William Daniels - wikipedia William Daniels For other people named William Daniels, see William Daniels ( disambiguation ). William Daniels Daniels at the Emmy Awards September 20, 1987 President of the Screen Actors Guild In office 1999 -- 2001 Vice President Richard Masur Preceded by Richard Masur Succeeded by Melissa Gilbert Personal details William David Daniels ( 1927 - 03 - 31 ) March 31, 1927 ( age 91 ) Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States Spouse ( s ) Bonnie Bartlett ( m. 1951 ) Children Alma mater Northwestern University Occupation Film, television, stage actor William David Daniels ( born March 31, 1927 ) is an American actor, known for his role as Mr. Feeny in the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World. He was president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1999 to 2001. He is also associated with his performances as the father of Benjamin Braddock ( Dustin Hoffman ) in The Graduate ( 1967 ), as Howard in Two for the Road, as John Adams in 1776, as Carter Nash in Captain Nice, as the voice of KITT in Knight Rider, and as Dr. Mark Craig in St. Elsewhere, for which he won two Emmy Awards. In 2015, he returned to his role as Mr. Feeny in the sequel to Boy Meets World, titled Girl Meets World. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Awards and honors 5 Filmography 5.1 Video games 6 Books 7 References 8 External links Early Life William Daniels was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States to Irene and David Daniels. His father was a bricklayer. He has two sisters, Jacqueline and Carol. Daniels speaks, especially in performances, with a Boston Brahmin accent that has transatlantic influences. Daniels was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1945 and stationed in Italy, where he served as a disc jockey at an Army radio station. At the suggestion of Howard Lindsay, co-author of Life With Father, who recommended he use the GI Bill to attend a college with a good drama department, Daniels enrolled at Northwestern University. He graduated from Northwestern in 1949, and was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. Career This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. ( May 2017 ) Daniels began his career as a member of the singing Daniels family in Brooklyn. He made his television debut as part of a variety act ( along with other members of his family ) in 1943, on NBC, then a single station in New York. He made his Broadway debut in 1943 in Life With Father, and remained a busy Broadway actor for decades afterwards. His Broadway credits include roles in 1776, A Thousand Clowns, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and A Little Night Music. He received an Obie Award for The Zoo Story ( 1960 ). Daniels 's motion picture debut was as a school principal in the 1963 anti-war drama film Ladybug Ladybug. In 1965, he reprised his Broadway role as a child welfare worker in the screen version of A Thousand Clowns. In 1967 he appeared in The Graduate as the father of Dustin Hoffman 's character. In 1969, Daniels starred as John Adams in the Broadway musical 1776 ; he also appeared in the film version in 1972. Two years later, he co-starred in Richard Donner 's telefilm Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic. Daniels 's first network television appearance came in 1952 when he portrayed the young John Quincy Adams, eldest son of John and Abigail Adams in the Hallmark Hall of Fame drama A Woman for the Ages. In 1976, he reprised the role as the middle - aged and elder John Quincy Adams in the acclaimed PBS miniseries The Adams Chronicles. He starred in the short - lived series Captain Nice as police chemist Carter Nash. He appeared as acid - tongued Dr. Mark Craig in St. Elsewhere from 1982 -- 88, for which he won two Emmy awards. Concurrently, he provided the voice of KITT in Knight Rider