I was reading an article about Will and Grace today where it said that the show was one of the few shows where ALL the cast won Emmys for that show.
I hate it when articles make such a statement without including the others.
The only other one that came to mind was the Golden Girls. All four principle characters won Emmys (and I think Richard Mulligan won one for on his spinoff, Empty Nest.)
What were the others? What shows had a lot of different actors win?
Everybody Loves Raymond got close, but the most talented actor, Peter Boyle, never got one. That gave them 4 of 5. (4 of 6 if you count Robert’s wife).
Seinfeld got 2 of 4.
Fraiser only had 2 of 5.
Cheers had Dansen, Alley, Neurith, Harrelson, Perlman, Cleese (guest), Long. But Normie, Cliff, Coach and Frasier never won (Fraiser of course would pick up a few on his own).
Dick van Dyck Show: Dick van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam – the entire cast except for Larry Matthews – won Emmys (they swept the awards in 1966).
In addition, Carl Reiner (producer) and Jerry Paris (director) appeared regularly on the show and won Emmys for the show, though not for acting.
The Golden Girls:
Estelle Getty, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, 1985
Betty White, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, 1985
Bea Arthur, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, 1986
Rue McLanahan, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, 1987
Susan Harris (producer/creator/writer) Outstanding Comedy Series, 1985
Tally of performance winners from Cheers: Ted Danson (2), Shelley Long (1), Rhea Perlman (4), Woody Harrelson (1), Kirstie Alley (2), Bebe Neuwirth (2) and John Cleese (1). John Ratzenberger and George Wendt were nominated 10 times between them but never won.
Taxi also did well: Judd Hirsch, Carol Kane and Christopher Lloyd won 2 Emmies each, Danny Devito won one, and strangely Ruth Gordon won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for 1979 for her one-shot guest appearance (an eccentric [of course] wealthy widow who takes a shine to Alex).
Surprising fact: The Bob Newhart Show never won an Emmy and only Suzanne Pleshette was ever nominated.
More trivia: Harry Anderson was nominated three times for Best Actor for Night Court and lost each time to John Larroquette (who won four Emmies for Night Court and one for his recurring role as the gay murderer on The Practice).
I agree Peter Boyle was the most talented actor on that show. Did you ever seen his guest role on X-Files? He did win an Emmy for that. I only watched syndicated Raymond reruns because there was nothing else on and he was on the show. As far as I could tell, his character was the only one that ever showed another side - the rest were all two-dimensional, always the same. It didn’t happen a lot but the best episode that I saw that demonstrated this was the one where there was a black out and he got a little tipsy and started dancing with all the women and he was a great dancer. Then he got angry with Debra for some stupid comment she made about it and he got to ACT. Another time he snuck out of the house to sing and play the keyboards at some lounge (and he sang well).
I think the fact that he never won an Emmy for that show proves that those awards are crap. Anyway, sorry for the hijack.
They did: Michael Conrad, Barbara Babcock, Daniel J. Travanti, Bruce Welz, Betty Thomas, all won, plus there were many others nominated. But the cast of the show was so big that the percentage is low.
Columbo did the best on a percentage basis: only one recurring character in the cast, and Peter Falk won an Emmy. Batting 1.000. (Several guest stars also won.)
Much of the West Wing cast has picked up at least one Emmy win for the show at one point or another, particularly the “core” from the Sorkin seasons: Allison Janney (4), Richard Schiff, Bradley Whitford, John Spencer, Stockard Channing all picked up wins, and the entire core cast plus several guest stars all picked up at least one nominations (and often multiple). Not to mention all of the other wins and noms the show got - the four Sorkin seasons were one of the rather more ridiculous Emmy runs in recent memory.
Yeah, he picked up Best Lead Actor, Drama noms for each of the first five seasons… and didn’t win it once. Lost to James Spader, Michael Chiklis, and James Gandolfini three times. To be fair, he had much more difficult competition than most of the rest of the cast - many of the other nominations were in the supporting categories, and there were a couple years where virtually the entire supporting actor/actress-drama categories were WW peoples because of the nature of their awesome ensemble cast. Kiefer Sutherland has been nominated and lost each season 24 has been on, too - Lead Actor-Drama has just been a stacked category for the last half decade.
Nomination, yes, win, no. He lost to John Spencer in the year where four of the six supporting actor-drama noms went to WW: Spencer, Hill, Schiff, and Whitford.
I’m getting all of this stuff from here, and I’m sure all of the other shows in questions have similar awards pages on IMDB.