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William Windom

Born 1923-09-28

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.​

Known for

To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 · 8.2 Uncle Buck 1989 · 7.1 Escape from the Planet of the Apes 1971 · 6.3 Sommersby 1993 · 6.3 She's Having a Baby 1988 · 6.0 Brewster McCloud 1971 · 6.9 The Americanization of Emily 1964 · 7.3 Hour of the Gun 1967 · 6.6 The Detective 1968 · 6.5 Children of the Corn: The Gathering 1996 · 4.2 The Mephisto Waltz 1971 · 6.1 Grandview, U.S.A. 1984 · 5.5 Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night 1987 · 6.2 Last Plane Out 1983 · 4.4