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

  • The Virginian

    The Virginian

  • Mannix

    Mannix

  • Mannix

    Mannix

  • 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

  • Rawhide

    Rawhide

  • Rawhide

    Rawhide

  • Rawhide

    Rawhide

  • Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

  • Dr. Kildare

    Dr. Kildare

  • Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

  • Four Star Playhouse

    Four Star Playhouse

  • Combat!

    Combat!

  • The F.B.I.

    The F.B.I.

  • The High Chaparral

    The High Chaparral

  • The Untouchables

    The Untouchables

  • The Untouchables

    The Untouchables

  • Cannon

    Cannon

  • Lawman

    Lawman

  • Felony Squad

    Felony Squad

  • Hawaiian Eye

    Hawaiian Eye

  • Thriller

    Thriller

  • 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

  • M Squad

    M Squad

  • Kraft Suspense Theatre

    Kraft Suspense Theatre

  • Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke

  • Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

    Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

  • Switch

    Switch

  • The Texan

    The Texan

  • Surfside 6

    Surfside 6

  • Surfside 6

    Surfside 6

  • Surfside 6

    Surfside 6

  • The Millionaire

    The Millionaire

  • The Millionaire

    The Millionaire

  • The Detectives

    The Detectives

  • The Detectives

    The Detectives

  • The Detectives

    The Detectives

  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

  • The Ford Television Theatre

    The Ford Television Theatre

  • The Ford Television Theatre

    The Ford Television Theatre

  • Trackdown

    Trackdown

  • Arrest and Trial

    Arrest and Trial

  • Honey West

    Honey West

  • Telephone Time

    Telephone Time

  • Alcoa Theatre

    Alcoa Theatre

  • Black Saddle

    Black Saddle

  • Black Saddle

    Black Saddle

  • Sam Benedict

    Sam Benedict

  • The Space Children

    The Space Children

  • The Roaring 20's

    The Roaring 20's

  • Fear Strikes Out

    Fear Strikes Out

  • North by Northwest

    North by Northwest

  • Outlaws

    Outlaws

  • Wire Service

    Wire Service

  • The Garment Jungle

    The Garment Jungle

  • The Gallant Men

    The Gallant Men

  • The Westerner

    The Westerner

  • The New Interns

    The New Interns

  • Chevron Theatre

    Chevron Theatre

  • The Rack

    The Rack

  • Temple Houston

    Temple Houston

  • Flying Leathernecks

    Flying Leathernecks

  • The Lonely Man

    The Lonely Man

  • Darby's Rangers

    Darby's Rangers

  • The Yellow Tomahawk

    The Yellow Tomahawk

  • The Last Sunset

    The Last Sunset

  • The Asphalt Jungle

    The Asphalt Jungle

  • Guestward, Ho!

    Guestward, Ho!

  • Stagecoach West

    Stagecoach West

  • The Americans

    The Americans

  • The Glory Guys

    The Glory Guys

  • Gunfight at Comanche Creek

    Gunfight at Comanche Creek

  • Convicts 4

    Convicts 4

  • Dragonfly Squadron

    Dragonfly Squadron

  • Vice Squad

    Vice Squad

  • The Big Heat

    The Big Heat

  • Without Warning!

    Without Warning!

  • Crashout

    Crashout

  • The Badlanders

    The Badlanders

  • The Oklahoman

    The Oklahoman

  • General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

  • Queen for a Day

    Queen for a Day

  • Helter Skelter

    Helter Skelter

  • Mission of Danger

    Mission of Danger

  • Benjy

    Benjy

  • The Proud and Profane

    The Proud and Profane

  • Ladies Knight

    Ladies Knight

  • Follow Me, Boys!

    Follow Me, Boys!