1. John McLiam was a guest star in numerous television series and wrote a Broadway play, The Sin of Pat Muldoon.
12 Facts About John McLiam
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John McLiam attended St Mary's College of California.
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John McLiam took McLiam, the Gaelic form of his real surname Williams, as a stage name.
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John McLiam's acting career began in Maxwell Anderson's Winterset in San Francisco in 1946.
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John McLiam appeared in the original Broadway cast of One More River.
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John McLiam moved to California in 1960 to work in film and television.
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John McLiam appeared in "The Wild Wild West" S3 E17 "The Night of the Headless Woman" as Tucker.
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John McLiam appeared in several episodes of the western series The Virginian and Gunsmoke, and was Doc Holliday in the pilot of Bret Maverick.
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John McLiam guest starred in a 1970 episode of Bonanza, three episodes of Little House on the Prairie, and in a two episodes of Highway to Heaven, all opposite Michael Landon.
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John McLiam was John of Gaunt in William Woodman's filmed version of Shakespeare's Richard II : while the cast's acting was generally judged as poor, Charles R Forker said McLiam delivered Gaunt's most famous speech "like an operatic aria" but in general was no match for Sir John Gielgud at speaking verse.
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John McLiam died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California in 1994 from melanoma and Parkinson's disease.
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John McLiam was interred at the Santa Barbara Cemetery at Santa Barbara, California.