Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka was born in Litchfield County, Connecticut back in 1923 to Charles and Sophia. He dropped out of high school to enlist in the United States Army in World War II, he was a member of A Company, 296th Combat Engineer Battalion. He earned five battle stars while serving in the European Theatre.
Postwar he studied acting in Hartford, Connecticut. He became proficient with puppets and ventriloquism. He spent most of 1950’s and 1960’s doing commercial voice-overs and playing minor television and movie roles. He received six Emmy Award nominations for his performance by an actor in a supporting role in comedy. He appeared in a few episodes of The Love Boat. His final big-screen role was in the 1980 comedy Caddyshack. He died in 1986 from colon cancer, he was 62.
While you may not recognize the birth name, for those of you old enough, giving away my age here, surely you know his stage name Ted Knight?
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