Adam Williams
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1922-11-26
Deathday 2006-12-04 (84 years old)
Place of Birth Wall Lake, Iowa, USA
Also Known As Adam William Berg, Andy Williams
Adam Williams
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
Actor
as Doofus (voice)
as Terrence Milik
as Henry Corwin
as Dr. Schmidt
as Prosecutor
as George Henderson
as Burton
as Sergeant (uncredited)
as Pvt. Lucas Crain
as David Brice
as Gordon Forbes
as Wolanski
as Mose
as Chief
as Jed Hayden
as Ben Jorgenson
as Harmony Brown
as Truck Driver
as C.H. Littler
as Guard
as Lt. Col. Nash
as Roper
as Burton Harper
as Calverton
as Ralph Walker
as Willie Cleveland
as Henry Gifford
as Mel Walters
as Arnie Ames
as Pauk
as Hymie Kralik
as Valerian
as Eddie Furman
as Soley
as Felix
as Lloyd Barker
as Paul Meadows
as Harry Gulliver
as Woodward
as Sailor
as Muller
as Blackie Marx
as Hardesty
as Red Twilight
as Brad Pickard
as Clint Frome
as Kellino
as Jeb
as Hank Kale
as Deputy Leslie
as Dave Brewster
as Heavy Hall
as Spud Morrison
as Willie Lee Hanks
as Chuck Lynch
as Axel Derwent
as Burley Keller
as Corporal Troc
as Russell Ganaway
as Jake Pardee
as Jax
as Cory Platt
as Mal Sherman
as Jebb Kilmer
as Lon
as Bob Randell
as Ox
as Doctor Brown
as Cowboy
as Wohlman
as Sam Elkins
as Jason Beckmeyer
as Denny Sutton
as Simon Quill
as Beckett
as Frank Gault
as Sgt. Otto Pahnke
as Eustace Press
as Harlan Breckenridge
as Wells
as Fred Summerfield
as Police Lt. King
as Doctor
as Jeb Quinn
as Slim Trent
as Todd Burke
as Jackson Greene
as Cpl. Maddock
as Capt. Wyler
as Larry Gordon
as Marty Kusalich
as Glen
as Carl Martin
as Private Littauer
as George
as Lt. Bert Malotke
as Chuck
as Mr. Miller
Writer
as Story
as Teleplay