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interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A2%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF_1931)" title="نيك آدامز (ممثل مواليد 1931) – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="نيك آدامز (ممثل مواليد 1931)" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams" title="Nick Adams – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Nick Adams" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%A2%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2_(%D8%A7%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86%DA%86%D9%88)" title="نیک آدامز (اویونچو) – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="نیک آدامز (اویونچو)" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams" title="Nick Adams – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Nick Adams" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams" title="Nick Adams – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Nick Adams" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams_(Schauspieler)" title="Nick Adams (Schauspieler) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Nick Adams (Schauspieler)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams" title="Nick Adams – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Nick Adams" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%A2%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2_(%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%AF%D8%B1)" title="نیک آدامز (بازیگر) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="نیک آدامز (بازیگر)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams_(acteur)" title="Nick Adams (acteur) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Nick Adams (acteur)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%89_%EC%95%A0%EB%8D%A4%EC%8A%A4_(%EB%B0%B0%EC%9A%B0)" title="닉 애덤스 (배우) – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="닉 애덤스 (배우)" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams" title="Nick Adams – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Nick Adams" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams" title="Nick Adams – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Nick Adams" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A7_%D7%90%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%A1" title="ניק אדמס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ניק אדמס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A2%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2" title="نيك آدامز – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="نيك آدامز" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%80%E3%83%A0%E3%82%B9" title="ニック・アダムス – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ニック・アダムス" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%95_%E0%A8%90%E0%A8%A1%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%BC_(%E0%A8%85%E0%A8%A6%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B0,_%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%AE_1931)" title="ਨਿਕ ਐਡਮਜ਼ (ਅਦਾਕਾਰ, ਜਨਮ 1931) – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਨਿਕ ਐਡਮਜ਼ (ਅਦਾਕਾਰ, ਜਨਮ 1931)" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DA%A9_%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%88%D9%85%D8%B2" title="نک ایڈمز – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="نک ایڈمز" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams" title="Nick Adams – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Nick Adams" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%81" title="Ник Адамс – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Ник Адамс" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams_(glumac)" title="Nick Adams (glumac) – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Nick Adams (glumac)" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tay mw-list-item"><a href="https://tay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)" title="Nick Adams (actor, born 1931) – Tayal" lang="tay" hreflang="tay" data-title="Nick Adams (actor, born 1931)" data-language-autonym="Tayal" data-language-local-name="Tayal" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tayal</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%BA_%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%81" title="Нік Адамс – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Нік Адамс" data-language-autonym="Українська" 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class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Nick Adams</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Nick_Adams_The_Rebel_1959.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Nick_Adams_The_Rebel_1959.JPG/220px-Nick_Adams_The_Rebel_1959.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="296" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Nick_Adams_The_Rebel_1959.JPG/330px-Nick_Adams_The_Rebel_1959.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Nick_Adams_The_Rebel_1959.JPG/440px-Nick_Adams_The_Rebel_1959.JPG 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="941" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Adams promo for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rebel_(American_TV_series)" title="The Rebel (American TV series)">The Rebel</a></i> (1959)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1931-07-10</span>)</span>July 10, 1931<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Nanticoke,_Pennsylvania" title="Nanticoke, Pennsylvania">Nanticoke</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">February 7, 1968<span style="display:none">(1968-02-07)</span> (aged 36)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Beverly_Hills,_California" title="Beverly Hills, California">Beverly Hills</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cause of death</th><td class="infobox-data">Drug overdose</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">Actor, screenwriter</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1952–1968</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Carol_Nugent" title="Carol Nugent">Carol Nugent</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1959)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Nick Adams</b> (July 10, 1931 – February 7, 1968, born <b>Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock</b>)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American <a href="/wiki/Film" title="Film">film</a> and television <a href="/wiki/Actor" title="Actor">actor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Screenwriter" title="Screenwriter">screenwriter</a>. He was noted for his roles in several <a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_the_United_States" title="Cinema of the United States">Hollywood</a> films during the 1950s and 1960s, including <i><a href="/wiki/Rebel_Without_a_Cause" title="Rebel Without a Cause">Rebel Without a Cause</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Giant_(1956_film)" title="Giant (1956 film)">Giant</a></i> along with his starring role in the <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> <a href="/wiki/Television_show#Seasons/series" title="Television show">television series</a> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rebel_(American_TV_series)" title="The Rebel (American TV series)">The Rebel</a></i> (1959–1961). He also led the cast of several <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japanese</a> productions, including <i><a href="/wiki/Frankenstein_Conquers_the_World" class="mw-redirect" title="Frankenstein Conquers the World">Frankenstein Conquers the World</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Astro-Monster" title="Invasion of Astro-Monster">Invasion of Astro-Monster</a></i>, and <i>The Killing Bottle</i>. </p><p>Decades after his death from a prescription drug overdose at the age of 36, his widely publicized friendships with <a href="/wiki/James_Dean" title="James Dean">James Dean</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elvis_Presley" title="Elvis Presley">Elvis Presley</a> would stir speculation about both his private life and the circumstances of his death. In an <i><a href="/wiki/AllMovie" title="AllMovie">AllMovie</a></i> synopsis for Adams's last film, reviewer Dan Pavlides wrote, "Plagued by personal excesses, he will be remembered just as much for what he could have done in cinema as what he left behind."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adams was born as Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock in <a href="/wiki/Nanticoke,_Pennsylvania" title="Nanticoke, Pennsylvania">Nanticoke, Pennsylvania</a> to Catherine (Kutz) and Peter Adamshock, an <a href="/wiki/Anthracite" title="Anthracite">anthracite</a> <a href="/wiki/Coal_mining" title="Coal mining">coal miner</a>. His mother was of Ukrainian descent.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1958, he told columnist <a href="/wiki/Hedda_Hopper" title="Hedda Hopper">Hedda Hopper</a>, "We lived in those little company houses — they were terrible. We had to buy from the company store and were always in debt and could never leave." After a mining accident, Adamshocks father quit his job as a miner and the family moved to <a href="/wiki/Jersey_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Jersey City">Jersey City</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-crimemagazine.com_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crimemagazine.com-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adamshock was a successful athlete at <a href="/wiki/Henry_Snyder_High_School" title="Henry Snyder High School">Henry Snyder High School</a>, but failed to get a part in the school play when he was a senior.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adamshock's friends teased him about his acting ambitions. "Everybody thought I was crazy," he recalled. "My father said, 'Nick, get a trade, be a barber or something.' I said, 'But, Pop, I want to do something where I can make lots of money. You can't make lots of money with just a trade.'" After a year of unpaid acting in New York, Adams hitchhiked to Los Angeles.<sup id="cite_ref-crimemagazine.com_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crimemagazine.com-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hollywood_career">Hollywood career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Hollywood career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Struggling_actor">Struggling actor</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Struggling actor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dick_Powell_Show_Premiere_Episode_1961.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Dick_Powell_Show_Premiere_Episode_1961.JPG/220px-Dick_Powell_Show_Premiere_Episode_1961.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Dick_Powell_Show_Premiere_Episode_1961.JPG/330px-Dick_Powell_Show_Premiere_Episode_1961.