William Windom (actor)
| William Windom | |
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Windom in My World and Welcome to It
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| Born |
September 28, 1923 New York, New York, U.S. |
| Died | August 16, 2012 (aged 88) Woodacre, Marin County California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Congestive heart failure |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1950–2006 |
| Spouse(s) | Carol Keyser (1947–1955) Barbara Joyce (1958–1963) Barbara Goetz (1963–1968) Jacqulyn Hopkins (1969–1974) Patricia Tunder (1975–2012; his death) |
| Children | Rachel, Heather, Juliet, Hope, Rebel, Russell |
| Parent(s) | Paul Windom (father); Isobel Wells Peckham (mother) |
| Awards | 1970 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series |
William Windom (September 28, 1923 – August 16, 2012) was an American actor. He was perhaps best known for his work on television, including two episodes of The Twilight Zone. He portrayed Glen Morley, a fictional congressman from Minnesota, a role based on Windom's own Republican great-grandfather and namesake in the ABC sitcom The Farmer's Daughter, co-starring Inger Stevens as his beautiful young housekeeper.
Windom also achieved fame as the character of cartoonist 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 USS Constellation in the Star Trek episode "The Doomsday Machine;" the character Randy Lane in the Night Gallery episode "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar;" perhaps the most common recurring character, Dr. Seth Hazlitt, on the CBS series Murder, She Wrote; as the President of the United States in the feature film Escape from the Planet of the Apes; and for voicing Puppetino in Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night.
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