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'''Stanley Adams''' (April 7, 1915 – April 27, 1977) was an American actor and screenwriter.

==Career==
Born in [[New York City]], Adams had his first film role playing the bartender in the movie version of ''[[Death of a Salesman (1951 film)|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. He is known for playing Cyrano Jones in the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "[[The Trouble with Tribbles]]" (1967). During the show's 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]]".

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 (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' (in the episodes "[[Once Upon a Time (The Twilight Zone)|Once Upon a Time]]" and "[[Mr Garrity and the Graves]]"), King Kaliwani in the final 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 (TV series)|Batman]]'' ("Catwoman Goes to College"/"Batman Displays his Knowledge") as Captain Courageous. He appeared as political boss Frank Templeton in the final episode of ''[[McHale's Navy]]'' (1962–1966) entitled "Wally for Congress." He also in 1964 played Ilya Klarpe on "[[The Addams Family]]". He also played Bernie the foulmouthed caller in the 1974 action/adventure movie ''[[Rape Squad]]'' and the [[Chicano]] café owner in the 1963 movie ''[[Lilies of the Field (1963 film)|Lilies of the Field]]''. He played Rutherford "Rusty" Trawler, "the 9th richest man in America under 50" in the [[Audrey Hepburn]] film ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)|Breakfast at Tiffany's]]''. He played a realtor on ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' episode "Your Home Sweet Home Is My Home Sweet Home". He also played notorious pool shark "Sure Shot" Wilson on ''[[The Odd Couple (TV series)|The Odd Couple]]''. Stanley also played a role as bartender on the series ''[[Gunsmoke]]''.

A significant film role was indirectly working with writer [[Rod Serling]] in the making of the 1962 film version of ''[[Requiem for a Heavyweight]]'' in which Stan Adams played Mr. Ferrelli, a character Adams was typically type-cast as. This time Adams was a "wrestling" promoter, and the apparent last chance for the star heavyweight to get any sort of regular work, absurd and degrading as it was. A description of the Ferrelli character is best shown when the heavyweight's coach (played by [[Mickey Rooney]]) declines to shake hands with Ferrelli.

In "The Lady and the Sourdough", Adams played Tom Despo, a gold miner who partners with a cook, Rupert Johnson ([[Paul Brinegar]]), in the episode "The Lady and the Sourdough" of the [[Television syndication|syndicated]] western series, ''[[Death Valley Days]]''. Then a neighboring widow and baker, ([[Amzie Strickland]]), enters the picture.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556821/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title="The Lady and the Sourdough" on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=[[Internet Movie Data Base]]|date=October 8, 1966|accessdate=May 30, 2015}}</ref>

Adams died in 1977 as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 62.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10C17FC3C5D127588DDA00A94DC405B878BF1D3|title=Stanley Adams, an Actor, 62; Coast Police Report Is Suicide|date=April 29, 1977|work=[[The New York Times]]|page=36|accessdate=January 25, 2012|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.|location=Proquest document 123275880}}</ref>

