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Birth Name: Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka
Date of Birth: December 7, 1923
Place of Birth: Terryville, Litchfield County, Connecticut, U.S.
Date of Death: August 26, 1986
Place of Death: Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Ethnicity: Polish
Ted Knight was an American actor. His roles included the film Caddyshack and television’s The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Too Close for Comfort .
He was the son of Sophie/Sophia (Kowalewski/Kowaleska/Kovaleski) and Charles Walter Konopka, a bartender. His parents were Polish. He was married to Dorothy Smith, until his death, with whom he had three children.