Life and Career
Daly was born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin to a working class family: his mother, Dorothy Ethelbert (Hogan) Mullen, later did work for the CIA, and his father, Percifer Charles Daly, was a fuel merchant. during the 1930s, Daly studied drama and acted in shows before he worked for the armed services, and served with the Navy as World War II ended. 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 Appointment with Adventure (two episodes), Breaking Point, Mission: Impossible, The Twilight Zone ("A Stop at Willoughby"), The Tenderfoot (1964) for Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, The Road West (1966 episode "The Gunfighter"), Custer, Gunsmoke, Combat, 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." and Tennessee Williams' "Period of Adjustment".
In addition to his acting career, Daly was one of the hosts on NBC Radio's weekend Monitor program in 1963-64.
Daly's last screen feature was as "Mr. Boyce" in the mini-series Roots: The Next Generations.
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