Bill Williams (actor)
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Bill Williams was an American television and film actor. He is best known for his starring role in the early 1950 television show The Adventures of Kit Carson
The Adventures of Kit Carson
The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson...

.

Career

Williams was born as Herman August Wilhelm Katt in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were German immigrants. He grew up in New York City, calling himself William H. Katt. Tall, handsome, and a natural athlete, Williams became a professional swimmer, performing in underwater shows. He enlisted in the United States Army
United States Army
The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...

 during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, but was discharged before the war's end and became an actor. He made his debut in The Blue Room in 1944, using the professional name Bill Williams.

Williams had appeared in ten films before he landed the lead role in The Adventures of Kit Carson
The Adventures of Kit Carson
The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson...

. The show ran for 104 episodes between 1951 and 1955. In 1957, he co-starred with Betty White
Betty White
Betty White Ludden , better known as Betty White, is an American actress, comedienne, singer, author, and former game show personality. With a career spanning seven decades since 1939, she is best known to modern audiences for her television roles as Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and...

  in television's Date with the Angels
Date with the Angels
Date with the Angels is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from May 10, 1957 to January 29, 1958. The series, which stars Betty White and Bill Williams, began as a late season replacement for The Ray Anthony Show for the same sponsor, Chrysler's Plymouth division...

. Williams played Federal agent Martin Flaharty in The Scarface Mob (1959), the pilot for The Untouchables
The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition agent, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a...

. In the series, however, the role went to Jerry Paris
Jerry Paris
Jerry Paris was an American actor and director best known for playing Jerry Helper, the dentist and next door neighbor of Rob and Laura Petrie, on The Dick Van Dyke Show.-Life and career:...

. Williams turned down the lead in 1958's Sea Hunt
Sea Hunt
Sea Hunt was an American adventure television series that was aired in syndication by Ziv Television Programs from 1958 to 1961 and was popular in syndication for decades afterwards. The series originally aired for four seasons, with 155 episodes produced...

, thinking an underwater show would not work well on television. Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. was an American actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. Bridges is best known for his role of Mike Nelson in Sea Hunt, the most-popular syndicated American TV series in 1958...

 accepted the part and turned it into a hit. Williams then starred as a former Navy frogman in Assignment: Underwater, which ran for just one season. He played a variety of roles on the Perry Mason
Perry Mason (TV series)
Perry Mason is an American legal drama produced by Paisano Productions that ran from September 1957 to May 1966 on CBS. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner...

 show, in which his wife co-starred with Raymond Burr
Raymond Burr
Raymond William Stacey Burr was a Canadian actor, primarily known for his title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside. His early acting career included roles on Broadway, radio, television and in film, usually as the villain...

. He also made guest appearances on television and worked in low budget science fiction films until his retirement in the early 1980s.

Personal life

Williams married actress Barbara Hale
Barbara Hale
Barbara Hale is an American actress best known for her role as legal secretary Della Street on more than 250 episodes of the long-running Perry Mason television series and later reprising the role in dozens of made-for-TV movies....

 in 1946. They had met during the filming of West of the Pecos and would have two daughters (Jodi and Juanita) and a son, actor William Katt
William Katt
William Theodore Katt is an American film and television actor, best known as the star of The Greatest American Hero. He is also known for playing Tommy Ross, the ill-fated prom date of Carrie White in the film version of Carrie and Paul Drake Jr. in the Perry Mason TV movies...

.

Bill Williams died of a brain tumor
Brain tumor
A brain tumor is an intracranial solid neoplasm, a tumor within the brain or the central spinal canal.Brain tumors include all tumors inside the cranium or in the central spinal canal...

 at age 77 in 1992. He is interred in an unmarked grave at Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery
Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery is part of the Forest Lawn chain of Southern California cemeteries. It is at 6300 Forest Lawn Drive in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California, on the lower north slope at the far east end of the Santa Monica...

.

For his contribution to the television industry, Bill Williams has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Walk of Fame consists of more than 2,400 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along fifteen blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California...

. It is at 6161 Hollywood Blvd.

Star of his own television series

  • The Adventures of Kit Carson
    The Adventures of Kit Carson
    The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson...

     TV series (1951–1955) Kit Carson, 103 episodes
  • Date with the Angels
    Date with the Angels
    Date with the Angels is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from May 10, 1957 to January 29, 1958. The series, which stars Betty White and Bill Williams, began as a late season replacement for The Ray Anthony Show for the same sponsor, Chrysler's Plymouth division...