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Dick_Powell_Show_Premiere_Episode_1961.JPG/440px-Dick_Powell_Show_Premiere_Episode_1961.JPG 2x" data-file-width="548" data-file-height="446" /></a><figcaption>Guest stars for the 1961 premiere episode of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Dick_Powell_Show" title="The Dick Powell Show">The Dick Powell Show</a></i>, "Who Killed Julie Greer?". Standing, from left: <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>, Nick Adams, <a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Bridges" title="Lloyd Bridges">Lloyd Bridges</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mickey_Rooney" title="Mickey Rooney">Mickey Rooney</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Bergen" title="Edgar Bergen">Edgar Bergen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jack_Carson" title="Jack Carson">Jack Carson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Bellamy" title="Ralph Bellamy">Ralph Bellamy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kay_Thompson" title="Kay Thompson">Kay Thompson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dean_Jones_(actor)" title="Dean Jones (actor)">Dean Jones</a>. Seated, from left, <a href="/wiki/Carolyn_Jones" title="Carolyn Jones">Carolyn Jones</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dick_Powell" title="Dick Powell">Dick Powell</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Adams's earliest reported paid acting job in Los Angeles was a stage role at the Las Palmas Theater in a comedy called <i>Mr. Big Shot</i>. Although he was paid about $60 a week, Adams had to pay $175 for membership in <a href="/wiki/Actors%27_Equity_Association" title="Actors' Equity Association">Actors' Equity Association</a>. He also earned $25 one night at the <a href="/wiki/Mocambo_(nightclub)" title="Mocambo (nightclub)">Mocambo</a> nightclub, filling in for <a href="/wiki/Pearl_Bailey" title="Pearl Bailey">Pearl Bailey</a> who had fallen ill. Eight years later, <a href="/wiki/Hedda_Hopper" title="Hedda Hopper">Hedda Hopper</a> told Adams she recalled writing about him at the time; and he replied by reciting back to her, "Nick Adams, gas station attendant from New Jersey, did an impersonation of Jimmy Cagney and a scene from <i>Glass Menagerie</i>."<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>After three years of struggle and optimistic self-promotion, his first film role came in 1951, an uncredited one-liner as a <a href="/wiki/Western_Union" title="Western Union">Western Union</a> delivery boy in <a href="/wiki/George_Seaton" title="George Seaton">George Seaton</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Somebody_Loves_Me" title="Somebody Loves Me">Somebody Loves Me</a></i> (1952). This allowed him to join the <a href="/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild" title="Screen Actors Guild">Screen Actors Guild</a>, but he was unable to find steady acting work, even when "creatively" claiming he had appeared with Jack Palance in <i>The Silver Tassie</i> in New York. Undaunted, Adams joined a theater workshop run by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Kennedy" title="Arthur Kennedy">Arthur Kennedy</a>. In January 1952, Adams enlisted in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Coast_Guard" title="United States Coast Guard">U.S. Coast Guard</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a>, serving as an <a href="/wiki/Electrician%27s_Mate" title="Electrician's Mate">Electrician's Mate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-coast_guard_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-coast_guard-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served until 1955, attaining the rank of <a href="/wiki/Petty_officer_second_class" title="Petty officer second class">Petty Officer Second Class</a> and was awarded the <a href="/wiki/National_Defense_Service_Medal" title="National Defense Service Medal">National Defense</a> and <a href="/wiki/Korean_War_Service_Medal" title="Korean War Service Medal">Korean War Service Medals</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-coast_guard_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-coast_guard-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Supporting_actor">Supporting actor</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Supporting actor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>About two years later, in June 1954, his ship docked in <a href="/wiki/Long_Beach_harbor" class="mw-redirect" title="Long Beach harbor">Long Beach harbor</a> and, after a brash audition for director <a href="/wiki/John_Ford" title="John Ford">John Ford</a> during which Adams did impressions of <a href="/wiki/James_Cagney" title="James Cagney">James Cagney</a> and other celebrities while dressed in his Coast Guard uniform, he took his accumulated leave and appeared as Seaman Reber in the 1955 film version of <i><a href="/wiki/Mister_Roberts_(1955_film)" title="Mister Roberts (1955 film)">Mister Roberts</a></i>. Adams then completed his military service, returned to Los Angeles and, at the age of 23, based on his work in <i>Mister Roberts</i>, secured a powerful agent, and signed with <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Bros.</a><sup id="cite_ref-crimemagazine.com_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crimemagazine.com-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adams had a small role (as Chick) in <i><a href="/wiki/Rebel_Without_a_Cause" title="Rebel Without a Cause">Rebel Without a Cause</a></i> (1955). Also that year Adams played the role of "Bomber" the paper boy in the widely popular film adaptation of <i><a href="/wiki/Picnic_(1955_film)" title="Picnic (1955 film)">Picnic</a></i> (1955), which was mostly filmed on location in <a href="/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas">Kansas</a>, and starred <a href="/wiki/William_Holden" title="William Holden">William Holden</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kim_Novak" title="Kim Novak">Kim Novak</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Susan_Strasberg" title="Susan Strasberg">Susan Strasberg</a>. He was not perceived by casting directors as tall or handsome enough for leading roles, but during the late 1950s, Adams had supporting roles in several successful television productions, including one episode of <i><a href="/wiki/Wanted_Dead_or_Alive_(TV_series)" title="Wanted Dead or Alive (TV series)">Wanted Dead or Alive</a></i> (1958) starring <a href="/wiki/Steve_McQueen" title="Steve McQueen">Steve McQueen</a>, and films such as <i><a href="/wiki/Our_Miss_Brooks_(film)" title="Our Miss Brooks (film)">Our Miss Brooks</a></i> (1956), <i><a href="/wiki/No_Time_for_Sergeants_(film)" title="No Time for Sergeants (film)">No Time for Sergeants</a></i> (1958), <i><a href="/wiki/Teacher%27s_Pet_(1958_film)" title="Teacher's Pet (1958 film)">Teacher's Pet</a></i> (1958), and <i><a href="/wiki/Pillow_Talk_(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pillow Talk (film)">Pillow Talk</a></i> (1959). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="James_Dean">James Dean</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: James Dean"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adams initially may have met <a href="/wiki/James_Dean" title="James Dean">James Dean</a> in December 1950 while jitterbugging for a soft drink commercial filmed at <a href="/wiki/Griffith_Park" title="Griffith Park">Griffith Park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Adams spent three years in the Coast Guard between the time this commercial was shot in late 1950 and the start of filming for <i><a href="/wiki/Rebel_Without_a_Cause" title="Rebel Without a Cause">Rebel Without a Cause</a></i> in March 1955. Actor <a href="/wiki/Jack_Grinnage" title="Jack Grinnage">Jack Grinnage</a>, who played Moose, recalled, "Off the set, Nick, <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Hopper" title="Dennis Hopper">Dennis (Hopper)</a>, and the others would go out together — almost like the gang we portrayed — but Jimmy and <a href="/wiki/Corey_Allen" title="Corey Allen">Corey Allen</a> ... were not a part of that."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When production was wrapped, Dean said in another press release, "I now regard Natalie (Wood), Nick, and Sal (Mineo) as co-workers; I regard them as friends ... about the only friends I have in this town. And I hope we all work together again soon."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following Dean's 1955 death in an automobile accident, Adams overdubbed some of Dean's lines for the film <i><a href="/wiki/Giant_(1956_film)" title="Giant (1956 film)">Giant</a></i> (these are in Jett Rink's speech at the hotel) and dated co-star <a href="/wiki/Natalie_Wood" title="Natalie Wood">Natalie Wood</a>. Adams tried to capitalize on Dean's fame through various publicity stunts, including a claim he was being stalked by a crazed female Dean fan, allowing himself to be photographed at Dean's grave in a contemplative pose, holding flowers, and surrounded by mourning, teenaged female fans along with writing articles and doing interviews about Dean for fan magazines.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also claimed to have developed Dean's affection for fast cars, later telling a reporter, "I became a highway delinquent. I was arrested nine times in one year. They put me on probation, but I kept on racing ... nowhere."<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elvis_Presley">Elvis Presley</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Elvis Presley"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adams's widely publicized friendship with <a href="/wiki/Elvis_Presley" title="Elvis Presley">Elvis Presley</a> began in 1956 on the set of Presley's film <i><a href="/wiki/Love_Me_Tender_(film)" title="Love Me Tender (film)">Love Me Tender</a></i> during the second day of shooting.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Presley had admired James Dean, and when the singer arrived in Hollywood, he was encouraged by studio executives to be seen with some of the "hip" new young actors there. Meanwhile, his manager <a href="/wiki/Colonel_Tom_Parker" title="Colonel Tom Parker">Colonel Tom Parker</a> was worried that Elvis' new Hollywood acquaintances might influence Presley and even tell him what they were paying their managers and agents (a fraction of what Presley was paying Parker). <a href="/wiki/Elaine_Dundy" title="Elaine Dundy">Elaine Dundy</a> called Parker a "master manipulator" who used Nick Adams and others in the entourage (including Parker's own brother-in-law <a href="/wiki/Bitsy_Mott" title="Bitsy Mott">Bitsy Mott</a>) to counter possible subversion against him and control Elvis' movements. She later wrote a scathing characterization of Adams: </p> <blockquote> <p>... Brash struggling young actor whose main scheme to further his career was to hitch his wagon to a star, the first being James Dean, about whose friendship he was noisily boastful ... this made it easy for Parker to suggest that Nick be invited to join Elvis' growing entourage of paid companions, and for Nick to accept ... following Adams' hiring, there appeared a newspaper item stating that Nick and Parker were writing a book on Elvis together.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>Dundy also wrote, "Of all Elvis' new friends, Nick Adams, by background and temperament the most insecure, was also his closest."