John McLiam

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 Frankenheimers 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 Marys 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 Andersons 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 Andersons Barefoot in Athens in 1951 His other stage roles include Shaws Saint Joan and Tiger at the Gates Christopher Frys version of a Jean Giraudoux play which ran 195960 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 neerdowell 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 pilotflight instructor for Aunt Bee in Season 8 of The Andy Griffith Show Aunt Bees Big Moment Halls of Anger 1970 Woody Allens Sleeper 1973 rancher David Braxton in The Missouri Breaks 1976 and Orval in First Blood 1982 He played Jimmy Tomorrow in John Frankenheimers 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 Parkinsons disease McLiam was interred at the Santa Barbara Cemetery at Santa Barbara California CLR