Edward Bridge Danson III is an American actor and producer. He played Sam Malone on the NBC sitcom Cheers and Dr. John Becker on the CBS sitcom Becker. He also starred in the CBS dramas CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: Cyber as D. B. Russell. He plays a recurring role on Larry David’s HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm. In 2015 he starred as Hank Larsson in the second season of FX’s black comedy-crime drama anthology Fargo. From 2016 to 2020, he played the afterlife architect Michael in theNBC sitcom The Good Place.
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Edward Bridge Danson III is an American actor and producer. He played Sam Malone on the NBC sitcom Cheers and Dr. John Becker on the CBS sitcom Becker. He also starred in the CBS dramas CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: Cyber as D. B. Russell. He plays a recurring role on Larry David’s HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm, starred alongside Glenn Close in legal drama Damages, and was a regular on the HBO comedy series Bored to Death. In 2015 he starred as Hank Larsson in the second season of FX’s black comedy-crime drama anthology Fargo. From 2016 to 2020, he played the afterlife architect Michael in theNBC sitcom The Good Place. Danson has been nominated for 18 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning two; 11 Golden Globe Awards nominations, winning three; one Screen Actors Guild Award; and one American Comedy Award and has been awarded a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. In 2002, TV Guide named Cheers the 18th Greatest Show of All Time. In March 2011, he published his first book, Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them, written with journalist Michael D’Orso. He was ranked second in TV Guide’s list of the top 25 television stars. He has also been a longtime activist in ocean conservation.
His ancestry includes English and Scottish. In 1961, Danson enrolled in the Kent School, a prep school in Connecticut, where he was a star player on the basketball team. He became interested in drama while attending Stanford University and, seeking a better acting program, transferred to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama in 1972. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he made a number of guest appearances in episodic television, including spots on Laverne & Shirley, B. J. and the Bear, Family, Benson, Taxi, Magnum, P. I., The Amazing Spider-Man and Tucker’s Witch. He went on to star in successful sitcom Becker, which ran from 1998 to 2004. He later co-starred in Something About Amelia, a drama, about a family devastated by the repercussions of incest, with Glenn Close. He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1996 for an episode of Curb Yourself. In 2009, he reprised his fictional version of himself as Lemuel Gulliver and his wife Mary Steenburg in an acclaimed television miniseries of Gullivers Travels.
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