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Adams was <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Hopper" title="Dennis Hopper">Dennis Hopper</a>'s roommate during this period, and the three reportedly socialized together, with Presley "hanging out more and more with Nick and his friends" and glad his manager "liked Nick".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Decades later, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kathleen_Tracy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kathleen Tracy (page does not exist)">Kathleen Tracy</a> recalled Adams often met Presley backstage or at <a href="/wiki/Graceland" title="Graceland">Graceland</a>, where Elvis often asked Adams "to stay over on nights": "He and Elvis would go motorcycle riding late at night and stay up until all hours talking about the pain of celebrity" and enjoying prescription drugs.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Almost 40 years later, writer <a href="/wiki/Peter_Guralnick" title="Peter Guralnick">Peter Guralnick</a> wrote that Presley found it "good running around with Nick ... there was always something happening, and the hotel suite was like a private clubhouse where you needed to know the secret password to get in and he got to change the password every day."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Presley's girlfriend June Juanico complained the singer was always talking about his friend Adams and James Dean.<sup id="cite_ref-adams_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adams-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She also was upset that Adams had started inviting himself to see Elvis, and Juanico felt that she was trying to compete for Elvis' attention. Adams would talk often about <a href="/wiki/Natalie_Wood" title="Natalie Wood">Natalie Wood</a> to Elvis, constantly discussing her figure and her beauty, something else that caused Juanico to feel that she would soon lose Elvis to the glitz of Hollywood.<sup id="cite_ref-adams_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adams-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Presley's own mother even commented about Adams, "He sure is a pushy little fellow".<sup id="cite_ref-adams_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adams-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As with Dean, Adams capitalized on his association with Presley, publishing an account of their friendship in May 1957.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In August 1958, after the death of Elvis's mother Gladys, Parker wrote in a letter, "Nicky Adams [<i><a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a></i>] came out to be with Elvis last Week which [<i><a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a></i>] was so very kind of him to be there with his friend."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"The Rebel and the King"<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by Nick Adams is a first-person account written by Adams about his friendship with Presley. The manuscript was written in 1956 by Nick during Presley's eight days in Memphis when the singer returned home for his big Tupelo homecoming. The manuscript was discovered 45 years later by Adams's daughter and initially published in 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Rebel"><i>The Rebel</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: The Rebel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nick_Adams_The_Rebel.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Nick_Adams_The_Rebel.JPG/220px-Nick_Adams_The_Rebel.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Nick_Adams_The_Rebel.JPG/330px-Nick_Adams_The_Rebel.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Nick_Adams_The_Rebel.JPG/440px-Nick_Adams_The_Rebel.JPG 2x" data-file-width="711" data-file-height="947" /></a><figcaption>Nick Adams as Johnny Yuma</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1959, Adams starred in the ABC series <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rebel_(American_TV_series)" title="The Rebel (American TV series)">The Rebel</a></i> playing the character Johnny Yuma, a wandering, ex-Confederate, journal-keeping, sawed-off shotgun toting "trouble-shooter" in the old American west. He is credited as a co-creator of <i>The Rebel</i>, but he had no role in writing the pilot or any of the series' episodes. Adams had asked his friend <a href="/wiki/Andrew_J._Fenady" title="Andrew J. Fenady">Andrew J. Fenady</a> to write the pilot as a starring vehicle for him. The series' only recurring character, publicized as a "Reconstruction beatnik", was played by Adams.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He reportedly consulted with John Wayne for tips on how to play the role. Adams wanted Presley to sing the theme song for <i>The Rebel</i>, but the show's producer wanted <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Cash" title="Johnny Cash">Johnny Cash</a>. Guest stars appearing on the series during its two-year run included <a href="/wiki/Dan_Blocker" title="Dan Blocker">Dan Blocker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Cash" title="Johnny Cash">Johnny Cash</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Nimoy" title="Leonard Nimoy">Leonard Nimoy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tex_Ritter" title="Tex Ritter">Tex Ritter</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Vaughn" title="Robert Vaughn">Robert Vaughn</a>. A total of 76 half-hour episodes were filmed before the series was cancelled in 1961. Reruns were syndicated for several years. Adams went back to TV and film work, along with a role in the short-lived but critically successful television series <i><a href="/wiki/Saints_and_Sinners_(1962_TV_series)" title="Saints and Sinners (1962 TV series)">Saints and Sinners</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Twilight_of_Honor"><i>Twilight of Honor</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Twilight of Honor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adams was nominated for an <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor" title="Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor">Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor</a> for his performance as an unlikable murder suspect in the film <i><a href="/wiki/Twilight_of_Honor" title="Twilight of Honor">Twilight of Honor</a></i> (1963), which featured the film debuts of both <a href="/wiki/Linda_Evans" title="Linda Evans">Linda Evans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joey_Heatherton" title="Joey Heatherton">Joey Heatherton</a>. He campaigned heavily for the award, spending over $8,000 on ads in trade magazines, but many of his strongest scenes had been cut from the movie<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>, and he lost to <a href="/wiki/Melvyn_Douglas" title="Melvyn Douglas">Melvyn Douglas</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Toho_Studios_and_career_decline">Toho Studios and career decline</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Toho Studios and career decline"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1964, Adams had a leading role opposite <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Malone" title="Nancy Malone">Nancy Malone</a> in an episode ("<a href="/wiki/Fun_and_Games_(The_Outer_Limits)" title="Fun and Games (The Outer Limits)">Fun and Games</a>") of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Outer_Limits_(1963_TV_series)" title="The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)">The Outer Limits</a></i>. A review of this episode written over three decades later would characterize him as an "underrated actor".<sup id="cite_ref-outer_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-outer-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By this time Adams's career was stalling. He had high hopes his co-starring performance with <a href="/wiki/Robert_Conrad" title="Robert Conrad">Robert Conrad</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Young_Dillinger" title="Young Dillinger">Young Dillinger</a></i> (1964) would be critically acclaimed, but the project had low production values, and both critics and audiences rejected the film. Also that year, Adams guest-starred in an episode of the short-lived CBS drama <i><a href="/wiki/The_Reporter_(TV_series)" title="The Reporter (TV series)">The Reporter</a></i>. </p><p>In 1965, after publicly insisting he would never work in films produced outside the U.S., Adams began accepting parts in Japanese <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> monster movies (<a href="/wiki/Kaiju" title="Kaiju"><i>kaiju eiga</i></a>). He landed major roles in two science fiction epics from <a href="/wiki/Toho" title="Toho">Toho Studios</a> in <a href="/wiki/Chiyoda,_Tokyo" title="Chiyoda, Tokyo">Chiyoda, Tokyo</a>. His first Japanese movie was <i><a href="/wiki/Frankenstein_vs._Baragon" title="Frankenstein vs. Baragon">Frankenstein vs. Baragon</a></i>, in which he played Dr. James Bowen, a radiologist working in Hiroshima who encounters a new incarnation of the Frankenstein monster. Adams next starred in the sixth <a href="/wiki/Godzilla" title="Godzilla">Godzilla</a> film, <i><a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Astro-Monster" title="Invasion of Astro-Monster">Invasion of Astro-Monster</a></i> (known in the U.S. as <i>Monster Zero</i>), in which he played Astronaut Glenn, journeying to the newly discovered Planet X. In both films, his character had a love interest with characters portrayed by actress <a href="/wiki/Kumi_Mizuno" title="Kumi Mizuno">Kumi Mizuno</a>. On the set of <i>Monster Zero</i>, Adams and co-star <a href="/wiki/Yoshio_Tsuchiya" title="Yoshio Tsuchiya">Yoshio Tsuchiya</a> (who played the villainous Controller of Planet X) reportedly got along well and played jokes on each other.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Adams made three films in Japan between 1965 and 1966. Adams' final film for Toho was the final film in the "International Secret Police" Series, which began with the film "Key of Keys" <a href="/wiki/Kokusai_himitsu_keisatsu:_Kagi_no_kagi" title="Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi">Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi</a> (国際秘密警察鍵の鍵, International Secret Police: Key of Keys), which was the basis for the Woody Allen scripted spoof <i><a href="/wiki/What%27s_Up,_Tiger_Lily%3F" title="What's Up, Tiger Lily?">What's Up, Tiger Lily?</a></i> (1966). The English title for this final film was "The Killing Bottle",<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Toho shot the film in Japanese with Adams doing his lines in English as in the previous films. An English dub was commissioned by Henry G. Saperstein, and produced by Titra Studios. This English version was never released in the U.S., but there were rumors of the English dub being released in Yugoslavia. The most interesting aspect of this film, is that Adams actually performed his own fights scenes using Kenpo, a style he had been learning under Senior Grand Master Ed Parker in the States. Previous to this time, he also co-starred with <a href="/wiki/Boris_Karloff" title="Boris Karloff">Boris Karloff</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Die,_Monster,_Die!" title="Die, Monster, Die!">Die, Monster, Die!