The Odd Life of Bert Williams

A born artist, Bert Williams spent most of his life trying to prove that fact. As a character actor he appeared in more than 150 movies between the 1940s and 1990s – from John Ford’s Fort Apache to Bryan Singer’s The Usual Suspects – yet Williams’ greatest cinematic achievement is a film hardly anyone’s ever seen. Released in 1965, The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds was a bewildering low-budget gothic horror thriller, and Williams’ one and only directorial effort.