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Ted Knight (December 7, 1923–August 26, 1986) was an American actor. Ted Knight has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to Television, at 6671 Hollywood Boulevard.
<p>Born Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka to a Polish American family in Terryville, Connecticut, Knight dropped out of high school to enlist for military service in World War II, where his bravery was accordingly honored five bronze stars. He has the distinction of being the second most decorated American citizen of WWII.
<p>In 1948, he married Dorothy Smith, and eventually had three children, Ted Knight. Jr, Elyse, and Eric.
<p>During the postwar years, Knight studied acting in Hartford, Connecticut. He became proficient with puppets and ventriloquism, which led to steady work as a TV kiddie-show host. Knight spent most of the 1950s and 1960s doing commercial voice-overs and essaying minor TV and movie roles (he was the nonspeaking cop who was guarding Norman Bates at the end of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960...
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