FrameThrower · Actors · William Daniels
William Daniels
2 films · 129 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1967–1974
Born 31 March 1927 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
William David Daniels is an American actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild (1999 to 2001). He is known for his performance as Dustin Hoffman's father in The Graduate (1967), as John Adams in 1776, as Carter Nash in Captain Nice, as Mr. George Feeny in ABC's Boy Meets World, as the voice of KITT in Knight Rider, and as Dr. Mark Craig in St. Elsewhere, for which he won two Emmy Awards.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 129 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1967–1974
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series1986
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series1985
- Clarence Derwent Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 129 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work William takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 50% of their frames are day — the look of the work William takes.
Time of day
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 129 frames from William Daniels's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.