     (1957–1958) Gus Angel, 33 episodes
  • Assignment: Underwater
    Assignment: Underwater
    Assignment: Underwater is an early American television series which aired in NTA Film Network syndication in 1960. It was an adventure series starring prolific B-movie actor Bill Williams and Diane Mountford. Williams played Bill Greer, the skipper aboard a charter boat named The Lively Lady...

     (1960–1961) Bill Greer, 11 episodes

Multiple appearances on a television series

  • Schlitz Playhouse of the Stars
Well of Anger (1955)
Angels in the Sky (1956)
  • Science Fiction Theatre
    Science Fiction Theatre
    Science Fiction Theatre is an American science fiction anthology series that aired in syndication from April 1955 to April 1957. It was produced by Ivan Tors and Maurice Ziv.-Overview:...

The Hastings Secret (1955) Bill Twining
Project 44 (1956) Dr. Arnold Bryan
The Mind Machine (1956) Dr. Alan Cathcart
Jupitron (1956) Dr. John Barlow
Killer Tree (1957) Paul Cameron
  • Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Texas John Slaughter
Texas John Slaughter (TV series)
Texas John Slaughter was a television series run from 1958 to 1961 as part of the Wonderful World of Disney, starring Tom Tryon in the title role. The character was based upon an actual historical figure, Texas Ranger John Slaughter. Tryon memorably wore an enormous white cowboy hat with the brim...

:
The Man From Bitter Creek (1959) Paul
The Slaughter Trail (1959) Paul
Gallagher Goes West
Tragedy on the Trail (1967) Joe Carlson
Trial by Terror (1967) Joe Carlson
Chester, Yesterday’s Horse (1973) Ben Kincaid
The Flight of the Grey Wolf, Parts 1 and 2 (1976) The Sheriff
  • The Millionaire
The Kathy Munson Story (1956) Donald Abbott
Millionaire Martha Halloran (1959) Clint Halloran
  • Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960...

The Untouchables, Parts 1 and 2 (1959) Martin Flaherty
  • Perry Mason
    Perry Mason (TV series)
    Perry Mason is an American legal drama produced by Paisano Productions that ran from September 1957 to May 1966 on CBS. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner...

The Case of the Crippled Cougar (1962) Mike Preston
The Case of the Bluffing Blast (1963) Floyd Grant
The Case of the Murderous Mermaid (1965) Charles Shaw
The Case of the 12th Wildcat (1965) Burt Payne
  • Batman
    Batman (TV series)
    Batman is an American television series, based on the DC comic book character of the same name. It stars Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin — two crime-fighting heroes who defend Gotham City. It aired on the American Broadcasting Company network for three seasons from January 12, 1966 to...

Fine Finny Fiends (1966)
Multimillionaire-Batman Makes the Scenes (1966)
  • Lassie
    Lassie (1954 TV series)
    Lassie is an American television series that follows the adventures of a female Rough Collie named Lassie and her companions, human and animal. The show was the creation of producer Robert Maxwell and animal trainer Rudd Weatherwax and was televised from September 12, 1954, to March 24, 1973...

Climb the Mountain Slowly (1964) Vince
Lassie and the Buffalo (1966) Jed Bingham
  • The F.B.I.
The Runaways (1968) David Warren
The Lost Man (1974) Crawford
  • Ironside
    Ironside (TV series)
    Ironside is a Universal television series which ran on NBC from September 14, 1967 to January 16, 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as the wheelchair-using Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside. The character's debut was in a TV-movie on March 28, 1967. The original title of the show in the...

Nightmare Trip (1972) Lt. Dacker
The Rolling Y (1975) Sheriff Callahan
  • Adam-12
    Adam-12
    Adam-12 was a television police drama which followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12. Created by Jack Webb who is known for creating Dragnet, the series captured a...

Pick-Up (1971) William Taylor
Routine Patrol: The Drugstore Cowboys (1974) Fred Wheeler
  • The Rookies
    The Rookies
    The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It followed the exploits of three rookie police officers in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department .-History:...