</a></i> (1965), a Gothic horror–sci fi movie filmed in England. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1967:_TV_episodes_and_low-budget_films">1967: TV episodes and low-budget films</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 1967: TV episodes and low-budget films"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nickadamsmars.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/68/Nickadamsmars.jpg" decoding="async" width="204" height="204" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="204" data-file-height="204" /></a><figcaption>Nick Adams wears an off-the-shelf motorcycle helmet in <i><a href="/wiki/Mission_Mars_(film)" title="Mission Mars (film)">Mission Mars</a></i> (1968), a photo taken shortly before his death.</figcaption></figure> <p>In early 1967, <a href="/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company" title="The Walt Disney Company">Disney</a> released <i><a href="/wiki/Mosby%27s_Marauders" title="Mosby's Marauders">Mosby's Marauders</a></i>, a Civil War drama told from a southern perspective with Adams in the role of a cruel Union army sergeant. Adams guest-starred in five episodes of four TV series that year, including an installment of his friend <a href="/wiki/Robert_Conrad" title="Robert Conrad">Robert Conrad</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wild_Wild_West" title="The Wild Wild West">The Wild Wild West</a></i>, an appearance in <i><a href="/wiki/Combat!_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Combat! (TV series)">Combat!</a></i> and two episodes of <i><a href="/wiki/Hondo_(TV_series)" title="Hondo (TV series)">Hondo</a></i> (a short-lived western which also had an ex-Confederate theme). Throughout 1967 and early 1968, he also worked in three low-budget films. One of these was <i><a href="/wiki/Mission_Mars_(film)" title="Mission Mars (film)">Mission Mars</a></i> (1968) which has been described as "rarely seen, and utterly dreadful."<sup id="cite_ref-Westfahl_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Westfahl-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Adams's costume for this movie included an off-the-shelf motorcycle helmet. Reacting to <i>Mission Mars</i> over 30 years later, SciFi reviewer <a href="/wiki/Gary_Westfahl" title="Gary Westfahl">Gary Westfahl</a> wrote, "The only quality that Adams could persuasively project on film was a desperate desire to be popular, to be liked ... which helps to explain why Adams got his foot in many doors."<sup id="cite_ref-Westfahl_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Westfahl-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Adams's last U.S. production was a movie filmed in Iowa called <i><a href="/wiki/Fever_Heat" title="Fever Heat">Fever Heat</a></i>. His last film appearance was in the little-seen Spanish-language western <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Los_Asesinos&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Los Asesinos (page does not exist)">Los Asesinos</a></i>, filmed in Mexico City, Mexico. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marriage_and_children">Marriage and children</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Marriage and children"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AdamsNugent1959.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/25/AdamsNugent1959.jpg/200px-AdamsNugent1959.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/25/AdamsNugent1959.jpg/300px-AdamsNugent1959.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/AdamsNugent1959.jpg 2x" data-file-width="392" data-file-height="254" /></a><figcaption>Nick Adams (with props from his TV series <i>The Rebel</i>) and <a href="/wiki/Carol_Nugent" title="Carol Nugent">Carol Nugent</a> pose for a publicity photo taken shortly after their marriage</figcaption></figure> <p>Adams married former child actress <a href="/wiki/Carol_Nugent" title="Carol Nugent">Carol Nugent</a> in 1959.<sup id="cite_ref-tuscaloosa_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tuscaloosa-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nugent had appeared in an episode of <i>The Rebel</i>. They had two children, Allyson and Jeb Stuart Adams.<sup id="cite_ref-lawrence_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lawrence-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jeb was a child actor, then gave up acting, and is now a successful realtor in Ventura County, California. Allyson was a film director, but is now a costume designer and activist.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Sometimes acrimonious marital problems reportedly interfered with his ability to get lucrative acting parts after 1963. While promoting <i>Young Dillinger</i> during a television appearance on <i><a href="/wiki/Les_Crane" title="Les Crane">The Les Crane Show</a></i> in early 1965, Adams "shocked" the viewing audience with an announcement that he was leaving his wife, seemingly without telling her first. The couple publicly announced a reconciliation a week later, but his career and personal life following this episode have been characterized as a "tragic freefall".<sup id="cite_ref-crimemagazine.com_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crimemagazine.com-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adams and actress <a href="/wiki/Kumi_Mizuno" title="Kumi Mizuno">Kumi Mizuno</a> may have had a short affair while he was working in Japan. "That's one of the reasons my parents were divorced," his daughter, playwright <a href="/w/index.php?title=Allyson_Lee_Adams&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Allyson Lee Adams (page does not exist)">Allyson Lee Adams</a>, later said. "My dad had a penchant for becoming infatuated with his leading ladies. It was a way for him to take on the role he was playing at the time."<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rumors of a romance between the two were common occurrence until Mizuno denied it during an interview in 1996. </p><p>By July 1965, Adams and Nugent were legally separated; Nugent filed for divorce in September. The following month, while Adams was in Japan, Nugent was granted a divorce and custody of the children. In January 1966, Adams and Nugent announced another reconciliation on <i>Bill John's Hollywood Star Notebook</i>, a local television show. However, in November 1966, Nugent resumed the divorce proceedings and obtained a restraining order against him, alleging Adams was "prone to fits of temper", and in an affidavit, charged he had "choked her, struck her and threatened to kill her during the past few weeks."<sup id="cite_ref-tuscaloosa_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tuscaloosa-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On January 20, 1967, Adams was waiting for a court hearing to start when he was served with a $110,000 defamation suit by Nugent's boyfriend, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Rapp&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Rapp (page does not exist)">Paul Rapp</a>, who later married Nugent. Nevertheless, nine days later he was granted temporary custody of the children. His son Jeb Adams later recalled, "He saw it as a competition, basically, more than anything of getting custody of us. But, a matter of a week or two later, he gave us back to my mom." Nugent later regained legal custody of the children.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NickAdams-deathcertificate.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/NickAdams-deathcertificate.jpg/200px-NickAdams-deathcertificate.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/NickAdams-deathcertificate.jpg/300px-NickAdams-deathcertificate.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/NickAdams-deathcertificate.jpg/400px-NickAdams-deathcertificate.jpg 2x" data-file-width="563" data-file-height="488" /></a><figcaption>Adams' death certificate</figcaption></figure> <p>After finishing <i>Los Asesinos</i> (1968), produced by <a href="/wiki/Luis_Enrique_Vergara" title="Luis Enrique Vergara">Luis Enrique Vergara</a> and filmed in Mexico, Adams bought a plane ticket with his own money and flew to <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>, to co-star with <a href="/wiki/Aldo_Ray" title="Aldo Ray">Aldo Ray</a> in a science fiction/horror movie called <i>Murder in the Third Dimension</i>, but when he got there, he found the project had been dropped. <a href="/wiki/Susan_Strasberg" title="Susan Strasberg">Susan Strasberg</a>, who had worked with him 13 years earlier on the hit film <i><a href="/wiki/Picnic_(1955_film)" title="Picnic (1955 film)">Picnic</a></i> and was living in Italy, encountered a thoroughly demoralized Adams in a Rome bar.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the night of February 7, 1968, his lawyer and friend, ex-<a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Police_Department" title="Los Angeles Police Department">LAPD</a> officer Ervin Roeder, drove to the actor's house at 2126 El Roble Lane in <a href="/wiki/Beverly_Hills,_California" title="Beverly Hills, California">Beverly Hills</a> to check on him after a missed dinner appointment. Seeing a light on and his car in the garage, Roeder broke through a window and discovered Adams in his upstairs bedroom, slumped dead against a wall. </p><p>During the autopsy Dr. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Noguchi" title="Thomas Noguchi">Thomas Noguchi</a> found enough <a href="/wiki/Paraldehyde" title="Paraldehyde">paraldehyde</a>, sedatives and other drugs in the body "to cause instant unconsciousness." The death certificate lists "paraldehyde and <a href="/wiki/Promazine" title="Promazine">promazine</a> <a href="/wiki/Substance_intoxication" title="Substance intoxication">intoxication</a>" as the immediate cause of death, along with the notation "accident; <a href="/wiki/Suicide" title="Suicide">suicide</a>; undetermined." During the 1960s, drug interaction warnings were not so prominent as they later would be, and the <a href="/wiki/American_Medical_Association" title="American Medical Association">American Medical Association</a> has subsequently warned these two types of drugs should never be taken together. </p><p>The death of Nick Adams has been cited in articles and books about Hollywood's unsolved mysteries along with speculation by a few of his acquaintances that he was murdered (according to author David Kulczyk, Adams was apparently planning to write a tell-all book revealing many sexual secrets of Hollywood names) and claims no trace of paraldehyde (a liquid <a href="/wiki/Sedative" title="Sedative">sedative</a> often given to alcoholics at the time and one of two drugs attributed to his death) was ever found in his home. However, Adams's brother Andrew had become a medical doctor and prescribed the sedative to him. Moreover, a story in the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> reported stoppered bottles with prescription labels were found in the medicine cabinet near the upstairs bedroom where Adams's body was discovered. Through the years, his children offered speculation ranging from murder to accidental death, the latter perhaps caused by Roeder while trying to calm the actor's nerves with an unintentionally lethal combination of alcohol and prescription drugs (although the autopsy found no alcohol in Adams's blood).