William Windom
Actor
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William Windom (born September 28, 1923) is 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.
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There Must Be A Pony (2015)
As: Lee Hertzig
Marguerite Sydney is a celebrated Hollywood star attempting a comeback after a stay in a mental hospital, as well as trying to re-establish a relationship with her teenage son, and risking a romance with a mysterious stranger.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Joseph Sargent
Stars: William Windom | Elizabeth Taylor | Robert Wagner | James Coco | Edward Winter
True Crime (1999)
As: Neil the Bartender
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Stars: James Woods | Isaiah Washington | Denis Leary | Clint Eastwood | LisaGay Hamilton
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996)
As: Doc Larson
Grace Rhodes, who is studying to be a doctor, returns to her hometown as a strange illness is afflicting the local children. The symptoms include a high fever and spasms, but even weirder is what happens the next day: All those with the illness claim they are somebody else -- then they begin murdering the grown-ups. After her sister undergoes the same sinister metamorphosis, Grace comes to believe there is ...
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Greg Spence
Stars: Brent Jennings | Karen Black | Naomi Watts | Jamie Renée Smith | Mark Salling
Fugitive X: Innocent Target (1996)
Adam Trent (David Heavener: "Prime Target", "Eye of the Stranger") is an advertising executive...an ordinary citizen. On his way to work one morning someone tries to kill him. Adam is forced to play a deadly game. Daniel Winters (Richard Norton: "License to Kill", "Octagon") runs an underground casino where the wealthy bet via computer whether Adam Trent will live or die. They give Adam one handgun and a ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: David Heavener
Stars: Clement von Franckenstein | Richard Norton | David Heavener | Lynn-Holly Johnson | Jennifer Moeller
Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1993)
As: Hamilton Cobb
Nancy Archer has had an alien encounter and it's left her 50 ft. tall! Now she sees the men in her life from a new angle - looking down on them - and it's time to fight back.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Christopher Guest
Stars: Daniel Baldwin | Frances Fisher | William Windom | Cristi Conaway | Daryl Hannah
Sommersby (1993)
As: Reverend Powell
Set in the south of the United States just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack, believed killed in the Civil War. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. ...
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Jon Amiel
Stars: Bill Pullman | James Earl Jones | Richard Gere | Jodie Foster | Lanny Flaherty
Committed (1991)
As: Dr. Quilly
A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to everyone.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: William A. Levey
Stars: Robert Forster | Sydney Lassick | William Windom | Jennifer O'Neill | Ron Palillo
Uncle Buck (1989)
As: Mr. Hatfield (voice)
As an idle, good-natured bachelor, Uncle Buck is the last person you would think of to watch the kids. However, during a family crisis, he is suddenly left in charge of his nephew and nieces. Unaccustomed to suburban life, fun-loving Uncle Buck soon charms his younger relatives Miles and Maizy with his hefty cooking and his new way of doing the laundry. His carefree style does not impress everyone though - ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: John Hughes
Stars: Jean Louisa Kelly | Amy Madigan | Macaulay Culkin | John Candy | Gaby Hoffmann
She's Having a Baby (1988)
As: Russ Bainbridge
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: John Hughes
Stars: Kevin Bacon | Holland Taylor | William Windom | Elizabeth McGovern | Alec Baldwin
Funland (1987)
As: Angus Perry
When a mob family takes over an amusement park after the owner dies under mysterious circumstances, the recently-fired clown mascot seeks vengeance for the loss of his job.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Michael A. Simpson
Stars: William Windom | Jan Hooks | Bruce Mahler | Clark Brandon | David L. Lander
Dead Aim (1987)
As: McWhorter
Ed Marinaro is Malcolm "Mace" Douglas, a street-tough detective who's out for justice-no matter what the cost. While investigating the mysterious suicidal heroin overdoses of four beautiful exotic dancers, Mace puts together the pieces of a deadly puzzle, infiltrating a violent ring of shadowy drug and weapons dealers, Mace methodically tracks a serial killer (Rick Washburn) with murderous ties ...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: William Vanderkloot
Stars: Isaac Hayes | Ed Marinaro | Darrell Larson | John Hancock | Cassandra Gava
Street Justice (1987)
As: Father Burke
A forgotten CIA agent escapes after 12 years and returns to his corrupt New Jersey hometown.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Richard C. Sarafian
Stars: Catherine Bach | Joanna Kerns | Jeanette Nolan | Michael Ontkean | J. D. Cannon
Prince Jack (1985)
As: Ferguson
A dramatic look at the inner workings of the Kennedy administration.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Bert Lovitt
Stars: Robert Guillaume | Theodore Bikel | Dana Andrews | Jim Backus | Robert Hogan
Space Rage (1985)
As: Gov. Tovah
In this sci-fi/western film set two hundred years from now, a bank robber, Grange is captured and sentenced to the penal colony on the mining planet Proxima Centauri 3 where he meets bounty-hunter Walker, and the Colonel, a retired policeman from LA who was considered the best of his kind. Grange is a dangerous lunatic and Walker and the Colonel must team up to keep him from escaping.
