He was in a show in the Sixties that was based on the subtle humor of James Thurber. It was only on for one season, but I thought it was great. Of course, I was only a dumb teenager so what would I have known. I think it was named after one of Thurber’s books, “ My Life and Welcome To It”.
Good actor who should have been bigger.
I loved that show. It seemed like whenever I thought a program was good it got cancelled.
Thurber's work reflected that uniquely off balance (best example: Jonathan Winters) Ohio sense of humor and his house in Columbus is a museum and literary gathering place. Personal connection was fellow membership (60 years removed) in the Strollers acting group on the OSU campus. Windom made something of a stage career afterwards playing Thurber in one man shows. I did not know till now that he was a paratroop infantryman with the 82nd Airborne in Europe.
I always remembered him from that show.
I remember that show too. I agree he should have been bigger. I knew who he was at once when reading his name. But, I am a teenager from the 60’s too. :-)
When he played the Thurber-inspired sit-com, that was still ahead of its time, it turned me on to James Thurber, his cartoons and his dry-Ohio humorous articles. "The Day the Dam Broke," "The War Between Men and Women," "Is Sex Necessary," most it written for the New Yorker in the 1940's.
I think Thurber died in 1961, IIRC.
Naturally, his "right out of hell, I saw it," moment of Star Trek TOS mello-drammer "The Doomsday Machine" really stands out.
We have NBC to thank, for cancelling both "My World and Welcome to it," and Star Trek.
Idiots...
RIP, Bill Windom.