Bill Williams Filmography

Goldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood

Actors: Jack Gilford, Stubby Kaye, Sheila MacRae, O.J. Simpson, Melissa Michaelsen, Roger Bowen

Synopsis: This 1981 sequel to the 1979 made-for-TVer Goldie and the Boxer once again stars O.J. Simpson and Melissa Michaelsen as, respectively, boxer Joe Gallegher and Joe's 10-year-old manager Goldie Kellog. When Joe incurs the wrath of an evil promoter, he and Goldie high-tail it to Hollywood. They take Read More

Night of the Zombies

Actors: Jamie Gillis, Ryan Hilliard, Samantha Grey, Ron Armstrong, Richard de Faut

Synopsis: This low-budget, much-released horror film first saw the light as Gamma 693 in 1979, was resuscitated as Night of the Wehrmacht Zombies in 1981, and rose again in 1983 as Night of the Zombies. Although the film has titles that spring from a long tradition, its story is about some U.S. and German Read More

The Moon Over the Alley

Actors: Doris Fishwick, Peter Farrell, Erna May, John Gay, Sean Caffrey

Synopsis: This slice-of-life musical is set on London's Portobello Road and focuses on life in a ramshackle boardinghouse. Among the argumentative boarders are a Jamaican family trying to make ends meet and a teen couple hiding out from parental disapproval. These characters are complemented by a tipsy Read More

A Fire in the Sky

Actors: Elizabeth Ashley, Lloyd Bochner, Andrew Duggan, David Dukes, Joanna Miles, Merlin Olsen, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: The story begins as an astronomer notices that a blazing comet is headed straight for Phoenix Arizona. Unfortunately, no one believes him. They will eventually, but only after most of Phoenix has been reduced to cinders. Emmies went to the special effects (among the best ever seen on TV in those Read More

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The Flight of the Grey Wolf

Synopsis: A young boy tames and befriends a grey wolf and then must struggle to save the life of his friend when the locals mistakenly label the beast as a vicious killer. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Giant Spider Invasion

Actors: Robert Easton

Synopsis: Bill Rebane's backyard wonder is a hilariously hokey throwback to the giant-monster flicks of the 50s, while taking its only pseudo-scientific conceit from the mid-70s trend of popular "black hole" theories, combining these two elements to create pure bad-movie heaven. A tiny, decrepit town in Read More

The Wind and the Lion

Actors: Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith, John Huston, Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis: In the early 1900s, an American businessman was kidnapped by a rebellious Arab chieftain, principally as a means to embarrass the sultan of Morocco. This abduction sparked the threat of armed intervention by President Theodore Roosevelt, which was never carried out. In The Wind and the Lion, the Read More

Ironside: The Rolling Y

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) and Ed (Don Galloway) travel to a farming community, in hopes of helping Porter Yarborough (William Katt), recently paroled son of crusty rancher Clint Yarborough (John Larch). In addition to clearing Porter of a cattle-rustling charge, Ironside also endeavors to mend the Read More

Adam-12: Routine Patrol

Synopsis: The title of this episode is something of a misnomer: It's anything but routine for Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) when they pursue four young car thieves. The quartet has stolen a vehicle full of weaponry and ammunition, and now they're taking advantage of this Read More

The Phantom of Hollywood

Synopsis: In this thriller, an enigmatic phantom lives in the dank tunnels running beneath the ramshackle back lot of a former movie lot. When prospective buyers endeavor to purchase the property, the furious phantom goes on the rampage. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The F.B.I.: The Lost Man

Synopsis: Several years ago, journalist Jerry Porter (John Carter) conspired with Greg Davidson (Robert Foxworth) in a blackmail scheme, but Porter managed to avoid arrest while allowing Davidson to take the rap. Adding insult to injury, Porter has been lavishly spending the blackmail money while Davidson Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Unicorn

Synopsis: Richard Egan guest stars as waterfront priest Father Joe Scarne, who hinders a robbery investigation by refusing to reveal the whereabouts of the main suspect to Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas). An essential ingredient to the outcome of the case is a stolen crate of cobra venom Read More

