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Bill Daily (born August 30, 1927; Des Moines, Iowa) is an American comedian and dramatic actor, and...

Bill Daily (born August 30, 1927; Des Moines, Iowa) is an American comedian and dramatic actor, and a veteran of many television sitcoms. Daily's father died when Bill was very young, and consequently he was raised by his mother and various other family members. In 1939, Daily and his family moved to Chicago, where he spent the rest of his youth. Upon high school graduation, Daily left home to try to carve out a life as a musician, playing bass with jazz bands in numerous clubs across the Midwest. Bill was drafted into the Army and served in Korea with an artillery unit. It was in his traveling-musician days that Daily found his true calling: comedy. He began to do stand-up in the same clubs he had once filled with music, and he soon moved up in the comedy ranks to the point where he was playing some of the bigger clubs in the country. After graduating from the Goodman Theatre School, Daily worked for the NBC television station in Chicago, WMAQ, as an announcer and floor manager. He eventually became a staff director. Daily recently recalled for PBS how one day, preparing for a Chicago-area Emmy Award telecast, he asked a young local comedian to come up with a routine about press