Bonnie Bartlett (born June 20, 1929) is an American television and film actress. Her career spans over 60 years, with her first major role being on a 1950s daytime drama, Love of Life. She is best known for her role as Ellen Craig on the medical drama series St. Elsewhere. She and her husband, actor William Daniels, who played her fictional husband Dr. Mark Craig, won 1986 Emmy Awards on the same night, becoming the first married couple to accomplish the feat since Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1965.
Robert Daniels, William Daniels Jr., Michael Daniels
Parents
E.E. Bartlett, Carrie Bartlett
Awards
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Movies
Twins, Saving Shiloh, Shiloh, Tuesdays with Morrie, Dave, Primary Colors, Sleeping with the Devil, The Last Tycoon, Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season, Promises in the Dark, The Deliberate Stranger, Valediction, Love Letters, The Great Los Angeles Earthquake, Nina, In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy, Take Me...
On Boy Meets World (1993), she had a recurring role as the dean of the college that Cory and his friends attended. Her real-life husband, William Daniels, played Cory's beloved principal who followed them there and accepted a professorship. Bartlett and Daniels married each other on the show after their characters met each other, just as they have been in real life.
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Her first child with actor William Daniels--whom she had met while attending Northwestern University--was a son they named William Daniels Jr., but he died shortly after birth in 1961.
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In the fall of 2000 she was an honoree at her former school, Moline High School, in their Hall of Honor. Her plaque sits in a viewing window in the auditorium lobby in Moline, Illinois.
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Raised in Moline, Illinois (USA)
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Bartlett and husband, actor William Daniels, won Emmys in 1986 for their portrayals of another married couple, Dr. and Mrs. Mark Craig, on the cult TV series St. Elsewhere (1982).
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Nina
2016
Recital Stage Woman
Key and Peele
2015
TV Series
Mother
Parks and Recreation
2013
TV Series
Paula Horke
Of Two Minds
2012
TV Movie
Kathleen
Valediction
2011
Short
Annabel
Grey's Anatomy
2008
TV Series
Rosemary Bullard
General Hospital
2006
TV Series
Miriam Spinelli
Boston Legal
2006
TV Series
Marguerite Hauser
Saving Shiloh
2006
Mrs. Wallace
Huff
2005
TV Series
Margaret
It Must Be Love
2004
TV Movie
Kate Gazelle
NCIS
2004
TV Series
Dr. Sylvia Chalmers
Touched by an Angel
1997-2003
TV Series
Loretta / Dr. Lucy Scribner / Emily Vincent
Firefly
2002
TV Series
Patience
Strong Medicine
2002
TV Series
Edna Carlyle
Once and Again
1999-2002
TV Series
Barbara Brooks
Tuesdays with Morrie
1999
TV Movie
Charlotte
The Practice
1997-1999
TV Series
Joanne Oz
Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season
1999
Mrs. Wallace
Boy Meets World
1997-1999
TV Series
Dean Lila Bolander
Home Improvement
1995-1998
TV Series
Lucille Taylor
Family Blessings
1998
TV Movie
Mavis Lallek
Stargate SG-1
1998
TV Series
Linea
Primary Colors
1998
Martha Harris
ER
1997-1998
TV Series
Ruth Greene
Sleeping with the Devil
1997
TV Movie
Stasha Dubrovich
Ghosts of Mississippi
1996
Billie DeLaughter
Shiloh
1996
Mrs. Wallace
The Faculty
1996
TV Series
Katherine
The Courtyard
1995
TV Movie
Cathleen Fitzgerald
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
1995
TV Movie
Aunt Alice
The Grass Harp
1995
Mrs. Buster
See Jane Run
1995
TV Movie
Doris
Take Me Home Again
1994
TV Movie
Sylvia
A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
$18 Million