Runtime: 77 min.
Directed by: Conrad E. Palmisano
Stars: John Laughlin | Lewis Van Bergen | Richard Farnsworth | Michael Paré | Lee Purcell
Surviving: A Family in Crisis (1985)
As: Dr. Madsen
Lonnie and Rick seem to be complete opposites, at first glance. A survivor of suicide, Lonnie is introverted and ill at ease around her parents, Lois and Harvey. Rick, meanwhile, is sunny and charismatic. But appearances can be deceiving, as their families learn when the teens begin a romance. Upset about Lonnie's influence on Rick, his parents forbid the pair to see each other -- with tragic consequences.
Runtime: 143 min.
Directed by: Waris Hussein
Stars: Ellen Burstyn | Zach Galligan | Len Cariou | Marsha Mason | Molly Ringwald
Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
As: Bob Cody
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" Webster is on of the drivers in the derby who's wife is cheating on him and wants to later on be ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Randal Kleiser
Stars: C. Thomas Howell | Jamie Lee Curtis | William Windom | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Patrick Swayze
Pigs vs. Freaks (1984)
As: Mayor Malcolm Wallwood
In a small town, the hippie faction often clashes with the mainstream. To settle their differences, the hippie "freaks" take on the town police "pigs" in a football game. On opposing sides of the fence are Frank, the police sergeant, and his son Neal. Also at odds are Neal and one time friend Doug, a returned Vietnam Vet who has joined the police force, who is also protective of his younger ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Dick Lowry
Stars: Brian Dennehy | Adam Baldwin | Eugene Roche | Penny Peyser | Grant Goodeve
Desperate Lives (1982)
As: Dr. Jarvis
A brother and sister get caught up in the drug scene in their local high school, with tragic results.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Robert Michael Lewis
Stars: Helen Hunt | William Windom | Art Hindle | Diana Scarwid | Doug McKeon
Side Show (1981)
A teenage boy runs away from home. He joins the circus but finds out that it's not all what it's cracked up to be. But then the boy becomes a witness to a murder, and he must try to stay out of the killer's way.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: William Conrad
Stars: William Windom | Barbara Rhoades | Connie Stevens | Albert Paulsen | Lance Kerwin
Separate Ways (1981)
As: Huey Block
A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a race driver, is also having an affair.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Howard Avedis
Stars: Karen Black | David Naughton | Tony Lo Bianco | Monte Markham | Arlene Golonka
Leave 'em Laughing (1981)
As: Smiley Jenkins
Based on a true story, Mickey Rooney plays real-life clown Jack Thum. Thum and his wife cared for dozens of unwanted children. When Thum realizes he has terminal cancer, he falls apart and his wife must help him regain his innerstrength and deal with reality. (IMDB)
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Jackie Cooper
Stars: Allen Garfield | Mickey Rooney | William Windom | Anne Jackson | Elisha Cook Jr.
Hunters of the Reef (1978)
As: Panama Cassidy
A beautiful marine biologist. A deep-sea diver. Trapped while searching for treasure in shark-infested waters!
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Alexander Singer
Stars: Felton Perry | Michael Parks | William Windom | Mary Louise Weller | Moosie Drier
Goodbye, Franklin High (1978)
As: Clifford Armer
Comic melodrama following the day-to-day life of high school senior Will, a promising but naive athlete struggling with choices that could determine his future, romance and family difficulties.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Mike MacFarland
Stars: Darby Hinton | William Windom | Julie Adams | Ann Dusenberry | Lane Caudell
Mean Dog Blues (1978)
As: Victor Lacey
Former TV documentary filmmaker Mel Stuart tries to inject an acceptable degree of verisimilitude in Mean Dog Blues. A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey (Gregg Henry) finds himself on a Southern chain gang. Captain Omar Kinsman (George Kennedy) snarls a lot as the obligatory sadistic prison guard, but the film's real villains are Victor and Donna Lacey (William Windom and ...
