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Stanley Adams (April 7, 1915 – April 27, 1977) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 and screenwriter
Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
.

Born in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, he had his first film role in 1952
1952 in film

The year 1952 in film involved some significant events....
, when he played the bartender in the movie version of Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman is a 1949 Play by American playwright Arthur Miller and is a classic of American theater. The play ran for 742 performances, directed by Elia Kazan with Lee J....
. 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
Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek is a science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that aired from September 8, 1966 to September 2, 1969. Though the original series was titled simply Star Trek, it has acquired the retronym Star Trek: The Original Series to distinguish it from the spinoffs that followed, and from the Star Trek fi...
 episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" which aired in 1967. During the following season he co-wrote the Star Trek episode "The Mark of Gideon".






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Stanley Adams (April 7, 1915 – April 27, 1977) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 and screenwriter
Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
.

Born in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, he had his first film role in 1952
1952 in film

The year 1952 in film involved some significant events....
, when he played the bartender in the movie version of Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman is a 1949 Play by American playwright Arthur Miller and is a classic of American theater. The play ran for 742 performances, directed by Elia Kazan with Lee J....
. 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
Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek is a science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that aired from September 8, 1966 to September 2, 1969. Though the original series was titled simply Star Trek, it has acquired the retronym Star Trek: The Original Series to distinguish it from the spinoffs that followed, and from the Star Trek fi...
 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
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television program that premiered in 1993 and ran for seven seasons, ending in 1999. Rooted in Gene Roddenberry?s Star Trek universe, it was created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller, at the request of Brandon Tartikoff, and produced by CBS Paramount Television....
 episode "Trials and Tribble-ations".

He played Otis Campbell
Otis Campbell

Otis Campbell was the fictional "town drunk" in Mayberry on the United States TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. Otis was played by Hal Smith and made frequent appearances on the show from 1960 to 1967....
's brother on an episode of The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show is an Television of the United States situation comedy first televised by Columbia Broadcasting System between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968....
; 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
The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)

The Twilight Zone is a science fiction anthology series United States television series created by Rod Serling. The original series ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964 and remains television syndication to this day....
, "King Kaliwani" in the finale episode of Gilligan's Island
Gilligan's Island

Gilligan's Island is an United States Television program Situation comedy originally produced by United Artists Television. It aired for three seasons on the CBS network, from September 26, 1964 to September 4, 1967....
 and "Tybo" the carrot leader of the vegetable rebellion on Lost In Space
Lost in Space

Lost in Space is a science fiction TV series created and produced by Irwin Allen, produced by 20th Century Fox Television, and broadcast on CBS....
. 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
Lilies of the Field

Lilies of the Field is a 1962 book by William Edmund Barrett which was made into a 1963 film and adapted for the musical stage with the title Look to the Lilies....
. He played Rusty Trawler, "the 9th richest man in America under 50" in the classic Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn was a Belgian-born, Dutch-raised actress of British and Dutch ancestry.Born in Brussels, Hepburn lived in Arnhem in The Netherlands during her childhood and for the duration of the World War II....
 film Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 in film United States film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and featuring Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney....
. 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.

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