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Adam Williams

Adam Williams

Known For Acting
Birthday Nov 26, 1922
Died Dec 04, 2006 (84)
Birthplace Wall Lake, Iowa, USA
Popularity 0.3 (history)
Updated Dec 19, 2024 (Update)
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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 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.

Known For

Filmography

Helter Skelter

Helter Skelter

1976

as Terrence Milik

Follow Me, Boys!

Follow Me, Boys!

1966

as Sergeant (uncredited)

The Glory Guys

The Glory Guys

1965

as Pvt. Lucas Crain

The New Interns

The New Interns

1964

as Wolanski

Gunfight at Comanche Creek

Gunfight at Comanche Creek

1963

as Jed Hayden

Convicts 4

Convicts 4

1962

as Guard

The Last Sunset

The Last Sunset

1961

as Calverton

North by Northwest

North by Northwest

1959

as Valerian

The Space Children

The Space Children

1958

as Dave Brewster

The Badlanders

The Badlanders

1958

as Deputy Leslie

Darby's Rangers

Darby's Rangers

1958

as Heavy Hall

Fear Strikes Out

Fear Strikes Out

1957

as Doctor Brown

The Garment Jungle

The Garment Jungle

1957

as Ox

The Lonely Man

The Lonely Man

1957

as Lon

The Oklahoman

The Oklahoman

1957

as Bob Randell

The Proud and Profane

The Proud and Profane

1956

as Eustace Press

The Rack

The Rack

1956

as Sgt. Otto Pahnke

Crashout

Crashout

1955

as Fred Summerfield

Dragonfly Squadron

Dragonfly Squadron

1954

as Capt. Wyler

The Yellow Tomahawk

The Yellow Tomahawk

1954

as Cpl. Maddock

Vice Squad

Vice Squad

1953

as Marty Kusalich

The Big Heat

The Big Heat

1953

as Larry Gordon

Without Warning!

Without Warning!

1952

as Carl Martin

Benjy

Benjy

1951

as Mr. Miller

Flying Leathernecks

Flying Leathernecks

1951

as Lt. Bert Malotke

Queen for a Day

Queen for a Day

1951

as Chuck

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

as Chief

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 14, 1964

Cheyenne

as Jeb Quinn

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 20, 1955

Kraft Suspense Theatre

as Ben Jorgenson

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 10, 1963

The F.B.I.

as David Brice

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 19, 1965

Perry Mason

as Jason Beckmeyer

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 21, 1957

Gunsmoke

as Slim Trent

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 10, 1955

Combat!

as Lt. Col. Nash

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1962

General Electric Theater

as Glen

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 01, 1953

Hawaiian Eye

as Harry Gulliver

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 07, 1959

The Fugitive

as Truck Driver

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 17, 1963

The Twilight Zone

as Woodward

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1959

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Police Lt. King

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1955

Rawhide

as Kellino

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 09, 1959

Daniel Boone

as Mose

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 24, 1964

The High Chaparral

as Burton

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 10, 1967

Switch

as Henry Corwin

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 09, 1975

The Millionaire

as Todd Burke

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 19, 1955

The Virginian

as Roper

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 19, 1962

Thriller

as Hymie Kralik

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 13, 1960

M Squad

as Denny Sutton

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 20, 1957

Wire Service

as Wells

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 04, 1956

The Texan

as Jebb Kilmer

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 29, 1958

Honey West

as Gordon Forbes

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 17, 1965

Dr. Kildare

as Ralph Walker

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 27, 1961

Black Saddle

as Brad Pickard

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 10, 1959

Black Saddle

as Clint Frome

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 10, 1959

Maverick

as Sam Elkins

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 22, 1957

Bonanza

as Muller

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 12, 1959

Surfside 6

as Willie Cleveland

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 06, 1960

Surfside 6

as Henry Gifford

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 06, 1960

Rawhide

as Jeb

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 09, 1959

Bonanza

as Blackie Marx

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 12, 1959

Rawhide

as Hank Kale

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 09, 1959

Temple Houston

as Harmony Brown

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 19, 1963

The Untouchables

as Lloyd Barker

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 15, 1959

The Millionaire

as Jackson Greene

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 19, 1955

Arrest and Trial

as C.H. Littler

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 15, 1963

Four Star Playhouse

as George

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 25, 1952

Marcus Welby, M.D.

as Dr. Schmidt

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 23, 1969

Mannix

as Prosecutor

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 16, 1967

Surfside 6

as Mel Walters

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 06, 1960

The Detectives

as Eddie Furman

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 16, 1959

Mannix

as George Henderson

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 16, 1967

Stagecoach West

as Arnie Ames

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 04, 1960

The Detectives

as Soley

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 16, 1959

Bonanza

as Hardesty

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 12, 1959

Bonanza

as Red Twilight

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 12, 1959

The Detectives

as Felix

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 16, 1959

The Untouchables

as Paul Meadows

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 15, 1959

77 Sunset Strip

as Willie Lee Hanks

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 10, 1958

77 Sunset Strip

as Chuck Lynch

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 10, 1958

The Rifleman

as Jake Pardee

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 30, 1958

The Rifleman

as Jax

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 30, 1958

The Rifleman

as Cory Platt

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 30, 1958

Lawman

as Burley Keller

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 05, 1958

The Rifleman

as Russell Ganaway

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 30, 1958

77 Sunset Strip

as Axel Derwent

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 10, 1958

The Rifleman

as Corporal Troc

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 30, 1958

77 Sunset Strip

as Spud Morrison

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 10, 1958

The Rifleman

as Mal Sherman

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 30, 1958

Have Gun, Will Travel

as Simon Quill

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 14, 1957

Trackdown

as Cowboy

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 04, 1957

Have Gun, Will Travel

as Beckett

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 14, 1957

The Ford Television Theatre

as Private Littauer

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1952

Have Gun, Will Travel

as Frank Gault

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 14, 1957

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Harlan Breckenridge

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 05, 1956

Alcoa Theatre

as Wohlman

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 30, 1957

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Doctor

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1955

The Westerner

as Pauk

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 30, 1960

The Twilight Zone

as Sailor

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1959

Sam Benedict

as Burton Harper

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 15, 1962

Outlaws

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Sep 26, 1960

Chevron Theatre

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jan 04, 1952

The Gallant Men

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 05, 1962

Cannon

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 14, 1971

Felony Squad

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 12, 1966

Guestward, Ho!

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 29, 1960

Telephone Time

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 08, 1956

The Roaring 20's

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 15, 1960

The Asphalt Jungle

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 02, 1961

The Americans

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 23, 1961

The Ford Television Theatre

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1952

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