Three Hours to Kill (1973) Captain Fin Whitfield
Get Ryker (1973) Captain Fin Whitfield
Something Less Than a Man (1974) Captain Johnson
  • Police Woman
    Police Woman (TV series)
    Police Woman is an American television police drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to March 29, 1978.-Synopsis:...

     (1974)
The End Game (1974) Lt. Graumann
Sarah Who? (1976) Captain

Miscellaneous television appearances

  • Adventures in Jazz
    Adventures in Jazz
    Adventures in Jazz is a 1949 CBS television show. The program was broadcast live, showcasing jazz musicians and singers. Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday and June Christy made appearances on the short-lived series....

     (1949) Host
  • The Bigelow Theatre
    The Bigelow Theatre
    The Bigelow Theatre, also known as Bigelow-Sanford Theater, was an early American television program originally broadcast on CBS, and later on the now defunct DuMont Television Network.-Broadcast history:...

    , Make Your Bed (1951)
  • Dragnet
    Dragnet (series)
    Dragnet is a radio and television crime drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners...

    , The Big Pug (1954)
  • The Red Skelton Show
    The Red Skelton Show
    The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades, from 1951 to 1971. It was second to Gunsmoke and third to The Ed Sullivan Show in the ratings during that time. Skelton, who had previously been a radio star, had appeared in several motion pictures as...

    , Deadeye vs. The Lone Ranger (1955) Kit Carson
  • Studio 57
    Studio 57
    Studio 57 was the name of an American television series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network.The program was a filmed anthology television series sponsored by Heinz 57 and produced by Revue Studios...

    , Young Couples Only (1955) |Rick Thompson
  • Damon Runyon Theater
    Damon Runyon Theater
    Damon Runyon Theater was an American television program that presented dramatized versions of Damon Runyon's short stories. Hosted by Donald Woods, the program, sponsored by Anheuser-Busch's Budweiser beer, aired for a total of 39 episodes on CBS from April 1955 through February 1956 .-Season...

    , Miracle Jones (1956) Andy Gubbins
  • M Squad
    M Squad
    M Squad is an American police drama television series that ran from 1957 to 1960 on NBC. Its format would later inspire the creation of spoof TV show Police Squad! Its sponsor was the Pall Mall cigarette brand; Lee Marvin, the program's star, appeared in its commercials during the...

    , Girl Lost (1958) Jerry Langdon
  • Yancy Derringer
    Yancy Derringer
    Yancy Derringer is an American Western series that ran on CBS from 1958 to 1959, with Jock Mahoney in the title role. It was produced by Derringer Productions and filmed in Hollywood by Desilu Productions...

    , Ticket to Natchez (1958) Duke Winslow
  • General Electric Theater
    General Electric Theater
    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald W. Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.-Radio:...

    , The Flying Wife (1959) Stewart Davidson
  • Bachelor Father, East Meets West (1959) Rock Randall
  • Men into Space
    Men Into Space
    Men Into Space is an American sci-fi television series broadcast from September 30, 1959 to September 7, 1960 by CBS which depicted future efforts by the United States Air Force to explore and develop outer space. The black-and-white filmed show starred William Lundigan as Col...

    , Asteroid (1959) Dr. Stacy Croydon
  • Laramie
    Laramie (TV series)
    Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. Laramie was a Revue Studios production which originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy and Robert Crawford, Jr...

    , Man of God (1959)
  • The Investigators
    The Investigators (U.S. TV series)
    The Investigators is a short-lived American adventure/drama television series that aired on CBS from October 5, to December 28, 1961.-Synopsis:...

    , New Sound For the Blues (1961)
  • Hawaiian Eye
    Hawaiian Eye
    Hawaiian Eye is an American television series that ran from October 1959 to September 1963 on the American Broadcasting Company television network.-Premise:...

    , Location Shooting (1962) Norman Ayres
  • Lawman
    Lawman (tv series)
    Lawman is an American Western television series originally telecast from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay on the ABC Television Network. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during the mid to late 1870s. Warner Bros....

    , Get Out of Town (1962)
  • Target: The Corruptors!
    Target: The Corruptors!
    Target: The Corruptors! is a 35-episode crime drama starring Stephen McNally as newspaper reporter Paul Marino, which aired on ABC from September 29, 1961 to June 8, 1962. The character Jack Flood, Marino's undercover agent, was portrayed by Robert Harland...

