William Windom (actor)

For the United States Secretary of the Treasury (and this actor's great-grandfather), see William Windom.

William Windom (September 28, 1923 – August 16, 2012) was an American actor. Known as a character actor of the stage and screen, he is perhaps best known for his recurring role as Dr. Seth Hazlitt alongside Angela Lansbury in the CBS mystery series Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996).

William Windom
Windom in My World and Welcome to It
Born	(1923-09-28)September 28, 1923 Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Died	August 16, 2012(2012-08-16) (aged 88) Woodacre, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1950–2006
Spouses	Carol Keyser ​ ​ (m. 1947; div. 1955)​ Barbara Joyce ​ ​ (m. 1958; div. 1963)​ Barbara Goetz Clare ​ ​ (m. 1963; div. 1968)​ Jacqulyne Hopkins ​ ​ (m. 1969; div. 1975)​ ^[1] Patricia Tunder ​ (m. 1975)​
Children	6^[2]
Awards	1970 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

Windom made his television debut in 1949 in the NBC anthology series The Philco Television Playhouse. He continued acting in shows such as Studio One, Masterpiece Playhouse, Omnibus, and Kraft Television Theatre. During this time he also appeared on The Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, and Star Trek. He then gained acclaim in his television career for his portrayal of cartoonist John Monroe in the short-lived NBC sitcom My World and Welcome to It (1969–1970) winning him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.

He then guest starred in various programs including Columbo, Night Gallery, Marcus Welby M.D., and Quincy M.E. before gaining acclaim for his a recurring role on CBS's mystery series Murder, She Wrote (1986-1996) portraying Dr. Seth Hazlitt of Cabot Cove opposite Angela Lansbury. During this time he would also appear on the shows St. Elsewhere, Magnum, P.I., Newhart, L.A. Law, and Murphy Brown as well as voicing Uncle Chuck in Sonic the Hedgehog. His final television appearances include roles in Fox's Ally McBeal, and CBS's The District.

Windom's also known for his film roles in the Academy Award-winning To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The Americanization of Emily (1964), The Detective (1968), Brewster McCloud (1970), and Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) as well as several John Hughes films, Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), She's Having a Baby (1988), and Uncle Buck (1989), as well as Miracle on 34th Street (1994), and True Crime (1999).

Early life

Windom was born in New York City, (in the Borough of Manhattan), the son of Isobel Wells (née Peckham) and Paul Windom, an architect.^[3] He was the great-grandson of the United States Secretary of the Treasury of the same name, whom the actor physically resembled. He attended Williams College before enlisting in the U.S. Army. He participated in the Army Specialized Training Program where he studied at The Citadel, Antioch College and the University of Kentucky.^[3]

Windom then became a paratrooper with Company B, 1st Battalion 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. While stationed in Frankfurt during the Allied occupation of Germany he enrolled in Biarritz American University in France and became involved in drama.^[3][4]

Career

During his early screen career in the 1950s, Windom appeared in TV series including Omnibus and Robert Montgomery Presents, and continued his guest-starring roles in series during the 1960s such as the "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone, that he claimed was his West Coast television debut. He played The Major, one of the five characters who are in an unidentified place, which is revealed at the end of the episode. He reported some years later that Richard Widmark was originally offered the role, but when Widmark learned that the pay was only to be $1,000 for the week, he turned it down. Actress Susan Harrison, who played The Ballerina, got first billing, while Windom got second. Windom said that Murray Matheson, who played The Clown, should have received billing ahead of both of them.^{[citation needed]}

His first leading role in television came in the sitcom The Farmer's Daughter (1963–1966), a series (based on the 1947 film) about a young Minnesota woman (played by Inger Stevens) who becomes the housekeeper for a widowed congressman (Windom), which ran for three seasons.

 

Playbill: Windom Plays Thurber

Windom's first role in film was alongside Gregory Peck in the Oscar-winning To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) as Horace Gilmer, the prosecutor of Tom Robinson (Brock Peters), to Peck's defense lawyer Atticus Finch.

He continued in American television appearances, including The Donna Reed Show, Gunsmoke and Star Trek (playing Commodore Matt Decker, commander of the doomed USS Constellation in the popular 1967 episode "The Doomsday Machine", a role he would reprise nearly 40 years later for Star Trek: New Voyages). He played a recurring role (3 episodes) in "The Invaders" in 1967.

