William Windom

William Windom

Nacimiento : 1923-09-28, New York City, New York, United States

Muerte : 2012-08-16

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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.​

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William Windom

Películas

The Twilight Zone Christmas Classics
The Major
The Christmas Fantasy "Night of the Meek" starring Art Carney as a drunken department-store Santa who experiences quite an epiphany on Christmas Eve. And “Five Characters in search of an exit”.
Dismembered
Captain Hart
A chilling tale of a city being tormented by a mysterious killer.
Ejecución inminente
Neil the Bartender
Steve Everett es un periodista de investigación que tiene serios problemas: es un alcohólico que lleva sólo dos meses sin beber, pero es, sobre todo, un mujeriego impenitente. Este tipo de vida no sólo lo ha desprestigiado profesionalmente, sino que también ha arruinado su matrimonio. Encuentra una inesperada oportunidad de rehabilitación cuando le encargan una entrevista con un condenado a muerte en la víspera de su ejecución. A pesar de ello, decide investigar por su cuenta y ciertos indicios le hacen sospechar que el hombre que va a ser ejecutado es inocente. Sin embargo, dispone de muy poco tiempo para conseguir la información necesaria que haga posible el indulto e impida la ejecución de la sentencia.
Los chicos del maíz IV: La reunión
Doc Larson
Una estudiante de medicina vuelve, una vez acabada su carrera, a su ciudad natal. Al poco de su llegada, se encuentra con una extrañísima situación: los jóvenes del lugar sufren una extraña fiebre. Conforme va averiguando más y más, se encuentra atrapada en algo inexplicable...
Fugitive X: Innocent Target
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 ten minute head start. Winters explains that if Adam tries to contact the police, he will kill his wife Kara (Lynn-Holly Johnson: "For Your Eyes Only", "Ice Castles") and his Uncle Billy (William Windom: "Somersby", "Planes, Trains and Automobiles"). As Trent barely escapes death, this ordinary citizen becomes a deadly killing machine.
El ataque de la mujer de 50 pies
Hamilton Cobb
Cuando Nancy se dirige en coche a un motel para sorprender a su marido en brazos de otra mujer, es abducida por unos alienígenas por medio de un haz de rayos láser que ejercen sobre ella un extraño efecto: empieza a crecer de manera tan desmesurada que alcanza los 50 pies de altura. Al mismo tiempo, la cólera contra su marido crecerá en igual medida.
Sommersby
Reverend Powell
Tras el fin de la Guerra de Secesión, un combatiente confederado llamado Jake Sommersby (Richard Gere) retorna a su hogar para encontrarse con sus amigos y familia seis años después de su marcha. Cuando llega a su destino, su esposa Laurel Sommersby (Jodie Foster), alentada por Orin Meecham (Bill Pullman), comprometido con ella ante la larga ausencia de su marido, dudará de la verdadera identidad de Jake... Remake de "El regreso de Martin Guerre", film francés de 1983, pero ambientada tras la guerra de secesión.
Chance of a Lifetime
Dr. Edelman
Since the death of her husband 10 years ago, Evelyn has been working hard for her company, but had no private life. Now her doctor shocks her with the news that she may live only another 6 months. Spontanely she follows a TV ad and sets out for vacation in Mexico. There she meets widower Lloyd and they fall in love, go bungee jumping... until she gets another diagnosis from her doctor.
Comprometida
Dr. Quilly
Después del brutal suicidio de su jefe y amigo íntimo, la enfermera Susan Manning trata de dejar atrás el pasado buscando un nuevo trabajo. Conoce al doctor Quilly, jefe de una institución conocida como El Instituto y Susan cree que ha dado con el lugar idóneo para encauzar su vida. Sin embargo, no pasa mucho tiempo en darse cuenta de cuál es su verdadero trabajo. Aislada del mundo exterior, su vida se convierte en una pesadilla de brutalidad, confusión y miedo.
Solos con nuestro tío
Mr. Hatfield (voice)
El matrimonio Russell y sus tres hijos han dejado su pequeño pueblo para vivir en las afueras de una gran ciudad. Cuando el abuelo sufre un infarto, los Russell tienen que volver al pueblo a toda velocidad, pero se les plantea un problema: ¿Con quién dejan a los chicos? Para su desgracia, sólo hay una solución: la oveja negra de la familia, el tío Buck. Soltero irresponsable, incapaz de mantener un trabajo y de llevar una vida convencional, está decidido a que la visita a sus sobrinos resulte inolvidable.
La loca aventura del matrimonio
Russell Bainbridge
Una pareja de jóvenes, Jack y Kristy, decide dar un paso muy importante en sus vidas: casarse. Compartirlo todo definitivamente, el comienzo de una vida común, es toda una aventura, la ilusión rige cada uno de sus actos y son felices amueblando el nuevo hogar y comprando coche nuevo. Pero todo se complica para ambos cuando Kristy se queda embarazada.
