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Adam Williams
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Birthday
1922-11-26,Wall Lake, Iowa, USA
Gender
Male
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.

Filmography

North by Northwest

8

North by Northwest
1959-07-08

The Garment Jungle

6.4

The Garment Jungle
1957-05-01

Dragonfly Squadron

6

Dragonfly Squadron
1954-03-21

Without Warning!

5.9

Without Warning!
1952-05-08

6.5

Crashout
1955-03-01

Follow Me, Boys!

6.6

Follow Me, Boys!
1966-12-01

7.6

The Big Heat
1953-10-14

6.1

The Lonely Man
1957-06-21

The Proud and Profane

6

The Proud and Profane
1956-06-13

6.5

The Glory Guys
1965-07-07

The Last Sunset

6.773

The Last Sunset
1961-06-08

Flying Leathernecks

5.865

Flying Leathernecks
1951-08-28

6.6

The Rack
1956-11-02

5.9

Vice Squad
1953-07-31

Gunfight at Comanche Creek

5.5

Gunfight at Comanche Creek
1963-11-06

Darby's Rangers

5.9

Darby's Rangers
1958-02-12

6.8

Helter Skelter
1976-04-01

5.6

The Oklahoman
1957-05-19

Fear Strikes Out

7

Fear Strikes Out
1957-03-20

The Space Children

4

The Space Children
1958-06-01

6.667

Benjy
1951-01-01

6.2

The Badlanders
1958-09-03

0

Ladies Knight
2012-05-09

The Yellow Tomahawk

6

The Yellow Tomahawk
1954-05-01

5.4

Convicts 4
1962-09-15

Mission of Danger

5

Mission of Danger
1960-01-16

Queen for a Day

6

Queen for a Day
1951-07-07

The New Interns

5

The New Interns
1964-06-01

0

Miss Jenny
1960-01-07

The Gallant Men

6

The Gallant Men
1962-10-05

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

7.7

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964-09-14

5.8

Cheyenne
1955-09-20

Kraft Suspense Theatre

5.3

Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963-10-10

5.522

The F.B.I.
1965-09-19

7.7

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

6.6

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

7.6

Combat!
1962-10-02

General Electric Theater

6

General Electric Theater
1953-02-01

5.2

Hawaiian Eye
1959-10-07

6.455

Cannon
1971-09-14

7.2

The Fugitive
1963-09-17

The Twilight Zone

8.438

The Twilight Zone
1959-10-02

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02

6.2

Outlaws
1960-09-26

6.4

Felony Squad
1966-09-12

7.182

Rawhide
1959-01-09

6.9

Daniel Boone
1964-09-24

The High Chaparral

6.5

The High Chaparral
1967-09-10

6.7

Switch
1975-09-09

The Millionaire

5

The Millionaire
1955-01-19

6.4

The Virginian
1962-09-19

6.3

Thriller
1960-09-13

5.2

M Squad
1957-09-20

4

Guestward, Ho!
1960-09-29

0

Wire Service
1956-10-04

5

The Texan
1958-09-29

7

Honey West
1965-09-17

5.294

Dr. Kildare
1961-09-27

6.3

Telephone Time
1956-04-08

6

Black Saddle
1959-01-10

The Roaring 20's

0

The Roaring 20's
1960-10-15

The Asphalt Jungle

5

The Asphalt Jungle
1961-04-02

6

Black Saddle
1959-01-10

6

The Americans
1961-01-23

6.8

Maverick
1957-09-22

The Ford Television Theatre

7

The Ford Television Theatre
1952-10-02

7.515

Bonanza
1959-09-12

5

Surfside 6
1960-10-06

5

Surfside 6
1960-10-06

7.515

Bonanza
1959-09-12

7.182

Rawhide
1959-01-09

7.182

Rawhide
1959-01-09

5.7

Temple Houston
1963-09-19

The Untouchables

7.9

The Untouchables
1959-10-15

The Millionaire

5

The Millionaire
1955-01-19

Arrest and Trial

7

Arrest and Trial
1963-09-15

Four Star Playhouse

6.125

Four Star Playhouse
1952-09-25

Marcus Welby, M.D.

6.5

Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969-09-23

6.667

Mannix
1967-09-16

6.667

Mannix
1967-09-16

5

Surfside 6
1960-10-06

Stagecoach West

6

Stagecoach West
1960-10-04

5.6

The Detectives
1959-10-16

5.6

The Detectives
1959-10-16

5.6

The Detectives
1959-10-16

7.515

Bonanza
1959-09-12

7.515

Bonanza
1959-09-12

The Untouchables

7.9

The Untouchables
1959-10-15

7

The Rifleman
1958-09-30

7

The Rifleman
1958-09-30

7

The Rifleman
1958-09-30

7

The Rifleman
1958-09-30

7

The Rifleman
1958-09-30

7

The Rifleman
1958-09-30

77 Sunset Strip

6.7

77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10

77 Sunset Strip

6.7

77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10

77 Sunset Strip

6.7

77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10

77 Sunset Strip

6.7

77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10

5.4

Lawman
1958-10-05

6.2

Alcoa Theatre
1957-09-30

Have Gun, Will Travel

7.4

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957-09-14

Have Gun, Will Travel

7.4

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957-09-14

Have Gun, Will Travel

7.4

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957-09-14

6.4

Trackdown
1957-10-04

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

5.5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956-10-05

The Ford Television Theatre

7

The Ford Television Theatre
1952-10-02

Chevron Theatre

10

Chevron Theatre
1952-01-04

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02

6.8

The Westerner
1960-09-30

The Twilight Zone

8.438

The Twilight Zone
1959-10-02

6

Sam Benedict
1962-09-15