Acting
Adam Williams
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
Ladies Knight
Film · 2012
Helter Skelter
Film · 1976
Switch
Series · 1975
This Is a Hijack
Film · 1973
Cannon
Series · 1971
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Series · 1969
The High Chaparral
Series · 1967
Mannix
Series · 1967
Mannix
Series · 1967
Follow Me, Boys!
Film · 1966
Felony Squad
Series · 1966
The Glory Guys
Film · 1965
The F.B.I.
Series · 1965
Honey West
Series · 1965
The New Interns
Film · 1964
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Series · 1964
Daniel Boone
Series · 1964
Gunfight at Comanche Creek
Film · 1963
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Series · 1963
The Fugitive
Series · 1963
Temple Houston
Series · 1963
Arrest and Trial
Series · 1963
Convicts 4
Film · 1962
The Gallant Men
Series · 1962
Combat!
Series · 1962
The Virginian
Series · 1962
Sam Benedict
Series · 1962
The Last Sunset
Film · 1961
Dr. Kildare
Series · 1961
The Asphalt Jungle
Series · 1961
The Americans
Series · 1961
Mission of Danger
Film · 1960
Outlaws
Series · 1960
Thriller
Series · 1960
Guestward, Ho!
Series · 1960
The Roaring 20's
Series · 1960
Surfside 6
Series · 1960
Surfside 6
Series · 1960
Surfside 6
Series · 1960
Stagecoach West
Series · 1960
The Westerner
Series · 1960
North by Northwest
Film · 1959
Hawaiian Eye
Series · 1959
The Twilight Zone
Series · 1959
Rawhide
Series · 1959
Black Saddle
Series · 1959
Black Saddle
Series · 1959
Bonanza
Series · 1959
Rawhide
Series · 1959
Bonanza
Series · 1959
Rawhide
Series · 1959
The Untouchables
Series · 1959
The Detectives
Series · 1959
The Detectives
Series · 1959
Bonanza
Series · 1959
Bonanza
Series · 1959
The Detectives
Series · 1959
The Untouchables
Series · 1959
The Twilight Zone
Series · 1959
Darby's Rangers
Film · 1958
The Space Children
Film · 1958
The Badlanders
Film · 1958
The Texan
Series · 1958
77 Sunset Strip
Series · 1958
77 Sunset Strip
Series · 1958
The Rifleman
Series · 1958
The Rifleman
Series · 1958
The Rifleman
Series · 1958
Lawman
Series · 1958
The Rifleman
Series · 1958
77 Sunset Strip
Series · 1958
The Rifleman
Series · 1958
77 Sunset Strip
Series · 1958
The Rifleman
Series · 1958
The Garment Jungle
Film · 1957
The Lonely Man
Film · 1957
The Oklahoman
Film · 1957
Fear Strikes Out
Film · 1957
Perry Mason
Series · 1957
M Squad
Series · 1957
Maverick
Series · 1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
Series · 1957
Trackdown
Series · 1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
Series · 1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
Series · 1957
Alcoa Theatre
Series · 1957
The Proud and Profane
Film · 1956
The Rack
Film · 1956
Wire Service
Series · 1956
Telephone Time
Series · 1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Series · 1956
Crashout
Film · 1955
Cheyenne
Series · 1955
Gunsmoke
Series · 1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Series · 1955
The Millionaire
Series · 1955
The Millionaire
Series · 1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Series · 1955
Dragonfly Squadron
Film · 1954
The Yellow Tomahawk
Film · 1954
The Big Heat
Film · 1953
Vice Squad
Film · 1953
General Electric Theater
Series · 1953
Without Warning!
Film · 1952
The Ford Television Theatre
Series · 1952
Four Star Playhouse
Series · 1952
Chevron Theatre
Series · 1952
The Ford Television Theatre
Series · 1952
Flying Leathernecks
Film · 1951
Benjy
Film · 1951
Queen for a Day
Film · 1951