from 1982 -- 86. Daniels said in 1982, `` My duties on Knight Rider are very simple. I do it in about an hour and a half. I 've never met the cast. I have n't even met the producer. '' He reprised the voice - only role of KITT in 1991 for the television movie Knight Rider 2000, again in the movie The Benchwarmers. He performed the role in AT&T and GE commercials about talking machines, and twice in The Simpsons as well as at the Comedy Central Roast of his co-star David Hasselhoff. He reprised the role of KITT in the 2015 Lego - themed action - adventure video game Lego Dimensions. Daniels portrayed teacher ( later principal ) George Feeny at John Adams High School in Boy Meets World from 1993 to 2000. In addition to the previously mentioned 1967 superhero sitcom Captain Nice, he was a regular on the 1970s TV series Freebie and the Bean and The Nancy Walker Show. A familiar character actor, he has appeared as a guest star on numerous TV comedies and dramas, including Soap, The Rockford Files, Quincy, M.E., Kolchak : The Night Stalker, and many others. In 2012, Daniels appeared in the ninth season of Grey 's Anatomy as Dr. Craig Thomas, an unlikely mentor to the character of Dr. Cristina Yang played by actress Sandra Oh. His character, Dr. Thomas, died in the operating room while performing a procedure to repair a heart defect midway through the season, which forced Yang to move back to Seattle. In 2014, Daniels reprised his role as Mr. Feeny in the pilot episode of the Boy Meets World spinoff, Girl Meets World. His role was a cameo at the end credits praising the adult Cory Matthews for his parenting. He made additional appearances in the second and third seasons. Bartlett and Daniels both served on the Screen Actors Guild 's Board of Directors. Personal Life Daniels with wife Bonnie Bartlett at the 1987 Emmy Awards Daniels has been married to actress and fellow Emmy Award - winner Bonnie Bartlett since June 30, 1951. In 1961, Bartlett gave birth to a son, who died just 24 hours later. They later adopted two children : Michael, who became an assistant director and stage manager in Los Angeles, and Robert, who became an artist and computer graphics designer based in New York City. Awards and honors Daniels refused the 1969 Tony Award nomination for Featured Actor in a Musical in 1776 due to his insistence that the part of John Adams was a leading role rather than supporting. He was ruled to be ineligible for the Best Actor nomination because of the technicality that his name was not billed above the title of the show. In 1986, Daniels and Bartlett, who played his fictional wife on St. Elsewhere and Boy Meets World, won Emmy Awards on the same night, becoming the first married couple to accomplish the feat since Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1965 for a production of The Magnificent Yankee for the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1963 Ladybug Ladybug Mr. Calkins 1965 A Thousand Clowns Albert Amundson 1967 Two for the Road Howard Manchester The Graduate Mr. Braddock The President 's Analyst Wynn Quantrill 1969 Marlowe Mr. Crowell 1972 1776 John Adams The Parallax View Austin Tucker 1977 Black Sunday Pugh Oh, God ! George Summers 1978 The One and Only Mr. Crawford Family Dr. Taylor 1979 Sunburn Crawford 1980 The Blue Lagoon Arthur Lestrange 1981 All Night Long Richard H. Copleston Reds Julius Gerber Blind Date Judge Harold Bedford 1989 Her Alibi Sam Magic Kid 2 Manny 2006 The Benchwarmers KITT Voice, uncredited 2007 Blades of Glory Commissioner Ebbers Television Year Title Role Notes 1952 A Woman for the Ages John Quincy Adams TV movie 1956 Robert Montgomery Presents Donald Kemper Episode : `` Three Men From Tomorrow '' 1956 1960 1961 Armstrong Circle Theatre Leonard Gregory Episode : `` Five Who Shook the Mighty '' Episode : `` Separate Parents '' Episode : `` The Spy Next Door '' 1959 Brenner