<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Actor <a href="/wiki/Robert_Conrad" title="Robert Conrad">Robert Conrad</a>, Adams's best friend, consistently maintained that the death was accidental. </p><p>Carol Adams is listed as Adams's spouse on his death certificate, evidence the divorce had not become final when the actor died. She and the children were living only a few blocks from his recently-rented house on El Roble Lane. </p><p>Adams's remains were interred at Saints Cyril and Methodius Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery in <a href="/wiki/Berwick,_Pennsylvania" title="Berwick, Pennsylvania">Berwick, Pennsylvania</a>. The backside of his gravestone, which bears a silhouette of Adams wearing the Civil War-era cap from his television series, is inscribed <i>Nick Adams — The Rebel — Actor of Hollywood Screens</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_published_speculation">Later published speculation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Later published speculation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sexuality">Sexuality</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Sexuality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Decades later, Adams's highly publicized life and death at a young age, his friendships with cultural icons such as <a href="/wiki/James_Dean" title="James Dean">James Dean</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elvis_Presley" title="Elvis Presley">Elvis Presley</a>, and his reported drug consumption made his private life the subject of many reports and assertions by some writers who have claimed Adams may have been <a href="/wiki/Gay" title="Gay">gay</a> or <a href="/wiki/Bisexuality" title="Bisexuality">bisexual</a>. One of the earliest published mentions on this overall topic was made by gossip columnist <a href="/wiki/Rona_Barrett" title="Rona Barrett">Rona Barrett</a> in her 1974 autobiography, in which she made no assertion Adams was homosexual or bisexual but claimed Adams had told her, along with a "whole roomful of people," that he wasn't making it because no one in Hollywood's upper stratosphere would accept his wife. Barrett called it "untrue. She was one of the most refreshing wives in the entire community" and went on to say Adams "had become the companion to a group of salacious homosexuals" who flattered the actor, which affected his judgment and caused him to blame Carol.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hollywood biographer <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_J._Quirk" title="Lawrence J. Quirk">Lawrence J. Quirk</a> claimed <a href="/wiki/Mike_Connolly_(columnist)" title="Mike Connolly (columnist)">Mike Connolly</a> (a gay gossip columnist for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hollywood_Reporter" title="The Hollywood Reporter">The Hollywood Reporter</a></i> from 1951 to 1966) "would put the make on the most prominent young actors, including <a href="/wiki/Robert_Francis_(actor)" title="Robert Francis (actor)">Robert Francis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guy_Madison" title="Guy Madison">Guy Madison</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Perkins" title="Anthony Perkins">Anthony Perkins</a>, Nick Adams, and <a href="/wiki/James_Dean" title="James Dean">James Dean</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <i>American Film</i> (1986), "Nick Adams, who was ...gay, was the butt of anti-gay humor in <i><a href="/wiki/Pillow_Talk_(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pillow Talk (film)">Pillow Talk</a></i>".<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some writers later called Adams a "Hollywood hustler" or a "street hustler".<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One journalist also refers to Adams as a "pool hustler" who made money in pool halls when he was a teenager in New Jersey and later while struggling to make ends meet during his early years in Hollywood.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Friendship_with_Dean_and_Presley">Friendship with Dean and Presley</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Friendship with Dean and Presley"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It is uncertain whether James Dean and Adams met before his service in the United States Coast Guard (1952–1955) and subsequent role in <i>Rebel Without a Cause</i> (1955). In his 1986 gossip book about gay Hollywood, <i>Conversations with My Elders</i>, <a href="/wiki/Boze_Hadleigh" title="Boze Hadleigh">Boze Hadleigh</a> claimed actor <a href="/wiki/Sal_Mineo" title="Sal Mineo">Sal Mineo</a> told him in 1972, "I didn't hear it from Jimmy (James Dean), who was sort of awesome to me when we did Rebel, but Nick told me they had a big affair." According to Presley biographer <a href="/wiki/Albert_Goldman" title="Albert Goldman">Albert Goldman</a>, "Nick Adams ingratiated himself with James Dean precisely as he would do a year or so later with Elvis. He offered himself to the shy, emotionally contorted and rebellious Dean, as a friend, a guide, a boon companion, a homosexual lover – whatever role or service Dean required."<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Journalist, screenwriter and author of books about Hollywood, <a href="/wiki/John_Gregory_Dunne" title="John Gregory Dunne">John Gregory Dunne</a> wrote that "James Dean was bisexual, as were Nick Adams and Sal Mineo."<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Eric Braun, "Elvis was attracted by Adams' outgoing personality and the young actors caused quite a stir, cruising round Los Angeles with <a href="/wiki/Natalie_Wood" title="Natalie Wood">Natalie Wood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russ_Tamblyn" title="Russ Tamblyn">Russ Tamblyn</a> and others on their Hondas."<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2005, Byron Raphael and Presley biographer <a href="/wiki/Alanna_Nash" title="Alanna Nash">Alanna Nash</a> wrote that Adams may have "swung both ways" like "Adams's good pal (and Elvis's idol) James Dean. Tongues wagged that Elvis and Adams were getting it on."<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Studio-arranged_dates">Studio-arranged dates</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Studio-arranged dates"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adams regularly dated actresses with whom he made movies. During the mid-1950s, photographs of him with actress <a href="/wiki/Natalie_Wood" title="Natalie Wood">Natalie Wood</a> were widely publicized in fan magazines. <i>Modern Screen</i> wrote at the time "their relationship has been mostly for fun" and they shared "a tendency toward moodiness and unpredictability." The magazine also reported they had given joint interviews "in which they admitted they adored each other" and "they even came terribly close to getting married" in Las Vegas. The same article also remarked that on one of their trips they "posed for innumerable publicity photographs — that was the real reason for the trip — " and "Right now, both Nick and Natalie are inclined to deny the whole Las Vegas episode." In his 2004 biography <i>Natalie Wood: A Life</i> biographer and screenwriter <a href="/wiki/Gavin_Lambert" title="Gavin Lambert">Gavin Lambert</a> wrote in passing, Wood's "first studio-arranged date with a gay or bisexual actor had been with Nick Adams."<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his biography of gay Hollywood agent <a href="/wiki/Henry_Willson" title="Henry Willson">Henry Willson</a>, Robert Hofler deals with the rise of the studio star system, in which several actors spent time on the homosexual casting couch and dated girls or even entered into sham marriages in order to cover their homosexuality. "In the Henry Willson date pool," the author says, "Nick Adams was one client, among many, who glommed on to Natalie Wood to get his picture taken."<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Suzanne_Finstad" title="Suzanne Finstad">Suzanne Finstad</a> cites actor <a href="/wiki/Jack_Grinnage" title="Jack Grinnage">Jack Grinnage</a>, one of the gang members in <i><a href="/wiki/Rebel_Without_a_Cause" title="Rebel Without a Cause">Rebel Without a Cause</a></i>, about Nick Adams's and <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Hopper" title="Dennis Hopper">Dennis Hopper</a>'s reasons "for getting close to Natalie. 'I remember being in Dennis' dressing room with Nick and Natalie ... I don't know which one of them said this — it was Nick or Dennis — but he said, "We're gonna hang on to her bra straps." Meaning up the career ladder.' Natalie's tutor, who knew Hopper and Adams off set, said, 'Both of those two guys were all over her ... because they could see that this movie was going to be a big thing for Natalie ... they were game for anything in order to be noticed and to get ahead in the business.' "<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Actress <a href="/wiki/Olive_Sturgess" title="Olive Sturgess">Olive Sturgess</a> relates: "When Nick and I went out, it was a casual thing —no great love or anything like that ... I thought he was very troubled ... You could feel he was troubled. It was the manner he had —that was the way he was in real life, always brooding ... When we went out, it was never on his motorcycle! That's one trick he couldn't pull on me. We always went in a car!"<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lack_of_confirmation">Lack of confirmation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Lack of confirmation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Because of morality clauses in studio contracts, along with practical marketing concerns, most homosexual actors during the 1950s and 1960s were forced to be discreet about their sexuality. However, Adams was known in Hollywood for embellishing and inventing stories about his show business experiences and long tried to capitalize on his associations with James Dean and Elvis Presley. In a brief biographical article, journalist Bill Kelly wrote Adams "became James Dean's closest pal, although Nick was <a href="/wiki/Heterosexuality" title="Heterosexuality">straight</a> and Dean was bisexual."<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Moreover, there are neither court documents (such as from the long and drawn-out divorce and child custody proceedings between him and his wife), nor personal letters from Adams, nor directly attributable statements by any alleged male lovers, to support the assertions. