Ted Danson

Ted Danson after the 2008 Emmy Awards

Ted Danson at the 1990 Emmy Awards

Ted Danson (* 29. December 1947 as Edward Bridge Danson III in San Diego , California ) is an American actor .

Life

Danson was best known for his role as Sam Malone, host of the Cheers pub in the series of the same name (1982-1993). For this role he was awarded two Emmys and two Golden Globes . Danson only appears sporadically in the cinema. He played alongside Tom Selleck and Steve Guttenberg in a remake of the French film Three Men and a Baby . In other films he only played supporting roles. The exception is Made in America , in which he portrayed the supposed sperm donor of Whoopi Goldberg's daughter.

However, Danson continues to be a major television star. He played the leading roles in various mini-series such as Gulliver's Travels or Talking To Heaven . In the successful sitcom Becker , he played from 1998 to 2004 the title character, a rude doctor and misanthrope . In 2009, Danson received his 13th Emmy nomination for his guest appearance as Arthur Frobisher in the episode They Had to Tweeze That Out of My Kidney of the series Damages . Also in the sitcom Leave It, Larry! (Original title: Curb Your Enthusiasm ) he had several guest appearances.

In the TV series CSI: Vegas he played the role of supervisor DB Russel for 86 episodes from the twelfth season to the end of the series in September 2015 . He played the same role from October 2015 to March 2016 in the offshoot CSI: Cyber (2nd season) and replaced Peter MacNicol . Danson also made a guest appearance on an episode of Family Guy .

Ted Danson does not have a permanent German voice actor. It is mainly spoken by Rüdiger Bahr ( Cheers , Becker ) but also by Peter Reinhardt ( The Good Place , Fargo ) and Bernd Rumpf ( CSI: Cyber ).

Ted Danson has been married to actress Mary Steenburgen since 1995 . They both played together on the sitcom Two In The Ink .

Filmography (selection)

• 1979: Murder in the Onion Field
• 1980: Agent wider Willen (Once Upon a Spy)
• 1981: Hot Blood - Cold Blood (Body Heat)
• 1981: Creepshow
• 1981: Magnum (TV series, one episode)
• 1982–1993: Cheers (TV series, 270 episodes)
• 1986: betrayal of love (Just Between Friends)
• 1986: Trouble, nothing but trouble (A Fine Mess)
• 1987: Three Men and a Baby (Three Men and a Baby)
• 1989: Affair (cousins)
• 1989: Dad
• 1990: Three Men and a Little Lady (Three Men and a Little Lady)
• 1992: How can I tell if I'm really in love
• 1993: Made in America
• 1994: Getting Even with Dad & Co (Getting Even with Dad)
• 1994: The Dream of Apollo XI (Pontiac Man)
• 1995: Frasier (TV series, one episode)
• 1996: Gulliver's Travels (Gulliver's Travels)
• 1996: Nessie - The Secret of Loch Ness (Loch Ness)
• 1996–1997: Two in the Ink ( Ink , TV series, 22 episodes)
• 1998: Homegrown
• 1998: Saving Private Ryan (Saving Private Ryan)
• 1998–2004: Becker (TV series, 129 episodes)
• 1999: Diagnosis: Murder ( Diagnosis Murder , TV series, episode 7x1)
• 2000–2009, 2017: Leave it, Larry! (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
• 2002: Talking to Heaven (Living with the Dead)
• 2005: The Game of Life (Knights of the South Bronx)
• 2005: Dirty Movie (The Moguls, The Amateurs)
• 2007: Nobel Son
• 2007–2010: Damages - Im Netz der Macht ( Damages , TV series, 23 episodes)
• 2008: Mad Money
• 2009–2011: Bored to Death (TV series, 24 episodes)
• 2012: The Call of the Whales (Big Miracle)
• 2011–2015: CSI: Vegas ( CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , TV series, 84 episodes)
• 2013: CSI: NY (TV series, episode 9x15)
• 2015: Fargo (TV series, 10 episodes)
• 2015-2018: American Dad (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 2015–2016: CSI: Cyber (TV series, 16 episodes)
• since 2016: The Good Place (TV series)
• 2018: heart beat loudly (Hearts Beat Loud)
• 2018: An Emmy for Megan (TV series, 1 episode)
• 2019: The Orville (TV series, 3 episodes)

Web links

Commons : Ted Danson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ted Danson in the Internet Movie Database (English)