William Edward Daily (August 30, 1927 – September 4, 2018)[1][2] was an American actor and comedian known for his sitcom work as Major Roger Healey on I Dream of Jeannie and Howard Borden on The Bob Newhart Show.

[3][4] Two weeks after his son was born, Daily's father left his home to buy a loaf of bread and never returned.

As astronaut Tony Nelson's best friend and NASA colleague, Roger often helped to solve the absurd social, military or other existential dilemmas that Nelson's sultry-but-naive genie (Barbara Eden) would unwittingly cause one or both of them at Cape Kennedy, during the early years of NASA's Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs.

In 1972, two years after I Dream of Jeannie was canceled, Daily was back on television in a non-military aviator's uniform, as Howard Borden in The Bob Newhart Show.

After regular Richard Dawson's departure in 1978, Daily was a semi-regular for the final three years of the show's CBS and syndicated run.

Called Small & Frye, the program featured Daily as a neurotic doctor; it lasted for only three months before being canceled.

Jack Riley appeared as an unnamed patient, clearly reprising Elliot Carlin from The Bob Newhart Show.

Also in 1991, he reprised the role of Howard Borden in The Bob Newhart Show: The 19th Anniversary Special, broadcast on CBS in November of that year.