William Windom (actor)

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William Windom (actor) : biography

23 September 1923 – 16 August 2012

William Windom (September 28, 1923 – August 16, 2012) was an American actor. He was perhaps best known for his work on television, including two episodes of The Twilight Zone. He portrayed Glen Morley, a fictional congressman from Minnesota, a role based on Windom’s own Republican great-grandfather and namesake, in the ABC sitcom, The Farmer’s Daughter, with Inger Stevens as his beautiful young housekeeper.

Windom also achieved fame as 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"; perhaps the most common recurring character, Dr. Seth Hazlitt, on the Emmy-winning CBS series Murder, She Wrote, and for voicing Puppetino in Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night.

Filmography

  • Guestward, Ho!, ABC television series, episode "The Christmas Spirit" (1960)
  • Gunsmoke, CBS-TV series (1961, 1962, and 1972)
  • The Donna Reed Show, ABC series, "All Is Forgiven" (1961) and "The Wide Open Spaces" (1962)
  • The Twilight Zone episode: "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" (TV Series, 1961)
  • Cheyenne as Dennis Carter in "Legacy of the Lost" (1961)
  • Checkmate as Peter Morell in "Through a Dark Glass" (1961)
  • The New Breed as Warren Gilels in "The Compulsion to Confess" (1961)
  • The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor as Sutter in "Tobey’s Place" (1961)
  • Follow the Sun as Meredith St. John in "A Ghost in Her Gazebo" (1962)
  • Bus Stop as Ed Henderson in "The Ordeal of Kevin Brooke (1962)
  • Stoney Burke as Reese Ludlow in "A Matter of Pride" (1962)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  • 77 Sunset Strip, 2 episodes (1962-1963)
  • Cattle King (1963)
  • Combat! as Captain Lew Anders in "Off Limits" (1963)
  • For Love or Money (1963)
  • The Farmer’s Daughter (ABC series with Inger Stevens, 1963–1966)
  • The Twilight Zone episode: "Miniature" (TV series, 1963)
  • Empire as Lawrence Rowan in "Hidden Asset" (1963)
  • One Man’s Way (1964)
  • The Americanization of Emily (1964)
  • The Wild Wild West as Ben Victor in "The Night of the Flying Pie Plate" (1966)
  • Twelve O’Clock High as Lt. Col. Christy in "Gauntlet of Fire" (1966)
  • Hour of the Gun (1967)
  • Star Trek episode: "The Doomsday Machine" (TV series, 1967)
  • The Fugitive episode: "The Ivy Maze" (TV series, 1967)
  • The Invaders (TV series, 1967)
  • Custer (ABC TV series starring Wayne Maunder, 1967)
  • Mission Impossible episode: "The Widow" (TV series, 1967)
  • Columbo: Prescription: Murder (TV movie, 1968)
  • The Detective (1968)
  • The Angry Breed (1968)
  • The Gypsy Moths (1969)
  • My World and Welcome to It (TV series, 1969)
  • Hawaii Five-O episode: "Which Way Did They Go?" (TV series, 1969)
  • Brewster McCloud (1970)
  • House on Greenapple Road (TV movie, 1970)
  • Columbo: Short Fuse (TV series, 1972)
  • The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
  • Taste of Evil (1971)
  • Night Gallery episode segment: "They’re Tearing Down Tim Riley’s Bar"’ (TV series, 1971)
  • Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
  • Fools’ Parade (1971)
  • The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (TV movie, 1971)
  • All in the Family episode: "Success Story" (TV series, 1971)
  • Night Gallery episode segment: "Little Girl Lost"’ (TV series, 1972)
  • Now You See Him, Now You Don’t (1972)
  • The Streets of San Francisco (TV series, 1972)
  • The Man (1972)