==Selected filmography==
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*''[[The Atomic Kid]]'' (1954) - Wildcat Hooper
*''[[Hell on Frisco Bay]]'' (1955) - Hammy
*''[[Hell's Horizon]]'' (1955) - Dixie
*''[[The Fighting Chance (1955 film)|The Fighting Chance]]'' (1955) - Piggie (uncredited)
*''[[Inside Detroit]]'' (1956) - Harry (uncredited)
*''[[The Killer Is Loose]]'' (1956) - Honor Farm Guard (uncredited)
*''[[The Bold and the Brave]]'' (1956) - Master Sergeant
*''[[Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956 film)|Somebody Up There Likes Me]]'' (1956) - Romolo's Attorney (uncredited)
*''Calling Homicide'' (1956) - Peter von Elda (uncredited)
*''[[Trooper Hook]]'' (1957) - Heathcliff
*''[[Valerie (film)|Valerie]]'' (1957) - Dr. Jackson
*''[[Black Patch (film)|Black Patch]]'' (1957) - Professor Dudley - Drummer
*''[[Hell Bound (1957 film)|Hell Bound]]'' (1957) - Herbert Fay Jr.
*''[[Hell Ship Mutiny]]'' (1957) - Roxy
*''[[I Married a Woman]]'' (1958) - Cabbie (uncredited)
*''[[Saddle the Wind]]'' (1958) - Joe - Bartender (uncredited)
*''[[High School Big Shot]]'' (1959) - Harry March
*''[[North by Northwest]]'' (1959) - Lieutenant Harding (uncredited)
*''[[The Gene Krupa Story]]'' (1959) - Bar Owner (uncredited)
*''[[The Gazebo]]'' (1959) - Dan Shelby (voice, uncredited)
*''[[One Foot in Hell (film)|One Foot in Hell]]'' (1960) - Pete (uncredited)
*''[[The Rat Race]]'' (1960) - Cab Driver (uncredited)
*''[[Studs Lonigan]]'' (1960) - Gangster (uncredited)
*''[[North to Alaska]]'' (1960) - Breezy
*''[[The Wizard of Baghdad]]'' (1960) - Warden Kvetch
*''[[The Young Savages]]'' (1961) - Police Lt. Hardy (uncredited)
*''[[Pirates of Tortuga]]'' (1961) - Captain Montbars
*''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)|Breakfast at Tiffany's]]'' (1961) - Rusty Trawler
*''[[The Errand Boy]]'' (1961) - Grumpy
*''[[The Outsider (1961 film)|The Outsider]]'' (1961) - Noomie
*''[[13 West Street]]'' (1962) - Finney
*''[[Requiem for a Heavyweight]]'' (1962) - Perelli
*''[[Critic's Choice (film)|Critic's Choice]]'' (1963) - Bartender
*''[[Lilies of the Field (1963 film)|Lilies of the Field]]'' (1963) - Juan
*''[[Wild and Wonderful]]'' (1964) - Mayor of Man La Loquet
*''[[Looking for Love (film)|Looking for Love]]'' (1964) - Employment Service Official (uncredited)
*''[[A House Is Not a Home (film)|A House Is Not a Home]]'' (1964) - Harry
*''[[Fate Is the Hunter (film)|Fate Is the Hunter]]'' (1964) - Bernie (uncredited)
*''[[Ship of Fools (film)|Ship of Fools]]'' (1965) - Professor Hutten
*''[[When the Boys Meet the Girls]]'' (1965) - Lank
*''[[Nevada Smith]]'' (1966) - Storekeeper
*''[[Thunder Alley (film)|Thunder Alley]]'' (1967) - Mac Lunsford
*''[[Double Trouble (1967 film)|Double Trouble]]'' (1967) - Captain Roach
*''Massacre Harbor'' (1968) - El Gamil
*''[[The Grasshopper (1970 film)|The Grasshopper]]'' (1970) - Buddy Miller
*''[[Move (1970 film)|Move]]'' (1970) - New Tenant
*''[[The Seven Minutes (film)|The Seven Minutes]]'' (1971) - Irwin Blair
*''Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns'' (1971) - Granger
*''[[Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (film)|Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)]]'' (1972) - Stomach Operator
*''[[Another Nice Mess]]'' (1972) - President of Persia
*''California Country'' (1973) - Grandpa Boomer
*''The Clones'' (1973) - Carl Swafford
*''Act of Vengeance'' (1974) - Bernie / Foul Mouth
*''[[Dixie Dynamite]]'' (1976) - Dade McCrutchen
*''Woman in the Rain'' (1976)
*''The Great Gundown'' (1977) - Buck (final film role)
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==References==
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==External links==
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* {{IMDb name|0011366}}
* {{AllMovie name|79042}}
{{Memory Alpha|Stanley Adams}}
* {{Find a Grave|6263421}}

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