    , Goodbye Children (1962) Walter Parker
  • 77 Sunset Strip
    77 Sunset Strip
    77 Sunset Strip is an hour-length American television private detective series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith, and Edd Byrnes....

    , The Snow Job Caper (1962) Steve Moran
  • Law of the Lawless (1964) Silas Miller
  • Rawhide
    Rawhide (TV series)
    Rawhide is an American Western series that aired for eight seasons on the CBS network on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959 to September 3, 1965, before moving to Tuesday nights from September 14, 1965 until January 4, 1966, with a total of 217 black-and-white episodes...

    , The Lost Herd (1964)
  • The Wild Wild West
    The Wild Wild West
    The Wild Wild West is an American television series that ran on CBS for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969....

    , Night of the Casual Killer (1965) Marshal Kirby
  • Dragnet 1967, The Big Frustration (1967) Sgt. Bill Riddle
  • Daniel Boone
    Daniel Boone (TV series)
    Daniel Boone is an American action/adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Native American friend, for the...

    , The Spanish Horse (1967)
  • Insight
    Insight (TV series)
    Insight was an Emmy-winning syndicated television series produced by Paulist Productions that aired 250 episodes from 1960 to 1983. The series presented half-hour dramas illuminating the contemporary search for meaning, freedom, and love...

    , A Thousand Red Flowers (1969) Pop
  • Marcus Welby, M.D.
    Marcus Welby, M.D.
    Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell...

    , To Carry the Sun in a Golden Cup (1970) Lynch
  • O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
    O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
    O'Hara, U.S. Treasury is an American television crime drama broadcast by CBS during the 1971-72 television season. Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited packaged the program for Universal Television. Webb and longtime colleague James E. Moser created the show; Leonard B. Kaufman was the...

    , Operation Smokescreen (1972) Willoughby
  • Emergency!
    Emergency!
    Emergency! is an American television series that combines the medical drama and action-adventure genres. It was produced by Mark VII Limited and distributed by Universal Studios...

    , Body Language (1973) Pete
  • Dusty's Trail
    Dusty's Trail
    Dusty's Trail is an American Western/comedy series that aired in syndication from September 1973 to March 1974. The series is set in the 19th century about a small group of travelers separated from their wagon train who become lost. Dusty's Trail stars Bob Denver as "Dusty" Boots, the assistant to...

    , Then There Were Seven (1973) The Sheriff
  • Gunsmoke
    Gunsmoke
    Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....

    , Talbott (1973) Red
  • The Streets of San Francisco
    The Streets of San Francisco
    The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros...

    , The Unicorn (1973) Burt Logan
  • 'The Quest
    The Quest (TV series)
    The Quest, a 15-episode Western television series which aired on NBC beginning September 22, 1976, starring Kurt Russell and Tim Matheson.-Overview:...

    , Seminole Negro Indian Scouts (1976)
  • B. J. and the Bear, Odyssey of the Shady Truth (1979) Seth
  • 240-Robert
    240-Robert
    240-Robert is an American drama series that ran on ABC from 1979 to 1981. The series title is a reference to the call-sign designation for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's search and rescue/paramedic teams.-Synopsis:...

    , Stuntman (1979) Harry Phillips

Theatrical film

  • King Kong
    King Kong (1933 film)
    King Kong is a Pre-Code 1933 fantasy monster adventure film co-directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, and written by Ruth Rose and James Ashmore Creelman after a story by Cooper and Edgar Wallace. The film tells of a gigantic island-dwelling apeman creature called Kong who dies in...

     (1933)
  • Murder in the Blue Room (1944) Larry Dearden
  • He Forgot to Remember to Forget (1944) Mac, the Policeman
  • Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
    Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
    Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a 1944 MGM war film. It is based on the true story of America's first retaliatory air strike against Japan four months after the December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The movie was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist. The screenplay by...

     (1944) Bud Felton
  • Zombies on Broadway
    Zombies on Broadway
    Zombies on Broadway is an American Comedy-horror film released in 1945.-Plot summary:The duo of Jerry Miles and Mike Strager are employed as Broadway press agents. Miles and Strager's latest idea is to hire a genuine zombie for the opening of a new nightclub...

     (1945) Sailor/Smuggler
  • Those Endearing Young Charms (1945) Jerry
  • The Body Snatcher
    The Body Snatcher (film)
    The Body Snatcher is a 1945 horror film directed by Robert Wise based on the short story The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson. The film's producer Val Lewton helped adapt the story for the screen, writing under the pen name of "Carlos Keith". The film was marketed with the tagline The...

