 in San Diego, CA Biography:The son of a prominent archaeologist/museum director, American actor "Ted Danson" grew up near the Navajo reservation in Arizona. 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). After seeing Danson in the movie "Body Heat" (1981) and in an episode of the TV series... Full Biography
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