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Mel Stuart
Stars: Gregg Henry | Felton Perry | Scatman Crothers | Tina Louise | Kay Lenz
Echoes of a Summer (1976)
As: Dr. Hallet
A young girl with a terminal heart condition plans to celebrate her 12th birthday on one last summer holiday with her parents in Nova Scotia.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Don Taylor
Stars: Richard Harris | Jodie Foster | Lois Nettleton | Brad Savage | Geraldine Fitzgerald
Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case (1975)
As: Walt Adamson
The story of Dr. Sam Sheppard, an Ohio doctor convicted of murdering his wife, despite his vehement denials of the crime.
Runtime: 144 min.
Directed by: Robert Michael Lewis
Stars: William Windom | Walter McGinn | George Peppard | Barnard Hughes | Nina van Pallandt
The Abduction of Saint Anne (1975)
As: Ted Morrisey
A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous powers of a 17-year-old girl being held captive in the home of her father, an ailing syndicate kingpin.
Runtime: 72 min.
Directed by: Harry Falk
Stars: William Windom | Robert Wagner | James Gregory | E.G. Marshall | George McCallister
The Day the Earth Moved (1974)
As: Judge Tom Backsler
An aerial photography team tries to alert a small town about an impending earthquake, but no one believes the duo until the tremors start and the walls begin to collapse.
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: Robert Michael Lewis
Stars: Stella Stevens | William Windom | Beverly Garland | Cleavon Little | Jackie Cooper
The Girls of Huntington House (1973)
As: Sam Dutton
An unmarried teacher in a school for unwed mothers finds herself becoming too emotionally attached to her students and their problems.
Runtime: 74 min.
Directed by: Alf Kjellin
Stars: William Windom | Sissy Spacek | Pamela Sue Martin | Mercedes McCambridge | Shirley Jones
Pursuit (1972)
As: Robert Phillips
What begins as a routine investigation quickly escalates into a heartstopping race to save millions from certain death in this taut and gripping thriller. Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, ER) "makes an impressive directorial debut" (The Hollywood Reporter) in this deadly cat-and-mouse game in which the stakes couldn't be higher! When government agent Steven Graves (Ben Gazzara) investigates political ...
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: Michael Crichton
Stars: Martin Sheen | William Windom | Joseph Wiseman | E.G. Marshall | Ben Gazzara
A Great American Tragedy (1972)
As: Rob Stewart
A middle-aged aerospace engineer has his whole life changed when he is suddenly laid off from his job. Unable to find work because of his age and a bad economy, he watches his bills pile up, his wife forced to go back to work and his marriage start to break up.
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Kevin McCarthy | William Windom | George Kennedy | Vera Miles | Sallie Shockley
The Man (1972)
As: Arthur Eaton
When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, Senate President pro tempore Douglas Dilman (James Earl Jones) suddenly becomes the first black man to occupy the Oval Office. The events from that day to the next election when he must decide if he will actually run challenge his skills as a ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Joseph Sargent
Stars: James Earl Jones | Burgess Meredith | William Windom | Martin Balsam | Lew Ayres
Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972)
As: Professor Lufkin
Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before Dexter and his friends, Debbie and Richard Schuyler, can even enjoy their spectacular discovery, corrupt businessman A.J. Arno plots to get his greedy hands on it. Slapstick hijinks ensue as Dexter and his pals try to thwart the evil Arno before he can use the ...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Robert Butler
Stars: Kurt Russell | William Windom | Joe Flynn | Cesar Romero | Jim Backus
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971)
As: Charlie Snead
The Walton family is preparing for Christmas in the early 1930s. It's Christmas Eve, and they are waiting for Daddy Walton to come home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. Since he is late, everyone is worried and over the radio the mother and grandparents hear about an overturned bus and hurt travelers but keep this news from the rest of the family. The story is really a coming of age story about ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Fielder Cook
Stars: Patricia Neal | Ellen Corby | Edgar Bergen | Dorothy Stickney | Richard Thomas
Marriage: Year One (1971)
As: Warren Duden
A medical student marries a millionaire's daughter but insists they live on the money he earns.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: William A. Graham
Stars: Sally Field | Cicely Tyson | Bob Balaban | William Windom | Agnes Moorehead
A Taste of Evil (1971)
As: Harold Jennings
On her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane.
