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William Windom

William Windom

Highest Rated: 100% The Detective (1968)

Lowest Rated: 30% Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1993)

Birthday: Sep 28, 1923

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Veteran character lead of theater, film and television since the 1950s, William Windom long excelled at playing harried businessmen, discontented suburbanites, and other middle-class guys under pressure. In his maturity, Windom became comfortably ensconced in roles as venerable authority figures - fathers, judges, clergymen and other professionals. 1960s-era sitcom cultists remember his Emmy-winning portrayal of John Monroe, an anxiety-ridden cartoonist who shifted back-and-forth between the real world and the animated realm of his sketchpad, on "My World... and Welcome to It" (NBC, 1969-1970). This charming show was based on the writings and drawings of humorist James Thurber whom Windom later portrayed on stage in two one-man shows. Windom remained a frequent presence on TV through the decades in guest spots (memorably as a vengeful starship captain in "The Doomsday Machine" episode of "Star Trek"), TV-movies and in the recurring role of Dr. Seth Hazlitt on CBS's long-running mystery hit "Murder, She Wrote."

Highest rated movies

100% 48% The Detective
93% 82% The Americanization of Emily
93% 93% To Kill a Mockingbird 92% 87% Planes, Trains and Automobiles
88% 51% Hour of the Gun
86% 81% Brewster McCloud
80% 57% Now You See Him, Now You Don't
76% 53% Escape From the Planet of the Apes

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dismembered Police Capt. Hart (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 25% Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering Doc Larson (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fugitive X: Innocent Target Uncle Billy (Character) - 1996
60% 62% Miracle on 34th Street C.F. Cole (Character) $17.2M 1994
30% 33% Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman Hamilton Cobb (Character) - 1993
63% 59% Sommersby Reverend Powell (Character) $46.4M 1993
No Score Yet 17% Committed Dr. Magnus Quilly (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn Judge Thatcher (Character) - 1990
44% 51% She's Having a Baby Russ Bainbridge (Character) $14.4M 1988
43% 61% Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night Puppetino (Voice) $2.7M 1987
No Score Yet 44% Dennis the Menace Mr. George Wilson (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mace McWhorter (Character) - 1987
92% 87% Planes, Trains and Automobiles Bryant (Character) $48.2M 1987
No Score Yet 24% Funland Angus Perry (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dead Aim McWhorter (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Street Justice Father Burke (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet There Must Be a Pony Lee Hertzig (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet 8% Space Rage Gov. Tovah (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet 39% Grandview, U.S.A. Bob Cody (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Off Sides Mayor Malcolm Wallwood (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Why Me? General (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Last Plane Out James Caldwell (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet 80% The A-Team Al Massey (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Leave 'Em Laughing Smiley Jenkins (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Side Show Byron Gage (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet 10% Separate Ways Huey Block (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mean Dog Blues Victor Lacey (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hunters of the Reef Panama Cassidy (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Goodbye Franklin High Clifford Armer (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet 54% Echoes of a Summer Dr. Hallet (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours Arthur Springfield (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bridger Daniel Webster (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Journey From Darkness Dr. Cavaliere (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case Walt Adamson (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Abduction of Saint Anne Ted Morrisey (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet They've Kidnapped Anne Benedict Ted Morrisey (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Day the Earth Moved Judge Tom Backsler (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Murder in the First Person Singular Unknown (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Help on My Terms Ed Michaelson (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Life for a Life Joe Hamilton (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Girls of Huntington House Sam Dutton (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet 25% Pursuit Robert Phillips (Character) - 1972
80% 57% Now You See Him, Now You Don't Lufkin (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Great American Tragedy Rob Stewart (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Second Chance Stan Petryk (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Project Phoenix Harry Wexler (Character) - 1972
63% 43% The Mephisto Waltz Dr. Roger West (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet 87% The Homecoming: A Christmas Story Charlie Snead (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet 59% Fool's Parade Roy K. Sizemore (Character) - 1971
76% 53% Escape From the Planet of the Apes The President (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Marriage: Year One Warren Duden (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Taste of Evil Harold Jennings (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Man Arthur Eaton (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Escape Doctor Henry Walding (Character) - 1971
86% 81% Brewster McCloud Weeks (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Forty-Eight Hour Mile Bernard Christie (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet The House on Greenapple Road Paul Durstine (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Assault on the Wayne Captain Frank Reardon (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Triple Play I Unknown (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet U.M.C. Raymond Hanson (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet 42% The Gypsy Moths V. John Brandon (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet 80% Columbo Burt Gordon (Character) - 1968
100% 48% The Detective Colin MacIver (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Angry Breed Vance Patton (Character) - 1968
88% 51% Hour of the Gun Texas Jack Vermillion (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet One Man's Way Rev. Clifford Peale (Character) - 1964
93% 82% The Americanization of Emily Capt. Harry Spaulding (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet For Love or Money Sam Travis (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cattle King Harry Travers (Character) - 1963
93% 93% To Kill a Mockingbird Mr. Gilmer, (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dial M For Murder Max Halliday (Character) - 1958

