Chad Everett -
LOS ANGELES (AP) The star of the 1970s TV series Medical Center who went on to appear in such films and shows as Mulholland Drive and Melrose Place has died. Chad Everett was 75. Everett's daughter says he died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles after a year-and-a-half-long battle with lung cancer.
His acting career spanned more than 40 years and included guest starring roles on such TV series as The Love Boat, Murder, She Wrote and Without A Trace. He most recently appeared in the TV series Castle. His film credits include The Jigsaw Murders, The Firechasers and director Gus Van Sant's Psycho.
Everett is survived by his two daughters and six grandchildren. He was married to actress Shelby Grant for 45 years until her death last year.
William Windom
William Windom, who won an Emmy Award for his turn in the 1969 TV comedy series My World And Welcome To It and went on to score guest appearances on several popular shows, has died. Windom died Thursday of congestive heart failure at his home in Woodacre, north of San Francisco, his wife Patricia told the Los Angeles Times. He was 88.
Windom won acclaim in the short-lived NBC series for his role as John Monroe, a writer-cartoonist for a New York magazine who relied on his fantasy life to escape a middle-class Connecticut existence. The series was based on the work of the humorist James Thurber, and Windom went on to develop a one-man touring act inspired by the same whimsical Americana.
Born in New York City on Sept. 28, 1923, Windom was named after his great-grandfather, a Minnesota congressman and former U.S. Treasury secretary. He attended Williams College in Massachusetts before joining the Army as a paratrooper in World War II. He later attended the University of Kentucky, among several other higher-education institutions, and decided to pursue acting.
The easygoing Windom was an in-demand television character actor for decades and scored guest appearances on several American TV staples, including episodes of Twilight Zone and Star Trek and appeared on more than 50 segments of Murder, She Wrote beginning in the mid-1980s. There, Windom played a Maine country doctor opposite series star Angela Lansbury's Jessica Fletcher.
He also played the prosecuting attorney who parries in court with Gregory Peck's Atticus Finch in the 1962 movie To Kill a Mockingbird.
Married five times, Windom is survived by his wife of 37 years and four children, Rachel, Heather, Hope and Rebel.
