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Emmy Award-winning actor William Windom<\/strong>, best-known to Trek fans for his role of Commodore Decker in the original series episode The Doomsday Machine<\/em>, has died at his home in Woodacre, California at the age of eighty-eight.<\/p>\n The\u00a0 cause of death was congestive heart failure.<\/p>\n Windom won his Emmy in 1970 for his work in My World and Welcome to It<\/em>, a comedy based on the work of James Thurber<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Science fiction fans knew Windom from roles in The Twilight Zone<\/em> (Five Characters in Search of an Exit<\/em>, Miniature<\/em>), Escape From the Planet of the Apes, and Star Trek<\/em>.<\/p>\n The versatile actor also appeared on many television shows as a guest star, including shows such as The Rookies, Ben Casey, The Donna Reed Show, Combat, The Wild Wild West, Bonanza, Marcus Welby M.D., The F.B.I, Mission Impossible<\/em> and more.<\/p>\n Windom was a regular on The Farmer’s Daughter<\/em> and Murder, She Wrote<\/em>.<\/p>\n Although appearing on dozens of television shows, Windom’s favorite role actually came from a stage performance. “A lot of people today think the first thing they saw is the first thing that ever happened, and that means Star Trek<\/em> or Murder, She Wrote<\/em>,” he said, “But the thing I’m most proud of is playing Richard III in Biarritz<\/em>.”<\/p>\n Married five times, Windom is survived by Patricia, his wife of thirty-seven years, four children and four grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emmy Award-winning actor William Windom, best-known to Trek fans for his role of Commodore Decker…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[4156,4667],"class_list":["post-19559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-the-doomsday-machine","tag-windom"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a> Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19565,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19559\/revisions\/19565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}