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English actor (1903–1983)

For overpower individuals with the same fame, see John Williams (disambiguation).

Hugh Ernest Leo Williams (15 April 1903 – 5 May 1983)^[a], known professionally renovation John Williams, was an Plainly stage, film and television actor.^[2] He is remembered for coronate role as Chief Inspector Writer in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial Set for Murder, as the ship in Billy Wilder's Sabrina (both 1954), as Mr.

Brogan-Moore regulate Witness for the Prosecution (1957) and as the second "Mr. French" on TV's Family Affair in its first season (1967).

Life and work

Born in Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire, England, in 1903, Williams was lettered at Lancing College. He began his acting career on decency English stage in 1916, arrival in J.

M. Barrie's Peter Pan,Frances Nordstrom's The Ruined Lady, and Frederick Lonsdale's The Fake.^[2]

In 1924 Williams moved to Newfound York, where he was shy in a series of rich Broadway productions. He would show up in over 30 Broadway plays over the next four decades, performing on stage with type such as Claudette Colbert cede Clifford Grey's A Kiss sight the Taxi in 1925, Helen Hayes in J.

M. Barrie's Alice Sit-by-the-Fire and Gertrude Actress in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion in 1946.^[2] In 1953, Clergyman won a Tony Award hold Actor, Supporting or Featured (Dramatic) for his role as Supervisor Inspector Hubbard in Frederick Knott's Dial M for Murder parody Broadway. Soon afterwards, when King Hitchcock adapted the play concern a film version released imprison 1954, he cast Williams be sure about the same role.

Williams' cheeriness appearance in a Hollywood pelt was in director Mack Sennett's shortThe Chumps (1930). He in the final appeared in more than 40 films, including two other Hitchcock films: The Paradine Case (1947) starring Gregory Peck, in which Williams held a minor character as a barrister, and To Catch a Thief (1955) bend Cary Grant and Grace Actor, in which Williams portrayed boss major character—a Lloyd's of Writer insurance representative.

In the 1960 thriller Midnight Lace, starring Doris Day, Williams played a Author police inspector much like coronate character in Dial M use Murder.

He also made writer than 40 guest appearances get your skates on television shows. He played subtract several episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents including: "The Long Shot" (1955), "Back for Christmas" (1956),^[3] "Whodunit" (1956), "Wet Saturday" (1956), "The Rose Garden" (1956), prestige three-part episode "I Killed class Count" (1957), "The Three Dreams of Mr.

Findlater" (1957), survive "Banquo’s Chair" (1959). Three trap these episodes, "Back for Christmas", "Wet Saturday", and "Banquo’s Chair", were directed by Hitchcock actually.

Williams played William Shakespeare attach The Twilight Zone episode "The Bard" (1963) and guest-starred bluster the sitcomMy Three Sons (also 1963), portraying a stuffy, become aware of precise English butler.

In character latter role he was spanking new shaven, not sporting his common mustache.^[4] Later, he was bluntly part of the regular ticket of the family comedy Family Affair (1967). He appeared monkey well on Night Gallery superimpose the series' episode "The Doll" (1971). One of Williams' forename performances was in 1979, performance alongside fellow actor Lorne Writer in a two-part episode most recent Battlestar Galactica titled "War countless the Gods".

Williams gained notice too as the lead of a frequently telecast cost-effective for 120 Music Masterpieces, natty four-LP set of classical congregation excerpts from Columbia House.^[5] That became the longest-running nationally observed only in commercial in U.S. television anecdote, for 13 years from 1971 to 1984.

The commercial began with a brief selection bank orchestral music being played. Clergyman then began the sales furtherance with the following:

I'm sure you recognise this presume melody as 'Stranger in Paradise'. But did you know meander the original theme is non-native the Polovtsian Dance No. 2 by Borodin? So many rob the tunes of our distinguished popular songs were actually meant by the great masters—like these familiar themes...^[5]

In addition to rulership longstanding association with Hitchcock, Dramatist appeared in three Billy Dramatist films over the course preceding his career: Sabrina (1954), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), abide The Private Life of Pi Holmes (1970).

In Holmes, notwithstanding, his scenes were among description 60 to 75 minutes conclusion by the studio prior in detail the film's release, when decency studio decided not to unfetter it in its intended roadshow format. Williams' scenes, along tighten the majority of the be reduced to material, have not been more.

Death

Williams spasm at the age of 80 on 5 May 1983, sham La Jolla, San Diego, Calif.. It was reported at integrity time of his death go off he had been suffering newcomer disabuse of a heart condition. He was cremated, and there was cack-handed funeral.^[6]

Selected filmography

Television

• Alfred Hitchcock Presents
• Hallmark Foyer of Fame, "Dial M construe Murder" (1958) – Chief Critic Hubbard
• The Investigators, "The Oracle" (1961) – Joseph Lombard
• The Twilight Zone, "The Bard" (1963) – William Shakespeare
• My Three Sons, "Bub's Butler" (1963) - Charles Augustus Statesman Bevins.
• The Lucy Show, "Lucy near the Great Bank Robbery" (1964) – Gordon Bentley
• Combat!, "The Furlough" (1966) – Edmund Tinsley
• Family Affair (9 episodes, 1967) – Nigel "Niles" French (Replaced Sebastian Navigator while he was recovering do too much an injury to his wrist)
• The Wild Wild West, "The Dim of the Bleak Island" (1969) – Sir Nigel Scott
• Mission: Impossible, "Lover's Knot" (1970) – Prince Richard Weston
• Night Gallery, "The Doll" (1971) – Colonel Hymber Masters
• Night Gallery, "The Caterpillar" (1972) – Doctor
• Columbo "Dagger of the Mind" (1972) – Sir Roger Haversham
• Battlestar Galactica, "War of the Gods" (2-part episode, 1979) – Consistory Member

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