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Filmography">Filmography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Filmography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Film </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Role </th> <th class="unsortable">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1952 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Somebody_Loves_Me_(film)" title="Somebody Loves Me (film)">Somebody Loves Me</a></i> </td> <td>Western Union boy </td> <td>Uncredited </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5">1955 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Strange_Lady_in_Town" title="Strange Lady in Town">Strange Lady in Town</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Billy_the_Kid" title="Billy the Kid">Billy the Kid</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Mister_Roberts_(1955_film)" title="Mister Roberts (1955 film)">Mister Roberts</a></i> </td> <td>Reber </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Rebel_Without_a_Cause" title="Rebel Without a Cause">Rebel Without a Cause</a></i> </td> <td>Chick </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Picnic_(1955_film)" title="Picnic (1955 film)">Picnic</a></i> </td> <td>Bomber </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/I_Died_a_Thousand_Times" title="I Died a Thousand Times">I Died a Thousand Times</a></i> </td> <td>Bell Boy </td> <td>Uncredited </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4">1956 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Our_Miss_Brooks" title="Our Miss Brooks">Our Miss Brooks</a></i> </td> <td>Gary Nolan </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/A_Strange_Adventure" title="A Strange Adventure">A Strange Adventure</a></i> </td> <td>Phil Davis </td> <td>Alternative title: <i>White Nightmare</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Wagon_(1956_film)" title="The Last Wagon (1956 film)">The Last Wagon</a></i> </td> <td>Ridge </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Giant_(1956_film)" title="Giant (1956 film)">Giant</a></i> </td> <td>Jett Rink </td> <td>Voice, Uncredited </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1957 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Fury_at_Showdown" title="Fury at Showdown">Fury at Showdown</a></i> </td> <td>Tracy Mitchell </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Sweet_Smell_of_Success" title="Sweet Smell of Success">Sweet Smell of Success</a></i> </td> <td>Hot-Dog Stand Customer </td> <td>Uncredited </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1958 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Sing,_Boy,_Sing" class="mw-redirect" title="Sing, Boy, Sing">Sing, Boy, Sing</a></i> </td> <td>C.K. Judd </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Teacher%27s_Pet_(1958_film)" title="Teacher's Pet (1958 film)">Teacher's Pet</a></i> </td> <td>Barney Kovac </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/No_Time_for_Sergeants_(1958_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="No Time for Sergeants (1958 film)">No Time for Sergeants</a></i> </td> <td>Pvt. Benjamin B. Whitledge </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1959 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_FBI_Story" title="The FBI Story">The FBI Story</a></i> </td> <td>John Gilbert "Jack" Graham </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Pillow_Talk_(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pillow Talk (film)">Pillow Talk</a></i> </td> <td>Tony Walters </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1962 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Hell_Is_for_Heroes_(film)" title="Hell Is for Heroes (film)">Hell is for Heroes</a></i> </td> <td>Homer Janeczek </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Interns_(film)" title="The Interns (film)">The Interns</a></i> </td> <td>Dr. Sid Lackland </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/A_Girl_Named_Tamiko" title="A Girl Named Tamiko">A Girl Named Tamiko</a></i> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1963 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hook_(1963_film)" title="The Hook (1963 film)">The Hook</a></i> </td> <td>Pvt. V.R. Hackett </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Twilight_of_Honor" title="Twilight of Honor">Twilight of Honor</a></i> </td> <td>Ben Brown </td> <td>Alternative title: <i>The Charge is Murder</i><br />Nominated for the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor" title="Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor">Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1964 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Young_Lovers_(1964_film)" title="The Young Lovers (1964 film)">The Young Lovers</a></i> </td> <td>Tarragoo </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4">1965 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Young_Dillinger" title="Young Dillinger">Young Dillinger</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Dillinger" title="John Dillinger">John Dillinger</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Frankenstein_vs._Baragon" title="Frankenstein vs. Baragon">Frankenstein vs. Baragon</a></i> </td> <td>Dr. James Bowen </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Die,_Monster,_Die!" title="Die, Monster, Die!">Die, Monster, Die!</a></i> </td> <td>Stephen Reinhart </td> <td>Alternative titles: <i>Monster of Terror</i><br /><i>The House at the End of the World</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Astro-Monster" title="Invasion of Astro-Monster">Invasion of Astro-Monster</a></i> </td> <td>Astronaut Glenn </td> <td>Alternative titles: <i>Monster Zero</i><br /><i>Godzilla vs. Monster Zero</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1966 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Don%27t_Worry,_We%27ll_Think_of_a_Title" title="Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title">Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title</a></i> </td> <td>KEB agent </td> <td>Uncredited </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1967 </td> <td><i>The Killing Bottle</i> </td> <td>John Carter </td> <td>Alternative titles: <i>International Secret Police: Driven to the Wall </i><br /><i>Zettai zatsumi</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Mosby%27s_Marauders" title="Mosby's Marauders">Mosby's Marauders</a></i> </td> <td>Sgt. Gregg </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1968 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Fever_Heat" title="Fever Heat">Fever Heat</a></i> </td> <td>Ace Jones </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Mission_Mars_(film)" title="Mission Mars (film)">Mission Mars</a></i> </td> <td>Nick Grant </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Los Asesinos</i> </td> <td>Shannon </td> <td>(final film role) </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Television </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Role </th> <th class="unsortable">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1956 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_People%27s_Choice_(TV_series)" title="The People's Choice (TV series)">The People's Choice</a></i> </td> <td>Augie </td> <td>Episode: "Sock and Augie" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1957 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Playhouse_90" title="Playhouse 90">Playhouse 90</a></i> </td> <td>Sandy </td> <td>Episode: "The Troublemakers" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1958 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Richard_Diamond,_Private_Detective" title="Richard Diamond, Private Detective">Richard Diamond, Private Detective</a></i> </td> <td>Mickey Houseman </td> <td>Episode: "Juvenile Jacket" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1958 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Wanted_Dead_or_Alive_(TV_series)" title="Wanted Dead or Alive (TV series)">Wanted Dead or Alive</a></i> </td> <td>Andy Martin </td> <td>Episode: "The Martin Poster" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1958 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Cimarron_City_(TV_series)" title="Cimarron City (TV series)">Cimarron City</a></i> </td> <td>John Hartman, Jr. </td> <td>Episode: "Twelve Guns" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1958 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Loretta_Young_Show" title="The Loretta Young Show">Letter to Loretta</a></i> </td> <td>Chip Davidson </td> <td>Episode: "Out of Control" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1958 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Steve_Canyon#Other_media" title="Steve Canyon">Steve Canyon</a></i> </td> <td>Sgt. Korman </td> <td>Episode: "Operation Crash Landing" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1958–1959 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Powell%27s_Zane_Grey_Theatre" title="Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre">Zane Grey Theatre</a></i> </td> <td>Lynn Parsons<br />George Pelletti </td> <td>2 episodes </td></tr> <tr> <td>1958–1959 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Trackdown_(TV_series)" title="Trackdown (TV series)">Trackdown</a></i> </td> <td>Various roles </td> <td>3 episodes </td></tr> <tr> <td>1958–1961 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Wagon_Train" title="Wagon Train">Wagon Train</a></i> </td> <td>Antonio "Tonio"<br />Sam Upton </td> <td>2 episodes </td></tr> <tr> <td>1959 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Yancy_Derringer" title="Yancy Derringer">Yancy Derringer</a></i> </td> <td>Duke Alexis </td> <td>Episode: "The Night the Russians Landed" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1959 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Tales_of_Wells_Fargo" title="Tales of Wells Fargo">Tales of Wells Fargo</a></i> </td> <td>Ira Watkins </td> <td>Episode: "The Tired Gun" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1959 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_David_Niven_Show" title="The David Niven Show">The David Niven Show</a></i> </td> <td> </td> <td>Episode: "Portrait" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1959–1961 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rebel_(American_TV_series)" title="The Rebel (American TV series)">The Rebel</a></i> </td> <td>Johnny Yuma </td> <td>76 episodes<br />Wrote 38 episodes, credited as creator </td></tr> <tr> <td>1961–1962 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dick_Powell_Show" title="The Dick Powell Show">The Dick Powell Show</a></i> </td> <td>Nick Phillips<br />George Townsend </td> <td>2 episodes </td></tr> <tr> <td>1961–1962 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/General_Electric_Theater" title="General Electric Theater">General Electric Theater</a></i> </td> <td>Paul Madsen<br />Richard Martin </td> <td>2 episodes </td></tr> <tr> <td>1962 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Checkmate_(American_TV_series)" title="Checkmate (American TV series)">Checkmate</a></i> </td> <td>Weiler aka "Kid" </td> <td>Episode: "A Chant of Silence" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1962 </td> <td>'<a href="/wiki/The_Joey_Bishop_Show_(sitcom)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Joey Bishop Show (sitcom)">The Joey Bishop Show</a>' </td> <td>Singer Snooky Bradford </td> <td>Episode: The Big Date </td></tr> <tr> <td>1962–1963 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Saints_and_Sinners_(1962_TV_series)" title="Saints and Sinners (1962 TV series)">Saints and Sinners</a></i> </td> <td>Nick Alexander </td> <td>18 episodes </td></tr> <tr> <td>1963 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/77_Sunset_Strip" title="77 Sunset Strip">77 Sunset Strip</a></i> </td> <td>Max Dent </td> <td>Episode: "By His Own Verdict" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1963–1965 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Burke%27s_Law_(1963_TV_series)" title="Burke's Law (1963 TV series)">Burke's Law</a></i> </td> <td>Various roles </td> <td>5 episodes </td></tr> <tr> <td>1963–1967 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Combat!