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Adam Williams

Adam Williams

Actor · Born 1922-11-26 · Wall Lake, Iowa, USA

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Biography

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 …

Movies & TV Shows

  1. North by Northwest (1959) — Valerian
  2. The Twilight Zone (1959) — Woodward
  3. The Big Heat (1953) — Larry Gordon
  4. Bonanza (1959) — Muller
  5. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) — Police Lt. King
  6. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964) — Chief
  7. Perry Mason (1957) — Jason Beckmeyer
  8. The Untouchables (1959) — Lloyd Barker
  9. Combat! (1962) — Lt. Col. Nash
  10. Gunsmoke (1955) — Slim Trent
  11. The Last Sunset (1961) — Calverton
  12. Flying Leathernecks (1951) — Lt. Bert Malotke
  13. Helter Skelter (1976) — Terrence Milik
  14. The Fugitive (1963) — Truck Driver
  15. Mannix (1967) — Prosecutor
  16. The Rifleman (1958) — Jake Pardee
  17. Rawhide (1959) — Kellino
  18. The Badlanders (1958) — Deputy Leslie
  19. The Space Children (1958) — Dave Brewster
  20. Have Gun, Will Travel (1957) — Frank Gault
  21. Maverick (1957) — Sam Elkins
  22. Cannon (1971)
  23. The Glory Guys (1965) — Pvt. Lucas Crain
  24. The Virginian (1962) — Roper
  25. Daniel Boone (1964) — Mose
  26. Follow Me, Boys! (1966) — Sergeant (uncredited)
  27. The Rack (1956) — Sgt. Otto Pahnke
  28. The Garment Jungle (1957) — Ox
  29. The High Chaparral (1967) — Burton
  30. 77 Sunset Strip (1958) — Willie Lee Hanks
  31. Vice Squad (1953) — Marty Kusalich
  32. Cheyenne (1955) — Jeb Quinn
  33. The F.B.I. (1965) — David Brice
  34. Crashout (1955) — Fred Summerfield
  35. Fear Strikes Out (1957) — Doctor Brown
  36. Thriller (1960) — Hymie Kralik
  37. Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969) — Dr. Schmidt
  38. Without Warning! (1952) — Carl Martin
  39. The Lonely Man (1957) — Lon
  40. Dr. Kildare (1961) — Ralph Walker