John McLiam
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John McLiam (born John Williams; January 24, 1918 – April 16, 1994) was a Canadian actor noted for his skill at different accents. His film appearances include My Fair Lady (1964), In Cold Blood (1967), John Frankenheimer's movie of The Iceman Cometh (1973), The Missouri Breaks (1976), and First Blood (1982). He was a guest star in numerous television series and wrote a Broadway play, The Sin of Pat Muldoon. Early life He attended St. Mary's College of California (Moraga, California). During World War II he served in the United States Navy as an intelligence officer, having received a Bronze Star. After the war he worked briefly as a journalist for the San Francisco Examiner. He took McLiam, the Gaelic form of his real surname Williams, as a stage name. Acting career His acting career began in Maxwell Anderson's Winterset in San Francisco in 1946. After a few roles in plays in California he moved to New York. His first Broadway role was as a guard in Maxwell Anderson's Barefoot in Athens in 1951. His other stage roles include Shaw's Saint Joan, and Tiger at the Gates, Christopher Fry's version of a Jean Giraudoux play, which ran 1959–60 on Broadway. He appeared in the original Broadway cast of One More River (1960). He moved to California in 1960 to work in film and television. His film roles included a cockney ne'er-do-well in My Fair Lady (1964), Boss Kean in Cool Hand Luke (1967), In Cold Blood (1967) as murder victim Herbert Clutter, John acted as the pilot/flight instructor for Aunt Bee in Season 8 of The Andy Griffith Show, "Aunt Bee's Big Moment" Halls of Anger (1970), Woody Allen's Sleeper (1973), rancher David Braxton in The Missouri Breaks (1976), and Orval in First Blood (1982). He played Jimmy Tomorrow in John Frankenheimer's American Film Theater movie of The Iceman Cometh (1973), alongside Fredric March, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan and Jeff Bridges. Personal life McLiam and his wife Roberta had a daughter, Claire. He died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California in 1994 from melanoma and Parkinson's disease. McLiam was interred at the Santa Barbara Cemetery at Santa Barbara, California. CLR
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Northern Exposure
as Soapy Sanderson
Fall From Grace
as Rev. Aubrey Sara
Split Decisions
as Pop McGuinn
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Fento
Beauty and the Beast
as Sam Denton
Walk Like a Man
as H.P. Truman
J. Edgar Hoover
as A. Mitchell Palmer
Hell Town
as Fast Louie
Murder, She Wrote
as Harry Stevens
Highway to Heaven
as Ted Simpson
Highway to Heaven
as Carl Fred Simms
Hunter
as Dr. Harry Montclair
Voyager from the Unknown
as Dr. Bernard
Dempsey
as Hyrum Dempsey
The A-Team
as George Nemchek
Gavilan
as Streblov
Richard II
as John of Gaunt
T. J. Hooker
as Father DeMarco
T. J. Hooker
as John P. Hooker
The Ambush Murders
as Judge Collier
Falcon Crest
as Carl Beck
Falcon Crest
as Commissioner Harold Witken
Bret Maverick
as Doc Holliday
The End of August
as Colonel
Mistress of Paradise
as Nathan MacKay
The Five of Me
as Father
Magnum, P.I.
as Johnnie Wells
Farewell to the Planet of the Apes
as Gahto
Freedom Road
as President Ulysses S. Grant
Archie Bunker's Place
as Vinnie Mulvaney
The Legend of the Golden Gun
as Jake Powell
Shadow of Fear
as Unknown
Dallas
as Wally Kessel
The Return of the Incredible Hulk
as Michael
Kingston: Confidential
as Douglas White
The Food of the Gods
as Mr. Skinner
The Call of the Wild
as Prospector
The Missouri Breaks
as David Braxton
Lucky Lady
as Rass Huggins
The Secret of the Pond
as Uncle Ben
Bite the Bullet
as Gebhardt
Matt Helm
as Charlie Wendell
Starsky & Hutch
as Lionel 'Gramps' Fitzgerald Sr
Three for the Road
as Thurman Parsons
The Invisible Man
as Blind Man
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
as Jailer Sutton
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
as John Beechwood
Harry O
as The Old Salt
The Dove
as Lyle Graham
Sleeper
as Dr. Agon
The Iceman Cometh
as Jimmy Tomorrow
Runaway!
as Conductor
Showdown
as F.J. Wilson
A Chant of Silence
as Father Richards
Hitched
as Pete Hunter
Barnaby Jones
as Dwight Hopkins
Barnaby Jones
as Sheriff Coyle
M*A*S*H
as Col. Woody Cooke
Ghost Story
as Titus Paul
The Culpepper Cattle Co.
as Thorton Pierce
If Tomorrow Comes
as Father Miller
Big Jake
as Army Officer (uncredited)
Monte Walsh
as Fightin' Joe Hooker
R.P.M.
as Rev. Blauvelt
Halls of Anger
as Boyd Wilkerson
The Reivers
as Van Tosch
Hawaii Five-O
as Ralph Hastings
Riverrun
as Jeffries
The Mod Squad
as Sam
Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims
as Ephrem Killigrew
Madigan
as Dunne (uncredited)
In Cold Blood
as Herbert Clutter
Cool Hand Luke
as Boss Keen
Mannix
as Harry Forrest
Mannix
as Frank Blaney
Mannix
as Tim Fogarty
Ironside
as Father Holt
Ironside
as Trash
The Invaders
as Hotel Clerk
Daktari
as Sean Murphy
The F.B.I.
as David Callander
Get Smart
as Seidlitz
Honey West
as Gordon
The Wild Wild West
as Tucker
My Fair Lady
as Harry (uncredited)
12 O'Clock High
as Fisherman
12 O'Clock High
as Doker Drew
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as Andrews
The Fugitive
as Sheriff Grover
The Fugitive
as Deputy Kelton
The Fugitive
as Jeff
The Outer Limits
as Arjay Beasley
The Virginian
as Carl O'Neill
The Virginian
as Eb Smalley
The Virginian
as Parker
Bus Stop
as Carl
87th Precinct
as Menlo
87th Precinct
as Charles Reynolds
The Andy Griffith Show
as Mr. MacDonald
My Three Sons
as Postman Brophy
My Three Sons
as Douglas
The Untouchables
as Driver
The Untouchables
as Trucker
The Untouchables
as Rick Landy
The Untouchables
as Father Donovan
The Twilight Zone
as Cop (uncredited)
The Twilight Zone
as Man
The Twilight Zone
as Guard
Bonanza
as Harry Carlis
Decoy
as Mike Foley
Perry Mason
as Councilman William Daniels
Wagon Train
as Latch
Gunsmoke
as Dougherty
Gunsmoke
as O'Quillian
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Ephrem Killigrew
The Big Story
as Unknown