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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 26, 1922
Died
December 4, 2006
Place of Birth
Wall Lake, Iowa, USA
Also Known As
- Adam William Berg
- Andy Williams
Adam Williams
0.8 Popularity
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
Credits
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Ladies Knight
as Doofus (voice)
2012
0.0
Helter Skelter
as Terrence Milik
1976
6.8
Switch
as Henry Corwin
1975
6.7
Cannon
1971
6.6
Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Dr. Schmidt
1969
6.5
Mannix
as Prosecutor
1967
6.7
Mannix
as George Henderson
1967
6.7
The High Chaparral
as Burton
1967
6.6
Follow Me, Boys!
as Sergeant (uncredited)
1966
6.6
Felony Squad
1966
6.4
The F.B.I.
as David Brice
1965
5.4
Honey West
as Gordon Forbes
1965
7.0
The Glory Guys
as Pvt. Lucas Crain
1965
6.5
Daniel Boone
as Mose
1964
7.0
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as Chief
1964
7.7
The New Interns
as Wolanski
1964
4.0
Gunfight at Comanche Creek
as Jed Hayden
1963
5.8
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Ben Jorgenson
1963
5.3
Temple Houston
as Harmony Brown
1963
5.7
The Fugitive
as Truck Driver
1963
7.2
Arrest and Trial
as C.H. Littler
1963
7.7
The Gallant Men
1962
6.0
Combat!
as Lt. Col. Nash
1962
7.7
The Virginian
as Roper
1962
6.4
Sam Benedict
as Burton Harper
1962
6.0
Convicts 4
as Guard
1962
4.8
Dr. Kildare
as Ralph Walker
1961
5.5
The Last Sunset
as Calverton
1961
6.8
The Asphalt Jungle
1961
5.0
The Americans
1961
6.0
The Roaring 20's
1960
0.0
Surfside 6
as Willie Cleveland
1960
5.0
Surfside 6
as Henry Gifford
1960
5.0
Surfside 6
as Mel Walters
1960
5.0
Stagecoach West
as Arnie Ames
1960
6.0
The Westerner
as Pauk
1960
6.8
Guestward, Ho!
1960
4.0
Outlaws
1960
6.2
Thriller
as Hymie Kralik
1960
6.6
Mission of Danger
1960
5.0
The Detectives
as Eddie Furman
1959
6.1
The Detectives
as Soley
1959
6.1
The Detectives
as Felix
1959
6.1
The Untouchables
as Lloyd Barker
1959
7.8
The Untouchables
as Paul Meadows
1959
7.8
Hawaiian Eye
as Harry Gulliver
1959
5.2
The Twilight Zone
as Woodward
1959
8.5
The Twilight Zone
as Sailor
1959
8.5
Bonanza
as Muller
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Blackie Marx
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Red Twilight
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Hardesty
1959
7.5
North by Northwest
as Valerian
1959
8.0
Black Saddle
as Brad Pickard
1959
6.0
Black Saddle
as Clint Frome
1959
6.0
Rawhide
as Kellino
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Jeb
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Hank Kale
1959
7.2
77 Sunset Strip
as Willie Lee Hanks
1958
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
as Axel Derwent
1958
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
as Spud Morrison
1958
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
as Chuck Lynch
1958
6.7
Lawman
as Burley Keller
1958
5.6
The Rifleman
as Jake Pardee
1958
7.1
The Rifleman
as Corporal Troc
1958
7.1
The Rifleman
as Jax
1958
7.1
The Rifleman
as Russell Ganaway
1958
7.1
The Rifleman
as Cory Platt
1958
7.1
The Rifleman
as Mal Sherman
1958
7.1
The Texan
as Jebb Kilmer
1958
5.5
The Badlanders
as Deputy Leslie
1958
6.1
The Space Children
as Dave Brewster
1958
4.0
Darby's Rangers
as Heavy Hall
1958
5.9
Trackdown
as Cowboy
1957
6.4
Alcoa Theatre
as Wohlman
1957
6.5
Maverick
as Sam Elkins
1957
6.9
Perry Mason
as Jason Beckmeyer
1957
7.7
M Squad
as Denny Sutton
1957
5.2
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Frank Gault
1957
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Beckett
1957
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Simon Quill
1957
7.3
The Lonely Man
as Lon
1957
5.9
The Oklahoman
as Bob Randell
1957
5.6
The Garment Jungle
as Ox
1957
6.4
Fear Strikes Out
as Doctor Brown
1957
7.1
The Rack
as Sgt. Otto Pahnke
1956
6.6
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Harlan Breckenridge
1956
6.0
Wire Service
as Wells
1956
0.0
The Proud and Profane
as Eustace Press
1956
6.2
Telephone Time
1956
6.3
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Police Lt. King
1955
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Doctor
1955
7.8
Cheyenne
as Jeb Quinn
1955
6.0
Gunsmoke
as Slim Trent
1955
6.6
Crashout
as Fred Summerfield
1955
6.6
The Millionaire
as Todd Burke
1955
5.0
The Millionaire
as Jackson Greene
1955
5.0
The Yellow Tomahawk
as Cpl. Maddock
1954
6.0
Dragonfly Squadron
as Capt. Wyler
1954
6.0
The Big Heat
as Larry Gordon
1953
7.7
Vice Squad
as Marty Kusalich
1953
5.7
General Electric Theater
as Glen
1953
6.4
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
7.3
The Ford Television Theatre
as Private Littauer
1952
7.3
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Four Star Playhouse
as George
1952
6.7
Without Warning!
as Carl Martin
1952
5.9
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Chevron Theatre
1952
10.0
Flying Leathernecks
as Lt. Bert Malotke
1951
5.8
Queen for a Day
as Chuck
1951
6.0
Benjy
as Mr. Miller
1951
6.0