You could shoehorn actor Van Williams right in there between the other tall, dark and drop-jaw gorgeous heartthrobs Tom Tryon and John Gavin of the late 1950s/early 1960s who conveyed a similar bland, heroic image. All three were too often given colorless heroes to play on film and/or TV -- roles that played off their charm but seldom tested their talent.
Born on February 27, 1934 as Van Zandt Jarvis Williams, he was the son of a cattle rancher....
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Fury of the Dragon
As Britt Reid
The GREATEST : Bruce Lee
As Comentador
The Caretakers
As Dr. Larry Denning
The Green Hornet
As Britt Reid / The Green Hornet
The Runaways
As Joe Ringer
The Night Rider
As Jim Hollister
Red Nightmare
As Air Force Sergeant
Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet
As Green Hornet / Britt Reid
Batman
As President Lyndon B. Johnson (voice) (uncredited)
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
As Green Hornet Director
The Green Hornet
As Britt Reid / The Green Hornet
Colorado C.I.
As Capt. Cochran
77 Sunset Strip
Mrs. Columbo
Bourbon Street Beat
As Kenny Madison
Batman
As The Green Hornet
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Streets of San Francisco
Mannix
Surfside 6
As Ken Madison
Hawaiian Eye
Hallmark Hall of Fame
As Exton's Servant
Ironside
Nanny and the Professor
The Big Valley
As Sheriff Dave Barrett
Westwind
Lawman
The Manhunter
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
The Green Hornet
As Britt Reid / The Green Hornet
Gunsmoke
As Quincy
Love, American Style
As Bill
Temple Houston
As Joey Baker
Cheyenne
As Ray Masters
Mission: Impossible
As Arnold Sanders
The Rockford Files
As Lt. Dwayne Kefir
Barnaby Jones
As Munson
How the West Was Won
As Captain MacAllister