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William Windom
Known for: ActingWilliam Windom (September 28, 1923 – August 16, 2012) 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.
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The Invaders
as Major Rick Graves 
Uncle Buck
as Mr. Hatfield (voice) 
To Kill a Mockingbird
as Mr. Gilmer 
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
as The President 
The Detective
as Colin MacIver 
Fools' Parade
as Roy K. Sizemore 
Sommersby
as Reverend Powell 
She's Having a Baby
as Russell Bainbridge 
Hour of the Gun
as Texas Jack Vermillion 
Grandview, U.S.A.
as Bob Cody 
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering
as Doctor Rob Larson 
The Gypsy Moths
as John Brandon 
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
as Professor Lufkin 
Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman
as Hamilton Cobb 
The Americanization of Emily
as Captain Harry Spaulding 
For Love or Money
as Sam Travis 
Cattle King
as Harry Travers - Sharleen's Brother 
Committed
as Dr. Quilly 
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
as Puppetino (voice) 
Prescription: Murder
as Burt Gordon 
The Mephisto Waltz
as Dr. Roger West 
A Taste of Evil
as Harold Jennings 
Chance of a Lifetime
as Dr. Edelman 
Separate Ways
as Huey Block 
Brewster McCloud
as Weeks 
Operation Heartbeat
as Raymond Hanson 
There Must Be a Pony
as Lee Hertzig 
A Great American Tragedy
as Rob Stewart 
One Man's Way
as Rev. Clifford Peale 
Last Plane Out
as James Caldwell 
Funland
as Angus Perry 
Yesterday's Dreams
as Herb Radford