Funland
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.
Dead Aim
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 to a ruthless foreign diplomat (Harry Goz). Mace won't stop until he gets some answers. The FBI and KGB have them, but now they're talking back with bullets.
Street Justice
Father Burke
A forgotten CIA agent escapes after 12 years and returns to his corrupt New Jersey hometown.
There Must Be a Pony
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.
Prince Jack
Ferguson
A dramatic look at the inner workings of the Kennedy administration.
Motín en el planeta prisión
Gov. Tovah
En este western futurista situado doscientos años en el futuro, un ladrón de bancos llamado Grange es capturado y sentenciado en la colonia penal del planeta minero Proxima Centauri 3. Allí conoce al cazarrecompensas Walker y al "Coronel", un policía retirado de Los Ángeles que fue considerado el mejor de su clase. Grange es un lunático peligroso y Walker y el Coronel tendrán que formar equipo para evitar que escape.
Surviving
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.
Means and Ends
Burt
A 1985 Canadian drama.
Velvet
Government Official
A female team of government agents, under the guise of owners of a popular worldwide franchise of aerobic centers, matches wits with a group of criminals who have kidnapped a top defense specialist and his ailing son, intending to sell him to the highest bidder.
El desafio americano
Bob Cody
Tim Pearson, un adolescente de un pueblo de Illinois, está deseando graduarse en el instituto, para irse a Florida, a estudiar Oceanografía, pero se siente atraído por Michelle 'Mike' Cody, que es la encargada de un espectáculo de coches de choque. Cuando intenta conquistar a Michelle, tropieza con un inesperado rival: uno de los pilotos del espectáculo, cuyo matrimonio hace aguas.
The Pigs vs. The Freaks
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 sister who prefers the hippie element. To make things even more intense, Mickey South, who has fled to Canada to avoid the war, returns to play for the Freaks football team. Tensions mount and all are challenged as the climax of the film approaches.
Why Me?
General
An Air Force nurse about to leave the service is badly disfigured about her face in a car accident in which she also loses her baby.
Last Plane Out
James Caldwell
An American journalist covering the civil war in Nicaragua falls in love with a beautiful Sandinista rebel.
The Rules of Marriage
George Olsen
A seemingly perfect marriage disintegrates, as both husband and wife become involved in a series of affairs.
Desperate Lives
Dr. Jarvis
A brother and sister get caught up in the drug scene in their local high school, with tragic results.
Side Show
Byron Gage
A teenage boy who runs off to join the circus as a side show puppeteer stumbles onto the dark secrets of the fellow performers.
Separate Ways
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.
Leave 'Em Laughing
Smiley Jenkins
Real-life clown Jack Thum, along with his devoted wife, Shirlee, cared for dozens of homeless children — 37 of them over the years — in the Chicago area, all of whom come back to visit when they discover he's terminally ill.
Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger
Monseigneur Soldini
The dramatized biography of Margaret Sanger, the crusader who founded America's first birth control clinic during World War I and was tried in court under obscenity laws.
Hunters of the Reef
Panama Cassidy
A beautiful marine biologist. A deep-sea diver. Trapped while searching for treasure in shark-infested waters!
Goodbye, Franklin High
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.
Caza sin piedad
Victor Lacey
Paul Ramsey, un cantante de música country, es traicionado por su abogado ante un tribunal y condenado a cinco años de prisión. Paul es enviado a una sádica prisión del sur. Esta prisión utiliza a los presos de forma inhumana para entrenar a su jauría de perros de ataque. Los animales también se utilizan para localizar a los hombres que intentan escapar, incluyendo el uso de "Rattler", el feroz Doberman dominante de la jauría. Pero Paul no está dispuesto a permanecer más en aquella infernal prisión.
The Bluegrass Special
Phil Wainwright
Penny is a teenage horse trainer with a very special dream of becoming a jockey. She picks Woodhill to compete in the upcoming Bluegrass Special; Woodhill is a beautiful race horse with a bad reputation who threw and injured his rider during a race in Tijuana. Penny's devotion and determination are an inspiration to anyone who believes that dreams can come true.
Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours
Arthur Springfield
A young private detective takes on his first case, a young woman with amnesia who doesn't know why a gunman is trying to kill her but believes she might be involved in a murder.
