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