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.
Acted in
Ladies Knight
2012
as Doofus (voice)
Helter Skelter
1976
as Terrence Milik
Switch
1975
as Henry Corwin
Cannon
1971
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
as Dr. Schmidt
Mannix
1967
as Prosecutor
Mannix
1967
as George Henderson
The High Chaparral
1967
as Burton
Follow Me, Boys!
1966
as Sergeant (uncredited)
Felony Squad
1966
The F.B.I.
1965
as David Brice
Honey West
1965
as Gordon Forbes
The Glory Guys
1965
as Pvt. Lucas Crain
Daniel Boone
1964
as Mose
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964
as Chief
The New Interns
1964
as Wolanski
Gunfight at Comanche Creek
1963
as Jed Hayden
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
as Ben Jorgenson
Temple Houston
1963
as Harmony Brown
The Fugitive
1963
as Truck Driver
Arrest and Trial
1963
as C.H. Littler
The Gallant Men
1962
Combat!
1962
as Lt. Col. Nash
The Virginian
1962
as Roper
Convicts 4
1962
as Guard
Sam Benedict
1962
as Burton Harper
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Ralph Walker
The Last Sunset
1961
as Calverton
The Asphalt Jungle
1961
The Americans
1961
The Roaring 20's
1960
Surfside 6
1960
as Willie Cleveland
Surfside 6
1960
as Henry Gifford
Surfside 6
1960
as Mel Walters
Stagecoach West
1960
as Arnie Ames
The Westerner
1960
as Pauk
Guestward, Ho!
1960
Outlaws
1960
Thriller
1960
as Hymie Kralik
Mission of Danger
1960
Miss Jenny
1960
The Detectives
1959
as Eddie Furman
The Detectives
1959
as Soley
The Detectives
1959
as Felix
The Untouchables
1959
as Lloyd Barker
The Untouchables
1959
as Paul Meadows
Hawaiian Eye
1959
as Harry Gulliver
The Twilight Zone
1959
as Woodward
The Twilight Zone
1959
as Sailor
Bonanza
1959
as Muller
Bonanza
1959
as Blackie Marx
Bonanza
1959
as Red Twilight
Bonanza
1959
as Hardesty
North by Northwest
1959
as Valerian
Black Saddle
1959
as Brad Pickard
Black Saddle
1959
as Clint Frome
Rawhide
1959
as Kellino
Rawhide
1959
as Jeb
Rawhide
1959
as Hank Kale
77 Sunset Strip
1958
as Willie Lee Hanks
77 Sunset Strip
1958
as Axel Derwent
77 Sunset Strip
1958
as Spud Morrison
77 Sunset Strip
1958
as Chuck Lynch
Lawman
1958
as Burley Keller
The Rifleman
1958
as Jake Pardee
The Rifleman
1958
as Corporal Troc
The Rifleman
1958
as Jax
The Rifleman
1958
as Russell Ganaway
The Rifleman
1958
as Cory Platt
The Rifleman
1958
as Mal Sherman
The Texan
1958
as Jebb Kilmer
The Badlanders
1958
as Deputy Leslie
The Space Children
1958
as Dave Brewster
Darby's Rangers
1958
as Heavy Hall
Trackdown
1957
as Cowboy
Alcoa Theatre
1957
as Wohlman
Maverick
1957
as Sam Elkins
Perry Mason
1957
as Jason Beckmeyer
M Squad
1957
as Denny Sutton
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
as Frank Gault
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
as Beckett
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
as Simon Quill
The Lonely Man
1957
as Lon
The Oklahoman
1957
as Bob Randell
The Garment Jungle
1957
as Ox
Fear Strikes Out
1957
as Doctor Brown
The Rack
1956
as Sgt. Otto Pahnke
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Harlan Breckenridge
Wire Service
1956
as Wells
The Proud and Profane
1956
as Eustace Press
Telephone Time
1956
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Police Lt. King
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Doctor
Cheyenne
1955
as Jeb Quinn
Gunsmoke
1955
as Slim Trent
Crashout
1955
as Fred Summerfield
The Millionaire
1955
as Todd Burke
The Millionaire
1955
as Jackson Greene
The Yellow Tomahawk
1954
as Cpl. Maddock
Dragonfly Squadron
1954
as Capt. Wyler
The Big Heat
1953
as Larry Gordon
Vice Squad
1953
as Marty Kusalich
General Electric Theater
1953
as Glen
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Private Littauer
Four Star Playhouse
1952
as George
Without Warning!
1952
as Carl Martin
Chevron Theatre
1952
Flying Leathernecks
1951
as Lt. Bert Malotke
Queen for a Day
1951
as Chuck
Benjy
1951
as Mr. Miller