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Ted Danson

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Ted Danson

TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”


Who is Ted Danson?

Ted Danson is an American actor best known for his roles on the television shows Cheers, Becker, and CSI. He has won numerous awards including several Golden Globe Awards, Primetime Emmy Awards, and an American Comedy Award. He has also had appearances in a number of motion pictures including a co-starring role in Three Men and a Baby. He is an avid ocean conservation activist and in 2011 he published his first book titled Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do To Save Them which he co-wrote with journalist Michael D'Orso.

Famous Kin

Ted Danson is a descendant of at least two Mayflower passengers, John Howland and John Tilley. He also has royal connections that includes King Henry VIII and two of his wives, Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour. He has a family relationship to the current royal family through a connection to the late Princess Diana and her son Prince William. He also has a kinship to Prince William's wife Catherine Middleton.

Ted Danson has a number of family relationships to U.S. Presidents and First Ladies including, but not limited to, Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Warren G. Harding, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Edith (Carow) Roosevelt, and Herbert Hoover. He also has a number of connections to fellow actors including Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Alec Baldwin, and Richard Gere.

Family Facts

The Black Death

Bishop's Stortford is a historic market town whose earliest known settlement goes back Roman times when it was a small settlement on the main road from London to Colchester. Although abandoned by the Romans, it later became a Saxon settlement and over the centuries the town's population grew to over 1,000 people by the mid-17th century.

However the plague, also known as The Black Death, recurred repeatedly through much of Europe from the 14th to 17th centuries. The plague is estimated to have killed anywhere from 30% to 60% of Europe's population during this time. Bishop's Stortford is known to have fell victim to at least three separate outbreaks of the plague during this time.

John Denison of Bishop's Stortford is the 11th great-grandfather of actor Ted Danson. In 1582 the plague broke out in Bishop's Stortford and on December 4, 1582, John Denison died as one of its victims.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Ted Danson

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William Egan

1st Governor of Alaska

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Jonathan Brewster

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Levi Parsons Morton

22nd U.S. Vice-President

6th cousin 5 times removed
via John Howland

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Taylor Lautner

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Jonathan Brewster

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Taylor Lautner

TV and Movie Actor

11th cousin 2 times removed
via John Howland

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Taylor Lautner

TV and Movie Actor

9th cousin 3 times removed
via William Judd

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Michael Lookinland

TV Actor

19th cousin
via Sir Thomas Aylesbury

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Michael Lookinland

TV Actor

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Thomas Mowbray

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Michael Lookinland

TV Actor

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Robert de Ferrers

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Bob Moore

Co-Founder, Bob's Red Mill

21st cousin
via William de Ros

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Bob Moore

Co-Founder, Bob's Red Mill

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Bob Moore

Co-Founder, Bob's Red Mill

18th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Michael de la Pole

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Bob Moore

Co-Founder, Bob's Red Mill

17th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir John Howard

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Diane Brewster

TV and Movie Actress

10th cousin 1 time removed
via William Brewster

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Diane Brewster

TV and Movie Actress

10th cousin
via Thomas Richards

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Diane Brewster

TV and Movie Actress

10th cousin
via Nehemiah Smith

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Lyman Spitzer

Astronomer and Theoretical Physicist

10th cousin
via Jonathan Brewster

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

9th cousin
via George Denison Jr.

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Lyman Spitzer

Astronomer and Theoretical Physicist

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Thomas Richards

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James Spader

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin 1 time removed
via Gov. John Sanford

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Matthew Woodruff

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Lyman Spitzer

Astronomer and Theoretical Physicist

9th cousin
via John B. Denison

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Henry Huttleston Rogers

Oil Tycoon

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Gov. John Sanford

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin 1 time removed
via Thomas Parke

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Ralph Neville

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin 1 time removed
via William Brewster

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Ted Danson photo by Rob Dicaterino (CC BY 2.0)