Daily stated that preparing for a Chicago-area Emmy Award telecast, he asked a young Bob Newhart to come up with a routine about press agents that resulted in the routine "Abe Lincoln vs. After graduating from the Goodman Theatre School, Daily worked for the NBC television station WMAQ in Chicago as an announcer and floor manager.
In the early 1950s he was drafted into the United States Army, serving in the Korean War with an artillery unit and later with an entertainment unit.įollowing his time in the Army, Daily began performing stand-up comedy and gradually began playing some of the bigger clubs in the country.
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Following graduation from Lane Technical High School, Daily studied for a time at the Goodman Theatre School, then left home to become a professional musician, playing upright bass with jazz bands in numerous clubs across the Midwest. In 1939, Daily and his family moved from Des Moines to Chicago, Illinois, where he spent the rest of his youth. Two weeks after he was born, Daily’s father went out to get a loaf of bread and never returned. He was a regular panelist in three incarnations of Match Game:ĭaily was born in Des Moines, Iowa, the son of Fern Ellis and Raymond Daily. He is best known for his roles as Roger Healey in I Dream of Jeannie and Howard Borden in The Bob Newhart Show. William Edward "Bill" Daily (30 August 1927 – 4 September 2018) was an American actor and comedian.
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