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The Doomsday Machine: Directed by Marc Daniels. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, William Windom. The USS Enterprise encounters the wrecked USS Constellation and its distraught commodore who's determined to stop the giant planet-destroying robot ship that killed his crew.
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actor William Windom guest-starred in this classic episode from Star Trek's second season. scanned from an original 35mm half-frame purchased in the mid-1970's from Lincoln Enterprises, Gene Roddenberry's and Majel Barrett's mail-order catalog company associated with the series.
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Aug 30, 2012 · William Windom as Commodore Decker. Last, and certainly not least, it featured one of the best guest star turns in the history of all Star Trek series by the great William Windom.
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Windom was bornin New York City. He was named after his great-grandfather, who served as the US Secretary of Treasury in 1881 and again from 1889 until his death in 1891. Windom, the future actor, attended several colleges before enlisting in the US Army during World War II. He served from 1943 to 1946, primarily assigned to the European Theater of...
Broadway
Following his service, he began studying acting, training at the American Repertory Theater. He soon moved on to Broadway, performing with the company in such plays as William Shakespeare's King Henry VIII and Alice in Wonderland. Subsequent Broadway productions include Mademoiselle Colombe (co-starring with Nehemiah Persoff) and The Grand Prize (with John Newland).
Television
He began working in television in the 1950s and becoame a familiar face in the medium. Among his television credits were four episodes of Mission: Impossible: "The Train" (1967) with William Schallert and directed by Ralph Senensky; "The Widow" (1967) with Walt Davis and George Sawaya; "Blues", featuring Vince Howard and directed by Reza Badiyi; and "The Fighter", featuring Walker Edmiston. Windom also guest-starred in an episode of Fantasy Island, a series which starred Ricardo Montalban. Wi...
Feature films
Windom had many feature film appearances to his credit. He made his feature film debut in the 1962 classic To Kill a Mockingbird, which also featured fellow Star Trek actors Brock Peters, Frank Overton, John Megna, Richard Hale, Gil Perkins, and Paul Fix. The following year he appeared in For Love or Money with Leslie Parrish, Julie Newmar, Theo Marcuse, Willard Sage, and John Harmon. In 1967, he played Texas Jack Vermillion in the film Hour of the Gun. This film also featured Steve Ihnat, Wi...
Windom diedof congestive heart failure on 16 August 2012 at his home in Woodacre, California. He was 88. He was survived by his wife of 37 years, Patricia ("Pat") as well as four children and four grandchildren.
William Windom at the Internet Movie DatabaseWilliam Windom at the Internet Broadway DatabaseWilliam Windom at the Notable Names DatabaseWilliam Windom at WikipediaOct 20, 2019 · Gene Roddenberry's first choice to play Decker was not William Windom, but rather Robert Ryan.
Doohan also named this episode as his favorite in the "Star Trek Insights" on Sci-Fi Channel. Doohan explained, "For one thing, it had William Windom in it. Very good actor. And it was a very strong role – a very self-tortured character. Very driven. And a strong statement about nuclear weapons.
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In Star Trek, he played Commodore Matt Decker, commander of the doomed USS Constellation, in the 1967 episode "The Doomsday Machine", a role he reprised nearly 40 years later for Star Trek: New Voyages.
