John Williams

Acting

John Williams

Born 1903-04-15 · Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

John Williams (15 April 1903 – 5 May 1983) was an English stage, film and television actor. He is remembered for his role as chief inspector Hubbard in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M For Murder, and as portraying the second "Mr. French" on TV's Family Affair.

Acting credits

Witness for the Prosecution poster
8.2

An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.

Witness for the Prosecution

1957

To Catch a Thief poster
7.3

When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.

To Catch a Thief

1955

Dial M for Murder poster
8.0

When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.

Dial M for Murder

1954

Sabrina poster
7.5

After two years in Paris, chauffeur's daughter Sabrina returns home elegantly transformed and immediately catches the attention of David, the playboy son of her father's rich employers. David woos and wins Sabrina, who has always been in love with him, however their romance is threatened by David's serious older brother Linus, who runs the family business and is relying on David to marry an heiress in order for a crucial merger to take place.

Sabrina

1954

Dear Brigitte poster
6.4

Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy with little artistic talent of his own.

Dear Brigitte

1965

D-Day the Sixth of June poster
5.3

En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.

D-Day the Sixth of June

1956

Kind Lady poster
7.0

Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a strange young painter named Elcott, who uses his painting skill to enter into her life. Little does she expect that his only interest in Mary is to covet everything she has.

Kind Lady

1951

Midnight Lace poster
6.6

Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.

Midnight Lace

1960

The Secret War of Harry Frigg poster
6.2

When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess...

The Secret War of Harry Frigg

1968

The Young Philadelphians poster
7.4

Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his colleagues and his own obligation to defend his friend Chester on a murder count.

The Young Philadelphians

1959

Double Trouble poster
5.0

When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.

Double Trouble

1967

A Flea in Her Ear poster
6.5

Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.

A Flea in Her Ear

1968

Hot Lead & Cold Feet poster
5.9

Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.

Hot Lead & Cold Feet

1978

Visit to a Small Planet poster
5.3

The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet to visit the Earth, and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who doesn't believe in UFOs and aliens. Wanting to study humans but not able to fully understand them, Kreton makes a mess out of it, generating a lot of comic situations.

Visit to a Small Planet

1960

The Solid Gold Cadillac poster
6.2

Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations.

The Solid Gold Cadillac

1956

Island in the Sun poster
6.5

A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.

Island in the Sun

1957

A Woman's Vengeance poster
6.3

A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.

A Woman's Vengeance

1948

No Deposit, No Return poster
6.3

Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately for two hapless safe crackers, they become part of the plan.

No Deposit, No Return

1976

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? poster
6.8

To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover.

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

1957

Thunder in the East poster
5.6

During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifist Prime Minister Singh hopes to reach an agreement with guerilla leader Khan, the maharajah is a fool, and the British residents are living in the past. Steve's love interest is Joan Willoughby, the blind daughter of a parson.

Thunder in the East

1952

Five Fingers : Dossier poster
NR

From the TV series Five Fingers. Released theatrically in the UK in August 1961 as supporting film to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Five Fingers : Dossier

1961

Lost in the Stars poster
6.5

A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.

Lost in the Stars

1974

The Student Prince poster
6.3

A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.

The Student Prince

1954

The Hound of the Baskervilles poster
4.9

Holmes and Dr. Watson tackle the case of a curse on the Baskerville bloodline in this ABC Movie of the Week adaptation.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1972