Emergency!: Body Language

Synopsis: The Rampart emergency team is confounded by a pair of accident victims who refuse treatment: One of them has sustained a punctured lung in the crash of a cropduster, while the other has suffered a concussion falling off a horse. In other cases, an ear infection is caused by exposure to mothballs Read More

Ironside: Nightmare Trip

Synopsis: En route to Los Angeles to pick up a prisoner, Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway) runs into trouble in a small town. Losing his temper with a pair of hostile local cops, Ed ends up booked on a misdemeanor, thrown into jail, and subjected to some rough treatment at the hands of the local constabulary. Read More

Scandalous John

Actors: Freddie Hernandez, Brian Keith

Synopsis: The Old West is just not the same, what with so few cattle being run, and law-abiding folk running around like they own everything. In this family comedy drama, it's too much for John McCanless (Brian Keith). He is a cranky old rancher and former gunslinger who has no intention of selling his Read More

Adam-12: Pick-Up

Synopsis: This episode is something of a showcase for two former TV-series regulars: Perry Mason's Barbara Hale, and Family Affair's Kathy Garver. While searching for a rapist who preys on hitchhikers, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) do their best to reunite a drug-peddling Read More

Rio Lobo

Actors: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam, Christopher Mitchum

Synopsis: John Wayne, in the last of his Civil War characterizations, portrays Cord McNally, a Union Army colonel who loses a gold shipment in a Confederate raid, during which a devoted young officer is also killed. After the end of the war, McNally bears no ill-will toward the leaders of the raid, Pierre Read More

Creatures of Darkness

Buckskin

Actors: Barry Sullivan, Joan Caulfield, Wendell Corey, Lon Chaney, Jr., John Russell

Synopsis: Chaddock (Barry Sullivan) is the straight-shooting marshall of Gloryhole, Montana. Wealthy rancher Rep Marlowe (Wendell Corey) practically owns the town by way of his gambling saloons, shady land deals and hired guns who intimidate the law-abiding citizens. Sheriff Tangley (Lon Chaney Jr.) calls Read More

The F.B.I.: The Runaways

Synopsis: Future film director Ron Howard is cast as 14-year-old Jess Orkin, who runs away from home after mistakenly believing that he has killed his uncle. During his flight, Jess linkes up with John Evans (J.D. Cannon, a genuine killer who is planning to rob and murder a wealthy Pennsylvania farm family Read More

Tickle Me

Actors: Elvis Presley, Julie Adams, Jocelyn Lane, Jack Mullaney, Merry Anders

Synopsis: The original king of rock-n-roll (Elvis Presley) stars in this light comedy musical as a singing buck who finds employment at an all femme ranch & spa. After kissing the girls and making them cry, the stud-clad crooner is sent away, but soon comes back to rescue a pretty maiden from the hands of Read More

Spaceflight IC-1

Actors: Bill Williams, Kathleen Breck, John Cairney, Donald Churchill, Jeremy Longhurst

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film set in the near future, the civilized world is controlled by an all-powerful computerized government that is carefully choosing colonists for its newest space launch. The candidates are selected on the basis of their age, health and IQ. They are only in space a few weeks when Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the 12th Wildcat

Synopsis: Unsuccessful football coach Burt Payne (Bill Williams) wants to sell his share of the Wildcats pro football team to a cartel of investors, but his wealthy wife Ellen (Mona Freeman) vetoes the deal. Even so, Ellen arranges a meeting with one of the investors--just before Burt is killed in a Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Murderous Mermaid

Synopsis: Starlet Reggie Lansfield (Jean Hale) is hired as a stand-in for Victoria Dawn (Patrice Wymore), a once-popular actress and swimming star who plans to revitalize her career by staging a spectacular publicity stunt. Posing as Victoria, Reggie is to swim the entire length of the Catalina Channel--but Read More

The Hallelujah Trail

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: In The Hallelujah Trail, Lee Remick plays temperance leader Cora Templeton Massingale, who is determined to halt a shipment of whiskey headed for Denver. The shipment is being escorted by the US cavalry, under the guidance of Col. Thadeus Gearhardt (Burt Lancaster). As the Denver miners thirstily Read More

