Biography

Stan Daniels was born on July 31, 1934 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a writer and producer, known for Taxi (1978), The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) and Monkey House (1991). He was married to Alene Kamins. He died on April 6, 2007 in Encino, California, USA.

Father of writers Shelly, Dari Daniels and Alan Daniels and Lawrence Daniels, a prosecutor for the States Attorney Generals office.

He attended the University of Toronto, and subsequently received a fellowship to study at Oxford.

Studied at Oxford in England where he began writing for TV. Returned to Canada where he wrote sketches for the CBC comedy series "This Hour Has Seven Days" in the 1960s.

A series writer for the "Mary Tyler Moore Show", he was a co-creator and writer of the spinoff series "Phyllis". Earned 8 Emmy awards in all.