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Ted Danson is the prominent-jawed actor who played Sam Malone, the baseball star turned bartender on Cheers, from 1982-93. He was born in California, but grew up near Flagstaff, Arizona with Hopi and Navajo children as his friends. As a young actor, Danson did the usual auditions for commercials and soap operas, and met his first wife at one of weirdo Werner Erhard's EST seminars. Danson was "the Aramis Man" in ads, and in the mid-1970s he appeared on the daytime drama Somerset with Sigourney Weaver and JoBeth Williams. In his film debut, he portrayed a bagpipe-playing cop in The Onion Field.
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After much speculation that the Ted Danson comedy Becker was being canceled (CBS said only that it planned to bring the show back during midseason), CBS announced Thursday that it would return in the fall, this time at 9:30 on Wednesdays. CBS decided to yank The Stones, a sitcom about grown children coming to grips with the divorce of their parents, which had originally been scheduled to air in the Wednesday slot. The network said that it would launch the new show later in the year.
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From All Movie Guide: 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).
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Ted Danson currently stars in the CBS series BECKER, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination. He is ... well known for his role in the long-running series Cheers, and received two Emmy Awards (1990 and 1993) as Best Actor in a Comedy Series and nine Emmy nominations for his portrayal of Sam Malone. The role also won him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 1989 and 1990. Danson's other television credits include the CBS series Ink, in which he starred with his wife Mary Steenburgen, Frasier, Veronica's Closet, Ellen and The Larry David Show. He has also been in the television movies Gulliver's Travels, Thanks of a Grateful Nation, The Women's Room, When the Bough Breaks and Something About Amelia, for which he won a Golden Globe Award.
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Ted Danson is well known for his role as Sam Malone in the television series "Cheers" (1982). 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).
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Ted Danson is best known for his role as Sam Malone on the long-running comedy hit Cheers. His most recent TV show is Becker, which had a succession for six seasons before CBS in a very stupid decision canceled it.
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