Law of the Lawless

Actors: Dale Robertson, Yvonne De Carlo, William Bendix, Bruce Cabot, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: This is the first of numerous westerns produced by A.C. Lyles which became famous not for their stories but for who played in them--all the stars being veterans not often seen on the screen anymore. As far as plot line, essentially we have a badguy who has become a good guy (read that ex Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Bluffing Blast

Synopsis: A young woman named Linda (Antoinette Bower) arrives in the town of Ladera, claiming to be the daughter of wealthy Addison Blake--who died seven years earlier, presumably a bachelor. Floyd Grant (played by Bill Williams, in real life the husband of Perry Mason costar Barbara Hale) insists that he Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Crippled Cougar

Synopsis: Bill Williams, real-life husband of Perry Mason costar Barbara Hale (Della Street), appears as Mike Preston, an embittered oilman determined to get even with the man who crippled him and stole $100,000. When Harlow Phipps (Noah Keen) is murdered, Preston is framed for the crime by his elusive Read More

The Sergeant Was a Lady

Actors: Martin West, Venetia Stevenson, Bill Williams, Catherine McLeod

Synopsis: Military women prove their mettle against military men in this low-budget comedy. The fun begins after a handsome corporal is accidentally assigned to a WAC base located on a Pacific island. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Assignment Underwater [TV Series]

Actors: Bill Williams, Diane Mountford

Synopsis: Assignment: Underwater was one of a small group of aquatic adventure series to follow in the wake of Ivan Tors' series Sea Hunt, which had been a massive success in syndication at the end of the 1950's. But as it happens, Assignment: Underwater, which ran for just one season, was much more than a Read More

A Dog's Best Friend

Actors: Bill Williams, Marcia Henderson, Roger Mobley, Charles Cooper

Synopsis: In this children's drama, an angry little boy is adopted by a ranching couple. The mean little tyke takes an immediate dislike to his new parents, but his life changes for the better when he finds a wounded German Shepherd that was especially trained by the Marines. The troubled youth begins Read More

Oklahoma Territory

Actors: Bill Williams, Gloria Talbott, Ted de Corsia, Grant Richards, Walter Sande

Synopsis: Predictable and a little slow and labyrinthian, this western features Bill Williams as Temple Houston, a gun-toting D.A. whose heart lies with the cause of justice but whose actions toward that end can be controversial. Bigelow (Grant Richards) is a railroad agent who frames a Cherokee chief (as Read More

Hell to Eternity

Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Vic Damone, Patricia Owens, Richard Eyer, Sessue Hayakawa

Synopsis: This standard wartime drama is divided into three chronological segments and is based on the experiences of the real Guy Gabaldon (played as an adult by Jeffrey Hunter, and as a boy by Richard Eyer). In the first segment, Guy is a homeless waif without many prospects when he is adopted by a Read More

The Untouchables: The Scarface Mob

Actors: Robert Stack, Neville Brand, Bruce Gordon, Walter Winchell, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Nichols, Paul Picerni, Pat Crowley, Abel Fernandez, John Beradino

Synopsis: The 1962 theatrical release of The Scarface Mob was created from the first two episodes of the famously popular 1959 TV series, The Untouchables. It stars Robert Stack as the courageous agent whose job is to corral the powerful mobster Al Capone. Nevill Brand plays Capone and Walter Winchell adds Read More

Walt Disney Presents: Tales of Texas John Slaughter: The Man From Bitter Creek

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries Tales of Texas John Slaughter, Slaughter (Tom Tryon) has retired from the Texas Rangers and has set up his own cattle ranch together with his new bride Adeline (Norma Moore). Alas, Slaughter's career as a cattleman may be over before it Read More

Alaska Passage

Actors: Bill Williams, Nick Dennis, Nora Hayden, Leslie E. Bradley, Lyn Thomas

Synopsis: Set in the new state of Alaska, this 1959 "B" drama features both a romantic quadrangle, if not pentagon, and a failing trucking company. Al (Bill Williams) manages the company out of a small town where the trucks make regular runs to Fairbanks. On top of rock slides and bad weather, he now has to Read More