_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Combat! (TV series)">Combat!</a></i> </td> <td>Pvt. Mick Hellar<br />Cpl. Marty Roberts </td> <td>2 episodes </td></tr> <tr> <td>1964 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Arrest_and_Trial" title="Arrest and Trial">Arrest and Trial</a></i> </td> <td>Ronnie Blake </td> <td>Episode: "A Roll of the Dice" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1964 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Outer_Limits_(1963_TV_series)" title="The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)">The Outer Limits</a></i> </td> <td>Mike Benson </td> <td>Episode: "Fun and Games" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1964 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Reporter_(TV_series)" title="The Reporter (TV series)">The Reporter</a></i> </td> <td>Roger </td> <td>Episode: "How Much for a Prince?" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1964 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Voyage_to_the_Bottom_of_the_Sea_(TV_series)" title="Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)">Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea</a></i> </td> <td>Jason Kemp </td> <td>Episode: "Turn Back the Clock" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1964 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Rawhide_(TV_series)" title="Rawhide (TV series)">Rawhide</a></i> </td> <td>Corporal Dasovik </td> <td>Episode: "Corporal Dasovik" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1965 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Ben_Casey" title="Ben Casey">Ben Casey</a></i> </td> <td>Orin Reid </td> <td>Episode: "Three Li'l Lambs" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1966–1968 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wild_Wild_West" title="The Wild Wild West">The Wild Wild West</a></i> </td> <td>Prince/Sheriff Dave Cord </td> <td>Episode/S3 E18 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1967 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney_anthology_television_series" class="mw-redirect" title="Walt Disney anthology television series">The Wonderful World of Disney</a></i> </td> <td>Sergeant Gregg </td> <td>2 episodes </td></tr> <tr> <td>1967 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Monroes_(1966_TV_series)" title="The Monroes (1966 TV series)">The Monroes</a></i> </td> <td>Dave </td> <td>Episode: "Gun Bound" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1967 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Hondo_(TV_series)" title="Hondo (TV series)">Hondo</a></i> </td> <td>Apache Kid </td> <td>2 episodes </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes_and_references">Notes and references</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Notes and references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>: <span lang="uk">Ніколас Алоізіус Адемшок</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Ukrainian" title="Romanization of Ukrainian">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Ukrainian-language romanization"><i lang="uk-Latn"><span title="Ukrainian National system of romanization"><i lang="uk-Latn">Nikolas Aloizius Ademshok</i></span></i></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dan Pavlides, Fandango, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fandango.com/feverheat_v91230/summary">Fever Heat synopsis</a></i>. 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(September 11, 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3rmJCgAAQBAJ&q=%22Nick+Adams%22+ukrainian&pg=PA8"><i>Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases</i></a>. McFarland. p. 8. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781476608075" title="Special:BookSources/9781476608075"><bdi>9781476608075</bdi></a> – via Google Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Suicide+in+the+Entertainment+Industry%3A+An+Encyclopedia+of+840+Twentieth+Century+Cases&rft.pages=8&rft.pub=McFarland&rft.date=2015-09-11&rft.isbn=9781476608075&rft.aulast=Frasier&rft.aufirst=David+K.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D3rmJCgAAQBAJ%26q%3D%2522Nick%2BAdams%2522%2Bukrainian%26pg%3DPA8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANick+Adams+%28actor%2C+born+1931%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-crimemagazine.com-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-crimemagazine.com_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-crimemagazine.com_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-crimemagazine.com_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-crimemagazine.com_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWinkler2009" class="citation web cs1">Winkler, Peter L. (October 30, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.crimemagazine.com/nick-adams-his-hollywood-life-and-death">"Nick Adams: His Hollywood Life and Death"</a>. <i>Crimemagazine.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 31,</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Crimemagazine.com&rft.atitle=Nick+Adams%3A+His+Hollywood+Life+and+Death&rft.date=2009-10-30&rft.aulast=Winkler&rft.aufirst=Peter+L.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crimemagazine.com%2Fnick-adams-his-hollywood-life-and-death&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANick+Adams+%28actor%2C+born+1931%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Joe_Hyams" title="Joe Hyams">Hyams, Joe</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rhUfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DpoEAAAAIBAJ&dq=nick-adams%20henry-snyder&pg=7162%2C3709864">"It's More Than A Role: TV's Nick Adams Is <i>The Rebel</i>"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tuscaloosa_News" title="The Tuscaloosa News">The Tuscaloosa News</a></i>, December 25, 1960. Accessed July 23, 2019. "'I remember when I was in Henry Snyder High School in Jersey I was a three letter man but I couldn't make the senior class play.'"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-coast_guard-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-coast_guard_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-coast_guard_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://coastguard.togetherweserved.com/uscg/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=LegacySBV&type=Person&ID=10000">Adams, Nick, EM2 - Deceased.</a> Together We Served. Retrieved February 22, 2024.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This commercial is widely and reliably cited as James Dean's first paid work as an actor, but Adams's participation is only ambiguously confirmed. Many Internet accounts describe it as a <a href="/wiki/Pepsi" title="Pepsi">Pepsi-Cola</a> commercial, but it may have been for <a href="/wiki/Coca-Cola" title="Coca-Cola">Coca-Cola</a>. A few accounts say Adams was called back (with Dean and another actress) for a second day of interior shots around a jukebox.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jack Grinnage, American Legends, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.americanlegends.com/actors/james%20dean/jack_grinnage.html">James Dean</a></i>. Retrieved December 6, 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">James Dean, Tribute to a Legend, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.deanfan4ever.com/bio2.htm">Bio</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080106191529/http://www.deanfan4ever.com/bio2.htm">Archived</a> January 6, 2008, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></i>. Retrieved December 6, 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Elaine_Dundy" title="Elaine Dundy">Elaine Dundy</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Elvis_and_Gladys" title="Elvis and Gladys">Elvis and Gladys</a></i> (University Press of Mississippi, 2004), p.260, He wrote to Dundy saying, "I was a friend of James Dean."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Photograph of Adams at Dean gravesite in Fairmount, Indiana, abt 1956, viewed December 7, 2007</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://images.heritagecoin.com/images/HNAI/75/616/616001065o.jpg">Nick Adams' letter to a certain Caroline (obverse)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061019224235/http://images.heritagecoin.com/images/HNAI/75/616/616001065o.jpg">Archived</a> October 19, 2006, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://images.heritagecoin.com/images/HNAI/75/616/616001065r.jpg">(reverse)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070927035513/http://images.heritagecoin.com/images/HNAI/75/616/616001065r.jpg">Archived</a> September 27, 2007, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>: "I think you're wonderful for thinking so much of Jimmy. I've just written a story about him in the September issue of <i>Screen Stars</i>. ... He was the most wonderful, kindest guy in the whole world. The article about Jimmy and Vampira was not true. Jimmy smoked Viceroys most of the time. I'm enclosing a picture of Jimmy from a scene in <i>Giant</i>. I wish I could send you something of his but I only have a few things of his and I would never part with them ... Jimmy would have liked you very much if he had known you. ... PS: I'm also returning your quarter. I could never accept any money from someone as wonderful as you!"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Guralnick" title="Peter Guralnick">Peter Guralnick</a>, <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Last_Train_to_Memphis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Last Train to Memphis (page does not exist)">Last Train to Memphis</a></i>, page 328 "On his second day of filming on the set of <i>Love Me Tender</i> he met twenty-five-year-old Nick Adams, a Hollywood hustler who had originally brazened his way into the cast of <i><a href="/wiki/Mister_Roberts_(1955_film)" title="Mister Roberts (1955 film)">Mister Roberts</a></i> two years before by doing impressions of the star, Jimmy Cagney, for director John Ford."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Elaine Dundy, <i><a href="/wiki/Elvis_and_Gladys" title="Elvis and Gladys">Elvis and Gladys</a></i> (1985) p. 250</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Elaine Dundy, <i>Elvis and Gladys</i>, p. 250.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Guralnick, <i>Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley</i>, pp. 336, 339.