William Windom (actor)

For the United States Secretary of the Treasury (and this actor's great-grandfather), see William Windom.

William Windom
Windom in My World and Welcome to It
Born	(1923-09-28)September 28, 1923 Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Died	August 16, 2012(2012-08-16) (aged 88) Woodacre, California, U.S.
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)
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 three-season sitcom The Farmer's Daughter, co-starring Inger Stevens as the nanny for his children.

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 popular Star Trek episode "The Doomsday Machine;" the character Randy Lane in the Night Gallery episode "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar;" the recurring character Dr. Seth Hazlitt on the 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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  1 Early life
  


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  2 Career
  


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  3 Death
  


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  4 Television
  


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  5 Filmography
  


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  6 References
  


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  7 External links
  

Early life

Windom was born in New York City, the son of Isobel Wells (née Peckham) and Paul Windom, an architect.^[1][2] He was the great-grandson of the United States Secretary of the Treasury of the same name. He attended Williams College before enlisting in the army. He served in the United States 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.^[3]

Career

Playbill: Windom Plays Thurber

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

Windom appeared in 1961 "All Is Forgiven" episode of The Donna Reed Show as 'Ed Corwin' and the 1962 episode 'Wide Open Spaces" as 'David Adams'.

In 1968, he starred with Frank Sinatra in The Detective, playing a homophobic killer. The role received great reviews from The New York Times.

From September 1963 to April 1966, he co-starred in the television version of the previous film The Farmer's Daughter, a series about a young Minnesota woman who becomes the housekeeper for a widowed congressman. In the 1969–1970 NBC series My World and Welcome to It, Windom played the James Thurberesque lead and received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series. After the cancellation of the series, Windom toured the country for a time in a one-man Thurber show. After the run was completed, Windom filmed the pilot for a new series Is There a Doctor in the House? with Rosemary Forsyth. The pilot was written with both actors in mind for the two starring roles, and while it was well received by the critics and in viewership ratings in both its first run and a rerun in the summer of 1971, it was not picked up for a series.

He was a regular for a decade on the series Murder, She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. 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 the first television version of Parenthood in 1990, playing the role of patriarch Frank Buckman (played by Jason Robards in the movie and Craig T. Nelson in the second TV version). But the show was short-lived (canceled after 12 episodes) and Windom returned to Murder, She Wrote as a semi-regular for the remainder of the run of that series.^{[citation needed]}

He appeared as Commodore Matt Decker, the tortured captain the USS Constellation in the Star Trek episode "The Doomsday Machine," a role he reprised nearly 40 years later for Star Trek New Voyages.

Death

He died on August 16, 2012, at the age of 88 at his home in Woodacre, California from congestive heart failure.^[1] He was survived by his wife, Patricia Tunder Windom, and four of his children – Rachel, Heather, Hope and Rebel – and four grandchildren.

Television

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  The Lucy Show, episode "Lucy Digs up a Date" (1962)


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  Guestward, Ho!, episode "The Christmas Spirit" (1960)


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  Gunsmoke, (1961, 1962, and 1972)


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  The Donna Reed Show, episodes "All Is Forgiven" (1961) and "The Wide Open Spaces" (1962)


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  The Twilight Zone, episode "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" (1961)


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  Cheyenne, episode "Legacy of the Lost" (1961)


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  Checkmate, episode "Through a Dark Glass" (1961)


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  The New Breed, episode "The Compulsion to Confess" (1961)


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  The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor, episode "Tobey's Place" (1961)


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  Follow the Sun, episode Meredith St. John in "A Ghost in Her Gazebo" (1962)


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  Bus Stop, episode "The Ordeal of Kevin Brooke (1962)


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  Thriller, episode "Man of Mystery" (1962)


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  Stoney Burke, episode "A Matter of Pride" (1962)


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  77 Sunset Strip, two episodes (1962-63)


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  Combat!, episode "Off Limits" (1963)


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  For Love or Money (1963)


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  The Farmer's Daughter (1963–66)


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  The Twilight Zone, episode "Miniature" (1963)


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  Empire, episode "Hidden Asset" (1963)


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  The Wild Wild West, episode "The Night of the Flying Pie Plate" (1966)


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  Twelve O'Clock High, episode "Gauntlet of Fire" (1966)


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  Star Trek, episode "The Doomsday Machine" (1967)


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  The Fugitive, episode "The Ivy Maze" (1967)


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  The Invaders (1967)


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  Custer (1967)


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  Mission Impossible, episode "The Widow" (1967)


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  Ironside, episode "Trip to Hashbury" (1968)


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  Columbo: Prescription: Murder (1968)


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  My World and Welcome to It (1969-70)


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  Hawaii Five-O, "Which Way Did They Go?" (1969)


• The Virginian "Halfway Back From Hell" (1969)


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  Columbo: Short Fuse (1972)


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  Night Gallery, episode "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar" (1971)


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  Is There a Doctor in the House? (1971)


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  All in the Family, episode "Success Story" (1971)


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  Ironside, episode "Achilles' Heel" (1972)


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  Night Gallery, episode "Little Girl Lost"' (1972)


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  The Streets of San Francisco; "45 Minutes From Home;" (07 October 1972)


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  Banacek, episode "Project Phoenix" (1972)


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  Medical Center, episode "Broken Image" (1973)


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  Griff (1973)


