John McLiam
Known For
Acting
Born
1918-01-24 in Alberta, Canada
Died
1994-04-16
Biography
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
Most Known For
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Fento
Perry Mason
as Councilman William Daniels
Murder, She Wrote
as Harry Stevens
Bonanza
as Harry Carlis
The A-Team
as George Nemchek
Mission: Impossible
as Dr. Wilson Cardel
Mission: Impossible
as Anton Usakos
M*A*S*H
as Col. Woody Cooke
The Twilight Zone
as Cop (uncredited)
The Twilight Zone
as Man
The Twilight Zone
as Guard
Dallas
as Wally Kessel
Magnum, P.I.
as Johnnie Wells
Falcon Crest
as Carl Beck
Falcon Crest
as Commissioner Harold Witken
The Andy Griffith Show
as Mr. MacDonald
The Fugitive
as Sheriff Grover
The Fugitive
as Deputy Kelton
The Fugitive
as Jeff
Get Smart
as Seidlitz