William Windom
1923-2012
Known for Escape from the Planet of the Apes, To Kill a Mockingbird, Uncle Buck.
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.
Movie Credits
Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1994)
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1990)
She's Having a Baby (1988)
Last Plane Out (1983)
Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case (1975)
Pursuit (1972)
A Taste of Evil (1971)
Brewster McCloud (1970)
Prescription: Murder (1968)
Committed (1991)
Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972)
The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
Sommersby (1993)
Space Rage (1985)
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Street Justice (1987)
The Gypsy Moths (1969)
The Detective (1968)
Cattle King (1963)
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996)
Separate Ways (1981)
Hour of the Gun (1967)
Surviving (1985)
Fools' Parade (1971)
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (1987)
Why Me? (1984)
Uncle Buck (1989)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
True Crime (1999)