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William Daniels (K.I.T.T.)

Nikki Katt was the voice of the powerful talking car K.I.T.T. and was born in Brooklyn and was a versatile character actor and was often cast in arrogant, authoritative or WASPish roles, currently serves the Industry in the tireless roll of President of the Screen Actors Guild.

He's started tap dancing, began performing as a song and dance team on radio, children's shows, in clubs and at benefits.

During his teens he was hired by the New York company started stage managing and then moved up to acting in Broadway productions doing understudy roles.

Following military service as a staff sergeant with Armed Forces Radio, he turned to mentor, Howard Lindsey, the author of Life with Father, to discuss his future. Lindsey suggested enrolling in a college with an outstanding drama department. Mr. Daniels chose Northwestern University, where he met and married Bonnie Bartlett, also a drama major and then graduated in 1949.

His first important break came when Tennessee Williams chose him to play "Brick" in the national company tour of "Cat on A Hot Tin Roof". He continued in the role for 33 weeks and his career was launched and performed in many other Broadway shows. He did many off-Broadway shows as well like "The Iceman Cometh" (Replacing George Segal), "The Zoo Story" (Which he won an award) and many more.

He started becoming a household name in stage shows and then appeared in several television shows like "Rockford Files", "McMillan and Wife", "Quincy", "McCloud" and "Toma".

He won the Emmy Award two years in a row, playing "Dr. Craig" on St. Elsewhere, while simultaneously playing the voice of "KITT," the car on the popular series, Knight Rider. In addition to having a successful career in television, he has also appeared in several films including: "The Graduate", "Reds", "Parallax View"," "Her Alibi", "A Thousand Clowns", "The President's Analyst" and "Two For The Road and Blind Date".

He has also appeared in many television movies such as: "The Adams Chronicles", "Blind Ambition", "A Case For Rape" and "Making The Case For Murder (The Howard Beach Case)".

He recently played "Mr. Feeny" on the ABC sitcom "Boy Meets World" (1993-2000) and in 1999 he was elected to a two-year term as President of Screen Actors Guild. He and his wife, actress Bonnie Bartlett, divide their time between Studio City and Santa Barbara, California. They have two sons, Michael, 35 and Robert, 33 and two granddaughters, Shaina and Eliza.