
Daniel J. Travanti
The highly regarded actor Daniel J. Travanti was born Danielo Giovanni Travanty in the southeastern part of Wisconsin on March 7, 1940, but raised for a time in Iowa before returning to his native state. The youngest son of an American Motors auto worker, he showed both athletic and academic prowess in high school on both the football and debate teams. It was during the course of his studies at the University of Wisconsin that Dan first developed a strong, abiding interest in drama, appearing in many college plays while there. He, in fact, turned down top football scholarships in order to pursue his acting dream. Following training at the Yale School of Drama, he co-starred as Nick with Colleen Dewhurst in a touring company of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in 1965 and he was off and running.
77 acting credits
Acting · 77

Grey's Anatomy
2005

Criminal Minds
2005

Prison Break
2005

NCIS: Los Angeles
2009

Saturday Night Live
1975

Perry Mason
1957

Mannix
1967

Chicago Med
2015

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Knots Landing
1979

Hill Street Blues
1981

Mission: Impossible
1966

Cannon
1971

Hart to Hart
1979

The F.B.I.
1965

The Outer Limits
1995

Route 66
1960

Medical Center
1969

Newhart
1982

Lost in Space
1965

CHiPs
1977

Barnaby Jones
1973

Kojak
1973

The Defenders
1961

Gunsmoke
1955

Screen Two
1985

The Bob Newhart Show
1972

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964

Lancer
1968

The Mod Squad
1968

Judd, for the Defense
1967

Boss
2011

The Defenders
2010

Flipper
1964

The Patty Duke Show
1963

Battle of the Network Stars
1976

Gidget
1965

The Second Hundred Years
1967

Shane
1966

Captain Nice
1967

Love on a Rooftop
1966

Just Cause
1995

Missing Persons
1993

Night of 100 Stars
1982

Millennium
1989

NBC 75th Anniversary Special
2002

The Organization
1971

Megaville
1992

Siao Yu
1995

To Sir, with Love II
1996

One Small Hitch
2013

St. Ives
1976
Premiere
1968

Adam
1983

Who Killed Teddy Bear?
1965

My Name Is Kate
1994

It's My Turn
1980

Making a Case for Murder
1989

Midnight Crossing
1988

The Sixth Column
1970

The Wasp Woman
1995

Murrow
1986

The Love War
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In the Shadows, Someone's Watching
1993

Tagget
1991

Fellow Traveller
1989

Aurora
1984

Adam: His Song Continues
1986
Eyes of a Witness
1991

Murder in My House
2006

A Case of Libel
1983

Weep No More, My Lady
1992

Little Moon of Alban
1958

Little Moon of Alban
1964

I Never Sang for My Father
1988

The Winter Stallion
1992
Hello, Stranger
1992