In 1968, Windom starred alongside Peter Falk and Gene Barry in the TV movie Prescription: Murder, the pilot for the TV series Columbo. He would guest star in another edition of the series (titled "Short Fuse") in 1972. In 1971 he played a supporting role alongside Jimmy Stewart, George Kennedy and Kurt Russell in the Columbia production "Fools' Parade".

Windom starred with Frank Sinatra in the film The Detective (1968), playing a homophobic killer, a role that received great reviews from The New York Times. The following year, he had the lead role as cartoonist John Monroe in the sitcom My World and Welcome to It. Although the series only aired for one season, he won the 1970 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.

After the cancellation of the series, Windom toured the country for a time in a one-man Thurber show. After the run was completed, he filmed the pilot for a new series Is There a Doctor in the House? with Rosemary Forsyth.^[5] The pilot was written with both actors in mind for the two starring roles, and while it was well received by the critics and in viewership ratings in both its first run and a re-run in the summer of 1971, it was not picked up for a series.

After a host of roles in film, TV movies and guest appearances in TV series during the 1970s and 1980s, Windom joined the series Murder, She Wrote in 1985 as Dr. Seth Hazlitt. His initial appearance was in October 1985. (He had previously appeared as a guest star playing another character in April 1985.) The producers enjoyed his work, and consequently invited him to return at the beginning of the second season to take on the role permanently. Windom briefly left the show in 1990 to work on the first television version of Parenthood (based on the 1989 film of the same name), playing the role of patriarch Frank Buckman (played by Jason Robards in the film and, later, Craig T. Nelson in the second TV version). The show was ultimately canceled after 12 episodes and Windom returned to Murder, She Wrote as a semi-regular for the remainder of the run of that series.^{[citation needed]} In all, Windom appeared in 53 episodes of Murder, She Wrote, second only to the show's main star, Angela Lansbury.

Windom continued to appear in film and TV guest roles during the 1990s and 2000s, with appearances in the films Sommersby (1993), Miracle on 34th Street (1994), and Clint Eastwood's True Crime (1999), and episodes of series, including Ally McBeal (2000) and The District (2001), before making his final acting appearance in the 2005 drama Yesterday's Dreams.

Personal life

Windom married his first wife, Carol Keyser, in New York in August 1947. They worked together and he also worked for her father selling insurance for three years. They divorced in December 1955. In 1958 He married actress Barbara Joyce in Edgartown, Massachusetts. She was six years older than Windom. He soon moved to California and remained there for work. Windom said the marriage lasted just three years, but the divorce was not finalized until 1963. A few weeks later, he married his third wife, Barbara Clare. She was the granddaughter of MGM founder Louis B. Mayer and 11 years Windom's junior. He became stepfather to Barbara's two daughters from a previous marriage. His first child, Rachel, was born in 1964. Windom and Barbara divorced in 1968. In October 1969 he married his fourth wife Jacqulyn D. Hopkins, 19 years his junior. They had two daughters, Heather Juliet in 1970 and Hope Teresa in 1973.^[6]

In 1974, Windom met Patricia (Fehrle) Tunder while shooting a TV movie; she was working for the production company. Almost a year later, in July 1975, he filed for divorce from Jacqulyn.^[7]

Windom and Patricia, 12 years his junior, married in 1975 on New Year's Eve.^[8] In 1978 Windom welcomed his final child, a son named Rebel Russell.

Windom was a tournament chess player, a sailor, a tennis player and a life member of the USCF.^[9]

