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

Born in New York City, he 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 is remembered as very friendly and gracious toward his fans. Archive footage of Adams was used in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Trials and Tribble-ations".

He 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 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 classic Audrey Hepburn film Breakfast at Tiffany's. He also played notorious pool shark "Sure Shot" Wilson on "The Odd Couple."

He died in 1977 as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 62.

[edit] External links

• Stanley Adams at the Internet Movie Database
• Stanley Adams at Allmovie
• Stanley Adams at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• New York Times Biography

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