Actor · Acting

Stanley Adams

Born 1915-04-07

Died 1977-04-27

📍 New York City, New York, USA

Stocky character actor Stanley Adams had a relatively minor career in motion pictures, with the possible exception of his baby-faced millionaire Rusty Trawler of Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) fame. Otherwise, he played innumerable minor ethnic villains, bartenders and avuncular, fast-talking characters, known in the credits only by their first names. In other words, most of his roles were rather small. On television, conversely, he proved himself quite a scene-stealer, particularly in the 1960's and early 70's, when his face appeared on just about every major show. He was at his best as pool hustler Sure-shot Wilson in an episode of The Odd Couple (1970), Rollo, a quirky time-traveling scientist on Twilight Zone (1959), and - famously - as 'asteroid detecting', tribble dealing galactic entrepreneur Cyrano Jones on Star Trek (1966). Alas, he was also a space carrot named Tybo on Lost in Space (1965)....

His suicide in April 1977 has been attributed to severe depression as a result of a back injury, sustained earlier in the decade. Apart from the obvious pain, it would almost certainly have limited his employment opportunities.

Date of Death 27 April 1977, Santa Monica, California (suicide)

Filmography 148

Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault

as (archive footage)

Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

as Cyrano Jones

as Dade McCrutchen

Cop on the Beat

The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Act of Vengeance

as Bernie / Foul Mouth

as Cyrano Jones (voice) (uncredited)

as Carl Swafford

The Norliss Tapes

as Truck Driver

Every Man Needs One

Another Nice Mess

as President of Persia

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask

as Stomach Operator

The Night Stalker

The Seven Minutes

Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns

as Sure-Shot Wilson

The Grasshopper

as Buddy Miller

Love, American Style

The Ghost & Mrs. Muir

The Name of the Game

as Mr. Stephens

Garrison's Gorillas

Pistols 'n' Petticoats

as Captain Roach

Pistols 'n' Petticoats

as Cyrano Jones

Death of a Salesman

as Captain Courageous

When the Boys Meet the Girls

as Tobias Quinn

My Mother the Car

The Legend of Jesse James

Fate Is the Hunter

as Bernie (uncredited)

Gilligan's Island

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

The Addams Family

The Bing Crosby Show

A House Is Not a Home

Looking for Love

as Employment Service Official (uncredited)

Wild and Wonderful

as Mayor of Man La Loquet

Kraft Suspense Theatre

as Pinky Ferguson

Petticoat Junction

as Jack Crandall

The Bill Dana Show

Lilies of the Field

as Juan Acolito

Critic's Choice

Requiem for a Heavyweight

as Perelli (as Stan Adams)

The Gallant Men

as Harry Norton

as Union Leader

as Square John McWayde

Breakfast at Tiffany's

as Rusty Trawler

as Larry Gruber

as Dr. Alexander Shoates

Pirates of Tortuga

The Wizard of Baghdad

as Warden Kvetch

Tallahassee 7000

North to Alaska

The Andy Griffith Show

as Ralph Campbell

Pete and Gladys

One Foot in Hell

as Pete (uncredited)

as Cab Driver (uncredited)

as Dan Shelby (voice) (uncredited)

High School Big Shot

Dennis the Menace

as Jerry Richman

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

as Captain Morgan

North by Northwest

as Lieutenant Harding (uncredited)

The Lawless Years

The Alphabet Conspiracy

as Theatrical Agent

The Donna Reed Show

Saddle the Wind

as Joe (uncredited)

I Married a Woman

as Cabbie (uncredited)

Hell Ship Mutiny

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

as Second Counselor (uncredited)

as Herbert Fay Jr.

as Pancho Morado

as Ed - Bartender

Have Gun, Will Travel

Requiem for a Heavyweight

The Adventures of Hiram Holliday

Calling Homicide

as Peter von Elda (uncredited)

Somebody Up There Likes Me

as Romolo's Attorney (uncredited)

The Killer Is Loose

as Honor Farm Guard (uncredited)

The Bold and the Brave

as Master Sergeant

Hell on Frisco Bay

Matinee Theater

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Detective Berger

as Charlie Rath

as Wildcat Hooper

General Electric Theater

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

The Red Skelton Show

as A.C. the Movie Director /Dept. Store Manager

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

The Ed Sullivan Show