Adam Williams
Рождение : 1922-11-26, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Смерть : 2006-12-04
История
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
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
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
Среди ковбоев, перегоняющих скот, скрываются убийца и преследующий его шериф. Противники многое узнают друг о друге во время долгого и опасного путешествия, но развязка все же жестока и неизбежна. Интересный психологический сценарий известного драматурга Далтона Трамбо, куда он, правда, намешивает все: от индейцев до кровосмесительства.
After his Rangers are caught during a raid, a major must infiltrate the French army to save his men.
Valerian
Шпионская организация ошибочно принимает Роджера Торнхилла, служащего рекламной компании, за некоего двойного агента Каплана. В то же время, будучи преследуемым полицией по подозрению в убийстве, которое он не совершал, Торнхилл влюбляется в девушку по имени Ева, но и она оказывается не той, за которую себя выдает
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
Действие картины происходит в среде текстильного бизнеса, который по уровню преступности ничем не уступает наркомафии.
Doctor Brown
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.
Sgt. Otto Pahnke
Капитан Эдвард Холл возвращается в США после двух лет, проведенных в лагере для военнопленных во время войны в Корее. Там, в лагере он убедил других заключенных, что они вели несправедливую войну. По возвращении на родину, его обвинили в сотрудничестве с врагом. Как сохранить преданность своей стране в плену, если лагерь это сущий ад?
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
Шестеро заключённых, сбежавших из тюрьмы, предпринимают попытку добраться до «больших денег», отчаянно «прокладывая путь» на свободу.
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
Детектив Дэйв Бэннион из отдела по расследованию убийств начинает непримиримую борьбу с преступным синдикатом и в короткие сроки обрезает все связи бандитов с городом и администрацией. Результат не заставляет себя ждать…
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
Этот фильм посвящается морскому корпусу США, в особенности морской авиации. Фильм повествует о событиях, начавшихся летом 1942 года на гавайском острове Оахо, когда мирный плеск волн был заглушен ревом атакующих японских истребителей. Японцы захватили цепь островов до Гуадал-канала и американцам пришлось вступить с ними в схватку, несмотря на нехватку людей и вооружения. Эта история о группе американцев, вошедших в корпус пехотинцев ВМФ 247 «Дикие кошки». Представители американского флага наводнили авиабазу на спящем вулкане, что стало неотъемлемым доказательством того, что США всегда будет бороться против агрессии и агрессоров, нарушающих права свободных людей. В эскадрилью назначен майор Дэн Кирби. Ему предстоит навести порядок и дисциплину совместно с капитаном Карлом Гриффином, среди расслабившихся на палящем солнце солдат и офицеров, чтобы дать достойный отпор японским милитаристам…
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.
