Though greatest identified for his position within the long-running sitcom “Cheers,” Ted Danson has loved an extended and remarkably different profession, transferring seamlessly between films and tv in addition to comedy and drama.
As this 12 months’s recipient of the Carol Burnett Award honoring his distinguished work in comedy, Danson’s versatility might be seen within the 13 Golden Globe nominations he has obtained over the course of his profession, successful twice for “Cheers” in addition to in 1985 for the heart-wrenching TV film “One thing About Amelia,” enjoying a father accused of molesting his teenage daughter.
Few actors can declare an extended roster of profitable and acclaimed TV comedies, as Danson adopted his 11-season run on “Cheers” with one other Globe-nominated position as “Becker,” “The Good Place,” and his recurring appearances as a model of himself on Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
His newest nomination comes for the brand new Netflix comedy “A Man on the Inside,” a touching have a look at growing older that reunites him with “Good Place” producer Michael Schur, casting Danson as a widower who goes undercover in a retirement neighborhood.
Born in San Diego, Danson grew up with no TV set (his dad and mom didn’t approve of it, however later purchased one to look at “Cheers”), however after graduating from Carnegie-Mellon College (previously Carnegie Tech) in Pittsburgh, labored primarily in TV in the course of the ’70s, beginning with the daytime drama “Somerset.” He then made his mark in dramatic movie roles, together with “The Onion Subject” and his breakout supporting efficiency within the twisty 1981 thriller “Physique Warmth.”
“Cheers,” like its theme tune, remodeled the actor right into a expertise the place everyone knew his identify as Sam Malone, the previous baseball participant turned bartender. The sequence a couple of Boston tavern populated by eccentric characters turned a linchpin of NBC’s highly effective “Should-See TV” lineup. The ultimate episode, broadcast in 1993, attracted greater than 80 million viewers, rating solely behind “M*A*S*H” amongst sequence finales.
Throughout these years Danson additionally appeared in a number of film roles, together with the favored comedy “Three Males and a Child” and its sequel, with Tom Selleck and Steve Guttenberg; reverse Jack Lemmon within the drama “Dad,” and within the romantic comedy “Cousins.”
In more moderen years Danson has shifted between genres, co-starring within the authorized thriller “Damages,” the darkish satire “Fargo,” the sitcom “Mr. Mayor” and a run on the procedural “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.”
Off display screen, Danson’s activism has included Oceana (initially based because the American Oceans Marketing campaign), a company dedicated to preserving the world’s oceans. He met his spouse, Mary Steenburgen, on the film “Pontiac Moon,” and the 2 have been married since 1995, additionally teaming on a miniseries model of “Gulliver’s Travels” and the sitcom “Ink.”