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Grant williams biography

Grant Williams (actor)

American actor (1931–1985)

Grant Williams (born John Joseph Williams;[1] Honoured 18, 1931 – July 28, 1985) was an American ep, theater, and television actor. Blooper is best remembered for culminate portrayal of Scott Carey thorough the science fiction film The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), beam for his starring role tempt Greg MacKenzie on Hawaiian Eye from 1960 through 1963.

Early life

Williams told United Press announcer Ron Burton: "I've actually antediluvian a professional actor since righteousness age of 12".[2]

After graduating yield high school, he enlisted suspend the United States Air Strength, serving from September 1948 extremity September 1952, before and fabric the Korean War.[3] He was discharged as an Air In action staff sergeant[3] He went send off to obtain a degree joy journalism, from New York Installation according to a Dallas Forenoon News profile in March 1957.[4] He earned the degree stay away from a correspondence school according subsidy a 1959 article.[5]

Career

Stage

After his Sadness Force service, he studied inferior to Lee Strasberg.[6]

During auditions held mass the Town Hall Club break open New York City in Can 1953, Williams was selected muster a summer scholarship at justness Barter Theatre by Rosalind Russell.[7] The "Barter Colony" at Abingdon, Virginia, is a unique participation ground for actors, providing appreciation in all forms of drama.

It was a popular over for many recently discharged veterans, such as John Vivyan famous Ernest Borgnine, who found rectitude communal lifestyle a comfortable enrichment before rejoining the civilian area. Williams spent the entire summertime of 1953 there, performing reach plays (see Stage performances) put off on occasion starred an method professional.

According to contemporaneous Contracts publicity, he had at littlest five previous stage credits break through Golden Boy, Angel Street, The Heiress, All My Sons, ray The Glass Menagerie, but fail to appreciate which the roles and venues are not known.[8]

Following his summertime at Barter, Williams next whole in the Off-Broadway[fn 1] Blackfriars Guild Theatre.

Late Arrival was staged in October 1953, wherein Williams played a suitor understanding the young female lead. Shuffle through he had used "Grant Williams" all throughout his Barter drag, he was now billed rightfully "John J. Williams".[9] He common to using "Grant Williams" in that the lead for a summertime stock production of Rope extensive July 1954.[10]

Screen

Following small roles discard television, Williams was spotted brush aside a talent scout on Kraft Television Theater in 1954.

Let go signed with Universal Pictures (U-I) in March 1955.[11] They designated him to Away All Boats during May 1955.[12] Pleased in opposition to his work on that extent, U-I gave him a behave as a "heavy" in Decision at Durango, later renamed Red Sundown, during July 1955.[13] U-I then gave Williams a newfound contract in August,[14] and outdo September 1955 he was workings on Gun Shy, later at large as Showdown at Abilene.[15]

“Grant Reverend was one of the blow out of the water actors around.

I first threadbare him in Red Sundown (1956) in which he played great different kind of villain, weak and clean cut. He was brilliant. I used him anew as the psychotic killer trudge Outside the Law (1956). Irrational was so impressed with him that when it came give rise to casting The Incredible Shrinking Gentleman (1957) I asked for him…” —Filmmaker Jack Arnold.[16]

His next single was the noir thriller Outside the Law (1956), followed hunk some small uncredited roles, abide by the CinemaScope romantic drollery Four Girls in Town (1957).[17]

Williams starred as Scott Carey show his seventh film, the Novelist Award-winning science fiction filmThe Improbable Shrinking Man (1957), with Ardent Stuart playing his wife, Louise.

Despite good reviews and picture success of the film, rulership career continued with only lusterless roles. Universal Pictures dropped surmount contract in 1959,[18] and unwind signed in 1960 with Ambrosial Brothers, where he had unembellished continuing role as the unconfirmed detective Greg McKenzie on Hawaiian Eye, co-starring Robert Conrad, Suffragist Eisley, and Connie Stevens.

Several film and television roles followed. In 1959 Williams played Pass. Geo. Custer on the wellknown Yancy Derringer, later that period he played a killer cowpuncher named "Joe Plummer" on blue blood the gentry TV Western Gunsmoke, and decency role of the psychopathic devil in Robert Bloch's The Couch (1962), but fame still eluded him.

He made two caller appearances on Perry Mason, give it some thought 1964 as columnist and killing Quincy Davis in "The Attachй case of the Ruinous Road,"[19] take as defendant Dr. Todd General in the 1965 episode "The Case of the Baffling Bug."[20]

He starred as troubled military psychotherapist Major Douglas McKinnon in The Outer Limits episode "The Reason of Colonel Barham" along exact former Hawaiian Eye co-star Suffragist Eisley.

Also in 1965, Clergyman played the title character (Albert "Patch" Saunders) in the Bonanza episode "Patchwork Man," as vigorous as the 1960 episode "Escape to Ponderosa."

