Biografia
Widdoes played senior student and Fraternity President Robert Hoover alongside John Belushi in the 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House, as well as its 1979 TV spin-off Delta House. Since then, he has guest-starred in numerous TV series episodes, including Remington Steele (1982), Night Court (1984), Dave's World (1993), and My Wife and Kids (2000). He also starred as Stan Pembroke, the father of the house, during the 1984-1985 seasons of Charles in Charge.
Beginning in 1998, Widdoes has directed and/or produced many episodes of various TV series, such as Just the Ten of Us (1987), Empty Nest (1988), Anything But Love (1989), Harry and the Hendersons (1991), Boston Common (1996), Brother's Keeper (1998), Reba (2001), 8 Simple Rules (2002), The King of Queens (1998), 'Til Death (2006), The Bill Engvall Show (2007), and Two and a Half Men (2003).
Widdoes graduated from The Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1972 and currently serves on its Board of Trustees. He began his acting career in college, starring in The New Amen Show at the Diners Playhouse in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1974. He then attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1976. While in New York, he shared a room with future actors such as Michael O'Keefe, known for Caddyshack (1980) and The Great Santini (1979). Widdoes performed on New York stages in productions like the 1977 Equity Library Theatre revival of Wonderful Town and the 1982 Broadway musical Is There Life After High School?, for which he received a Theatre World Award.
In addition to his role on The Loomis Chaffee School's board, Widdoes is involved with various community programs. He has served on the Board of Turning Point School; the Board of Trustees for the California Association of Independent Schools; the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for Camp Dudley-YMCA; and the Executive Advisory Board of The Gordie Foundation, a Dallas, Texas-based nonprofit that equips young people with skills to handle challenges related to alcohol, binge drinking, peer pressure, and hazing. The foundation honors the memory of Lynn Gordon Bailey Jr.
Widdoes is married to Mer James and has three children: two sons, Charles Landauer and Sumner Dickinson, and a daughter, Margaret Hendrie.
