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(Dr. Seth Hazlitt)
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Windom made his stage debut as the Duke of Gloucester in a production of Richard III in Biarritz, France, in 1937. Back in the United States, he was in the off-Broadway production of Henry VIII in 1940 and, after years of stock work, appeared on Broadway--as a telephone voice--in A Girl Can tell (1953). Additional Broadway appearances included Mademoiselle Colombe (1954), Thr Grand Prize (1955) and Double in Hearts (1956). Still later, William toured in one-man shows about humorist James Thurber and World War II combat reporter Ernie Pyle.
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William's principal theatrical film appearances include To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The Americanization of Emily (1964), Hour of the Gun (1967), The Detective (1968), Escape From Planet of the Apes (1971), Echoes of a Summer (1976), Grandview U.S.A. (1984), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1986), Sommersby (1993), and Miracle on 34th Street (1994).
William's TV debut was in the title role of Richard III on an anthology show in 1950. A tremendously prolific television actor, his series before Murder, She Wrote have included The Farmer's Daughter (1962-1965), My World and Welcome to It (1969-1970--for which he won an Emmy Award), The Girl with Something Extra (1973-1974) and Brothers and Sisters (1979).
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Windom first appeared on Murder, She Wrote, in the April 1985 episode "Funeral at Fifty-Mile." He was cast as one of the four heavies in that segment. The next fall, as of episode #24 ("Joshua Peabody Died Here--Possibly"), he joined the whodunit series as a regular, in his recurring role of irascible Dr. Seth Hazlitt. (William had first worked with Angela Lansbury in 1957 when he appeared with her in the Broadway comedy Hotel Paradiso.) He dropped out of Murder, She Wrote in 1990 to become a key member of the TV sitcom Parenthood. That program, however, lasted only three months. Thereafter, as of episode #141 ("Family Doctor") in January 1991, Windom rejoined Murder, She Wrote in his occasional part of Doc Hazlitt. He has been in such recent made-for-television movies as Velvet (1984), Dennis the Menace (1986), There Must Be a Pony (1986), Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1990) and Attack of the 50-Foot Woman (1993).
Windom has been married five times, most recently (December 31, 1975) to writer Patricia Veronica Tunder. William has four children: Rachel, Heather Juliet, Hope, Rebel Russell.
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