A versatile character player of stage, film and, most successfully, TV, often cast in arrogant, authoritative or WASPish roles, William Daniels began performing as a child with his family. He made his Broadway debut as one of the youths in the long-running "Life With Father". Throughout the 1950s, he sporadically appeared in TV, but found his niche on the stage, appearing in the famed 1956 revival of "The Iceman Cometh" directed by Jose Quintero, essaying the lead in John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" on Broadway in 1958 and winning raves in Edward Albee's "The Zoo Story" (1960). During this
