Personal Info
Birth date
1922-11-26 (102 Years)
Day of death
2006-12-04
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Wall Lake, Iowa, USA
Also known as
Adam William Berg
Andy Williams
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.
Filmography
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
5.5
Overview:
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.Bonanza
7.5
Overview:
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.Have Gun, Will Travel
7.4
Overview:
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.Four Star Playhouse
6.333
Overview:
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.Perry Mason
7.7
Overview:
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.Marcus Welby, M.D.
6.5
Overview:
Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.Mannix
6.7
Overview:
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.The Rifleman
7
Overview:
The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.Dr. Kildare
5.5
Overview:
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.The F.B.I.
5.5
Overview:
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.Combat!
7.6
Overview:
Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.The Twilight Zone
8.447
Overview:
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.Cannon
6.5
Overview:
Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones. Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 124 episodes.Hawaiian Eye
5.2
Overview:
Private Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they work both hotel security and are hired by others to look into various matters. They're helped by their trusty right-hand man Kazuo Kim who runs a taxi company and is always eager to help them.Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
7.8
Overview:
Join the crew of the Seaview aboard their super high-tech submarine, where no mission is too dangerous and no threat is too deadly, be it enemy agents, mad scientists, deadly sea creatures, or impending nuclear disaster.Thriller
6.417
Overview:
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.Maverick
6.8
Overview:
The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.Daniel Boone
6.9
Overview:
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.M Squad
5.2
Overview:
Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and corruption in America's Second City, Chicago.Surfside 6
5
Overview:
Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered on a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat and featured Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield II; Van Williams as Kenny Madison; and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne. Diane McBain co-starred as socialite Daphne Dutton, whose yacht was berthed next to their houseboat. Margarita Sierra also had a supporting role as Cha Cha O'Brien, an entertainer who worked at The Boom Boom Room, a popular Miami Beach hangout at the Fontainebleau Hotel, directly across the street from Surfside 6. Surfside 6 was in fact a real address in Miami Beach, where an unrelated houseboat was moored at the time; it can also be seen in the sweeping aerial establishing shot of the Fontainebleu in 1964's Goldfinger.The Untouchables
7.9
Overview:
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.Rawhide
7.2
Overview:
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.The Fugitive
7.2
Overview:
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.Arrest and Trial
7.667
Overview:
Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m. Eastern.The Detectives
5.6
Overview:
The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The series, starring motion picture star Robert Taylor, was produced by Four Star Television. Captain Matt Holbrook (Robert Taylor) is head of the detective division of a large metropolitan police force—a man whose devotion to duty, professional brilliance, and quick judgment are reflected in his 20-year career on the force. His aides, Lt. Johnny Russo (Tige Andrews), Lt. Otto Lindstrom (Russ Thorson), and Sgt. Chris Ballard (Mark Goddard) form a team that is both proficient and warmly human. The stories stress the interrelationships between the men as well as the solutions to crimes and the apprehension of criminals, adding a dimension of human drama to the excitement, action, and suspense inherent in each story of the detectives' difficult, sometimes thankless, and frequently dangerous assignments.Cheyenne
5.8
Overview:
Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.77 Sunset Strip
6.7
Overview:
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.The High Chaparral
6.5
Overview:
The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The series, made by Xanadu Productions in association with NBC Productions, was created by David Dortort, who had previously created the hit Bonanza for the network. The theme song was also written and conducted by Bonanza scorer David Rose, who also scored the two-hour pilot.Acting
2012Ladies Knight as Doofus (voice)
1976Helter Skelter as Terrence Milik
1975Switch (1 Episode) as Henry Corwin
1971Cannon (1 Episode) as Unknown
1969Marcus Welby, M.D. (1 Episode) as Dr. Schmidt
1967Mannix (1, 1 Episode) as Prosecutor, George Henderson
1967The High Chaparral (1 Episode) as Burton
1966Follow Me, Boys! as Sergeant (uncredited)
1966Felony Squad (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965The F.B.I. (1 Episode) as David Brice
1965Honey West (1 Episode) as Gordon Forbes
1965The Glory Guys as Pvt. Lucas Crain
1964Daniel Boone (1 Episode) as Mose
1964Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1 Episode) as Chief
1964The New Interns as Wolanski
1963Gunfight at Comanche Creek as Jed Hayden
1963Kraft Suspense Theatre (1 Episode) as Ben Jorgenson
1963Temple Houston (1 Episode) as Harmony Brown
1963The Fugitive (1 Episode) as Truck Driver
1963Arrest and Trial (1 Episode) as C.H. Littler
1962The Gallant Men (1 Episode) as Unknown
1962Combat! (1 Episode) as Lt. Col. Nash
1962The Virginian (1 Episode) as Roper
1962Convicts 4 as Guard
1962Sam Benedict (1 Episode) as Burton Harper
1961Dr. Kildare (1 Episode) as Ralph Walker
1961The Last Sunset as Calverton
1961The Asphalt Jungle (1 Episode) as Unknown
1961The Americans (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960The Roaring 20's (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960Surfside 6 (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Willie Cleveland, Henry Gifford, Mel Walters
1960Stagecoach West (1 Episode) as Arnie Ames
1960The Westerner (1 Episode) as Pauk
1960Guestward, Ho! (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960Outlaws (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1960Thriller (1 Episode) as Hymie Kralik
1960Mission of Danger as Unknown
1959The Detectives (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Eddie Furman, Soley, Felix
1959The Untouchables (1, 1 Episode) as Lloyd Barker, Paul Meadows
1959Hawaiian Eye (1 Episode) as Harry Gulliver
1959The Twilight Zone (1, 1 Episode) as Woodward, Sailor
1959Bonanza (1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Muller, Blackie Marx, Red Twilight, Hardesty
1959North by Northwest as Valerian
1959Black Saddle (1, 1 Episode) as Brad Pickard, Clint Frome
1959Rawhide (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Kellino, Jeb, Hank Kale
195877 Sunset Strip (1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Willie Lee Hanks, Axel Derwent, Spud Morrison, Chuck Lynch
1958Lawman (1 Episode) as Burley Keller
1958The Rifleman (1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Jake Pardee, Corporal Troc, Jax, Russell Ganaway, Cory Platt, Mal Sherman
1958The Texan (1 Episode) as Jebb Kilmer
1958The Badlanders as Deputy Leslie
1958The Space Children as Dave Brewster
1958Darby's Rangers as Heavy Hall
1957Trackdown (1 Episode) as Cowboy
1957Alcoa Theatre (1 Episode) as Wohlman
1957Maverick (1 Episode) as Sam Elkins
1957Perry Mason (1 Episode) as Jason Beckmeyer
1957M Squad (1 Episode) as Denny Sutton
1957Have Gun, Will Travel (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Frank Gault, Beckett, Simon Quill
1957The Lonely Man as Lon
1957The Oklahoman as Bob Randell
1957The Garment Jungle as Ox
1957Fear Strikes Out as Doctor Brown
1956The Rack as Sgt. Otto Pahnke
1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1 Episode) as Harlan Breckenridge
1956Wire Service (1 Episode) as Wells
1956The Proud and Profane as Eustace Press
1956Telephone Time (1 Episode) as Unknown
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1, 1 Episode) as Police Lt. King, Doctor
1955Cheyenne (1 Episode) as Jeb Quinn
1955Gunsmoke (1 Episode) as Slim Trent
1955Crashout as Fred Summerfield
1955The Millionaire (1, 1 Episode) as Todd Burke, Jackson Greene
1954The Yellow Tomahawk as Cpl. Maddock
1954Dragonfly Squadron as Capt. Wyler
1953The Big Heat as Larry Gordon
1953Vice Squad as Marty Kusalich
1953General Electric Theater (1 Episode) as Glen
1952The Ford Television Theatre (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Private Littauer
1952Four Star Playhouse (1 Episode) as George
1952Without Warning! as Carl Martin
1952Chevron Theatre (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1951Flying Leathernecks as Lt. Bert Malotke
1951Queen for a Day as Chuck
1951Benjy as Mr. Miller
Writing
1958The Rifleman (1, 1 Episode) ... Teleplay, Story