Biography
Adam Williams (born Adam William Berg, November 26, 1922 β 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 β 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
all 84
TV Shows 56
Movies 28
Voice 1
Ladies Knight (2012)
Helter Skelter (1976)
Switch (1975)
Cannon (1971)
Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969)
Mannix (1967)
The High Chaparral (1967)
Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
Felony Squad (1966)
The F.B.I. (1965)
Honey West (1965)
The Glory Guys (1965)
Daniel Boone (1964)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964)
The New Interns (1964)
Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963)
Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963)
Temple Houston (1963)
The Fugitive (1963)
Arrest and Trial (1963)
The Gallant Men (1962)
Combat! (1962)
The Virginian (1962)
Convicts 4 (1962)
Dr. Kildare (1961)
The Last Sunset (1961)
The Asphalt Jungle (1961)
The Americans (1961)
The Roaring 20's (1960)
Surfside 6 (1960)
Stagecoach West (1960)
The Westerner (1960)
Guestward, Ho! (1960)
Outlaws (1960)
Thriller (1960)
Mission of Danger (1960)
The Detectives (1959)
The Untouchables (1959)
Hawaiian Eye (1959)
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Bonanza (1959)
North by Northwest (1959)
Black Saddle (1959)
Rawhide (1959)
77 Sunset Strip (1958)
Lawman (1958)
The Rifleman (1958)
The Texan (1958)
The Badlanders (1958)
The Space Children (1958)
Darby's Rangers (1958)
Trackdown (1957)
Alcoa Theatre (1957)
Maverick (1957)
Perry Mason (1957)
M Squad (1957)
Have Gun, Will Travel (1957)
The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957)
The Lonely Man (1957)
The Oklahoman (1957)
The Garment Jungle (1957)
Fear Strikes Out (1957)
The Rack (1956)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
Wire Service (1956)
The Proud and Profane (1956)
Telephone Time (1956)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
Cheyenne (1955)
Gunsmoke (1955)
Crashout (1955)
The Millionaire (1955)
The Yellow Tomahawk (1954)
Dragonfly Squadron (1954)
The Big Heat (1953)
Vice Squad (1953)
General Electric Theater (1953)
The Ford Television Theatre (1952)
Four Star Playhouse (1952)
Without Warning! (1952)
Chevron Theatre (1952)
Flying Leathernecks (1951)
Queen for a Day (1951)
Benjy (1951)
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GenderMale
Birthday1922-11-26
Deathday2006-12-04 (84 years old)
Birth NameAdam Berg
Birth PlaceWall Lake, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsAdam William Berg, Andy Williams
AwardsNavy Cross
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