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: John Llewellyn Moxey
Stars: Roddy McDowall | William Windom | Arthur O'Connell | Barbara Stanwyck | Barbara Parkins
Fools' Parade (1971)
As: Roy K. Sizemore
Homer Grindstaff is a big named banker in Glory and Doc Council is a prison official and they team up to plot to kill Appleyard and his ex-convict friends who were attempting to open up a general store in Stone Coal, West Virginia and then to take the money.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Kurt Russell | George Kennedy | James Stewart | Strother Martin | Anne Baxter
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
As: The President
The world is shocked by the appearance of two talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a U.S. spacecraft. They become the toast of society; but one man believes them to be a threat to the human race.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Don Taylor
Stars: Roddy McDowall | Bradford Dillman | Natalie Trundy | Eric Braeden | Kim Hunter
The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
As: Dr. Roger West
A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles' hands are ideally suited for piano. Suddenly, he can't get enough of his new friend, and Myles' wife, Paula, becomes suspicious of Duncan's intentions. Her suspicions grow when Duncan dies and Myles ...
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Paul Wendkos
Stars: William Windom | Jacqueline Bisset | Alan Alda | Bradford Dillman | Barbara Parkins
Escape (1971)
As: Doctor Henry Walding
A scientist's experiment could lead to the first man-made, functioning, living organism. An elite escape artist-private investigator is working to stop him.
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: John Llewellyn Moxey
Stars: William Windom | John Vernon | Christopher George | Avery Schreiber | Gloria Grahame
Assault on the Wayne (1971)
As: Captain Frank Reardon
Intrigue aboard a nuclear sub with foreign agents infiltrating the crew to get their hands on a top secret device.
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: Marvin J. Chomsky
Stars: Leonard Nimoy | William Windom | Joseph Cotten | Dewey Martin | Lloyd Haynes
Brewster McCloud (1970)
As: Weeks
Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a unique way of treating others who do not fit within his plans.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Robert Altman
Stars: Michael Murphy | William Windom | Sally Kellerman | Shelley Duvall | Bud Cort
House on Greenapple Road (1970)
As: Paul Durstine
A detective investigates the disappearance of the promiscuous wife of a timid salesman, and finds that everything is not quite as it appears.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Robert Day
Stars: Janet Leigh | Julie Harris | Walter Pidgeon | Christopher George | Tim O'Connor
The Angry Breed (1968)
As: Vance Patton
Aspiring actor gets a big movie break in Hollywood, but soon finds himself in over his head.
Runtime: 94 min.
Stars: William Windom | Jan Sterling | James MacArthur
Prescription: Murder (1968)
As: Burt Gordon
In Columbo's first outing, a psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Richard Irving
Stars: Peter Falk | William Windom | Nina Foch | Gene Barry | Katherine Justice
The Detective (1968)
As: Colin MacIver
Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a homosexual man. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in New York City in this drama that delves into a world of sex and drugs.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Gordon Douglas
Stars: Jacqueline Bisset | Lee Remick | Frank Sinatra | Ralph Meeker | Jack Klugman
Hour of the Gun (1967)
As: Texas Jack Vermillion
Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: John Sturges
Stars: Jason Robards | James Garner | Albert Salmi | Robert Ryan | Charles Aidman
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
As: Capt. Harry Spaulding
During the build-up to D-Day in 1944, the British found their island hosting many thousands of American soldiers who were "oversexed, overpaid, and over here". That's Charlie Madison exactly; he knows all the angles to make life as smooth and risk-free as possible for himself. But things become complicated when he falls for an English woman, and his commanding officer's nervous breakdown leads to Charlie ...
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Arthur Hiller
Stars: Julie Andrews | James Garner | James Coburn | Joyce Grenfell | Melvyn Douglas
One Man's Way (1964)
As: Rev. Clifford Peale
Film biography of minister Norman Vincent Peale.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Denis Sanders
Stars: Veronica Cartwright | William Windom | Virginia Christine | Don Murray | Diana Hyland
For Love or Money (1963)
As: Sam Travis
Wealthy Chloe Brasher has three beautiful daughters; Bonnie, Kate, and Jan. Chloe pays attorney Deke Gentry to fix them up with three suitable husbands.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Michael Gordon
Stars: Kirk Douglas | Julie Newmar | Gig Young | Mitzi Gaynor | Thelma Ritter
Cattle King (1963)
As: Harry Travers - Sharleen's Brother
President Arthur helps a rich rancher (Robert Taylor) fight advocates of open grazing in the Territory of Wyoming.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Tay Garnett
Stars: Robert Loggia | Robert Middleton | Joan Caulfield | Robert Taylor | Larry Gates
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
As: Mr. Horace Gilmer
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
Stars: Gregory Peck | Brock Peters | John Megna | Mary Badham | Phillip Alford