Death

Windom died on August 16, 2012, at the age of 88 at his home in Woodacre, California from congestive heart failure.^[3]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1962	To Kill a Mockingbird	Horace Gilmer - Prosecutor	Film debut
1963	Cattle King	Harry Travers
1963	For Love or Money	Sam Travis
1963	One Man's Way	Rev. Clifford Peale
1964	The Americanization of Emily	Captain Harry Spaulding
1967	Hour of the Gun	Texas Jack Vermillion
1968	The Detective	Colin MacIver
1968	The Angry Breed	Vance Patton
1969	The Gypsy Moths	John Brandon
1970	Brewster McCloud	Haskell Weeks
1971	The Mephisto Waltz	Dr. Roger West
1971	Escape from the Planet of the Apes	The President
1971	Fools' Parade	Roy K. Sizemore
1972	Now You See Him, Now You Don't	Prof. Lufkin
1972	The Man	Arthur Eaton
1975	Stevie, Samson and Delilah	Narrator
1976	Echoes of a Summer	Dr. Hallet
1978	Mean Dog Blues	Victor Lacey
1978	Goodbye, Franklin High	Clifford Armer
1981	Separate Ways	Huey Block
1983	Last Plane Out	James Caldwell
1984	Prince Jack	Ferguson
1984	Grandview, U.S.A.	Bob Cody
1985	Space Rage	Gov. Torah
1985	Means and Ends	Burt
1987	Funland	Angus Perry
1987	Planes, Trains and Automobiles	Mr. Bryant	Uncredited
1987	Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night	Puppetino (voice)
1987	Dead Aim	McWhorter
1988	She's Having a Baby	Russ Bainbridge
1989	Uncle Buck	Mr. Hatfield (voice)
1991	Committed	Dr. Magnus Quilly
1993	Sommersby	Reverend Powell
1994	Miracle on 34th Street	C.F. Cole
1996	Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering	Doc Rob Larson
1999	True Crime	Neil, the bartender
2000	The Thundering 8th	Old Joe
2001	Early Bird Special	Fred
2002	Raising Dead	Chief Silton
2003	Dopamine	Tom - Rand's Father
2003	Dismembered	Police Capt. Hart
2005	Yesterday's Dreams	Herb Radford	Final film role

