Adam Williams (born Adam William Berg, November 26, 1922 – December 4, 2006) was an American film and television actor. A veteran "bad guy" actor of 1950s film and TV, he began his career after distinguished World War II military service as a United States Navy pilot, for which he received the Navy Cross. In 1952, Williams played the lead, a Los Angeles woman killer, in the film Without Warning! In 1953, he was cast as Larry, a car bomber, in The Big Heat. He had a leading role in the 1958 science fiction movie The Space Children. Other notable film roles include the psychiatrist in Fear Strikes Out (1957) and Valerian in North by Northwest (1959).
Adam Williams (born Adam William Berg, November 26, 1922 – December 4, 2006) was an American film and television actor. A veteran "bad guy" actor of 1950s film and TV, he began his career after distinguished World War II military service as a United States Navy pilot, for which he received the Navy Cross. In 1952, Williams played the lead, a Los Angeles woman killer, in the film Without Warning! In 1953, he was cast as Larry, a car bomber, in The Big Heat. He had a leading role in the 1958 science fiction movie The Space Children. Other notable film roles include the psychiatrist in Fear Strikes Out (1957) and Valerian in North by Northwest (1959).
During the 1950s and 1960s, he appeared on dozens of television series, including the syndicated Sheriff of Cochise, set in Arizona and starring John Bromfield, and Have Gun – Will Travel in the episode "The Reasonable Man". He portrayed private detective and murderer Jason Beckmeyer in the 1957 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Runaway Corpse." In 1961, he was cast as Jim Gates in the episode "Frontier Week" on Joanne Dru's sitcom Guestward, Ho!, set on a dude ranch in New Mexico. In 1960, he played the role of a sailor hitching a ride in The Twilight Zone season 1 episode "The Hitch-Hiker", where he is picked up by a terrified driver played by Inger Stevens, who is compelled to pick him up so that he may offer protection and safety to her from a mysterious hitchhiker who shows up at various times and places along the road while she travels across country. Many reviewers have cited this episode as one of The Twilight Zone's "10 Greatest" of the series. He had also appeared in the Twilight Zone episode "A Most Unusual Camera". Between 1959 and 1967 he appeared in six episodes of The Rifleman and in four episodes of Bonanza, and in 1961 as Adam in "A Rope for Charlie Munday", in the ABC adventure series The Islanders. He was cast as Burley Keller in the 1961 episode "The Persecuted" of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series Lawman. He guest-starred in an episode of the 1961 NBC series The Americans, based on family conflicts stemming from the American Civil War, and in an episode of the 1961 series The Asphalt Jungle. One of his later roles was in the 1976 television movie Helter Skelter.
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Filmography (Movies)
Ladies Knight
Character:Doofus (voice)
Release Date:09/05/2012
Helter Skelter
Character:Terrence Milik
Release Date:01/04/1976
Follow Me, Boys!
Character:Sergeant (uncredited)
Release Date:01/12/1966
The Glory Guys
Character:Pvt. Lucas Crain
Release Date:07/07/1965
The New Interns
Character:Wolanski
Release Date:01/06/1964
Gunfight at Comanche Creek
Character:Jed Hayden
Release Date:06/11/1963
Convicts 4
Character:Guard
Release Date:15/09/1962
The Last Sunset
Character:Calverton
Release Date:08/06/1961
Mission of Danger
Character:
Release Date:16/01/1960
North by Northwest
Character:Valerian
Release Date:06/08/1959
The Badlanders
Character:Deputy Leslie
Release Date:03/09/1958
The Space Children
Character:Dave Brewster
Release Date:01/06/1958
Darby's Rangers
Character:Heavy Hall
Release Date:12/02/1958
The Lonely Man
Character:Lon
Release Date:21/06/1957
The Oklahoman
Character:Bob Randell
Release Date:19/05/1957
The Garment Jungle
Character:Ox
Release Date:01/05/1957
Fear Strikes Out
Character:Doctor Brown
Release Date:28/03/1957
The Rack
Character:Sgt. Otto Pahnke
Release Date:02/11/1956
The Proud and Profane
Character:Eustace Press
Release Date:13/06/1956
Crashout
Character:Fred Summerfield
Release Date:01/03/1955
The Yellow Tomahawk
Character:Cpl. Maddock
Release Date:01/05/1954
Dragonfly Squadron
Character:Capt. Wyler
Release Date:21/03/1954
The Big Heat
Character:Larry Gordon
Release Date:14/10/1953
Vice Squad
Character:Marty Kusalich
Release Date:31/07/1953
Without Warning!