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.elvispresleynews.com/RedWest01.html">Red West Interview</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061008222528/http://www.elvispresleynews.com/RedWest01.html">Archived</a> October 8, 2006, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. <a href="/wiki/Memphis_Mafia" title="Memphis Mafia">Memphis Mafia</a> member <a href="/wiki/Red_West" title="Red West">Red West</a> later wrote Adams "was a friend of Elvis's and I went to Hollywood and met him. He helped me get into the first door and then <a href="/wiki/Robert_Conrad" title="Robert Conrad">Robert Conrad</a> who did <i><a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_Eye" title="Hawaiian Eye">Hawaiian Eye</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wild_Wild_West" title="The Wild Wild West">Wild Wild West</a></i>, we played football every Sunday when Elvis got back and all those people would come out ..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Guralnick, <i>Last Train to Memphis</i>, pp. 339–340.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Her account is supported by Robert W. Dye, <i>The Mid-south Fair, (Tn): Celebrating 150 Years</i> (2006), p.114. After Presley completed filming he was booked to perform a large outdoor show in <a href="/wiki/Tupelo,_Mississippi" title="Tupelo, Mississippi">Tupelo, Mississippi</a>, where he "arrived on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle with Nick Adams."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Guralnick, <i>Last Train to Memphis</i>, p. 410.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-adams-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-adams_21-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-adams_21-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-adams_21-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Cited in Guralnick, <i>Last Train to Memphis</i>, pp. 347–348. "He started telling her all about Nick and Nick's friends and <a href="/wiki/James_Dean" title="James Dean">Jimmy Dean</a>, but she didn't want to hear."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Guralnick, <i>Last Train to Memphis</i>, pp. 347–348.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See Trude Forsher Archive, Letter of Authenticity from Mrs. Forsher's son. From 1956–1961, Trude Forsher was Elvis Presley's and Colonel Tom Parker's personal secretary. Her vast collection of Elvis memorabilia remained with her family for almost 50 years.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.allysonadams.com/rebelandtheking">"The Rebel & The King"</a>. <i>Allyson Adams</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Allyson+Adams&rft.atitle=The+Rebel+%26+The+King&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.allysonadams.com%2Frebelandtheking&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANick+Adams+%28actor%2C+born+1931%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Johnson, Brett (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/05/the-rebel-and-the-king-allyson-adams_n_2070082.html">"'The Rebel and the King': Allyson Adams Finds Late Father's Book About Elvis, Decides to Publish It,"</a> reprint by <i><a href="/wiki/HuffPost" title="HuffPost">The Huffington Post</a></i> (November 3, 2012) of original article published in <i>Ventura County Star.</i> Retrieved April 21, 2017.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Television Obscurities, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/rebel/">The Rebel</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged February 2018">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></i>, October 14, 2003. Retrieved December 5, 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-outer-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-outer_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">davidjschow.com, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.davidjschow.com/limits/ol_episodes2.html#fun">The Outer Limits — Fun and Games</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080227101046/http://www.davidjschow.com/limits/ol_episodes2.html#fun">Archived</a> February 27, 2008, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></i>, episode reviews written 1998–2001. Retrieved March 6, 2008.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Adams once asked Tsuchiya how to say "good morning" in Japanese, but he instead taught Adams how to say "I'm hungry" (Adams was on a strict diet at the time and nearly fainted during filming). Later, when shooting a scene, Adams got even by saying to Tsuchiya in Japanese, "You're overacting!" Before leaving Toho, Adams wanted a picture of Tsuchiya, who at first thought he was just flattering him, but he said he really wanted something to remember him by. Before leaving Toho, Adams gave one of his formal outfits to <a href="/wiki/Akira_Kubo" title="Akira Kubo">Akira Kubo</a> (who co-starred in <i>Monster Zero</i> as the meek inventor Tetsuo Torî) because, according to Kubo, "the suit fit me."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061875/">"The Killing Bottle (1967) - IMDb"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/IMDb" title="IMDb">IMDb</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=IMDb&rft.atitle=The+Killing+Bottle+%281967%29+-+IMDb&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0061875%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANick+Adams+%28actor%2C+born+1931%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Westfahl-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Westfahl_30-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Westfahl_30-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Gary_Westfahl" title="Gary Westfahl">Gary Westfahl</a>, the SciFi site, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sfsite.com/gary/adam01.htm">Nick Adams</a></i>. Retrieved December 5, 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-tuscaloosa-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-tuscaloosa_31-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-tuscaloosa_31-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19661129&id=LQAdAAAAIBAJ&pg=5030,5225226">"Actor Nick Adams Sued For Divorce"</a>. <i>The Tuscaloosa News</i>. November 29, 1966. p. 16<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 31,</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Tuscaloosa+News&rft.atitle=Actor+Nick+Adams+Sued+For+Divorce&rft.pages=16&rft.date=1966-11-29&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.google.com%2Fnewspapers%3Fnid%3D1817%26dat%3D19661129%26id%3DLQAdAAAAIBAJ%26pg%3D5030%2C5225226&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANick+Adams+%28actor%2C+born+1931%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-lawrence-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-lawrence_32-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19680208&id=DLgrAAAAIBAJ&pg=7184,3997770">"Actor Nick Adams Dies at His Home of Natural Causes"</a>. <i>Lawrence Journal-World</i>. February 8, 1968. p. 12<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 31,</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Lawrence+Journal-World&rft.atitle=Actor+Nick+Adams+Dies+at+His+Home+of+Natural+Causes&rft.pages=12&rft.date=1968-02-08&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.google.com%2Fnewspapers%3Fnid%3D2199%26dat%3D19680208%26id%3DDLgrAAAAIBAJ%26pg%3D7184%2C3997770&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANick+Adams+%28actor%2C+born+1931%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Steve Ryfle, <i>Japan's Favorite Mon-Star: The Unauthorized Biography of "The Big G."</i>, p.130.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Susan Strasberg, <i>Bittersweet</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Steve Ryfle, <i>Japan's Favorite Mon-Star: The Unauthorized Biography of "The Big G."</i>, p.130</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Barret, <i>Miss Rona</i> (1974)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See Val Holley, <i>Mike Connolly and the Manly Art of Hollywood Gossip</i> (2003), p. 22.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <i>American Film</i>, published by the American Film Institute, 1986, p. 48.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Leigh W. Rutledge, <i>The Gay Book of Lists</i> (2003), p. 27. Rutledge writes that James Dean "claimed to have worked, with his friend Nick Adams, as a street hustler after he first arrived in Hollywood."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">cybersleuths.com, Bill Kelly, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cybersleuths.com/features/features2a.html">The Unsolved Death of Nick Adams</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071216080703/http://www.cybersleuths.com/features/features2a.html">Archived</a> December 16, 2007, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></i>, retrieved December 30, 2007, Kelly notes Adams "... grew up in the smoky pool halls of Jersey City" and later in Hollywood "... fell back on his old skills as a pool hustler, his means of survival in Jersey City."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Albert Goldman, <i>Elvis</i> (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981), p. 215.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">John Gregory Dunne, <i>Regards: The Selected Nonfiction of John Gregory Dunne</i> (2005), p.242.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See Eric Braun, <i>Frightening the Horses: Gay Icons of the Cinema</i> (2002), p.186.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Byron Raphael with <a href="/wiki/Alanna_Nash" title="Alanna Nash">Alanna Nash</a>, "In Bed with Elvis", <i>Playboy</i>, November 2005, Vol. 52, Iss. 11.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gavin Lambert, <i>Natalie Wood: A Life</i> (2004) p. 199</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See Robert Hofler, <i>The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson</i> (2005), p.205.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Suzanne Finstad, <i>Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood</i>, p.190.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Michael G. Fitzgerald and Boyd Magers, <i>Ladies of the Western: Interviews with Fifty-One More Actresses from the Silent Era to the Television Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s</i> (2002), p.266.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bill Kelly, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cybersleuths.com/features/features2a.html">The Unsolved Death of Nick Adams</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071216080703/http://www.cybersleuths.com/features/features2a.html">Archived</a> December 16, 2007, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></i>, retrieved December 5, 2007, please note however, although Kelly knew Adams, this article contains several verifiable errors of fact.</span> </li> </ol></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite 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