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  The Partridge Family episode "Bedknobs and Drumsticks" (1973)


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  The Streets of San Francisco, Episode "Letters From The Grave;" (16 January 1975)


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  Barney Miller, episode "Doomsday" (1975)


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  Mannix, episode "Hardball" (1975)


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  The Tony Randall Show, episode "Money vs. Stature" (1976)


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  The Feather and Father Gang, episode: "The Two-Star Killer" (1976)


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  Gibbsville, episode "Saturday Night" (1976)


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  Once an Eagle (1976)


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  Seventh Avenue (1977)


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  Hunter, episode "Lysenko Syndrome" (1977)


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  Quincy, M.E., episode "The Hot Dog Murders" (1977)


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  Family, episode "An Endangered Species" (1977)


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  The Wonderful World of Disney, episode "The Bluegrass Special" (1977)


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  Brothers and Sisters (1979)


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  Blind Ambition (1979)


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  The Incredible Hulk, episode "East Winds" (1981)


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  Barney Miller (1981)


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  Leave 'Em Laughing (1981)


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  Flamingo Road (1982)


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  Hart to Hart episode "With this Hart I Thee Wed" (1982)


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  Mama's Family (1983)


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  Matt Houston, episode "Heritage" (1983)


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  Automan (1983)


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  The Facts of Life, Pete of Pete's Deli, episode "Store Games" (original air date Nov 30, 1983)


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  Highway to Heaven (1985)


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  Knight Rider, episode "Knight Racer" (1985)


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  Murder, She Wrote (1985–1996)


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  Super Password (1986)


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  Newhart, episode "Good Bye and Good Riddance, Mr. Chips" (1987)


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  Parenthood (1990)


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  Dinosaurs (1991-94)


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  Sonic the Hedgehog (1994–95)


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  Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II (2004)

Filmography

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  To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - Mr. Gilmer - Prosecutor


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  Cattle King (1963) - Harry Travers


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  For Love or Money (1963) - Sam Travis


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  One Man's Way (1964) - Rev. Clifford Peale


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  The Americanization of Emily (1964) - Capt. Harry Spaulding


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  Hour of the Gun (1967) - Texas Jack Vermillion


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  The Detective (1968) - Colin MacIver


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  The Angry Breed (1968) - Vance Patton


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  The Gypsy Moths (1969) - V. John Brandon


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  Brewster McCloud (1970) - Weeks


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  Assault on the Wayne (1971, TV Movie) - Captain Frank Reardon


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  The Mephisto Waltz (1971) - Dr. Roger West


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  Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) - The President


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  Fools' Parade (1971) - Roy K. Sizemore


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  A Taste of Evil (1971, TV Movie) - Harold Jennings


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  Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972) - Lufkin


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  The Man (1972) - Arthur Eaton


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  The Girls of Huntington House (1973, TV Movie) - Sam Dutton


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  Stevie, Samson and Delilah (1975) - Narrator


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  Echoes of a Summer (1976) - Dr. Hallet


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  Mean Dog Blues (1978) - Victor Lacey


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  Goodbye, Franklin High (1978) - Clifford Armer


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  Separate Ways (1981) - Huey Block


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  Desperate Lives (1982, TV movie) - Dr. Jarvis


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  Last Plane Out (1983) - James Caldwell


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  Prince Jack (1984) - Ferguson


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  Off Sides (Pigs vs. Freaks) (1984, TV Movie) - Mayor Malcolm Wallwood


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  Grandview, U.S.A. (1984) - Bob Cody


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  Surviving: A Family in Crisis (1985, TV Movie) - Dr. Madsen


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  Space Rage (1985) - Gov. Tovah


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  Means and Ends (1985) - Burt


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  Welcome Home (1986, Short)


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  Street Justice (1987) - Father Burke


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  Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (1987) - Puppetino (voice)


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  Dennis the Menace: Dinosaur Hunter (1987, TV Movie) - Mr. George Wilson


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  Funland (1987) - Angus Perry


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  Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) - Bryant (uncredited)


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  Dead Aim (1987) - McWhorter


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  She's Having a Baby (1988) - Russ Bainbridge


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  Uncle Buck (1989) - Mr. Hatfield (voice)


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  Committed (1991) - Dr. Magnus Quilly


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  Sommersby (1993) - Reverend Powell


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  Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1993, TV Movie) - Hamilton Cobb


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  Miracle on 34th Street (1994) - C.F. Cole


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  True Crime (1999) - Neil


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  The Thundering 8th (2000) - Old Joe


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  Early Bird Special (2001) - Fred


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  Raising Dead (2002) - Chief Silton


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  Dopamine (2003) - Dopamine (film)


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  Dismembered (2003) - Police Capt. Hart


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  Yesterday's Dreams (2005) - Herb Radford

References

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   ^ ^ab Grode, Eric (August 19, 2012). "William Windom, Emmy Winner and TV Everyman, Dies at 88". The New York Times. Retrieved August 19, 2012. William Windom, who won an Emmy Award playing an Everyman drawn from the pages of James Thurber but who may be best remembered for his roles on “Star Trek” and “Murder, She Wrote,” died on Thursday at his home in Woodacre, Calif., north of San Francisco. He was 88. The cause was congestive heart failure, said his wife, Patricia. ....mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
   


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   ^ William Windom Biography (1923-)
   


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   ^ The 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) Trooper Pictures during World War II
   

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