Character:Carl Martin
Release Date:08/05/1952
Flying Leathernecks
Character:Lt. Bert Malotke
Release Date:28/08/1951
Queen for a Day
Character:Chuck
Release Date:07/07/1951
Benjy
Character:Mr. Miller
Release Date:01/01/1951
Television Appearances
Switch
Character:Henry Corwin
Cannon
Character:
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Character:Dr. Schmidt
Mannix
Character:Prosecutor
Mannix
Character:George Henderson
The High Chaparral
Character:Burton
Felony Squad
Character:
The F.B.I.
Character:David Brice
Honey West
Character:Gordon Forbes
Daniel Boone
Character:Mose
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Character:Chief
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Character:Ben Jorgenson
Temple Houston
Character:Harmony Brown
The Fugitive
Character:Truck Driver
Arrest and Trial
Character:C.H. Littler
The Gallant Men
Character:
Combat!
Character:Lt. Col. Nash
The Virginian
Character:Roper
Sam Benedict
Character:Burton Harper
Dr. Kildare
Character:Ralph Walker
The Asphalt Jungle
Character:
The Americans
Character:
The Roaring 20's
Character:
Surfside 6
Character:Willie Cleveland
Surfside 6
Character:Henry Gifford
Surfside 6
Character:Mel Walters
Stagecoach West
Character:Arnie Ames
The Westerner
Character:Pauk
Guestward, Ho!
Character:
Outlaws
Character:
Thriller
Character:Hymie Kralik
The Detectives
Character:Eddie Furman
The Detectives
Character:Soley
The Detectives
Character:Felix
The Untouchables
Character:Lloyd Barker
The Untouchables
Character:Paul Meadows
Hawaiian Eye
Character:Harry Gulliver
The Twilight Zone
Character:Woodward
The Twilight Zone
Character:Sailor
Bonanza
Character:Muller
Bonanza
Character:Blackie Marx
Bonanza
Character:Hardesty
Bonanza
Character:Red Twilight
Black Saddle
Character:Brad Pickard
Black Saddle
Character:Clint Frome
Rawhide
Character:Kellino
Rawhide
Character:Jeb
Rawhide
Character:Hank Kale
77 Sunset Strip
Character:Spud Morrison
77 Sunset Strip
Character:Willie Lee Hanks
77 Sunset Strip
Character:Chuck Lynch
77 Sunset Strip
Character:Axel Derwent
Lawman
Character:Burley Keller
The Rifleman
Character:Corporal Troc
The Rifleman
Character:Russell Ganaway
The Rifleman
Character:Jake Pardee
The Rifleman
Character:Jax
The Rifleman
Character:Cory Platt
The Rifleman
Character:Mal Sherman
The Texan
Character:Jebb Kilmer
Trackdown
Character:Cowboy
Alcoa Theatre
Character:Wohlman
Maverick
Character:Sam Elkins
Perry Mason
Character:Jason Beckmeyer
M Squad
Character:Denny Sutton
Have Gun, Will Travel
Character:Simon Quill
Have Gun, Will Travel
Character:Beckett
Have Gun, Will Travel
Character:Frank Gault
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character:Harlan Breckenridge
Wire Service
Character:Wells
Telephone Time
Character:
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character:Police Lt. King
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character:Doctor
Cheyenne
Character:Jeb Quinn
Gunsmoke
Character:Slim Trent
The Millionaire
Character:Todd Burke
The Millionaire
Character:Jackson Greene
General Electric Theater
Character:Glen
The Ford Television Theatre
Character:
The Ford Television Theatre
Character:Private Littauer
Four Star Playhouse
Character:George
Chevron Theatre
Character:
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