William Windom

"A lot of people today think the first thing they saw is the first thing that ever happened, and that means Star Trek or Murder, She Wrote," - William Windom

William Windom died on August 16, 2012from congestive heart failure at the age of 88. Windom was born in New York City on September 28, 1923. He was the great-grandson of the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury of the same name. He served in the U.S. Army in the European Theater of Operations in World War II, as a paratrooper with Company B, 1st Battalion 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division.

Windom's first motion picture role was as Mr. Gilmer, the prosecutor of Tom Robinson in 1962's Academy Award-winning To Kill a Mockingbird.

In 1968 he also starred in The Detective with Frank Sinatra as a homophobic killer, and received great reviews from The New York Times. He was perhaps best known for his work on television, including several episodes of The Twilight Zone

Glen Morley, a fictional congressman from Minnesota based on Windom's 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

Commodore Matt Decker, commander of the doomed U.S.S. Constellation in the Star Trek episode "The Doomsday Machine"

A role he reprised nearly 40 years later for Star Trek New Voyages

Barney Miller

The voice of Puppetino in Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night.

He was a regular for a decade on the series Murder, She Wrote, playing Dr. Seth Hazlitt. His initial appearance in the role was in October 1985. (He had previously appeared as a guest star playing another character in April 1985.) The producers enjoyed his work, and consequently invited him to return at the beginning of the second season to take on the role permanently. He briefly left the show to work on another series in 1990, but the show was short lived and he returned to Murder, She Wrote as a semi-regular for the remainder of the series' run.

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