     (1945) Survis, medical student
  • Back to Bataan
    Back to Bataan
    Back to Bataan is a World War II war film produced by Robert Fellows, directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring John Wayne and Anthony Quinn. It was produced by RKO Radio Pictures. It depicts events that took place after the Battle of Bataan on the island of Luzon in the Philippines...

     (1945)
  • West of the Pecos (1945) Tex Evans, stage guard
  • Johnny Angel
    Johnny Angel
    Johnny Angel is a film noir directed by Edwin L. Marin, written by Frank Gruber and Steve Fisher from the novel Mr. Angel Comes Aboard by Charles Gordon Booth. The movie features George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso, and Hoagy Carmichael....

     (1945) Big Sailor
  • Sing Your Way Home (1945) Officer
  • Deadline at Dawn
    Deadline at Dawn
    Deadline at Dawn is a 1946 film noir, the only film directed by stage director Harold Clurman. It was written by Clifford Odets and based on a novella by Cornell Woolrich . The RKO Radio Picture was the only cinematic collaboration between Clurman and his former Group Theatre associate,...

     (1946) Alex Winkley
  • Till the End of Time
    Till the End of Time (film)
    Till the End of Time is a 1946 drama film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Dorothy McGuire, Guy Madison, Robert Mitchum, and Bill Williams. Released the same year as the better known The Best Years of Our Lives, it covers much the same topic: the adjustment of World War II veterans to...

     (1946) Perry Kincheloe
  • A Likely Story (1947) Bill Baker
  • A Woman's Secret
    A Woman's Secret
    A Woman's Secret is a 1949 film noir. It was based on the novel Mortgage on Life by Vicki Baum. It was directed by Nicholas Ray and starred Maureen O'Hara, Gloria Grahame and Melvyn Douglas.-Plot summary:...

     (1949) Lee Crenshaw
  • The Stratton Story
    The Stratton Story
    The Stratton Story is a 1949 film directed by Sam Wood which tells the true story of Monty Stratton, a Major League Baseball pitcher who pitched for the Chicago White Sox from 1934-1938...

     (1949) Eddie Dibson
  • The Clay Pigeon
    The Clay Pigeon
    The Clay Pigeon is an American film noir directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Carl Foreman, based on a true story. The drama features Bill Williams, Barbara Hale, Richard Quine, and others.-Plot:...

     (1949) Jim Fletcher
  • Fighting Man of the Plains (1949) Marshal Johnny Tancred
  • A Dangerous Profession
    A Dangerous Profession
    A Dangerous Profession is a 1949 American film noir directed by Ted Tetzlaff and written by Warren Duff and Martin Rackin. The drama features George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O'Brien, among others.-Plot:...

     (1949) Claude Brackett
  • Blue Grass of Kentucky (1950) Lin McIvor
  • Operation Haylift (1950) Bill Masters
  • The Cariboo Trail (1950) Mike Evans, Redfern's Partner
  • Rookie Fireman (1950) Joe Blake
  • California Passage (1950) Bob Martin
  • Blue Blood (1951) Bill Manning
  • The Great Missouri Raid (1951) Jim Younger
  • The Last Outpost (1951) Sgt. Tucker
  • Havana Rose (1951) Tex Thompson
  • Rose of Cimmaron (1952) George Newcomb
  • The Pace That Thrills (1952) Richard L. 'Dusty' Weston
  • Son of Paleface
    Son of Paleface
    Son of Paleface , is a western comedy film and sequel to The Paleface , directed by Frank Tashlin and written by Tashlin, Joseph Quillan and Robert L. Welch. It stars Bob Hope, Jane Russell and Roy Rogers.-Plot:...

     (1952) Kirk
  • Torpedo Alley (1952) Lt. Tom Graham
  • Racing Blood (1954) Tex
  • Outlaw’s Daughter (1954) Jess Raidley aka Big Red
  • Hell's Horizon
    Hell's Horizon
    Hell's Horizon is a 1955 drama film directed by Tom Gries. It stars John Ireland and Marla English.-Cast:*John Ireland as Capt. John Merrill*Marla English as Sami*Bill Williams as Paul Jenkins*Hugh Beaumont as Sgt. Al Trask...