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1949	Philco Television Playhouse	Tybalt/Dennis	2 episodes
1950	Lights Out	Performer	Episode: The Heart of Jonathan O'Rourke
1950	Masterpiece Playhouse	King Richard III	Episode: "Richard III"
1950-51	Martin Kane, Private Eye	Performer	1 episode
1950-51	Famous Jury Trials	Performer	1 episode
1950	Studio One	Pilgrim	Episode: "The Scarlet Letter"
1950-51	Cameo Theatre	Performer	Various episodes
1950-51	Tom Corbin, Space Cadet	Performer	1 episode
1951	The Plainclothesman	Performer	1 episode
1951-57	Robert Montgomery Presents	Various Roles	4 episodes
1954-1955	The Secret Storm	Performer	Various episodes
1955	Appointment With Adventure	Dan Vance	Episode: "Relative Strangers"
1955	Omnibus	Various	2 episodes
1957	Hotel Cosmopolitan	Performer	Various episodes
1958	Dial M for Murder	Max Halliday	Television Movie
1960	Play of the Week	Bob	Episode: "Seven Time Monday"
1960	Guestward, Ho!	Performer	Episode: "The Christmas Spirit"
1961-62	Surfside 6	Shrewdie McDoug/Robby Brooks	2 episodes
1961-62	The Donna Reed Show	Ed Perkins/David Adams	2 episodes
1961	The Twilight Zone	The Major	Episode: "Five Characters in Search of an Exit"
1961-72	Gunsmoke	Lee Sharkey/Paul Hill/Ira Spratt	3 episodes
1961	Armstrong Circle Theatre	Performer	Episode: "Black Market Babies"
1961	The Detectives	Sutter	Episode: "Tobey's Place"
1961	The New Breed	Warren Giles	Episode: "The Compulsion to Confess"
1961	Checkmate	Peter Morell	Episode: "Through a Dark Glass"
1961	Cheyenne	Dennis Carter	Episode: "Legacy of the Lost"
1961	Ben Casey	Dr. Bill Owen	Episode: "The Sweet Kiss of Madness"
1962-63	77 Sunset Strip	Calvin Otterman Cuthbert Carmichael	2 episodes
1962	Mrs. G. Goes to College	Ernie	Episode: "Goodbye Mr. Howell"
1962	Bus Stop	Ed Henderson	Episode: "The Ordeal of Kevin Brooke"
1962	Follow the Sun	Meredith St. John	Episode: "A Ghost in Her Gazebo"
1962	Thriller	Lou Walters	Episode: "Man of Mystery"
1962	Kraft Television Theatre	Vincent Fuller	Episode: "In Close Pursuit"
1962	The Gallant Men	Private Jake Miller	Episode: Pilot
1962	The Lucy Show	Henry Taylor	Episode: "Lucy Digs Up a Date"
1962	Seven Times Monday	Bob	Television Movie
1962	Stoney Burke	Reese Ludlow	Episode: "A Matter of Pride"
1963-66	The Farmer's Daughter	Congressman Glen Morley	101 episodes
1963	Combat!	Captain Lew Anders	Episode: "Off Limits"
1963	The Twilight Zone	Dr. Charles Wallman	Episode: "Miniature"
1963	Empire	Lawrence Rowan	Episode: "Hidden Asset"
1966	The F.B.I.	Anton Christopher	Episode: "The Assassin"
1966	Twelve O'Clock High	Lt. Col. Bill Christy	Episode: "Gauntlet of Fire"
1966	The Wild Wild West	Ben Victor	Episode: "The Night of the Flying Pie Plate"
1966	Iron Horse	Colin McCrory	Episode: "Town Full of Fear"
1967	Mission: Impossible	Deputy Premier Milos Pavel	Episode: "The Train"
1967	Run for Your Life	Ralph Wilson	Episode: "The List of Alice McKenna"
1967	The F.B.I.	David Roger "Davey" Spiers	Episode: "By Force and Violence"
1967	The Fugitive	Professor Fritz Simpson	Episode: "The Ivy Maze"
1967	Mission: Impossible	Alex Cresnic	Episode: "The Widow"
1967	Star Trek	Commodore Matt Decker	Episode: "The Doomsday Machine"
1967	The Invaders	Maj. Rick Graves	Episode: "Doomsday Minus One"
1967	Custer	Clark Samson	Episode: "Under Fire"
1967	Gentle Ben	James Harkness	Episode: "Jennifer"
1967	Dundee and the Culhane	Robert Campbell	Episode: "The Thy Brother's Keeper Brief"
1967	The Invaders	Michael Tressider	Episode: "Summit Meeting"
1967	Judd, for the Defense	Ira Creighton	Episode: "Commitment"
1968-70	The Name of the Game	Charlie Ross/Mr. John Price	Episode: 2 episodes
1968-72	Ironside	Eldon Chase/Judge Van Buren	Episode: 2 episodes
