William Windom
Date of birth: 1923-09-28
Place of birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: ویلیام ویندام
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
Sommersby
1993-02-05
Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm wit
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962-12-20
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971-05-20
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a s
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
1972-07-12
Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of
Hour of the Gun
1967-11-01
Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering
1996-10-08
A bright young medical student must solve the frightening mystery that plagues the children of a sma
Brewster McCloud
1971-08-18
Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He
She's Having a Baby
1988-02-05
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full re
The Mephisto Waltz
1971-04-09
A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Dunc
The Detective
1968-05-28
Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man.
Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours
1976-10-27
A young private detective takes on his first case, a young woman with amnesia who doesn't know why a
The Americanization of Emily
1964-10-27
American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless an
Pursuit
1972-12-12
What begins as a routine investigation quickly escalates into a heartstopping race to save millions
Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman
1994-09-28
When an abused heiress grows to giant size because of her encounter with aliens, she decides to get
Grandview, U.S.A.
1984-08-03
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim P
Funland
1987-10-16
When a mob family takes over an amusement park after the owner dies under mysterious circumstances,
Desperate Lives
1982-03-03
A brother and sister get caught up in the drug scene in their local high school, with tragic results
Echoes of a Summer
1976-02-06
A young girl with a terminal heart condition plans to celebrate her 12th birthday on one last summer
Space Rage
1985-12-25
In this sci-fi/western film set two hundred years from now, a bank robber, Grange is captured and se
Assault on the Wayne
1971-01-12
The U.S. submarine Anthony Wayne is underway for a top-secret mission. Onboard is a highly classifie
Journey from Darkness
1975-02-25
A brilliant blind student fights a seemingly hopeless battle to gain acceptance into medical school.
Cattle King
1963-07-08
A rich landowner of Wyoming fights to prevent the Texas herds from trampling his rich meadows.
Why Me?
1984-03-12
An Air Force nurse about to leave the service is badly disfigured about her face in a car accident i
Mean Dog Blues
1978-03-03
A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey finds himself on a Southern chain
Committed
1991-04-18
A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to every
The Angry Breed
1968-06-07
In Vietnam, aspiring actor Johnny Taylor is given a prize film script after saving the life of a Hol
A Taste of Evil
1971-10-12
On her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes that so
The Man
1972-07-19
When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-Presiden
The Case of the Baltimore Girls
1978-01-23
Former police captain and his assistant investigate extortion and murder at a dating service.
The New Healers
1972-03-27
The small town hospital staff is trying to gain the confidence of the local farmers and merchants.
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
1990-10-21
This is yet another telling of the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as the two try to c
Escape
1971-04-06
A scientist's experiment could lead to the first man-made, functioning, living organism. An elite es
The Girls of Huntington House
1973-02-14
An unmarried teacher in a school for unwed mothers finds herself becoming too emotionally attached t
A Great American Tragedy
1972-10-18
A middle-aged aerospace engineer has his whole life changed when he is suddenly laid off from his jo
Leave 'Em Laughing
1981-04-29
Real-life clown Jack Thum, along with his devoted wife, Shirlee, cared for dozens of homeless childr
Early Bird Special
2001-12-31
A black comedy that was produced but immediately went into arbitration and was seemingly not release
For Love or Money
1963-08-07
Wealthy Chloe Brasher has three beautiful daughters; Bonnie, Kate, and Jan. Chloe pays attorney Deke
Dead Aim
1987-01-02
Ed Marinaro is Malcolm "Mace" Douglas, a street-tough detective who's out for justice-no matter what
Uncle Buck
1989-08-16
Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephe
The Day the Earth Moved
1974-09-18
An aerial photography team tries to alert a small town about an impending earthquake, but no one bel
One Man's Way
1964-02-26
Reverend Norman Vincent Peale fights to bring his message to the nation.
House on Greenapple Road
1970-01-11
A promiscuous housewife has been murdered and hardboiled detective Dan August has to find the motive
Operation Heartbeat
1969-04-17
Lawsuits fly when a widow believes a gifted surgeon allowed her husband to die so his heart could be
Street Justice
1987-01-01
A forgotten CIA agent escapes after 12 years and returns to his corrupt New Jersey hometown.
