John McLiam
| John McLiam | |
|---|---|
| Born |
John Williams January 24, 1918 Alberta, Canada |
| Died | April 16, 1994 (aged 76) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Film Actor Television Actor |
| Years active | 1952–1991 |
John McLiam (born John Williams; January 24, 1918 – April 16, 1994) was a character actor noted for his extensive work on film and television, and renowned for his skill at different accents. His film appearances included In Cold Blood, My Fair Lady, The Missouri Breaks, First Blood, and John Frankenheimer's movie of The Iceman Cometh. He was a guest star in numerous television series and wrote a Broadway play, The Sin of Pat Muldoon.
He attended St. Mary's College of California (Moraga, California). During World War II 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.
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 Keen in Cool Hand Luke (1967), In Cold Blood (1967) as murder victim Herbert Clutter,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.
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