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William Edward Daily (August 30, 1927 – September 4, 2018) was an American actor and comedian known for his sitcom work as Major Roger Healey on I Dream of Jeannie and Howard Borden on The Bob Newhart Show.
In 1972, two years after I Dream of Jeannie was canceled, Daily appeared as Howard Borden in The Bob Newhart Show. Borden, a commercial airline navigator who later becomes a co-pilot, lives across the hall from Bob Newhart's Bob Hartley character. He frequently pops into the Hartleys' apartment to borrow things, mooch a meal, or have the Hartleys take care of his visiting son.
For the two years that followed The Bob Newhart Show, Daily returned to stand-up. In 1980, after years of making a living as a second banana, Daily was offered his own show. Called Small & Frye, the program featured Daily as a neurotic doctor; it lasted for only three months before being canceled. In 1981 he starred opposite Debbie Reynolds in the short lived Aloha Paradise - a Love Boat type show based in Hawaii. Daily, a lifelong lover of magic, made three syndicated TV specials introducing young magicians, called Bill Daily's Hocus-Pocus Gang, broadcast in 1982 and 1983.
In 1987, Daily was named director of the New Mexico Film Commission.
In 1988, Daily tried his hand again at starring roles, this time as another doctor on the sitcom Starting From Scratch. The show fared slightly better than Frye, but was canceled after one season. Daily's most notable post- Newhart role was another supporting character, that of Larry the psychiatrist on ALF (1986). Jack Riley appeared as an unnamed patient, clearly reprising Elliot Carlin from The Bob Newhart Show. ALF claimed to have learned all he knew about psychology from watching the earlier series.
Daily twice reprised his I Dream of Jeannie role of Roger Healey in two made-for-TV reunion movies: I Dream of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Later (1985) and I Still Dream of Jeannie (1991). In 1990, Daily reunited with Bob Newhart as a new, overbearing neighbor in the Newhart episode "Good Neighbor Sam". Also in 1991, he reprised the role of Howard Borden in , broadcast on CBS in November of that year. In 1997, he was a guest star on Caroline in the City.
Although mostly retired, Daily occasionally made some live comedy and television guest appearances into the 2000s. From 2006 to February 2009, he was a guest host on radio station KBQI in Albuquerque.
In 1993, Daily married his third wife, Becky. The couple remained together until her death in 2010. His manager and publicist was Patterson Lundquist.
Daily died of natural causes on September 4, 2018, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, four days after his 91st birthday. His death was announced by his family three days later and his ashes were scattered nearby.
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