Bridger
Daniel Webster
The story of famous frontiersman Jim Bridger, who is given 40 days to cut a trail through the Rocky Mountains to the California coast and told that if he can't do it, the territory will be lost to England.
Ecos de un verano
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.
Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case
Walt Adamson
The story of Dr. Sam Sheppard, an Ohio doctor convicted of murdering his wife, despite his vehement denials of the crime.
Journey from Darkness
Dr. Cavaliere
A brilliant blind student fights a seemingly hopeless battle to gain acceptance into medical school.
The Abduction of Saint Anne
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.
The Day the Earth Moved
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.
Murder in the First Person Singular
Alfred Emerson
A murder plot by a terminally ill English teacher, to capitalize on the double indemnity clause in his life insurance, hires one of his students to do the deed.
The Girls of Huntington House
Sam Dutton
An unmarried teacher in a school for unwed mothers finds herself becoming too emotionally attached to her students and their problems.
Pursuit
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 extremist James Wright (E.G. Marshall), he uncovers a diabolical plot to blast lethal nerve gas into San Diego during the Republican Convention. What's worse, a computer hacker (Martin Sheen) has provided Wright with a psychological profile to help him outwit Graves. As Wright ingeniously eludes Graves, can Graves find a way to stop him before the ultimate nightmare begins?
A Great American Tragedy
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.
The Man
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 politician and leader.
Te veo y no te veo
Professor Lufkin
Un rayo cae en el laboratorio de un colegio y el experimento que estaban realizando se convierte en un líquido capaz de volver invisibles a las personas u objetos. Gracias a esa fórmula, el decano podría ganar un premio científico que resuelva los problemas financieros del colegio. Sin embargo, un hombre avaro intenta robar la fórmula, para convertir la escuela en un parque de atracciones y ganar un montón de dinero.
Second Chance
Stan Petryk
A rich stockbroker buys a Nevada ghost town as a community for people who need a second chance in life.
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
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 the oldest son John-Boy who must cut down the tree with his grandfather since his father isn't home and is eventually told about his missing father and sets out to find him. An all round heartwarming story, especially if you are a fan of The Waltons. A simple story about a simple family in simple times. Great family entertainment!
Marriage: Year One
Warren Duden
A medical student marries a millionaire's daughter but insists they live on the money he earns.
La Presencia del Diablo
Harold Jennings
Años después de sufrir un traumático ataque de un desconocido que la dejó dos años en shock, Susan (Bárbara Parkins), vuelve a la casa de sus padres donde todo sucedió. Allí encuentra que su cariñosa madre (Barbara Stanwyck), se ha casado por segunda vez y vive una tormentosa relación con su nuevo marido. Ella trata de revivir los sucesos de cuando era niña con el fin de recordar quién la atacó aquel día.
Cerco de fuego
Roy K. Sizemore
Años 30, Gran Depresión. Después de cumplir condena, tres presos salen de una cárcel de West Virginia. Durante su cautiverio han ahorrado suficiente dinero para montar una tienda que les permita disfrutar honradamente de su libertad.
Huida del planeta de los simios
The President
Tres simios, la doctora Zira, Cornelius y el doctor Milo, han conseguido sobrevivir al desastre nuclear en su planeta y, tras arreglar la nave de los humanos, viajan en el tiempo hasta llegar a la Tierra de finales del siglo XX. Al llegar, mientras son estudiados en un centro de investigación para determinar su nivel de inteligencia, se niegan a revelar lo que saben sobre la civilización humana.
Satán mon amour
Dr. Roger West
Myles Clarkson (Alan Alda), joven periodista y pianista clásico en alza, está encantado de poder combinar sus dos pasiones en una entrevista excepcional con el legendario y enfermo pianista Duncan Ely (Curd Jürgens). Pero a Clarkson le espera una desagradable sorpresa. Ely, un adorador secreto de Satán, lleva a cabo un ritual que le permite transferir su alma al cuerpo de Myles en el momento de su muerte, para recuperar la juventud y poder seguir tocando el piano. Las complicaciones aumentan cuando Paula (Jacqueline Bisset), la esposa de Myles, percibe cambios en el comportamiento de su esposo. Cuando intenta averiguar la verdad, Paula se ve arrastrada a un mundo horripilante de intercambios de almas, posesiones demoníacas, y terribles secretos familiares...
