Adam Williams

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

110

Gender

Male

Birthday

1922-11-26

Day of death

2006-12-04 (84 years old)

Place of Birth

Wall Lake, Iowa, USA

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

  • Bonanza

    Bonanza

  • Bonanza

    Bonanza

  • Bonanza

    Bonanza

  • Bonanza

    Bonanza

  • The Fugitive

    The Fugitive

  • Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

  • Have Gun, Will Travel

    Have Gun, Will Travel

  • Have Gun, Will Travel

    Have Gun, Will Travel

  • Have Gun, Will Travel

    Have Gun, Will Travel

  • Mannix

    Mannix

  • Mannix

    Mannix

  • The Virginian

    The Virginian

  • Maverick

    Maverick

  • The Rifleman

    The Rifleman

  • The Rifleman

    The Rifleman

  • The Rifleman

    The Rifleman

  • The Rifleman

    The Rifleman

  • The Rifleman

    The Rifleman

  • The Rifleman

    The Rifleman

  • The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone

  • The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone

  • Cheyenne

    Cheyenne

  • Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

  • Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

  • Rawhide

    Rawhide

  • Rawhide

    Rawhide

  • Rawhide

    Rawhide

  • Dr. Kildare

    Dr. Kildare

  • Four Star Playhouse

    Four Star Playhouse

  • Combat!

    Combat!

  • The Untouchables

    The Untouchables

  • The Untouchables

    The Untouchables

  • The F.B.I.

    The F.B.I.

  • Cannon

    Cannon

  • Lawman

    Lawman

  • The High Chaparral

    The High Chaparral

  • Felony Squad

    Felony Squad

  • Thriller

    Thriller

  • Hawaiian Eye

    Hawaiian Eye

  • Marcus Welby, M.D.

    Marcus Welby, M.D.

  • 77 Sunset Strip

    77 Sunset Strip

  • 77 Sunset Strip

    77 Sunset Strip

  • 77 Sunset Strip

    77 Sunset Strip

  • 77 Sunset Strip

    77 Sunset Strip

  • Kraft Suspense Theatre

    Kraft Suspense Theatre

  • Switch

    Switch

  • Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

    Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

  • Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke

  • M Squad

    M Squad

  • The Detectives

    The Detectives

  • The Detectives

    The Detectives

  • The Detectives

    The Detectives

  • Surfside 6

    Surfside 6

  • Surfside 6

    Surfside 6

  • Surfside 6

    Surfside 6

  • The Texan

    The Texan

  • The Millionaire

    The Millionaire

  • The Millionaire

    The Millionaire

  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

  • Trackdown

    Trackdown

  • The Ford Television Theatre

    The Ford Television Theatre

  • The Ford Television Theatre

    The Ford Television Theatre

  • Arrest and Trial

    Arrest and Trial

  • Telephone Time

    Telephone Time

  • Honey West

    Honey West

  • Black Saddle

    Black Saddle

  • Black Saddle

    Black Saddle

  • Alcoa Theatre

    Alcoa Theatre

  • Sam Benedict

    Sam Benedict

  • The Roaring 20's

    The Roaring 20's

  • The Space Children

    The Space Children

  • Fear Strikes Out

    Fear Strikes Out

  • Outlaws

    Outlaws

  • The Gallant Men

    The Gallant Men

  • North by Northwest

    North by Northwest

  • Wire Service

    Wire Service

  • Stagecoach West

    Stagecoach West

  • The Last Sunset

    The Last Sunset

  • Chevron Theatre

    Chevron Theatre

  • The Garment Jungle

    The Garment Jungle

  • The Westerner

    The Westerner

  • The Lonely Man

    The Lonely Man

  • The Rack

    The Rack

  • Temple Houston

    Temple Houston

  • The New Interns

    The New Interns

  • Guestward, Ho!

    Guestward, Ho!

  • The Yellow Tomahawk

    The Yellow Tomahawk

  • The Asphalt Jungle

    The Asphalt Jungle

  • Flying Leathernecks

    Flying Leathernecks

  • Darby's Rangers

    Darby's Rangers

  • The Glory Guys

    The Glory Guys

  • Gunfight at Comanche Creek

    Gunfight at Comanche Creek

  • Convicts 4

    Convicts 4

  • The Americans

    The Americans

  • Dragonfly Squadron

    Dragonfly Squadron

  • Vice Squad

    Vice Squad

  • Without Warning!

    Without Warning!

  • The Oklahoman

    The Oklahoman

  • Crashout

    Crashout

  • General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

  • The Badlanders

    The Badlanders

  • Mission of Danger

    Mission of Danger

  • The Big Heat

    The Big Heat

  • Queen for a Day

    Queen for a Day

  • Helter Skelter

    Helter Skelter

  • Benjy

    Benjy

  • The Proud and Profane

    The Proud and Profane

  • Follow Me, Boys!

    Follow Me, Boys!

  • Ladies Knight

    Ladies Knight