John McLiam
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 24, 1918
- Died
- Apr 16, 1994 (aged 76)
- Place of birth
- Alberta, Canada
- Credits
- 102
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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
Known for
First Blood
1982Movie
Orval the Dog Man
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987TV
Fento
Cool Hand Luke
1967Movie
Boss Keen
My Fair Lady
1964Movie
Harry (uncredited)
The A-Team
1983TV
George Nemchek
The Twilight Zone
1959TV
Cop (uncredited), Man, Guard
Filmography
Northern Exposure
1990TV
Soapy Sanderson
Fall From Grace
1990Movie
Rev. Aubrey Sara
Split Decisions
1988Movie
Pop McGuinn
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987TV
Fento
Beauty and the Beast
1987TV
Sam Denton
Walk Like a Man
1987Movie
H.P. Truman
J. Edgar Hoover
1987Movie
A. Mitchell Palmer
Hell Town
1985TV
Fast Louie
Murder, She Wrote
1984TV
Harry Stevens
Highway to Heaven
1984TV
Ted Simpson, Carl Fred Simms
Hunter
1984TV
Dr. Harry Montclair
Voyager from the Unknown
1984Movie
Dr. Bernard
Dempsey
1983Movie
Hyrum Dempsey
The A-Team
1983TV
George Nemchek
Gavilan
1982TV
Streblov
First Blood
1982Movie
Orval the Dog Man
Richard II
1982Movie
John of Gaunt
T. J. Hooker
1982TV
Father DeMarco, John P. Hooker
The Ambush Murders
1982Movie
Judge Collier
Falcon Crest
1981TV
Carl Beck, Commissioner Harold Witken
Bret Maverick
1981TV
Doc Holliday
The End of August
1981Movie
Colonel
Mistress of Paradise
1981Movie
Nathan MacKay
The Five of Me
1981Movie
Father
Magnum, P.I.
1980TV
Johnnie Wells
Farewell to the Planet of the Apes
1980Movie
Gahto
Freedom Road
1979Movie
President Ulysses S. Grant
Archie Bunker's Place
1979TV
Vinnie Mulvaney
The Legend of the Golden Gun
1979Movie
Jake Powell
Shadow of Fear
1979Movie
Dallas
1978TV
Wally Kessel
The Return of the Incredible Hulk
1977Movie
Michael
The Incredible Hulk
1977TV
Michael
Delta County, USA
1977Movie
Cap McCain
Kingston: Confidential
1977TV
Douglas White
The Food of the Gods
1976Movie
Mr. Skinner
The Call of the Wild
1976Movie
Prospector
The Missouri Breaks
1976Movie
David Braxton
Lucky Lady
1975Movie
Rass Huggins
The Secret of the Pond
1975Movie
Uncle Ben
Bite the Bullet
1975Movie
Gebhardt
Matt Helm
1975TV
Charlie Wendell
Starsky & Hutch
1975TV
Lionel 'Gramps' Fitzgerald Sr
Three for the Road
1975TV
Thurman Parsons
The Invisible Man
1975TV
Blind Man
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975TV
Jailer Sutton
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
1975Movie
John Beechwood
Harry O
1974TV
The Old Salt
The Dove
1974Movie
Lyle Graham
Sleeper
1973Movie
Dr. Agon
Legend in Granite
1973Movie
Dom Olejnickzak
The Iceman Cometh
1973Movie
Jimmy Tomorrow
Runaway!
1973Movie
Conductor
Showdown
1973Movie
F.J. Wilson
A Chant of Silence
1973Movie
Father Richards
Hitched
1973Movie
Pete Hunter
Barnaby Jones
1973TV
Dwight Hopkins, Sheriff Coyle
M*A*S*H
1972TV
Col. Woody Cooke
Ghost Story
1972TV
Titus Paul
The Culpepper Cattle Co.
1972Movie
Thorton Pierce
If Tomorrow Comes
1971Movie
Father Miller
Big Jake
1971Movie
Army Officer (uncredited)
Monte Walsh
1970Movie
Fightin' Joe Hooker
R.P.M.
1970Movie
Rev. Blauvelt
Halls of Anger
1970Movie
Boyd Wilkerson
The Reivers
1969Movie
Van Tosch
Hawaii Five-O
1969TV
Ralph Hastings
Riverrun
1968Movie
Jeffries
The Mod Squad
1968TV
Sam
Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims
1968Movie
Ephrem Killigrew
Madigan
1968Movie
Dunne (uncredited)
In Cold Blood
1967Movie
Herbert Clutter
Cool Hand Luke
1967Movie
Boss Keen
Mannix
1967TV
Harry Forrest, Frank Blaney, Tim Fogarty
Ironside
1967TV
Father Holt, Trash
The Invaders
1967TV
Hotel Clerk
Mission: Impossible
1966TV
Dr. Wilson Cardel, Anton Usakos
Daktari
1966TV
Sean Murphy
The F.B.I.
1965TV
David Callander
Get Smart
1965TV
Seidlitz
Honey West
1965TV
Gordon
The Wild Wild West
1965TV
Tucker
My Fair Lady
1964Movie
Harry (uncredited)
12 O'Clock High
1964TV
Fisherman, Doker Drew
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964TV
Andrews
The Fugitive
1963TV
Sheriff Grover, Deputy Kelton, Jeff
The Outer Limits
1963TV
Arjay Beasley
The Virginian
1962TV
Carl O'Neill, Eb Smalley, Parker
Bus Stop
1961TV
Carl
87th Precinct
1961TV
Menlo, Charles Reynolds
Dead to the World
1961Movie
Goody
The Andy Griffith Show
1960TV
Mr. MacDonald
My Three Sons
1960TV
Postman Brophy, Douglas
The Untouchables
1959TV
Driver, Trucker, Rick Landy, Father Donovan
The Twilight Zone
1959TV
Cop (uncredited), Man, Guard
Bonanza
1959TV
Harry Carlis
Decoy
1957TV
Mike Foley
Perry Mason
1957TV
Councilman William Daniels
Wagon Train
1957TV
Latch
Gunsmoke
1955TV
Dougherty, O'Quillian
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954TV
Ephrem Killigrew
The Big Story
1949TV