Escape
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.
Assault on the Wayne
Capt. Frank Reardon
The U.S. submarine Anthony Wayne is underway for a top-secret mission. Onboard is a highly classified device that will give the Americans a decided nuclear advantage. The entire mission and the secret technology are threatened when the sub commander discovers his crew has been infiltrated by enemy agents. The commander is charged with trying to protect the device while ferreting out the enemy agents. Compounding matters is the state of the commander's physical and mental condition, which is being questioned by his crew.
El volar es para los pájaros
Weeks
Brewster McCloud (Bud Cort) es un joven cuyo sueño es conseguir poder volar como los pájaros. (FILMAFFINITY)
House on Greenapple Road
Paul Durstine
A promiscuous housewife has been murdered and hardboiled detective Dan August has to find the motive...and the body.
Los temerarios del aire
John Brandon
Historia de tres paracaidistas de diferentes edades, que viajan juntos con su espectáculo aéreo de caída libre, haciendo frente a los riesgos de su profesión.
CBS Playhouse: Shadow Game
Workers in a high-powered New York business office are stranded on the 50th floor when the power fails during the East Coast blackout of 1965.
Operation Heartbeat
Raymond Hanson
Lawsuits fly when a widow believes a gifted surgeon allowed her husband to die so his heart could be transplanted into the doctor's ailing mentor and friend. Operation Heartbeat was the pilot movie for the TV series Medical Center.
The Angry Breed
Vance Patton
In Vietnam, aspiring actor Johnny Taylor is given a prize film script after saving the life of a Hollywood screenwriter. On his return, Johnny has trouble finding a studio that will let him play the lead until he saves producer Vance Patton's daughter Diane from a cycle-gang attack. The grateful father sends him to agent Mori Thompson, but Thompson wants the script for gang leader Deek Stacy. Deek and his agent feed Johnny LSD and drag him away to the dungeon during the producer's Halloween party.
El detective
Colin MacIver
Un detective ya maduro debe resolver un caso de asesinato relacionado con el ambiente homosexual.
Receta: Asesinato
Burt Gordon
Un psiquiatra usa a una paciente suya, con la que tiene un affaire, para ayudarlo a asesinar a su esposa. Pero esta coartada perfecta empieza a quebrarse ante la llegada de un aparentemente desconcertado teniente. Esta película para televisión significó la primera aparición del personaje de Columbo, interpretado por Peter Falk.
La hora de las pistolas
Texas Jack Vermillion
Ike Clanton (Robert Ryan) es un hombre poderoso que tiene atemorizados a los habitantes de Tombstone. Cuando el agente federal Wyatt Earp (James Garner) y su inseparable amigo Doc Hollyday (Jason Robards), pistolero y jugador profesional, llegan a la ciudad para imponer la ley, Clanton no duda en comprar a un sheriff corrupto para acabar con ellos. A partir del momento en que los pistoleros de Clanton asesinan por la espalda a uno de los hermanos de Wyatt, la única obsesión de éste será vengar su muerte y limpiar de pistoleros la ciudad.
La americanización de Emily
Captain Harry Spaulding
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Un rico y cobarde oficial de la Marina, que se mantiene alejado de la guerra en una base militar norteamericana, se enamora de una viuda inglesa. Esta historia de amor se ve amenazada cuando el oficial debe cumplir una peligrosa misión, previa al desembarco de Normandía.
One Man's Way
Rev. Clifford Peale
Reverend Norman Vincent Peale fights to bring his message to the nation.
Tres herederas
Sam Travis
Un abogado de vida alegre es contratado por una millonaria para una tarea inusual: emparejar a sus tres hijas con los tres candidatos que ella misma ha seleccionado, todos ellos muy buenos partidos: un industrial, un inspector de hacienda y un individuo que se dedica a rehabilitar presos.
Pistolas en la frontera
Harry Travers - Sharleen's Brother
Western de serie B. Un honrado ranchero de Wyoming (Robert Taylor) debe enfrentarse con un malvado individuo que planea arrebatarle sus tierras.
Matar a un ruiseñor
Mr. Gilmer
En la época de la Gran Depresión, en una población sureña, Atticus Finch es un abogado que defiende a un hombre negro acusado de haber violado a una mujer blanca. Aunque la inocencia del hombre resulta evidente, el veredicto del jurado es tan previsible que ningún abogado aceptaría el caso, excepto Atticus Finch, el ciudadano más respetable de la ciudad. Su compasiva y valiente defensa de un inocente le granjea enemistades, pero le otorga el respeto y la admiración de sus dos hijos, huérfanos de madre. Adaptación cinematográfica de la novela homónima de Harper Lee.