Adam Williams
출생 : 1922-11-26, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
사망 : 2006-12-04
약력
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.
Sergeant (uncredited)
Lem Siddons is part of a traveling band who has a dream of becoming a lawyer. Deciding to settle down, he finds a job as a stockboy in the general store of a small town. Trying to fit in, he volunteers to become scoutmaster of the newly formed Troop 1. Becoming more and more involved with the scout troop, he finds his plans to become a lawyer being put on the back burner, until he realizes that his life has been fulfilled helping the youth of the small town.
Pvt. Lucas Crain
맥케이브 장군이 지휘하는 제3 기병대로 전출된 해러드 대위는 개인적 명예와 승리를 위해서라면 대학살도 서슴지 않는 맥케이브 장군이 마뜩잖다. 게다가 전투 경험도 없는 오합지졸의 병사들을 훈련 시켜 전투를 이끌어야 하는 임무마저 주어진다. 한편 그는 뮬 시티에 사는 미망인 `루`와 사랑하게 되는데 민간인으로서 기병대 척후병인 `솔` 또한 공교롭게도 루를 좋아하게 되고 둘은 앙숙이 되는데...
Wolanski
Young doctors mix romance with their careers in a big-city hospital.
Jed Hayden
Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. They use him in a robbery, then when the dead-or-alive reward is high enough, they shoot him and collect. The National Detective Agency, now knowing the gang's methods, arranges to have agent Bob Gifford jailed in Comanche Creek for train robbery. The gang takes the bait (not before Gifford catches the eye of lovely saloon-keeper Abbie). But how will the bait get off the hook?
Guard
After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora where, with the help of a humane prison guard, he becomes a rehabilitated man and a successful painter.
Calverton
브렌단 오말리는 과거의 연인이었던 벨 브페켄리지를 찾아 멕시코에 도착한다. 그런데 그녀는 한 술주정뱅이의 아내가 되어 살아가고 있다. 마침 벨의 남편은 텍사스로 소떼를 몰고 갈 계획을 세운 참이었다. 한편 보안관 다나 스트리블링은 브렌단을 처벌하기 위해 쫓아오고... 두 남자는 벨과 함께 긴 여정에 오른다.
After his Rangers are caught during a raid, a major must infiltrate the French army to save his men.
Valerian
뉴욕의 광고업자 손힐은 어느 날 정부 요원 조지 캐플란으로 오인 받고 괴한에게 납치된다. 어느 저택에서 술을 강제로 마신 뒤 버려져 음주운전으로 체포된 다음 날 홀어머니와 함께 현장으로 찾아간다. 저택 주인이 UN 외교관이란 이야기를 듣고 UN 본부 로비에서 그에게 면회를 신청하지만, 엉뚱한 사람이 나왔다가 현장에서 등에 칼을 맞고 쓰러진다. 삽시간에 살인범 누명까지 뒤집어쓴 손힐은 자신의 결백을 입증해 줄 수 있는 단 하나의 인물인 캐플란을 찾으러 시카고행 열차에 몸을 싣고, 그 곳에서 우연히 만난 금발의 미녀 이브 켄들과 사랑을 속삭이는데...
Leslie
Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, the Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from the people of a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain, is just trying to go straight, but that is easier said than done once the Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme.
Dave Brewster
A glowing brain-like creature arrives on a beach near a rocket test site via a teleportation beam. The alien communicates telepathically with the children of scientists. The kids start doing the alien's bidding as the adults try to find out what's happening to their unruly offspring.
Lon
Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his long-abandoned son Riley, now a young man who hates his father but has nowhere else to go. Hoping to settle down, Jacob finds no town will have him. They end at Monolith, the ranch of Jacob's former girlfriend Ada, to whom he had no intention of returning. A mustang hunt finds Riley himself attracted to the shapely Ada...and Jacob having trouble with his eyesight. And his visions of a quiet life are doomed by the re-appearance of enemies from his past...
