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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."
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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% | 38% | 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 (uncredited) (Character) | $48.2M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 24% | Funland | Angus Perry (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 | No Score Yet | 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 | 11% | 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 | 57% | 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 | 58% | 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 | The Man | Arthur Eaton (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Taste of Evil | Harold Jennings (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Escape | Doctor Henry Walding (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 86% | 82% | 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 | Assault on the Wayne | Captain Frank Reardon (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The House on Greenapple Road | Paul Durstine (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% | 92% | 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% | 74% | Ally McBeal | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Judging Amy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 91% | 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 | 39% | Airwolf | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 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 | 67% | 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 | 76% | 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 | 79% | Columbo | Everett Logan (Guest Star) | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cannon | Harry Kendrix (Guest Star) | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | 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 |