Adam Williams
Nascimento : 1922-11-26, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Morte : 2006-12-04
História
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 faz parte de uma banda ambulante e tem o sonho de se tornar um advogado. Após decidir se fixar em algo, ele arranja um emprego no estoque de um armazém numa cidade pequena. Tentando se enturmar, se oferece como voluntário para se tornar líder de um grupo de escoteiros, Troop 1. Cada vez mais envolvido com a tropa, ele acaba deixando seus planos de advocacia de lado.
Pvt. Lucas Crain
Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a generic war story covering the enlistment, training, and operational deployment of a group of recruits that could take place in any time period.
Wolanski
Young doctors mix romance with their careers in a big-city hospital.
Jed Hayden
Murphy interpetra um detetive que secretamente se infiltra em uma quadrilha especializada em um novo tipo de golpe. Colocam criminosos conhecidos fora da cadeia, usam-nos nas extorsões, até que o preço de suas cabeças sejam bem altos, e então matam-nos para receberem a recompensa. Quando o sócio de Murphy é traído por alguém que é secretamente o cérebro do grupo, Murphy é pôsto em uma situação particularmente perigosa e desarmado, sem ajuda, suspeito de ser um agente secreto.
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
O caubói Brendan O'Malley (Kirk Douglas) chega à casa da formosa Belle Breckenridge (Dorothy Malone), casada com bruto beberrão John Becheridge (Joseph Cotten). O casal está se preparando para iniciar uma jornada com o gado até o Texas.Na cola de O'Malley está o policial Dana Tribling (Rock Hudson), que tem razões pessoais para capturá-lo. Ambos se juntam ao casal em sua jornada, mas as tensões aumentam quando John nota o crescente interesse de dana por sua mulher e de Brendan por sua filha...
After his Rangers are caught during a raid, a major must infiltrate the French army to save his men.
Valerian
O executivo publicitário Roger O. Thornhill é confundido como um agente do governo por um grupo de espiões. A partir daí, envolve-se numa série de desventuras incríveis e passa a ser perseguido tanto pelo governo quanto pelos espiões por todo os Estados Unidos.
Leslie
Os presidiários Peter Van Hook (Alan Ladd) e John McBain (Ernest Borgnine) ficam amigos na prisão. Soltos quase ao mesmo tempo, eles planejam dar um grande golpe juntos. Decididos a passar a perna no dono de uma rica mina de ouro, eles propõem um trato que não pretendem cumprir: 100 mil dólares em dinheiro vivo em troca de 200 mil dólares em ouro. O dono, que também pensava em passar a perna nos trapaceiros, aceita. Dirigida por Delmer Daves, "Os Homens das Terras Bravas" é um remake de "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950).
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
Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ravidge, a hood who uses strong-arm tactics to keep the employees in line.
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
O condenado Van Duff organiza uma fuga em grande escala de prisão; os seis sobreviventes se escondem numa mina perto da prisão, depois partem em uma longa e perigosa jornada a pé, de carro, trem e caminhão para recuperar o monte de dinheiro de Duff. No caminho, enquanto interferem na vida de pessoas comuns, cada um tem seu próprio encontro com o destino. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
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
O policial durão Dave Bannion enfrenta o sindicato do crime politicamente poderoso. Dave Bannion é um policial honesto investigando uma gangue cruel que ele suspeita ter influência sobre a força policial. Bannion é alertado após o suicídio de um colega e o silêncio suspeito de seus colegas policiais o leva a acreditar que eles estão na folha de pagamento dos gângsteres. Quando uma bomba destinada a ele mata sua esposa, Bannion se torna uma furiosa força de vingança e justiça, auxiliado ao longo do caminho pela rejeitada namorada do gângster, Debby. Quando Bannion e Debby caem cada vez mais na armadilha traiçoeira e brutal do mundo do crime, eles devem usar todos os meios necessários (incluindo assassinato) para chegar à verdade. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
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
O Major Daniel Kirby (John Wayne) passa a comandar um esquadrão aéreo pouco antes do início da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Encontra pilotos em sua maioria indisciplinados e preguiçosos e ainda tem de enfrentar a resistência do Capitão Carl Griffin (Robert Ryan), melhor aviador do time, sempre pensando primeiro na integridade física dos colegas e despreparado para arcar com os complexos conflitos que um combate gera. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
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.