Walt Disney Presents: Tales of Texas John Slaughter: The Slaughter Trail

Synopsis: In the sixth episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries Tales of Texas John Slaughter, Slaughter (Tom Tryon) combines his cattle herd with that of fellow rancher Sam Underwood (Sidney Blackmer), intending to drive both herds to Arizona and sell them at the highest price possible. Unfortunately Read More

Space Master X-7

Actors: Bill Williams, Lyn Thomas, Robert Ellis, Paul H. Frees, Moe Howard

Synopsis: This confusingly-titled science-fiction thriller is both an artifact of its time and a surprisingly forward-looking film, in terms of plot. On the one hand, its plot makes it a kind of 1950's B-movie antecedent to The Andromeda Strain -- on the other, it owes a lot to the popular police procedural Read More

Legion of the Doomed

Synopsis: Life in the exciting Foreign Legion provides the basis of this desert adventure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Slim Carter

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Julie Adams, Tim Hovey, William Hopper, Ben Johnson

Synopsis: This parody of Hollywood westerns centers on a boorish hellion of a cowboy star who makes life for the studio people around him a waking nightmare. His press agent is particularly beleaguered as she has been assigned to try to keep the errant star in line. She really has her work cut out for her Read More

A Date with the Angels, Vol. 1

The Halliday Brand

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Viveca Lindfors, Betsy Blair, Ward Bond, Bill Williams

Synopsis: It's "Freud on the Frontier" time in the tension-filled western The Halliday Brand. Ward Bond plays Big Dan, the despotic head of the Halliday clan, while Joseph Cotten and Betsy Blair costar as Halliday's offspring Daniel and Martha. Intensely anti-Indian, Big Dan encourages a mob to lynch Jivaro Read More

The Storm Rider

Actors: Scott Brady, Mala Powers, Bill Williams, Olin Howland, William Fawcett

Synopsis: Edward Bernds, graduate of Columbia's "Three Stooges" shorts and Allied Artists' "Bowery Boys" epics, expertly guides The Storm Rider through its paces. Scott Brady plays an ex-gunslinger who is hired by a group of ranchers to protect them from covetous land baron Roy Engel. Unbeknownst to the Read More

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland

Synopsis: It's one of the sad details of John Sturges' life that he never thought much of Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). Perhaps he just resented the fact that it was a more popular and successful film than Hour of the Gun, the film account of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday's friendship that he produced Read More

Pawnee

Actors: George Montgomery, Bill Williams, Lola Albright, Francis McDonald, Robert Griffin

Synopsis: George Montgomery stars in Pawnee as Paul, a white man raised by Indians. Upon attaining adulthood, Paul finds himself rejected by both the Pawnee tribe and the white community. He manages to attain a job as a wagon train scout, but even in this position of respect and authority he is treated with Read More

Date with the Angels, Vol. 5

Date with the Angels, Vol. 6

Date with the Angels, Vol. 7

Date with the Angels, Vol. 2

Date with the Angels, Vol. 3

Date with the Angels, Vol. 4

Date with the Angels, Vol. 10

A Date with the Angels [TV Series]

Date with the Angels, Vol. 9

Date with the Angels, Vol. 8

Trail Blazers & Kit Carson

Wiretappers

Actors: Bill Williams, Georgia Lee, Richard Benedict, Douglas Kennedy, Stanley Clements

Synopsis: Also known as Wiretapper and The Jim Vaus Story, this low-budget production begins as a crime melodrama, then bumpily segues into a religious tract. Bill Williams stars as the real-life Jim Vaus, who for many years was a minor functionary in two major crime syndicates. The wastrel son of a Read More

Apache Ambush

Actors: Bill Williams, Richard Jaeckel, Alex Montoya, Adele August, Tex Ritter

Synopsis: Longtime B-western favorites Tex Ritter and Ray "Crash" Corrigan are among the supporting players of the Columbia oater Apache Ambush. Star of the proceedings is Bill Williams, cast as Indian scout James Kingston. In the last days of the Civil War, President Lincoln (James Griffith) selects Read More

Hell's Horizon

Actors: John Ireland, Marla English, Bill Williams, Hugh Beaumont, Larry Pennell

Synopsis: Set in 1952, at a point when the United States was bogged down in the "police action," Hell's Horizon focuses on one crew of a B-29, given the unenviable assignment of knocking out a bridge vital to the enemy over the Yalu River. To do this, and avoid violating Chinese airspace, they must make Read More

