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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.
Filmography 33
The Invaders
as Major Rick Graves 
Uncle Buck
+5
as Mr. Hatfield (voice) 
To Kill a Mockingbird
+5
as Mr. Gilmer 
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
+3
as The President 
The Detective
+3
as Colin MacIver 
Fools' Parade
as Roy K. Sizemore 
Sommersby
+7
as Reverend Powell 
She's Having a Baby
+4
as Russell Bainbridge 
Hour of the Gun
+10
as Texas Jack Vermillion 
Grandview, U.S.A.
+2
as Bob Cody 
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering
+2
as Doctor Rob Larson 
The Gypsy Moths
+2
as John Brandon 
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
+2
as Professor Lufkin 
Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman
as Hamilton Cobb 
The Americanization of Emily
+7
as Captain Harry Spaulding 
For Love or Money
+2
as Sam Travis 
Cattle King
+1
as Harry Travers - Sharleen's Brother 
Committed
+7
as Dr. Quilly 
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
+5
as Puppetino (voice) 
Prescription: Murder
+5
as Burt Gordon 
The Mephisto Waltz
+3
as Dr. Roger West 
A Taste of Evil
as Harold Jennings 
Chance of a Lifetime
as Dr. Edelman 
Separate Ways
+4
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
+4
as Rev. Clifford Peale 
Last Plane Out
+1
as James Caldwell 
Funland
+3
as Angus Perry 
Yesterday's Dreams
as Herb Radford