     (1955) Paul Jenkins
  • Apache Ambush
    Apache Ambush
    Apache Ambush is a 1955 western film, released by Columbia Pictures, directed by Fred F. Sears and starring Bill Williams and Richard Jaeckel.-Plot:...

     (1955) James Kingston
  • Wiretapper (1955) Jim Vaus Jr.
  • The Wild Dakotas (1956) Jim Henry
  • The Broken Star (1956) Deputy Marshal Bill Gentry
  • The Halliday Brand
    The Halliday Brand
    The Halliday Brand is a 1957 Western film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and starring Joseph Cotten.-Cast:* Joseph Cotten - Daniel Halliday* Viveca Lindfors - Aleta Burris* Betsy Blair - Martha Halliday* Ward Bond - Big Dan Halliday...

     (1957) Clay Halliday
  • The Storm Rider (1957) Sheriff Pete Colton
  • Pawnee (1957) Matt Delaney
  • Slim Carter (1957) Frank Hanneman
  • Space Master X-7
    Space Master X-7
    Space Master X-7 is a 1958 science fiction movie directed by Edward Bernds, starring Robert Ellis and Bill Williams.-Plot:A space probe returns to Earth covered with a mysterious fungus, which, when accidentally tinged with human blood, transforms into an ever-growing pile of space rust...

     (1958) John Hand
  • Legion of the Doomed (1958) Lt. Smith
  • Alaska Passage (1959) Al Graham
  • A Dog’s Best Friend (1959) Wesley 'Wes' Thurman
  • Oklahoma Territory (1960) Temple Houston
  • Hell to Eternity
    Hell to Eternity
    Hell to Eternity is a 1960 World War II film starring Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Vic Damone and directed by Phil Karlson. This film biopic is about the true experiences of Marine hero Pfc...

     (1960) Leonard
  • The Sergeant Was a Lady (1961) Col. House
  • Tickle Me
    Tickle Me
    Tickle Me is a 1965 Western musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as a champion rodeo bull-rider and bronco-buster. Elvis Presley won a 1966 Golden Laurel Award as the best male actor in a musical film for his role in this comedy. It is also the only Elvis film released by Allied Artists...

     (1965) Deputy Sturdivant
  • A Letter to Nancy (1965) George Reed
  • The Hallelujah Trail
    The Hallelujah Trail
    The Hallelujah Trail is a 1965 Western spoof directed by John Sturges and starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Brian Keith, Donald Pleasence, and Martin Landau, amongst others.-Plot synopsis:...

     (1965) |Lt. Brady
  • Space Flight IC-1: An Adventure in Space (1965) Capt. Mead Ralston
  • Buckskin
    Buckskin (film)
    Buckskin is a western film, released by Paramount Pictures, released on a low budget and starring an all-star cast. The main stars were Barry Sullivan and Joan Caulfield. Lon Chaney Jr. plays the role of Sheriff Tangley and Richard Arlen plays a townsman...

     (1968) Frank Cody
  • Lady Godiva Rides (1969)
  • Rio Lobo
    Rio Lobo
    Rio Lobo is a 1970 Western movie starring John Wayne. The film was the last film directed by Howard Hawks, from a script by Leigh Brackett. The film was shot in Technicolor with a running time of 114 minutes...

     (1970) Blackthorne Sheriff Pat Cronin
  • Scandalous John (1971) Sheriff Hart
  • The Phantom of Hollywood
    The Phantom of Hollywood
    The Phantom of Hollywood is a 1974 TV movie starring Jack Cassidy, Skye Aubrey, Peter Lawford, Jackie Coogan, Broderick Crawford, Peter Haskell, and John Ireland...

     (1974) Fogel
  • The Giant Spider Invasion
    The Giant Spider Invasion
    The Giant Spider Invasion is a low-budget 1975 film produced by Transcentury Pictures, a partnership owned by the film's director Bill Rebane. The film is about giant spiders that terrorize the town of Merrill, Wisconsin and the surrounding area. The Giant Spider Invasion was given a U.S. release...

     (1975) Dutch
  • Moon Over the Alley (1976) Sherry
  • 69 Minutes (1977)
  • A Fire in the Sky (1978) Dale Turner
  • Night of the Zombies (1981)
  • Goldie and the Boxer Go To Hollywood (1981) Cowboy Bob

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