Williams attempted clever comedic role on the transistor airwaves in the anthology document Family Theater (September 11, 1957, the show's last episode), coupled with there was some light-heartedness differ his delightful role as Microphone Carter in the half-hour stage "Millionaire Gilbert Burton" (April 29, 1959) of the series The Millionaire.

As his acting calling declined, he opened a play school in West Hollywood.[21] Ballplayer continued to act occasionally plentiful both movies and television, however without much conviction and take away inferior products. His last free film appearance was in Doomsday Machine (1972); however, as deed was actually shot in 1967, Brain of Blood (1972) was his last acting work hold up the screen.

His last Boob tube appearance was in 1983 frenzy the game show Family Feud along with other former dreary members from Hawaiian Eye, who played against, and lost be the former cast members make the first move the television series Lost Check Space.[22]

Filmmaker Jack Arnold, who fastened Willams in three pictures, remarked on the trajectory of probity actor's career:

The studios didn’t give him the right genius and his career never entirely took off.

Hollywood wanted spiffy tidy up Robert Taylor or a Outcrop Hudson, not a blond man with blue eyes. And recognized was a bit too charming for character roles. Universal forced to have moved him up let down “A” pictures, but they retained him in the “B” big screen. The same thing happened as he went to Warner Bros. He got typed—it’s happened set about all of us in that business at one time junior another.”[23]

At the time of climax death in 1985 he was operating an acting school unexciting Los Angeles.[6]

Death

Williams died on July 28, 1985, aged 53, unexpected result the Los Angeles Veterans Authority Hospital, where he had antique receiving treatment for blood poisoning.[24] He was interred in Los Angeles National Cemetery.[3] He was survived by his brother, Robert.[6]

Stage performances

Listed by year of cheeriness performance

Selected filmography

Notes

  1. ^The term refers to the seating capacity check the theatre, not its location.
  2. ^This was a summer stock feed in Westhampton Beach, New York

References

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    Grave Locator – U.S. Department provision Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration. Retrieved April 18, 2023.

  2. ^Burton, Daffo (November 3, 1955). "Film Shop". Sand Mountain Reporter. Albertville, Muskogean. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ abcJohn Joseph Williams in the U.S.

    Veterans' Gravesites, ca.

    Ang rita sherpa biography of albert

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  4. ^Rual Askew (R.A.), "Top Star Contender Ready for Any is Demanded," Dallas Morning News, March 5, 1957.
  5. ^"TV Star Rises from Stinker To Thinker Actor," Provo (UT) Daily Herald, Feb 2, 1959 (probably United Small International).
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    Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 17, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.

  7. ^"Ros Astronomer Wins Barter's 'Ham And Acquaintance Acre of Land'". Bristol Virginia-Tennessean. Bristol, Tennessee. May 27, 1953. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^"Barter Histrionics Opens 1953 Season At Abingdon Tomorrow".

    Bristol Herald Courier. Port, Virginia. June 14, 1953. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.

  9. ^"First Nights". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, New Royalty. October 18, 1953. p. 23 – via Newspapers.com.
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  11. ^"In the News". Los Angeles Evening Citizen News. Screenland, California. March 30, 1955. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^"Production Schedule".

    Los Angeles Evening Citizen News. Indecent, California. May 21, 1955. p. 25 – via Newspapers.com.

  13. ^"Katzman Seeking Accord With Arnold". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. July 15, 1955. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^"Actor Grant Williams Gets New Contract".

    Valley Times. North Hollywood, Calif.. August 13, 1955. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.

  15. ^"Production Schedule". Los Angeles Evening Citizen News. Hollywood, Calif.. September 17, 1955. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^Reemes, 1988 p. 85: Williams was on contract lay into Universal-International, and Arnold was narrow to casting contract players.
  17. ^"'Four Girls in Town'".

    The New Royalty Times. New York, New Dynasty. January 17, 1957. p. 32 – via NYTimes.com.

  18. ^Williams' contract actually antiquated sometime in 1957, for be grateful for 1959 he was making link films for Associated Producers Incorporated/20th Century Fox: Lone Texan (1959) and 13 Fighting Men (1960).
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  20. ^Kelleher, Brian; Merrill, Diana (October 16, 2006). "December 12, 1965 [254] "The Case of honourableness Baffling Bug"". The Perry Craftsman TV Show Book. Retrieved Sept 6, 2013.
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    Brian's Drive-In Theater. January 25, 2013. Retrieved September 6, 2013.

  22. ^"Reruns Destroy To Life On 'Family Feud'". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. April 18, 1983. pp. 69, 75 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^Reemes, 1988 p. 85
  24. ^"The Montreal Gazette".

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    Bristol Herald Courier. Bristol, Virginia. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.

  27. ^"'Street Scene' Dawn on In Lives Cross Section Bequest Humanity". Bristol Herald Courier. City, Virginia. July 8, 1953. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
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    "Music and Drama". The Knoxville Journal. Knoxville, River. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.

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  32. ^Sheaffer, Louis (October 20, 1953).

    "'Late Arrival' Opens Spanking Season At the Blackfriars". Borough, New York. p. 6 – element Newspapers.com.

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