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William Windom

William Windom

Birthday: 1923-09-28 | Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

William Windom was an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his work on television, including several episodes of The Twilight Zone; playing the character of Glen Morley, a congressman from Minnesota like his own great-grandfather and namesake in The Farmer's Daughter; the character of John Monroe on the sitcom My World and Welcome to It, for which he won an Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series; as Commodore Matt Decker, commander of the doomed U.S.S. Constellation in the Star Trek episode "The Doomsday Machine"; the character Randy Lane in the Emmy-nominated Night Gallery episode "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar" and perhaps that of the most common recurring character on the Emmy-winning series Murder, She Wrote, Seth Hazlitt. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Windom, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1996
1994
Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman

as    Hamilton Cobb

1993
Sommersby

as    Reverend Powell

1989
Street Justice

as    Father Burke

1988
She's Having a Baby

as    Russell Bainbridge

1987
Funland

as    Angus Perry

1987
Dead Aim

as    McWhorter

1986
There Must Be a Pony

as    Lee Hertzig

1985
Surviving

as    Dr. Madsen

1985
Space Rage

as    Gov. Tovah

1984
Grandview, U.S.A.

as    Bob Cody

1982
Desperate Lives

as    Dr. Jarvis

1981
Separate Ways

as    Huey Block

1981
Leave 'Em Laughing

as    Smiley Jenkins

1976
Echoes of a Summer

as    Dr. Hallet

1974
The Day the Earth Moved

as    Judge Tom Backsler

1972
Now You See Him, Now You Don't

as    Professor Lufkin

1972
Pursuit

as    Robert Phillips

1971
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

as    Charlie Snead

1971
Escape

as    Doctor Henry Walding

1971
The Mephisto Waltz

as    Dr. Roger West

1971
A Taste of Evil

as    Harold Jennings

1971
Fools' Parade

as    Roy K. Sizemore

1971
Escape from the Planet of the Apes

as    The President

1971
Marriage: Year One

as    Warren Duden

1970
House on Greenapple Road

as    Paul Durstine

1970
Brewster McCloud

as    Weeks

1969
My World and Welcome to It

as    John Monroe