Fools' Parade
1971-08-18
When a trio of ex-convicts led by Mattie Appleyard is released from prison, they hope to open a gene
Surviving
1985-02-10
Lonnie and Rick seem to be complete opposites, at first glance. A survivor of suicide, Lonnie is int
Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger
1980-04-22
The dramatized biography of Margaret Sanger, the crusader who founded America's first birth control
Prince Jack
1985-12-01
A dramatic look at the inner workings of the Kennedy administration.
There Must Be a Pony
1986-10-05
Marguerite Sydney is a celebrated Hollywood star attempting a comeback after a stay in a mental hosp
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
1971-12-19
It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they a
Marriage: Year One
1971-10-15
A medical student marries a millionaire's daughter but insists they live on the money he earns.
Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case
1975-11-17
The story of Dr. Sam Sheppard, an Ohio doctor convicted of murdering his wife, despite his vehement
Fugitive X: Innocent Target
1996-10-01
Adam Trent (David Heavener: "Prime Target", "Eye of the Stranger") is an advertising executive...an
Last Plane Out
1983-09-23
An American journalist covering the civil war in Nicaragua falls in love with a beautiful Sandinista
Separate Ways
1981-05-01
A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a rac
True Crime
1999-03-19
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's fa
Side Show
1981-06-05
A teenage boy who runs off to join the circus as a side show puppeteer stumbles onto the dark secret
The Pigs vs. The Freaks
1984-07-06
In a small town, the hippie faction often clashes with the mainstream. To settle their differences,
Goodbye, Franklin High
1978-04-07
Comic melodrama following the day-to-day life of high school senior Will, a promising but naive athl
Prescription: Murder
1968-02-20
In Columbo's first outing, a psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kil
The Bluegrass Special
1977-05-22
Penny is a teenage horse trainer with a very special dream of becoming a jockey. She picks Woodhill
The Twilight Zone Christmas Classics
2014-10-07
The Christmas Fantasy "Night of the Meek" starring Art Carney as a drunken department-store Santa wh
The Gypsy Moths
1969-08-29
Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourt
Hunters of the Reef
1978-05-20
A salvage boat captain is pitted against a better-equipped competitor in a race to locate a sunken w
Second Chance
1972-02-08
A rich stockbroker buys a Nevada ghost town as a community for people who need a second chance in li
The Abduction of Saint Anne
1975-01-21
A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous power
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
1987-08-06
Pinocchio and his friends, a glow worm and a marionette, search for a magic music box, putting them
Bridger
1976-09-10
The story of famous frontiersman Jim Bridger, who is given 40 days to cut a trail through the Rocky
Murder in the First Person Singular
1974-06-10
A murder plot by a terminally ill English teacher, to capitalize on the double indemnity clause in h
Means and Ends
1987-03-05
The makers of a sexploitation film deceive the officials of a small Illinois town into believing the
Shadow Game
1969-05-07
Workers in a high-powered New York business office are stranded on the 50th floor when the power fai
Velvet
1984-08-27
A female team of government agents, under the guise of owners of a popular worldwide franchise of ae
Chance of a Lifetime
1991-11-18
Since the death of her husband 10 years ago, Evelyn has been working hard for her company, but had n
Dismembered
2003-01-01
A chilling tale of a city being tormented by a mysterious killer. Everywhere the citizens turn, they
The Rules of Marriage
1982-05-10
A seemingly perfect marriage disintegrates, as both husband and wife become involved in a series of
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
1987-11-26
An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a numb
The 48-Hour Mile
1970-11-01
An unusual assignment for a private investigator involves two women who are in love with the same ma
The Thundering 8th
2000-01-01
Veteran WWII fighter pilot, Joe Sarnowski, reflects back on his service as an American fighter ace.
Yesterday's Dreams
2005-06-10
Yesterday's Dreams is the story about a lonely 40-year-old septic tank cleaner who lives with his ab