1968	Mannix	Calvin Norris	Episode: "The Girl in the Frame"
1968	The F.B.I.	Howard Converse	Episode: "The Nightmare"
1968	Columbo	Burt Gordon	Episode: Prescription: Murder
1968	Bonanza	Marshal Passmore	Episode: "Star Crossed"
1969	The Virginian	Joss Cardine	Episode: "Halfway Back from Hell"
1969-70	My World and Welcome to It	John Monroe	26 episodes
1969	Mannix	Nils Sanderson	Episode: "Shadow of a Man"
1969-74	Hawaii Five-O	Ossie Connors/Harlan Henderson	2 episodes
1969-76	Medical Center	Various roles	5 episodes
1969	The Mod Squad	Fred Williams	Episode: "Hello Mother, My Name Is Julie"
1969	Lancer	Claude Buttermere	Episode: "The Great Humbug"
1969	The Outcasts	Lafe Partman	Episode: "The Stalking Devil"
1969	The Outsider	Bernard Christie	Episode: "Service for One"
1969	CBS Playhouse	Art Richardson	Episode: "Shadow Game"
1969	My Friend Tony	Phil Wiser	Episode: "The Shortest Courtship"
1969-70	My World and Welcome to It	John Monroe	26 episodes
1970-72	Love, American Style	Charlie/Harrison/Hubert	3 episodes
1970-76	Insight	God/Mr.Clark/Todd	3 episodes
1970	House on Greenapple Road	Paul Durstine	Television movie
1970	The Forty-Eight Hour Mile	Bernard Christie	Television movie
1971	The Virginian	Foster Bonham	Episode: "The Politician"
1971	That Girl	Joseph Nelson	Episode: "That Script"
1971	Mission: Impossible	Stu Gorman	Episode: "Blues"
1971	Big Fish, Little Fish	William Baker	Television Movie
1971	Assault on the Wayne	Captain Frank Reardon	Television Movie
1971	Alias Smith and Jones	Jeremiah Daley	Episode: "Wrong Train to Brimstone"
1971	Men at Law	Dr. Simon Branby	Episode: "Let the Dier Beware"
1971	Is There a Doctor in the House?	Dr. Tim Newley	Television Pilot
1971	All in the Family	Eddie Frazier	Episode: "Success Story"
1971	Escape	Dr. Henry Walding	Television Movie
1971	Cannon	Harry Kendrix	Episode: "Death Chain"
1971	A Taste of Evil	Harold Jennings	Television Movie
1971	Marriage: Year One	Warren Duden	Television Movie
1971	Cade's County	Frank Leonard	Episode: "Violent Echo"
1971	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Dr. Sam Mason	Episode: "Ask Me Again Tomorrow"
1971	Night Gallery	Randy Lane	Episode: "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar"
1971	Robert Young Presents the Family	Performer	1 episode
1971	The Man and the City	Congressman Ralph Lawson	Episode: "The Deadly Fountain"
1971	The Waltons	Charlie Snead	Episode: "The Homecoming: A Christmas Story"
1971	Jamison's Kids	Performer	Pilot episode
1972-76	The Streets of San Francisco	Various roles	3 episodes
1972	Columbo	Everett Logan	Episode: "Short Fuse"
1972	Second Chance	Stan Petryk	Television Movie
1972	The Jimmy Stewart Show	Mike Carruthers	Episode: "Old School Ties"
1972	The New Healers	Mr. Farrigan	Television Movie
1972	Banacek	Harry Wexler	Episode: "Projet Phoenix"
1972	Ghost Story	Charlie Pender	Episode: "The Summer House"
1972	The Rookies	Frank Queenlin	Episode: "Time Is the Fire"
1972	A Great American Tragedy	Rob Stewart	Television Movie
1972	Pursuit	Robert Phillips	Television Movie
1972	Night Gallery	Prof. Putnam	Episode: "Little Girl Lost"
1972	The F.B.I.	Elias Devon	Episode: "The Jug Marker"
1973-74	The Girl with Something Extra	Stuart Kline	2 episodes
1973	The Partridge Family	Uncle Erwin	Episode: "Bedknobs and Drumsticks"
1973	Mission: Impossible	Paul Mitchell	Episode: "The Fighter"
1973	The Girls of Huntington House	Sam Duton	Television Movie
1973	Winesburg, Ohio	Dr. Reefy	Television Movie
1973	The Flip Wilson Show	Self	1 episode
1973	The Delphi Bureau	Broker	Episode: "The Terror Broker Project"
1973	Dr. Simon Locke/Police Surgeon	Delbert Norman Woodward	Episode: "Losers, Weepers"
