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Most Recent Role: Dr. Morgan Remus on Ugly Betty
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Gurdon, Arkansas, USA
Birthday: 11-26-1945
Daniel Davis is an Arkansas native, born November 26th, 1945 in Gurdon. He was born to parents who owned and operated a movie theater. His desire to become an actor started when he spent a lot of time in the theater's "crying room" for babies. His first professional work came when he was 11 years old, when he became a member of a local Little Rock broadcast children's show, Betty's Little...

Most Recent Appearance

 
Ugly Betty
Burning Questions
Thursday 1 May 2008 on ABC

Renee becomes convinced that Betty is in love with Daniel and thus starts a rivalry between the two for his affections. In the meantime, Gina returns to Queens to flash her new life and rich husband before Hilda's face.

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As a child, Davis took elocution lessons to rid himself of his southern accent. (edit)
As a child, Davis wanted to be a fireman, doctor, or astronaut until he realized that they were excuses to be theatrical. (edit)
Davis was let go from La Cage aux Folles on March 27, 2005. The reason cited was "obnoxious offstage behavior". Davis was replaced by Robert Goulet. (edit)
He took the initiative and arranged his own audition at the age of 11, for Betty's Little Rascals. His parents were in no way involved. (edit)
Davis is left-handed. (edit)

Quotes

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Davis: And that's the wonderful thing about being an actor. You get to be everything you ever wanted to be without having to go through any of the heartache of being it. It is the advantage of being in this profession. (edit)
Davis: (Referring to his character on The Nanny, Niles) It was one of those moments you find out something about a character... a side to them that you have no idea exists. In some ways, Niles works best the less you know about him. You don't really want to blow too much knowledge about him at this point or maybe ever, because he really works best when he comes in and does something completely surprising. (edit)
Davis: They all really believed in the whole notion of sinister, and being lefthanded you were somehow marked by Satan. I don't mean to make us out as booga-booga type people, but there was pressure. When I first got to school, my first grade teacher was kind of questioning my choice of picking up the pencils and crayons with my left hand. (edit)
Davis: I hardly ever go to the theater because I'm almost always wanting too much from it and it almost never gives me what I want. I haven't learned to go without expectation yet. I go to the movies with no expectations whatsoever and so they almost always entertain me. I thought I wouldn't television as well. (edit)
Davis: I wanted to be a lawyer if I could be Raymond Burr on Perry Mason. I wanted to be an evangelist if I could be Billy Graham. I wanted to be a scientist, but only if I could be Albert Einstein or Albert Schweitzer. It was all bigger than life; it was always about being enormous. (edit)

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Longhair & Doubledome
Longhair
The Nanny
Niles
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Dynasty
Harry Thresher
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Cagney & Lacey
Lady Luck
Arthur Cole
Cheers
The Peterson Principle
Mr. Reinhardt
Chicago Hope
Leggo My Ego
Gambler
Chicago Hope
Guns 'n' Roses
Orderly
Civil Wars
Tape Fear
Harvey Gutfreund
Columbo
No Time to Die
Alex Varrick
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