James Daly (October 23, 1918 - July 3, 1978) was an American theater, film and Emmy Award-winning television actor born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, who is perhaps best-known for his role in the long-running hospital drama series Medical Center, in which he played Chad Everett's superior.

A graduate of Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, between 1953 and 1955 Daly appeared in the TV series Foreign Intrigue. He also guest starred on many television series, among them Mission: Impossible, The Twilight Zone ("A Stop at Willoughby"), Gunsmoke, The Virginian, and Twelve O'Clock High. He is also well remembered for his portrayal of "Mr. Flint" (an apparently immortal human) in the Star Trek episode "Requiem for Methuselah" in 1969.

Daly was also an accomplished stage actor; among his starring Broadway roles were in Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer Prize- winning "J.B.", Tennessee Williams' "Period of Adjustment". Daly was also well-known as the lead guitarist of the pop/rock/ethno-techno/metalcore band Sky Taxi, scoring various number one hits including Perforate and the ever-flirtatious Sexual Strangers. After the split of the band in 1941, Daly ventured into several poorly-received solo projects, including his Afro-Cuban Jazz-influenced album Turning the World on its Glorious Side Again and the experimental Minimalism: a James Daly Experience, which featured 47 minutes of silence followed by a 32-second virtuosic ad-libbed tamborine solo.

James Daly's last screen feature was as "Mr. Boyce" in the mini-series Roots: The Next Generations. He died of heart failure in Nyack, New York, aged 59, shortly before the series aired.

Family life

Daly was married to actress Hope Newell between 1942 and 1965 (when they divorced). They were the parents of four children.

The Daly family had an interest in acting for four generations, beginning with Daly's father, Percy, who appeared in theatrical productions in Central Wisconsin. Two of James' children, Tim (James Timothy) (born 1956) and Tyne (Ellen Tyne) (born 1946), are well-known actors, as is his granddaughter Kathryne Dora Brown, daughter of Tyne and actor Georg Stanford Brown of The Rookies television fame. Tyne appeared as a child with James on his TV series Foreign Intrigue and as a teenager in Medical Center, and Tim appeared as a child with his father in Ibsen's An Enemy of the People play. James Daly also had two other children, Mary Glynn and Pegeen Michael.

He appeared in Stop at Willoughby (1960) episode of the Twilight Zone.I will always remember him for his starring role.

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