1973	Tenafly	Weyburn	Episode: "The Cash and Carry Caper"
1973	Griff	Christopher Woods	Episode: "The Last Ballad"
1973	Hawkins	Joe Hamilton	Episode: "A Life for a Life"
1974-75	Petrocelli	Alan Brewster/Alex Mayberry	2 episodes
1974-77	McMillan & Wife	Whalen/Ted Hoffenstein	2 episodes
1974-77	Police Woman	Ted Adrian/Silky Chamberlain	2 episodes
1974	Chopper One	Marklund	Episode: "The Drop"
1974	Murder in the First Person Singular	Alfred Emerson	Television Movie
1974	The Day the Earth Moved	Judge Tom Backsler	Television Movie
1974	Male Menopause: The Pause That Perplexes	Performer	PBS Special
1975-81	Barney Miller	George Webber/Voice of Cellmate	Episode: 3 episodes
1975	The Abduction of Saint Anne	Ted Morrisey	Television Movie
1975	Lucas Tanner	Ed Michaelson	Episode: "Shattered"
1975	Journey from Darkness	Dr. Cavaliere	Television Movie
1975	Mannix	George Kane	Episode: "Hardball"
1975	S.W.A.T.	Ross Collins	Episode: "A Coven of Killers"
1975	Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case	Walt Adamson	Television Movie
1975	Doctors' Hospital	Dr. Ralph Keyes	Episode: "Surgeon, Heal Thyself"
1976	Bridger	Sen. Daniel Webster	Television Movie
1976	Doc	Dr. Pike	Episode: "Come Scrub with Me"
1976	Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours	Arthur Springfield	Television Movie
1976	The Bionic Woman	Warfield	Episode: "Black Magic"
1976	Gibbsville	Charlie Paxton	Episode: "Saturday Night"
1976	The Feather and Father Gang	General Northrup	Episode: "Two-Star Killer"
1976	Once an Eagle	Gen. Duke K Pulleyne	Miniseries
1976	The Tony Randall Show	Hamilton Kiss	Episode: "Case: Money vs. Stature"
1976	Heck's Angels	Col. Gregory Heck	Pilot Episode
1977	Seventh Avenue	John Meyers	Miniseries
1977	Hunter	Josef Patel	Episode: "The Lysenko Syndrome"
1977	Quincy, M.E.	Arthur Brandeis	Episode: "The Hot Dog Murder"
1977	Family	Howard Stone	Episode: "An Endangered Species"
1977	The Wonderful World of Disney	Phil Wainwright	Episode: "The Bluegrass Special"
1977	The Oregon Trail	Packy Devlin	2 episodes
1977	Kojak	K.C. Milano	Episode: "Once More from Birdland"
1978	Hunters of the Reef	Panama Cassidy	Television Movie
1978	W.E.B.	Paul Brisbane	Episode: "Good Night and Good Luck"
1979-82	Trapper John, M.D.	Harry Duvall/Theodore Rankin	2 episodes
1979-83	The Love Boat	Bill Kelly/Harold Wallingford	3 episodes
1979	Brothers and Sisters	Larry Krandall	12 episodes
1979	Blind Ambition	Richard Kleindienst	Miniseries
1980	Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger	Mons. Soldini	Television Movie
1980	Landon Landon & Landon	Ben Landon	Pilot episode
1980	Dallas	Amos Krebbs	2 episodes
1981	Walking Tall	Matthew Whittaker	Episode: "The Protectors of the People"
1981	Quick & Quiet	Thaddeus Charles "T.C." Cooper	Pilot episode
1981	The Incredible Hulk	Sgt. Jack Keeler	Episode: "East Winds"
1981	Foul Play	Franklin Mills	Episode: "Play It Again Tuck"
1981	100 Years of Golden Hits	Thomas Edison	TV Special
1981	A House Divided	Gov. Thomas Bennett, jr.	Episode: "The Denmark Vesey Rebellion"
1981	One Day at a Time	Mr. Tiller	Episode: "Caveat Emptor"
1981	Leave 'em Laughing	Smiley Jenkins	Television Movie
1981	Side Show	Byron Gage	Television Movie
1981	Flamingo Road	Charlie Banks	Episode: "The Stranger"
1982-83	Matt Houston	Dr. Walter Belkamp	2 episodes
1982	Fantasy Island	Bill Ackland	Episode: "Daddy's Little Girl/The Whistle"
1982	Desperate Lives	Dr. Jarvis	Television Movie
1982	The Rules of Marriage	George Olsen	Television Movie
1982	Hart to Hart	Charles Baines	Episode: "With This Hart, I Thee Wed"
1982	The Suzanne Sommers Show	Landlord	Unaired Pilot episode
1983	The Greatest American Hero	Henry Williams	Episode: "Live at Eleven"
