Adam Williams

Adam Williams

Birthday: 1922-11-26

Deathday: 2006-12-04

Place of birth: Wall Lake, Iowa, USA

Also known as: Adam William Berg, Andy Williams

imdb_id: nm0929965

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 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.

Played in movies:

North by Northwest

Score: 8.0

The Big Heat

Score: 7.7

Fear Strikes Out

Score: 7.1

Helter Skelter

Score: 6.8

The Last Sunset

Score: 6.8

Crashout

Score: 6.7

The Rack

Score: 6.6

Follow Me, Boys!

Score: 6.6

The Glory Guys

Score: 6.5

The Garment Jungle

Score: 6.4

The Badlanders

Score: 6.2

The Proud and Profane

Score: 6.2

The Lonely Man

Score: 6.1

Without Warning!

Score: 6.0

Queen for a Day

Score: 6.0

The Yellow Tomahawk

Score: 6.0

Benjy

Score: 6.0

Dragonfly Squadron

Score: 6.0

Vice Squad

Score: 5.9

Flying Leathernecks

Score: 5.9

Darby's Rangers

Score: 5.9

Gunfight at Comanche Creek

Score: 5.8

The Oklahoman

Score: 5.6

The New Interns

Score: 5.0

Mission of Danger

Score: 5.0

Convicts 4

Score: 4.8

The Space Children

Score: 4.0

Ladies Knight

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Chevron Theatre

Score: 10.0

The Twilight Zone

Score: 8.5

The Twilight Zone

Score: 8.5

The Untouchables

Score: 7.8

The Untouchables

Score: 7.8

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Score: 7.7

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

Combat!

Score: 7.7

Arrest and Trial

Score: 7.7

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

The Ford Television Theatre

Score: 7.3

The Ford Television Theatre

Score: 7.3

The Fugitive

Score: 7.2

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

The Rifleman

Score: 7.0

The Rifleman

Score: 7.0

The Rifleman

Score: 7.0

The Rifleman

Score: 7.0

The Rifleman

Score: 7.0

The Rifleman

Score: 7.0

Honey West

Score: 7.0

Daniel Boone

Score: 6.9

The Westerner

Score: 6.8

Maverick

Score: 6.8

77 Sunset Strip

Score: 6.7

77 Sunset Strip

Score: 6.7

77 Sunset Strip

Score: 6.7

77 Sunset Strip

Score: 6.7

Switch

Score: 6.7

Mannix

Score: 6.7

Mannix

Score: 6.7

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Alcoa Theatre

Score: 6.5

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Score: 6.5

The High Chaparral

Score: 6.5

Cannon

Score: 6.5

Thriller

Score: 6.4

Trackdown

Score: 6.4

Felony Squad

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

Four Star Playhouse

Score: 6.3

Telephone Time

Score: 6.3

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.3

Outlaws

Score: 6.2

Sam Benedict

Score: 6.0

Stagecoach West

Score: 6.0

The Americans

Score: 6.0

Black Saddle

Score: 6.0

Black Saddle

Score: 6.0

The Gallant Men

Score: 6.0

Cheyenne

Score: 5.8

Temple Houston

Score: 5.7

Lawman

Score: 5.6

The Detectives

Score: 5.6

The Detectives

Score: 5.6

The Detectives

Score: 5.6

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 5.5

Dr. Kildare

Score: 5.5

The Texan

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Score: 5.3

M Squad

Score: 5.2

Hawaiian Eye

Score: 5.2

Surfside 6

Score: 5.0

The Millionaire

Score: 5.0

Surfside 6

Score: 5.0

Surfside 6

Score: 5.0

The Asphalt Jungle

Score: 5.0

The Millionaire

Score: 5.0

Guestward, Ho!

Score: 4.0

The Roaring 20's

Score: 0.0

Wire Service

Score: 0.0