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