1983	The A-Team	Al Massey	Episode: "Mexican Slayride"
1983	Mama's Family	Woody Miller	Episode: "Mama's Boyfriend"
1983	The Tom Swift and Linda Craig Mystery Hour	Bronco Mallory	Television Movie
1983	The Facts of Life	Pete Dawson	Episode: "Store Games"
1983	Lottery!	Arthur	Episode: "Boston: False Illusion"
1983	Automan	Judge Alexander Farnsworth	Episode:Staying Alive While Running a High Flashdance Fever
1984	St. Elsewhere	Charlie Halloran	Episode: "In Sickness and in Health"
1984	Simon & Simon	Dr. Lloyd - Chief of Surgery	Episode: "Under the Knife"
1984	Why Me?	General	Television Movie
1984	Reading Rainbow	Self	Episode: "Hot Air Henry"
1984	The Yellow Rose	Mayor Virgil Mapes	Episode: Far Side of Fear
1984	Off Sides (Pigs vs. Freaks)	Mayor Malcolm Wallwood	Television Movie
1984	Pink Panther and Sons	Dr. Marcus Wealthy/Ticket Seller	Voice; Episode: Rocko's Last Round
1984	Velvet	Government Official	Television Movie
1984	Hot Pursuit	Performer	Episode: "Twilight Home"
1984	Hunter	Commissioner Larry Crenshaw	Episode: "The Hot Grounder"
1985-96	Murder, She Wrote	Sam Breen/Dr. Seth Hazlitt	Recurring Role; 53 episodes
1985	Highway to Heaven	Rev. David Stearns	Episode: "A Child of God"
1985	Surviving: A Family in Crisis	Dr. Madsen	Television Movie
1985	Hotel	Uncle Ray	Episode: "Anniversary"
1985	Hardcastle and McCormick	James Maxwell	Episode: "Surprise on Seagull Beach"
1985	Dirty Work	Cmdr. Leevanhoek	Pilot
1985	The Jetsons	Saturn Cyclops	Episode: "Elroy in Wonderland"
1985	Airwolf	Lou Stappleford	Episode: "Eagles"
1985	Knight Rider	Wayne Altfield	Episode: "Knight Racer"
1985	Glitter	Performer	1 Episode
1986	Magnum, P.I.	Captain James T. Lyle	Episode: "All Thieves on Deck"
1986	Comedy Factory	Herb Medlock	Episode: "Moscow Bureau"
1986	There Must Be a Pony	Lee Hertzig	Television Movie
1987	Mathnet	Judge Herman Hoffman	Episode: "The Trial of George Frankly"
1987	Square One Television	Judge Hoffman	3 episodes
1987	Newhart	Lew Brooney	Episode: "Good-Bye & Good Riddance, Mr. Chips"
1987	Sky Commanders	'Cutter' Kling (voice)	2 episodes
1987	Dennis the Menace	Mr. George Wilson	Television Movie
1989	Have Faith	Alex	Episode: "Letters from Home"
1990-91	Parenthood	Frank Buckman	12 episodes
1990	His & Hers	Doug's Father	Episode: "Just Plain Bill"
1990	The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn	Judge Thatcher	Television Movie
1990	Amen	Nick St. Nicholas	2 episodes
1991	Babes	Darryl Kloner	Episode: "All Bummed Out"
1991	The Fanelli Boys	Ernie	2 episodes
1991	Chance of a Lifetime	Dr. Edelman	Television Movie
1992	L.A. Law	Charles Flanagan	Episode: "Diet, Diet My Darling"
1992	Batman: The Animated Series	Ethan Clark (voice)	Episode: "Prophecy of Doom"
1992	Goof Troop	Uncle Bob	Episode: "Major Goof"
1992	Camp Candy	voice	1 Episode
1993-94	Sonic the Hedgehog	Uncle Chuck (voice)^[10]	25 episodes
1993	Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman	Hamilton Cobb	Television Movie
1994	Murphy Brown	Ross Bowen	Episode: "Be Careful What You Wish For"
1995	Burke's Law	Dale Montrose	Episode: "Who Killed the Tennis Ace?"
1996	Fugitive X: Innocent Target	Uncle Billy	Television Movie
1996	Working Guy	Stockdale	Unaired Pilot
1998	Boy Meets World	Ned	Episode: "Ain't College Great?"
1999	Judging Amy	Prof. Barnett	Episode: "Witch Hunt"
1999	Chicken Soup for the Soul	Judge	Episode: "Rescued"
2000	Ally McBeal	Henderson Porter	Episode: "The Man with the Bag"
2001	Providence	Harold Joyce	Episode: "The Invisible Man"
2001	The District	Harlan Kirby Sr.	Episode: "Bulldog's Ghost"
2002	JAG	Fmr. Chief of Naval Operations	Episode: "Need to Know"
2004	Star Trek: New Voyages	Commodore Matt Decker	Episode: "In Harm's Way"

