John McLiam

Known for ActingBorn 1918-01-24Died 1994-04-16Alberta, Canada

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. CLRRead more

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Bus Stop

The Five of Me

Richard II

Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims

Star Trek: The Next Generation

The Twilight Zone

The Ambush Murders

Northern Exposure

Legend in Granite

M*A*S*H

Matt Helm

Get Smart

The Untouchables

The Outer Limits

The Wonderful World of Disney

Cool Hand Luke

87th Precinct

Murder, She Wrote

First Blood

Mistress of Paradise

Beauty and the Beast

The A-Team

Perry Mason

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

The Wild Wild West

Three for the Road

Highway to Heaven

Mission: Impossible

If Tomorrow Comes

The Andy Griffith Show

In Cold Blood

Ghost Story

My Fair Lady

Magnum, P.I.

Dead to the World

Bonanza

Hitched

Starsky & Hutch

The Incredible Hulk

The Fugitive

Hunter

Daktari

Honey West

12 O'Clock High

The End of August

The Legend of the Golden Gun

The Big Story

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