Adam Williams
Acting
Born: November 26, 1922 · Wall Lake, Iowa, USA
Died: December 4, 2006 (aged 84)
Highest Rated
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
North by Northwest
1959
The Twilight Zone
1959
The Big Heat
1953
Bonanza
1959
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964
Perry Mason
1957
The Untouchables
1959
Combat!
1962
Gunsmoke
1955
The Last Sunset
1961
Flying Leathernecks
1951
Photos (1)
Movies (28)
North by Northwest
Valerian
The Last Sunset
Calverton
The Big Heat
Larry Gordon
Helter Skelter
Terrence Milik
The Badlanders
Deputy Leslie
Follow Me, Boys!
Sergeant (uncredited)
The Proud and Profane
Eustace Press
Fear Strikes Out
Doctor Brown
The Oklahoman
Bob Randell
The Lonely Man
Lon
The Garment Jungle
Ox
The Glory Guys
Pvt. Lucas Crain
Benjy
Mr. Miller
Darby's Rangers
Heavy Hall
Queen for a Day
Chuck
Gunfight at Comanche Creek
Jed Hayden
This Is a Hijack
Smitty
Flying Leathernecks
Lt. Bert Malotke
Vice Squad
Marty Kusalich
The Space Children
Dave Brewster
The Yellow Tomahawk
Cpl. Maddock
Convicts 4
Guard
The New Interns
Wolanski
The Rack
Sgt. Otto Pahnke
Crashout
Fred Summerfield
Dragonfly Squadron
Capt. Wyler
Without Warning!
Carl Martin
Mission of Danger
1960
TV Shows (81)
Perry Mason
Jason Beckmeyer · 1 eps
Mannix
Prosecutor · 1 eps
Mannix
George Henderson · 1 eps
Bonanza
Muller · 1 eps
Bonanza
Blackie Marx · 1 eps
Bonanza
Hardesty · 1 eps
Bonanza
Red Twilight · 1 eps
The Fugitive
Truck Driver · 1 eps
Maverick
Sam Elkins · 1 eps
The Twilight Zone
Woodward · 1 eps
The Twilight Zone
Sailor · 1 eps
The Rifleman
Corporal Troc · 1 eps
The Rifleman
Russell Ganaway · 1 eps
The Rifleman
Jake Pardee · 1 eps
The Rifleman
Jax · 1 eps
The Rifleman
Cory Platt · 1 eps
The Rifleman
Mal Sherman · 1 eps
Have Gun, Will Travel
Simon Quill · 1 eps
Have Gun, Will Travel
Beckett · 1 eps
Have Gun, Will Travel
Frank Gault · 1 eps
The Virginian
Roper · 1 eps
Dr. Kildare
Ralph Walker · 1 eps
The F.B.I.
David Brice · 1 eps
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Harlan Breckenridge · 1 eps
Cannon
1 eps
Cheyenne
Jeb Quinn · 1 eps
Daniel Boone
Mose · 1 eps
Four Star Playhouse
George · 1 eps
The Untouchables
Lloyd Barker · 1 eps
The Untouchables
Paul Meadows · 1 eps
Combat!
Lt. Col. Nash · 1 eps
Rawhide
Kellino · 1 eps
Rawhide
Jeb · 1 eps
Rawhide
Hank Kale · 1 eps
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Dr. Schmidt · 1 eps
Gunsmoke
Slim Trent · 1 eps
Lawman
Burley Keller · 1 eps
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Police Lt. King · 1 eps
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Doctor · 1 eps
The High Chaparral
Burton · 1 eps
Switch
Henry Corwin · 1 eps
Thriller
Hymie Kralik · 1 eps
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Chief · 1 eps
77 Sunset Strip
Spud Morrison · 1 eps
77 Sunset Strip
Willie Lee Hanks · 1 eps
77 Sunset Strip
Chuck Lynch · 1 eps
77 Sunset Strip
Axel Derwent · 1 eps
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Ben Jorgenson · 1 eps
Hawaiian Eye
Harry Gulliver · 1 eps
The Ford Television Theatre
1 eps
The Ford Television Theatre
Private Littauer · 1 eps
The Texan
Jebb Kilmer · 1 eps
The Detectives
Eddie Furman · 1 eps
The Detectives
Soley · 1 eps
The Detectives
Felix · 1 eps
Surfside 6
Willie Cleveland · 1 eps
Surfside 6
Henry Gifford · 1 eps
Surfside 6
Mel Walters · 1 eps
M Squad
Denny Sutton · 1 eps
Felony Squad
1 eps
The Millionaire
Todd Burke · 1 eps
The Millionaire
Jackson Greene · 1 eps
Trackdown
Cowboy · 1 eps
Outlaws
2 eps
Arrest and Trial
C.H. Littler · 1 eps
Black Saddle
Brad Pickard · 1 eps
Black Saddle
Clint Frome · 1 eps
Telephone Time
1 eps
Sam Benedict
Burton Harper · 1 eps
Honey West
Gordon Forbes · 1 eps
Alcoa Theatre
Wohlman · 1 eps
Stagecoach West
Arnie Ames · 1 eps
The Roaring 20's
1 eps
Wire Service
Wells · 1 eps
Temple Houston
Harmony Brown · 1 eps
The Gallant Men
1 eps
The Americans
1 eps
The Westerner
Pauk · 1 eps
Guestward, Ho!
1 eps
The Asphalt Jungle
1 eps
General Electric Theater
Glen · 1 eps