Stanley Adams (actor)
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Stanley Adams (April 7, 1915 – April 27, 1977) was an American actor and screenwriter.
[edit] Career
Born in New York City, Adams had his first film role in 1952, when he played the bartender in the movie version of Death of a Salesman. He played another conniving barkeep in The Gene Krupa Story.
He is well known for playing Cyrano Jones in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" which aired in 1967. During the following season he co-wrote the Star Trek episode "The Mark of Gideon". He appeared at a number of Star Trek conventions in the 1970s and reprised (as a voice actor) his role of Cyrano Jones in the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "More Tribbles, More Troubles". Archive footage of Adams was used in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Trials and Tribble-ations".
The rotund Adams played Otis Campbell's brother on an episode of The Andy Griffith Show; the character berated Otis for being the town drunk but turned out to be an alcoholic himself.
His other roles on TV shows include a time travelling scientist - opposite Buster Keaton - and a bartender on The Twilight Zone, "King Kaliwani" in the finale episode of Gilligan's Island and "Tybo" the carrot leader of the vegetable rebellion on Lost In Space. He appeared in two episodes of the second season of the 1960s television show Batman ("Catwoman Goes to College"/"Batman Displays his Knowledge") as "Captain Courageous". He also played Bernie the foulmouthed caller in the 1974 action/adventure movie Act of Vengeance and the Chicano cafe owner in Lilies of the Field. He played Rusty Trawler, "the 9th richest man in America under 50" in the Audrey Hepburn film Breakfast at Tiffany's. He also played notorious pool shark "Sure Shot" Wilson on The Odd Couple. Stanley also played a role as bartender on the series, "Marshall Dillion".
He died in 1977 as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 62.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ "Stanley Adams, an Actor, 62; Coast Police Report Is Suicide". The New York Times (Proquest document 123275880): p. 36. April 29, 1977. "...according to the authorities, who said there was a .22-caliber pistol in his hand and a note nearby and that he had been despondent recently."
[edit] External links
- Stanley Adams at the Internet Movie Database
- Stanley Adams at AllRovi
- Stanley Adams at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
- Stanley Adams at Find a Grave
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