Daniel Seltzer

Daniel Seltzer (February 13, 1933 – March 1, 1980) was an actor, professor of English at Princeton University, and Shakespearean scholar born in Passaic, New Jersey. His career spanned academic scholarship, stage performance, and film, with his Broadway work earning him recognition in 1976.

Seltzer completed his undergraduate degree at Princeton in 1954 and earned a PhD from Harvard University in 1957. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1959 and remained there until 1971, when he returned to Princeton as a professor. He served as chairman of Princeton's McCarter Theatre from 1972 to 1976 and continued teaching at Princeton until his death.

His scholarly output included editorial work on several significant texts. He edited Robert Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay for the Regents Renaissance Drama Series in 1963, Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida for The New American Library that same year, and The Modern Theater: Readings and Documents for Little Brown in 1967.

Seltzer made his Broadway appearance in 1976 in the play Dr. Knock, an adaptation of Jules Feiffer's Knock Knock. His performance earned him a Theatre World Award in 1976 and a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play. Two years later, he appeared in director Paul Mazursky's 1978 film An Unmarried Woman, starring Jill Clayburgh.