TV’s Ted Baxter dies
NZPA-Reuter Los Angeles Ted Knight, whose buffoon, self-centred newscaster, Ted Baxter, in the “Mary Tyler Moore Show,” became a television classic, died of cancer yesterday. He was 62.
He had returned home after undergoing hospital treatment and had been told by doctors to stop working at least for a time. Knight underwent surgery last year for the removal of a cancerous growth on his urinary tract.
Knight, the son of a Polish immigrant bartender and born Tadeus Konopka, played 300 parts in various television episodes.
The “Mary Tyler Moore Show” went out of produc-
tion in 1977. But it remained popular in reruns and Knight said he was continually asked by fans to give them an example of his Baxter character. He won two Emmy awards for the role.
Knight followed the series with a short-lived Broadway show, "Some of my Best Friends,” and a television series, “The ■Ted Knight Show.” But he tasted success again with “Too Close for Comfort,” in which he played a family man.
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