Larry Dyer Episode : `` Man in the Middle '' 1961 1962 Naked City Herbert Grafton Harry Culverin Episode : `` A Kettle of Precious Fish '' Episode : `` Idyllis of a Running Back '' 1962 1964 The Defenders Malloy Mike Herman Episode : `` The Locked Room '' Episode : `` A Voice Loud and Clear '' 1963 East Side / West Side Principal Costigan Episode : `` I Before E Except After C '' 1963 1965 The Doctors and the Nurses Vernon Kane Buddy Episode : `` Field of Battle '' Episode : `` A Couple of Dozen Tiny Pills '' 1965 For the People Fred Rice Episode : `` Any Benevolent Purpose '' 1966 T.H.E. Cat Tony Webb Episode : `` The Ring of Anasis '' 1967 Captain Nice Carter Nash / Captain Nice 1968 The Good Guys Arnold Schreck Episode : `` Let ' em Eat Rolls '' 1968 The Ghost & Mrs. Muir Blair Thompson Episode : `` Mr. Perfect '' 1969 Judd, for the Defense Harry Stratton Episode : `` Epitaph on a Computer Card '' 1972 Cannon Dale Corey Episode : `` Hear No Evil '' 1973 Love, American Style Alan Segment : `` Love and the Old Lover '' 1973 Ironside Stillwald, the Bank Manager Episode : `` All Honorable Men '' 1973 Murdock 's Gang Roger Bates TV movie 1973 The Fabulous Doctor Fable Elliot Borden TV movie 1973 1976 McCloud Clayton Gills Fred Pearson Episode : `` Butch Cassidy Rides Again '' Episode : `` The Day New York Turned Blue '' Kolchak : The Night Stalker Police Lt. Jack Matteo Episode : `` The Vampire '' A Case of Rape Leonard Alexander TV movie Insight Mike Madden Episode : `` Hunger Knows My Name '' Barbary Coast Boyle Episode : `` Irish Luck '' The Bob Newhart Show Edgar T. Vickers Jr. Episode : `` Fathers and Sons and Mothers '' Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic Matt Hodges TV movie One of Our Own Dr. Moresby TV movie 1976 Francis Gary Powers : The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident Bissell TV movie 1976 That Was the Year That Was -- 1976 Sketch Actor TV movie 1976 The Adams Chronicles John Quincy Adams ( age 50 -- 81 ) 1976 McMillan & Wife Commander Campbell Episode : `` Point of Law '' 1976 The Rockford Files Thomas Caine Gary Bevins Episode : The Italian Bird Fiasco Episode : So Help Me God 1976 -- 1977 The Nancy Walker Show Lt. Commander Kenneth Kitteridge 1976 1979 1980 Quincy, M.E. Paul Reardon Charlie Trusdale Dr. Charlie Volmer Episode : `` A Star is Dead '' Episode : `` Dark Angel '' Episode : `` Last Rights '' 1977 The Incredible Hulk Dr. John Bonifant Episode : `` Death in the Family '' 1977 Killer on Board Marshall Snowden TV movie 1978 Soap Heinrich Himmel Season 1, Episode 16 1978 Family Dr. Taylor Episode : `` Counterpoint '' 1978 Grandpa Goes to Washington Gov. Bronx Episode : `` Pilot '' 1978 Greatest Heroes of the Bible Chasrubal Episode : `` Joshua and the Battle of Jericho '' 1978 The Bastard Samuel Adams TV movie 1978 Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus Lawrence Stepwell III TV movie 1978 Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force Father Veller TV movie 1979 Blind Ambition G. Gordon Liddy 1979 The Chinese Typewriter Devlin TV movie 1979 The Rebels John Adams TV movie 1980 The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo Dr. Walter Taylor Episode : `` Who 's the Sexiest Girl in the World '' 1980 Galactica 1980 Norman Blore Episodes : The Night the Cylons Landed Part 1 & 2 1980 City in Fear Freeman Stirbling TV movie 1980 Father Damien : The Leper Priest Bishop Koeckemann TV movie 1980 -- 1981 Freebie and the Bean District Attorney Walter W. Cruikshank 4 episodes 1981 Trapper John, M.D. Dr. Slater Episode : `` Second Sight '' 1981 Private Benjamin Teddy Episode : `` Bye, Bye Benjamin '' 1981 The Million Dollar Face Henry Burns TV movie 1982 Hart to Hart Simon Richardson Episode : `` Hartless Hobby '' 1982 Rehearsal for Murder Walter Lamb TV movie 1982 Rooster Dr. DeVega TV movie 1982 Drop - Out Father Draper Wright TV movie 1982 -- 