Dragnet: The Big Pug

Synopsis: A elderly woman is robbed and beaten in a bank parking lot. Investigating, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are tipped off that two men were spotted a few days earlier, taking photographs near the scene of the crime. A subsequent photo "blowup" leads the detectives to surmise that one Read More

Racing Blood

Actors: Bill Williams, Jean Porter, George Cleveland, John Eldredge

Synopsis: Produced, directed and cowritten by former child star Wesley Barry, Racing Blood was distributed in the US by 20th Century-Fox. Jimmy Boyd, a juvenile singer who'd risen to fame with the hit single "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", stars as a sensitive stable boy. When a colt is born with a split Read More

The Outlaw's Daughter

Actors: Bill Williams, Jim Davis, Kelly Ryan, Elisha Cook, Jr., George Cleveland

Synopsis: Newcomer Kelly Ryan plays Kate, The Outlaw's Daughter, in this medium-scale western. Led astray by outlaw leader Jess (Bill Williams), Kate joins Jess' gang and follows in her dad's footsteps. Town marshal Dan (Jim Davis) tries his best to reform the girl, but this proves difficult inasmuch as Read More

Torpedo Alley

Actors: Mark Stevens, Dorothy Malone, Charles Winninger, Bill Williams, Douglas Kennedy

Synopsis: Mark Stevens stars as a Navy pilot named Bingham in this paean to the modern-day submarine service. Covering the years 1941 to 1952, Torpedo Alley details Bingham's training as a sub commander. Feeling guilty for the deaths of several of his fellow pilots, he signs up for submarine service at the Read More

Rose of Cimarron

Actors: Jack Buetel, Mala Powers, Bill Williams, Jim Davis, Dick Curtis

Synopsis: The eponymous Rose is played by Mala Powers, a white girl raised by Cherokee Indians after her family was massacred. Powers considers herself a Native American and regards all whites as her enemies. Her feelings are justified to an extent when outlaws kill her Indian parents. Realizing she can't Read More

Bronco Buster

Actors: John Lund, Scott Brady, Joyce Holden, Chill Wills, Casey Tibbs, Don Haggerty

Synopsis: Noted Western director Budd Boetticher helmed this contemporary cowboy story. Tom Moody (John Lund) is a champion rodeo rider who sees real potential in newcomer Bart Eaton (Scott Brady). However, while Bart may have a knack for riding a bull, he's not much for loyalty, and he betrays his mentor Read More

Son of Paleface

Actors: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers, Bill Williams, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: A sequel to Bob Hope's 1948 box-office success The Paleface, 1952's Son of Paleface is a superior product in every way, thanks largely to the spirited, creative direction of Frank Tashlin. Hope is cast as Junior Potter, a Harvard-educated dude who heads West to claim the inheritance left him by Read More

The Pace That Thrills

Actors: Bill Williams, Carla Balenda, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh

Synopsis: The title refers to the euphoric pleasures of motorcycle racing, a sport that is exploited to the breaking point in this film. Reckless racer Bill Williams and his cycle-designer buddy Steve Flagg come to blows over the lovely Carla Balenda (a blonde in this picture, a brunette in other films). Read More

Cavalry Charge

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Bill Williams, Bruce Bennett, Peter Hansen, Noah Beery, Jr.

Synopsis: Paramount's immensely successful Pine-Thomas production unit once more struck box-office gold with The Last Outpost. Ronald Reagan stars as devil-may-care Confederate officer Vance Britton, who leads a band of guerillas on a series of sabotage raids. The Northern Army dispatches Vance's brother Read More

Blue Blood

Actors: Bill Williams, Jane Nigh, Audrey Long, Harry Shannon, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: Bill Williams and Jane Nigh, the stars of Monogram's Blue Grass of Kentucky, are reunited in the strikingly similar Blue Blood. Based on Peter B. Kyne's story Dog Meat, the film traces the efforts made to rescue a thoroughbred from being ground into hamburger by a dog-food factory. Harry Shannon Read More