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Howard Weston "Ted" Bessell Jr. (March 20, 1935 – October 6, 1996) was an American television actor and director widely known for his role as Donald Hollinger, the boyfriend and eventual fiancé of Marlo Thomas's character in the TV series That Girl (1966–1971).
It was one of the first sitcoms to focus on an unmarried woman who was not a domestic or living with her parents, a forerunner of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Ted Bessell played her boyfriend Donald Hollinger, a writer for Newsview Magazine. Lew Parker and Rosemary DeCamp played Lew Marie and Helen Marie, her concerned parents.
Scream, Pretty Peggy is a 1973 American made-for-television horror film directed by Gordon Hessler and starring Bette Davis, Ted Bessell, and Sian Barbara Allen.Its plot follows a young college student who is given a job by a sculptor housekeeping at a mysterious mansion where his sister and their elderly mother reside.
Ted Bessell was featured in two additional short-lived sitcoms after Me and the Chimp: NBC’s Good Time Harry in 1980 and Hail to the Chief on ABC in 1985. Both lasted for just seven episodes ...
Instead, the final episode featured Ann Marie taking her boyfriend Donald (Ted Bessell) to a women's liberation meeting. "Like anything else in life, marriage is a choice," Thomas explains.
Joe Warner is played by actor Ted Bessell. He becomes Mary's boyfriend during season six, appearing in two episodes. Prior to appearing on Mary Tyler Moore, he is best known for portraying Donald Hollinger, Marlo Thomas' boyfriend on the sitcom That Girl. Bill, Mary's ex-boyfriend. A doctor, whom Mary dated throughout his med school and ...
Thomas in That Girl (1968) Thomas (center) with co-star Ted Bessell (left) and guest star Mary Frann (right), in a 1968 photo from That Girl. Thomas starred in an ABC pilot called Two's Company in 1965. Although it did not sell, it caught the attention of a network programming executive.
Aspiring actress Ann Marie is working at a newsstand in an office building, where she meets Donald Hollinger (Ted Bessell), a writer for Newsview magazine.Ann is cast in a television commercial filming in the lobby of the office building, but an encounter with the chivalrous Donald may end her job.