1986 Knight Rider KITT Voice 1982 -- 1988 St. Elsewhere Dr. Mark Craig Main Cast ; 137 episodes 1986 Faerie Tale Theatre Narrator Episode : `` The Princess Who Had Never Laughed '' The Little Match Girl Haywood Dutton TV movie 1989 Howard Beach : Making a Case for Murder Slaney TV movie On Thin Ice : The Tai Babilonia Story John Nicks TV movie 1991 The General Motors Playwright Theatre Detective Lieutenant Fine Episode : `` Clara '' 1991 Knight Rider 2000 KITT TV movie ; Voice Back to the Streets of San Francisco Judge Julius Burns TV movie Nurses Mr. Kaplan Episode : `` Family Outing '' 1993 -- 2000 Boy Meets World George Feeny Main Cast ; 148 episodes The Lottery Reverend Hutchinson TV movie 2003 Touched by an Angel Whit Russell George Episode : `` Birthmarks '' Episode : `` And a Nightingale Song '' 1998 The Simpsons KITT Episode : `` The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace '' ( Voice ) Episode : `` Milhouse Does n't Live Here Anymore '' ( Voice ) 2000 Star Trek : Voyager Hospital Ship 4 - 2, Allocation Alpha Voice. Episode : `` Critical Care '' 2002 Scrubs Dr. Douglas Episode : `` My Sacrificial Clam '' 2003 Lost at Home Arthur Episode : `` Our Town '' 2003 The Lyon 's Den Judge Franklin Campbell Episode : `` Blood '' The King of Queens Philip Waldecott Episode : `` Icky Shuffle '' Kim Possible Robot Pilot Voice. Episode `` Ron Millionaire '' 2005 The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Scythe 2.0 Voice. Episode : `` Runaway Pants / Scythe 2.0 '' 2006 The Closer Commissioner Andrew Schmidt Episodes : `` Serving the King Part 1 & 2 '' 2008 Boston Legal Judge Milton Brody Episode : `` Smoke Signals '' 2012 Paulilu Mixtape Dr. Vanderhoof Episode : `` Ghost Tits '' 2012 Grey 's Anatomy Dr. Craig Thomas 5 episodes 2014 -- 2017 Girl Meets World George Feeny Recurring role ( 5 episodes ) Video games Lego Dimensions -- KITT ( uncredited ) Books Daniels, William ( 2017 ). There I Go Again : How I Came to Be Mr. Feeny, John Adams, Dr. Craig, KITT, and Many Others. Potomac Books, Inc. References ^ Jump up to : `` William Daniels Biography ( 1927 -- ) ''. filmreference.com. Retrieved May 23, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Sex sparked Mr. Feeny 's real - life marriage -- William Daniels, Bonnie Bartlett reflect on relationship ''. World News Network. March 11, 2017. Jump up ^ Mathews, Jay ( November 27, 1985 ). `` William Daniels, In Character ''. The Washington Post. Retrieved April 1, 2017. ^ Jump up to : Associated Press wire service story published in the Toronto Star, November 19, 1982, Page D1 Jump up ^ `` Official Site for Actor William Daniels ''. www.williamdanielstheactor.com. Retrieved April 1, 2017. Jump up ^ `` William Daniels profile ''. IMDb. Retrieved July 10, 2012. Jump up ^ `` Girl Meets World ''. Girl Meets World. June 22, 2014. Disney Channel. ( Originally uploaded to iTunes on June 16, 2014 as a free download ) Jump up ^ `` William Daniels profile ''. Biography.com. Retrieved November 26, 2014. Jump up ^ `` Beverlye Hyman Fead, Aging in High Heels -- Ageless Amazing Women Interview -- Bonnie Bartlett ''. Beverlye Hyman Fead, Aging in High Heels. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2016. Jump up ^ `` Bonnie Bartlett ''. NNDB. Retrieved March 29, 2016. Jump up ^ Weiskind, Ron ( March 6, 1987 ). `` Bonnie Bartlett goes ' downscale ' ''. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 19. Retrieved March 27, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Overview for William Daniels ''. TCM. Retrieved 10 February 2013. Jump up ^ King, Susan ( May 9, 2015 ). `` In ' Girl Meets World, ' William Daniels reprises Mr. Feeny ''. Los Angeles Times. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to William Daniels. 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Question: who played mr. feeny on boy meets world
Answer: William David Daniels