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue
1942	The Royal Family	Oscar Wolfe	Connecticut College For Women
1945	Richard III	Richard III	American University, Biarritz France
1946	Richard III	Richard III	Fordham University, New York City
1946	King Henry VIII	Earl of Surrey	International Theatre, Broadway
1946	What Every Woman Knows	Ensemble
1946	John Gabriel Borkman	Erhart Borkman
1946	Androcles and the Lion	Retiarius
1947	Yellow Jack	Pvt. McClelland
1947	Alice in Wonderland	The White Rabbit/Man in the Paper Hat	Majestic Theatre, Broadway
			Boston Opera House
1947	Dream Girl	cast	The Cape Playhouse
1947	The Marquise	cast	The Cape Playhouse
1947	Joan of Lorraine	poet	The Cape Playhouse
1948	The Voice of the Turtle	Bill Page	The Brookfield Center, CT
1948	My Sister Eileen	janitor	The Brookfield Center, CT
1949	Romeo and Juliet	Romeo	Fordham University, New York City
1949	The Jailor's Wench	cast	The Cape Playhouse
1950	Light Up the Sky	author	Southbury Playhouse, CT
1950	Blithe Spirit	Dr. Bradman	Southbury Playhouse, CT
1950	It's a Wise Child	cast	Southbury Playhouse, CT
1950	Meet the Wife	boyfriend	Southbury Playhouse, CT
1950	The Three-Cornered Moon	cast	Southbury Playhouse, CT
1950	The Vinegar Tree	cast	Southbury Playhouse, CT
1950	Your Uncle Dudley	man in love with niece	Southbury Playhouse, CT
1950	When the Bough Breaks	Bob Sanford	The Master Institute Theatre
1951	Charm	Joe the drug clerk	Southbury Playhouse, CT
1951-1953	Bell, Book and Candle	Nicky Holroyd, a warlock	National Tour
1953	A Girl Can Tell	David, a voice on the telephone	Royale Theatre, Broadway
1954	Claudia	David	Putnam Playhouse, CT
1954	The Starcross Story	cast	The Royale Theatre, Broadway
1954	Mademoiselle Colombe	Edouard	Longacre Theatre, Broadway
1954	Sabrina Fair	the Frenchman	Scandaga Theatre, New York
1954	My Three Angels	Snake Man	Putnam Playhouse, CT
1954	Affairs of State	cast	Theatre in the Round, NY
1954	The Automobile Man	physicist	The Bucks County Playhouse, PA
1954	I Am a Camera	lead	Theatre in the Round, NY
1954	Private Lives	Elyot	Theatre in the Round, NY
1954	Voice of the Turtle	cast	Theatre in the Round, NY
1955	The Grand Prize	John Condon Mitchell	Plymouth Theatre, Broadway
1955	The Heiress	Morris Townsend	Tent Theatre, PA
1955	Mrs. Gibbon's Boys	Rodla	Bucks County Playhouse, PA
1955	The Shoemaker's Children	cast	Bucks County Playhouse, PA
1955	You Never Can Tell	Valentine	Olney Theatre, MD
1956	Fallen Angels	Frederick Starbuck	Playhouse Theatre, Broadway
1956	Double in Hearts	Asst. Stage Manager	John Golden Theatre, Broadway
1956	Candide	stagehand not a cast member	The Martin Beck Theatre, NYC
1957	Career	Sam Lawson	The Seventh Avenue Playhouse, NYC
1957	The Anniversary Waltz	lead	Grant Lee Theatre
1957	Hotel Paradiso	cast	The Henry Miller Theatre, Broadway
1957	The Greatest Man Alive	Hospital Aide	Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway
1957	No Laughing Matter	Jean Louis	East Hampton, NY
1957	Of Time Remembered	understudy for Richard Burton	The Morosco Theatre, Broadway
1958	Twelfth Night	Duke Orsino	NY Shakespeare Festival, Belevedere Lake Theatre, NYC
1958	The World of Suzie Wong	understudy, Robert Lomax	The Broadhurst Theatre, NYC
1959	US	cast	Martinique Theatre, NYC
1960	Viva Madison Avenue!	Jim Leary	Longacre Theatre, Broadway
1960	Drums Under the Window	Adam and Cockney officer	Cherry Lane Theatre, NYC
1960	The Rules of the Game	Guido Venanzi	Gramercy Arts Theatre, NYC
1960-62	US	cast	UCLA Theatre Group
1961	Come Blow Your Horn	cast	Brooks Atkinson Theatre, NYC
1961-62	The Child Buyer	narrator	UCLA Theatre Group
1961-62	Period of Adjustment	George Haverstick	UCLA Theatre Group
1969	The Bertolt Brecht Festival	cast	California
1970s-90s	Thurber	one-man show	around the world
1970s-90s	Thurber II	one-man show	around the world
1970s-90s	Ernie Pyle	one-man show	around the United States
1970s-90s	Ernie Pyle II	one-man show	around the United States
1997	On Golden Pond	Norman Thayer	Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, CA
1999	Camping with Henry and Tom	Thomas Edison	Mt. Gretna Playhouse, PA

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
1970	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series	My World and Welcome to It	Won

References

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3. Grode, Eric (August 19, 2012). . The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 14, 2022. Retrieved August 19, 2012. William Windom, who won an Emmy Award playing an Everyman drawn from the pages of James Thurber but who may be best remembered for his roles on "Star Trek" and "Murder, She Wrote," died on Thursday at his home in Woodacre, Calif., north of San Francisco. He was 88. The cause was congestive heart failure, said his wife, Patricia. ...
4. "The 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment(PIR) Trooper Pictures during World War II". www.ww2-airborne.us.
5. "Is There a Doctor in the House? (NBC unsold pilot)". TV Archives : Unsold Pilots. March 22, 1971.
6. Glenn, Justin (2016). The Washingtons: Vol. 7, Part 1. Savas Publishing. p. 289.
7. UPI (January 7, 1975). "Actor Windom Seeks Divorce". Arizona Republic.
8. Austin, Judy (January 29, 1976). "Mrs. Windom Busy, Too". Journal and Courier Newspaper.
9. Smith, Phillip R (August 21, 2012). "William Windom (1923-2012)". uschess.org. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
10. "William Windom (visual voices guide)". BTVA. Retrieved March 8, 2021. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

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