Bob Randell
After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor (Joel McCrea) settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Wells to raise his newborn daughter. Unfortunately, not all the citizens there are hospitable, especially when the doctor hires a pretty Indian teenager (Gloria Talbott) as his child's nanny. Directed by Francis D. Lyon and released in 1957, this western also stars Barbara Hale, Brad Dexter, Verna Felton, Esther Dale, Douglas Dick, Michael Pate, Sheb Wooley, Ray Teal, Mimi Gibson and Anthony Caruso.
Ox
한국전쟁에서 돌아온 알란은 아버지가 뉴욕에서 운영하는 여성 의류 생산 공장에 취직한다. 그런데 아버지는 노동자들의 노조 활동을 방해하기 위해 마피아와 은밀한 거래를 맺고 있었다. 패션 산업을 소재로 기업가와 노동자, 마피아들의 대결을 그린 독특한 분위기의 필름누아르. 뉴욕을 너무 어둡게 묘사했다는 이유로 알드리치는 영화의 제작이 다 끝나기도 전에 회사로부터 해고당해야 했다.
Doctor Brown
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.
Sgt. Otto Pahnke
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the US after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell?
Eustace Press
In this romantic drama, beautiful Red Cross volunteer Lee Ashley arrives on the South Pacific island of New Caledonia to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the death of her husband, Howard, in the Battle of Guadalcanal. There, Ashley falls for the gruff, seductive Marine Lt. Col. Colin Buck, but struggle and tragedy follow when the widow learns about the reality of Buck's life back home.
Fred Summerfield
Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison, then set out on a long, dangerous journey by foot, car, train and truck to retrieve Duff's bank loot. En route, as they touch the lives of "regular folks," each has his own rendezvous with destiny.
Cpl. Maddock
When the army insists on building a fort on Indian land, in defiance of a treaty, the warnings of a scout go unheeded.
Capt. Wyler
A Korean War film with a secondary plot of the training of South Korean pilots, to fly fighters in air defense, by American Air Force instructors,led by Major Brady, a famed and skilled-but-grounded pilot, assigned to the Kongku base.
Larry Gordon
경찰 기록 사무국장 톰 던컨이 자살을 하는 사건이 발생한다. 톰 던컨의 자살 사건을 맡게 된 젊은 경사 데이브(Dave Bannion: 글렌 포드 분)는 톰의 미망인을 찾아가 그의 자살 경위에 대해 조사한다. 그녀는 남편이 평소 건강이 안 좋았고 최근에 들어 특히 건강 상태를 걱정하는 것 같았다고 얘기한다. 결국 경찰은 톰 던컨의 사건을 자살이라고 매듭짓는다. 그러던 어느 날, 톰의 애인이었다고 하면서 루시 채프먼(Lucy Chapman: 도로시 그린 분)이라는 여자가 데이브에게 전화를 걸어온다. 그녀는 톰이 건강했으며 부인과 이혼을 하려고 했었다는 새로운 사실을 데이브에게 알려준다. 그러나 며칠 뒤 이 여인은 변사체로 발견되고 데이브는 뭔가 음모가 있다고 생각하게 된다.
Marty Kusalich
A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.
Carl Martin
Police track a serial killer.
Lt. Bert Malotke
인원과 보급의 부족에도 불구하고 치열한 전투 속에서 결사적 임무 수행을 하는 대장 커비는 프로펠러를 총검화하는 초저공대지 공격전술을 주장하는 전형적인 직업군인이다. 그러나 늘 부하를 사랑하기만 하는 부대장과는 의견에 차질이 있다. 대장의 전술이 상부의 인정을 받아 지상군을 도와 연속적인 승리를 거두는 동안 부대장도 대장을 닮게 된다는 이야기. 미해병항공부대의 활약상을 그린 영화로 임무와 애정 사이에서 고뇌하며 부하를 통솔하는 것이 얼마나 어려운가를 이 영화는 보여준다.
Chuck
Adapted from the TV and radio series of the same name, the producer of said show reads letters from three woman providing the framing story for this melodrama anthology film. The tales focus on parenting and family struggles.
