Van Williams
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Van Zandt Jarvis Williams (February 27, 1934 – November 28, 2016) was an actor best known for his role as Kenny Madison in both Warner Bros.
Bourbon Street Beat (1959-60) and its sequel, Surfside 6 (1960–1962) appeared on television.
In the television series The Green Hornet, which premiered during the 1966–67 season, he worked with late Bruce Lee as his partner Kato.
Early life
Williams was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and the son of Priscilla Anne (Jarvis) and Bernard Cardwell Williams. He grew up on a ranch outside Fort Worth and later studied animal husbandry and business at Texas Christian University. He moved to Hawaii in 1956 after differences with his father over how the ranch should be run.
Personal life and death
Vicki Flaxman was Williams' first husband. They had two children together, one from Vicki's previous marriage to Jeff Richards. He had nine grandchildren. He had twin daughters from a previous marriage to Drucilla Greenhaw, which also included four grandchildren. Williams owned houses in Sun Valley, Idaho, Fort Worth, (which also included a ranch he inherited from his parents) and Hawaii in 1988. It was the result of sound investments, according to the author. Pat Priest (The Munsters), Williams' longtime companion and neighbor, said he was her mentor.
Williams was also closely associated with co-star Adam West outside of his acting career. Both of them were neighbors in Sun Valley and spent a lot of leisure time together. People would also comment about Batman and The Green Hornet being on a mystery case together outdoors, according to West. Williams died on November 28, 2016, after suffering from kidney disease at the age of 82 in Scottsdale, Arizona, according to producer Kevin Burns.
Career
Williams, a diving instructor in Hawaii in 1956, was discovered in 1957 by producer Mike Todd, who encouraged him to come to Hollywood. "Todd loved the look of me and decided that I should try acting, but he continued, "First, boy, go back to college and get your degree." I took my degree in business administration and then wandered into Hollywood after following his lead.
Todd died in a plane crash in 1958, but Williams took vocal and acting lessons. He was able to be cast in a GE Television episode and was seen by Warner Bros., who signed him to a 1961 deal. "I stumbled into the company, unknown and untrained," he says. "I was really lucky" says the author.
Williams appeared on episodes of GM Electric Theater, Lawman, and Colt.45.
His big break came as a co-star of Bourbon Street Beat, which was based in New Orleans. During the 1959-1960 season, Andrew Duggan, Richard Long, and Arlene Howell co-starred; he appeared on the show.
Williams stepped naked out of the men's locker room shower in front of Jane Fonda's character in Tall Story (1960), in which he stumbled naked out of the men's locker room shower and jokingly said, "If it is alright with you, it is alright with me."
After one season, Bourbon Street Beat was discontinued, but Kenny Madison's character, Kenny Madison, was adapted into the new Surfside 6 television series in the same time slot, with Miami Beach colleagues played by Troy Donahue, Lee Patterson, Diane McBain, and Margarita Sierra. After Donahue, Williams received his second billing. The series lasted until 1962.
During the run of these movies, Williams occasionally appeared on other Warners shows, such as Cheyenne, 77 Sunset Strip, and Hawaiian Eye. In a Warners anti-communist propaganda short Red Nightmare (1962), he appeared in a Warner's anti-communist propaganda film. Williams was also featured in a World War II television pilot called The Leathernecks, which was also seen on an episode of The Gallant Men.
Williams appeared in The Caretakers (1963), a supporting role.
Williams was born Pat Burns, a series regular in The Tycoon, until his Warner Brothers contract lapsed in 1964. The program ran for one season.
He appeared on television commercials and guest appearances on various television shows including The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Preview Tonight, and The Milton Berle Show.
William Dozier, George W. Trendle's most popular radio character in 1966, appeared on ABC-TV's The Green Hornet, a new series. Van Williams starred in the frightful mystery of hero and his alter ego, newspaper editor Britt Reid (son of Dan Reid, Jr., who was the nephew of John Reid, a.k.a.) in a 1920s Hollywood film by William Reid. The Lone Ranger, on the other hand, was not given the Lone Ranger's official name.
Williams performed the role straight, rather than the comedy approach of the same producer's Batman film. In a "batclimb" cameo ("The Spell of Tut"), he and co-star Bruce Lee made three guest appearances, first on Batman ("The Spell of Tut") on 9/28/1966), and then in a two-part episode ("Batman's Satisfaction," 3/2/1967).
Williams had become a success investing in various ventures by the time he appeared in The Green Hornet, and a television Guide profile of 1966, "your friendly neighborhood tycoon" was portrayed as "your friendly neighborhood tycoon."
"I had pretty much decided to get out of the television business by the time The Green Hornet came along." Williams later said: The only thing I loved about those years was being on location work. I'm mainly a shy person. I know that public appearances and autographs, as well as other aspects of the company, are a must have element, but not for me."
Since The Green Hornet ended, Williams guest appeared on shows including The Big Valley, Mannix, Love, American Style, Nanny and the Professor, Ironside, Mission: Impossible, Apple's Way, Gunsmoke, and The Manhunter.
In a regular series with Westwind (1975), a children's adventure film, Williams took the lead.
He appeared in a television movie The Runaways (1975) and starred in Bert D'Angelo/Superstar, Barnaby Jones, A Twist in the Story, The Streets of San Francisco, Centennial, Mrs. Columbo, and The Rockford Files.
He turned down a role in Falcon Crest in 1981 because it involved so much location shooting. Williams moved from acting in 1982 to opening a communications business in Santa Monica, California, which rents time on six two-way radio repeater stations. Williams served at the Malibu substation for a long time as a reserve deputy sheriff for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Williams appeared in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story in 1993 as the director of The Green Hornet television show "The Bruce Lee Story."
Williams wanted him to make a cameo appearance as a cemetery guard in 2010, but the filmmakers of the 2011 Green Hornet film version refused.
Williams said he did not care about acting for the reasons cited as his resentment towards the people in the industry and their unethical method of going about it. He was also wary of typecasting, citing examples of how it had harmed actors' acting careers, such as George Reeves' case when he became too invested in his Superman portrayal. When playing The Green Hornet, he was also concerned about this. Another point of worry was its closeness to Batman, but he denied it because William Morris, his agent's boss, wanted him to do it, so he did it. He also said that his sole interest in acting was to grow as a company rather than to gain celebrity.