BIRTH 24/01/1918
DEATH 16/04/1994
Country Canada
SHOWS 45
MOVIES 20

John McLiam

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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

Shows Movies Partners

Shows (45)

The A-Team

George Nemchek

1983

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Fento

1987

Murder, She Wrote

Harry Stevens

1984

Magnum, P.I.

Johnnie Wells

1978

The Twilight Zone

Cop (uncredited) / Guard / Man

1959

Starsky & Hutch

Lionel 'Gramps' Fitzgerald Sr

1975

Dallas

Wally Kessel

1978

Rick Hunter

Dr. Harry Montclair

1984

The Wild Wild West

Tucker

1965

Mission: Impossible

Anton Usakos / Dr. Wilson Cardel

1966

Highway to Heaven

Carl Fred Simms / Ted Simpson

1984

Hooker

Father DeMarco / John P. Hooker / John P. Hooker / Father DeMarco

1982

The Incredible Hulk

Michael

1978

Hawaii Five-O

Ralph Hastings

1968

Beauty and the Beast

Sam Denton

1987

M*A*S*H

Col. Woody Cooke

1972

The Outer Limits

Arjay Beasley

1963

Mannix

Frank Blaney / Harry Forrest / Tim Fogarty

1967

The Invaders

Hotel Clerk

1967

Perry Mason

Councilman William Daniels

1957

The Invisible Man (1975)

Blind Man

1975

Ironside

Father Holt / Trash

1967

Northern Exposure

Soapy Sanderson

1990

Bonanza

Harry Carlis

1959

Daktari

Sean Murphy

1966

The Untouchables

Driver / Father Donovan / Rick Landy / Trucker

1959

The Fugitive

Deputy Kelton / Jeff / Sheriff Grover

1963

The F.B.I.

David Callander

1965

Get Smart

Seidlitz

1965

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Andrews

1964

Disneyland

Ephrem Killigrew

1954

Falcon Crest

Carl Beck / Commissioner Harold Witken

1981

Matt Helm

Charlie Wendell

1975

Gunsmoke

Dougherty / O'Quillian

1955

The Andy Griffith Show

Mr. MacDonald

1960

Archie Bunker's Place

Vinnie Mulvaney

1979

Ghost Story

Titus Paul

1972

Barnaby Jones

Dwight Hopkins / Sheriff Coyle

1973

Wagon Train

Latch

1957

The Mod Squad

Sam

1968

The Virginian

Carl O'Neill / Eb Smalley / Parker

1962

Twelve O'Clock High

Doker Drew / Fisherman

1964

My Three Sons

Douglas / Postman Brophy

1960

Honey West

Gordon

1965

Gavilan

Streblov

1982

Movies (20)

First Blood

Orval the Dog Man

1982

The Missouri Breaks

David Braxton

1976

Sleeper

Dr. Agon

1973

Bite the Bullet

Gebhardt

1975

In Cold Blood

Herbert Clutter

1967

The Return of the Incredible Hulk

Michael

1977

Split Decisions

Pop McGuinn

1988

The Food of the Gods

Mr. Skinner

1976

Monte Walsh

Fightin' Joe Hooker

1970

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux…

Jailer Sutton

1975

Mistress of Paradise

Nathan MacKay

1981

Walk Like a Man

H.P. Truman

1987

Showdown

F.J. Wilson

1973

Mistress of Paradise

Nathan MacKay

1981

Freedom Road

President Ulysses S. Grant

1979

R.P.M.

Rev. Blauvelt

1970

The Dove

Lyle Graham

1974

Runaway!

Conductor

1973

Farewell to the Planet of the Apes

Gahto

1980

Halls of Anger

Boyd Wilkerson

1970

Partners (10)