| 词条 | Stanley Adams (actor) |
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| name = Stanley Adams | image = Stanley Adams in High School Big Shot.jpg | caption = Adams in High School Big Shot (1959) | birth_date = {{birth date|1915|04|07}} | birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1977|04|27|1915|04|07}} | death_place = Santa Monica, California, U.S. | death_cause = Suicide | occupation = Actor & Screenwriter }} Stanley Adams (April 7, 1915 – April 27, 1977) was an American actor and screenwriter. He appeared in many television series and films, notably Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Lilies of the Field (1963), and TV series from Gunsmoke to Star Trek. He died in 1977 as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 62.[1] CareerBorn in New York City, Adams had his first film role playing the bartender in the movie version of Death of a Salesman (1951). He played another barkeep in The Gene Krupa Story and a safecracker in Roger Corman's High School Big Shot (1959). Adams had a lengthy career as a character actor, often playing comic, pompous characters. 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 1959 portrayal of Chicago gangster/gambler Nick Popolous in Mr. Lucky ("That Stands For Pool") is especially good as he deftly shifts from bumpkin to killer multiple times. His other roles on TV shows include roles in six episodes of Wagon Train and three episode of Gunsmoke. as political boss Frank Templeton in the final episode of McHale's Navy (1962–1966) "Wally for Congress." He played a realtor on The Dick Van Dyke Show episode "Your Home Sweet Home Is My Home Sweet Home". He had two roles in the syndicated western series Death Valley Days in the episodes "The Holy Terror" (1963) and "The Lady and the Sourdough" (1966).[2] He appeared as King Kaliwani in the final episode of Gilligan's Island and in two episodes of the 1960s Batman TV series ("Catwoman Goes to College"/"Batman Displays his Knowledge") as Captain Courageous. He also played notorious pool shark "Sure Shot" Wilson on series The Odd Couple. In genre television he appeared on The Twilight Zone as a time-traveling scientist—opposite Buster Keaton— Adams also had a lengthy theatrical motion picture career. In the 1962 theatrical film adaptation of Rod Serling's teleplay Requiem for a Heavyweight he played the supporting role of Perelli, a sleazy promoter who offers a washed-up boxer a degrading job as a professional wrestler. He played the Chicano café owner in Lilies of the Field and portrayed Rutherford "Rusty" Trawler, "the 9th richest man in America under 50" in the Audrey Hepburn film Breakfast at Tiffany's. He played Bernie the foulmouthed caller in the 1974 action/adventure movie Rape Squad. Selected filmography{{Div col|colwidth=30em}}
References1. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/04/29/archives/stanley-adams-an-actor-62-coast-police-report-is-suicide.html|title=Stanley Adams, an Actor, 62; Coast Police Report Is Suicide|date=April 29, 1977|work=The New York Times|accessdate=January 25, 2012|location=Proquest document 123275880|page=36|quote=...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.}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556821/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title="The Lady and the Sourdough" on Death Valley Days|date=October 8, 1966|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=May 30, 2015}}{{unreliable source?|date=October 2018}} 3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/weirdest-lost-space-episodes-all-time|title=The weirdest Lost in Space episodes of all time|last=Vincent|first=Brittany|date=2017-02-10|website=SYFY WIRE|language=en|access-date=2019-03-20}} 4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.metv.com/stories/in-defense-of-lost-in-spaces-the-great-vegetable-rebellion-giant-carrot-man-and-all|title=In defense of Lost in Space's The Great Vegetable Rebellion, giant carrot man and all|website=Me-TV Network|access-date=2019-03-20}} External links{{Portal|Biography}}
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