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet JAG Unknown (Guest Star) 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet The District Unknown (Guest Star) 2001
61% 76% Ally McBeal Unknown (Guest Star) 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Judging Amy Unknown (Guest Star) 1999
No Score Yet 87% Boy Meets World Ned (Guest Star) 1998
No Score Yet 89% Murder, She Wrote Dr. Seth Hazlitt (Guest Star) 1985-1996
43% No Score Yet Burke's Law Dale Montrose (Guest Star) 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Parenthood Frank Buckman (Character) 1990-1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Newhart Unknown (Guest Star) 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Super Password Guest 1986
No Score Yet 95% Magnum, P.I. Captain James T. Lyle (Guest Star) 1986
No Score Yet 80% Knight Rider Wayne Altfield (Guest Star) 1985
No Score Yet 42% Airwolf Unknown (Guest Star) 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hotel Unknown (Guest Star) 1985
No Score Yet 66% Highway to Heaven Reverend David Stearns (Guest Star) 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hunter Commissioner Larry Crenshaw (Guest Star) 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Simon & Simon Dr. Lloyd Tyler - Chief of Surgery (Guest Star) 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Facts of Life Pete Dawson (Guest Star) 1983
No Score Yet 70% The A-Team Unknown (Guest Star) 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Greatest American Hero Henry Williams (Guest Star) 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trapper John, M.D. Unknown (Guest Star) 1979 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hart to Hart Unknown (Guest Star) 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fantasy Island Unknown (Guest Star) 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet One Day at a Time Unknown (Guest Star) 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Barney Miller Cellmate (Guest Voice),
George Webber (Guest Star)
1975 1981
No Score Yet 73% Incredible Hulk Unknown (Guest Star) 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dallas Unknown (Guest Star) 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kojak K.C. Milano (Guest Star) 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Police Woman Ted Adrian (Guest Star) 1974 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gibbsville Unknown (Guest Star) 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bionic Woman Warfield (Guest Star) 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Streets of San Francisco Monsignior Frank Carruthers (Guest Star) 1972 1975-1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Petrocelli Unknown (Guest Star) 1974-1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mannix George Kane (Guest Star) 1968-1969 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet McMillan and Wife Unknown (Guest Star) 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Girl With Something Extra Stuart Kline (Character) 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Partridge Family Uncle Erwin (Guest Star) 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rookies Unknown (Guest Star) 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gunsmoke Ira Spratt (Guest Star) 1961-1962 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Banacek Harry Wexler (Guest Star) 1972
No Score Yet 81% Columbo Everett Logan (Guest Star) 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cannon Harry Kendrix (Guest Star) 1971
No Score Yet 89% All in the Family Eddie Frazier (Guest Star) 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alias Smith and Jones Unknown (Guest Star) 1971
No Score Yet 100% Night Gallery Unknown (Character) 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Virginian Foster Bonham (Guest Star) 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet That Girl Unknown (Guest Star) 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Name of the Game Unknown (Guest Star) 1968 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet My World and Welcome to It John Monroe (Character) 1969-1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mod Squad Fred Williams (Guest Star) 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bonanza Unknown (Guest Star) 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet Judd for the Defense Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gentle Ben Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
80% 89% Star Trek Commodore Decker (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fugitive Professor Fritz Simpson (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet 100% The Wild, Wild West Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet 12 O'Clock High Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Farmer's Daughter Congressman Glen Morley (Character) 1963-1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet 77 Sunset Strip Cuthbert Carmichael (Guest Star) 1962-1963
92% 96% The Twilight Zone The Major (Character) 1961 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Combat! Unknown (Guest Star) 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lucy Show Unknown (Guest Star) 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Thriller Unknown (Character) 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bus Stop Unknown (Guest Star) 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Surfside 6 Unknown (Guest Star) 1961-1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cheyenne Unknown (Guest Star) 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ben Casey Dr. Owen (Guest Star) 1961