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