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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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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