Nick Adams (actor)

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Nick Aloysius Adams (born July 10, 1931 in Nanticoke , Pennsylvania , † February 7, 1968 in Beverly Hills , California ; actually Nicholas Aloysius Adamschock ) was an American film actor who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the 1964 Film character assassination by Boris Sagal was nominated.

Life

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The son of a from the Ukraine coming miner initially grew up in his native town, before the family after a deadly mine accident an uncle to Jersey City in New Jersey tarried, where he eventually Garfield grew up. At the time of attending high school , he was offered a position as a player with the St. Louis Cardinals , but declined this because of poor pay and then played for some time with the Jersey City Giants . After attending St. Peter's College , he joined the US Coast Guard from 1952 to 1955 in order to avoid a deployment in the Korean War .

He made his stage debut in a production of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in New York City , in which he played the role of the innocent tramp "Muff Potter", who was accused of murder. He then worked as a ticket teller at the Warners Theater in Beverly Hills, before shortly thereafter making his debut as a film actor in Irving Brecher's Somebody Loves Me (1952) and then taking lessons at Ed Parker's American Kenpo Karate School , where he recorded Elvis Presley and other emerging artists.

After a few more roles, he played the supporting role of "Chick" in 1955 ... because they don't know what they are doing about Nicholas Ray and befriended lead actor James Dean . After his accidental death on September 30, 1955, he collapsed, then began to behave inconsiderately and was arrested within a year for nine speeding violations. After his parole , he tried to find new roles, but was ignored by the larger film production companies .

In the following years he had vast appearances in television series and in a few films and became particularly by the role of "Johnny Yuma" in the television series The Rebel (1959) known before 1963 in character assassination of Boris Sagal the role of "Ben Brown" played. For this he was nominated for the Oscar in the category of best supporting actor, but was defeated at the 1964 Academy Awards by Melvyn Douglas for his appearance in The Wildest Among Thousand . After this defeat he suffered another breakdown and in the following years played again mainly in television series and some films.

Nick Adams death certificate

His other best-known films include No Time for Heroism (1955) by John Ford , Mervyn LeRoy and Joshua Logan , Bed Whispers (1959) by Michael Gordon and Orders from the Dark (1965) by Ishirō Honda .

In 1965 he received a Bronze Wrangler from the Western Heritage Awards along with Bruce Geller , Bernard L. Kowalski , Lionel E. Siegel , John Drew Barrymore and Eric Fleming for his appearance on "Corporal Dasovic" of the television series Thousand Miles of Dust (1959).

He died of an overdose on February 7, 1968 in the bedroom of his house , the exact circumstances of his death being unclear and his best friend, the actor Robert Conrad , assuming an accident.

Adams was married to the actress Carol Nugent from May 11, 1959 until his death and had two children together: the actress Allyson Adams and the actor Jeb Stewart Adams . His sister-in-law was the actress Judy Nugent .

Quotes

  • "I dreamed all my life of being a movie star. Movies were my life. You had to have an escape when you were raised in a basement. I saw all the James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and John Garfield pictures. Odds against the world ... that was my meat. "(I've dreamed of being a movie star all my life. You need an escape growing up in the basement. I've seen all of James Cagney , Humphrey Bogart and John Garfield's films . Chances against the world ... that was the core of my pursuit.)

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Nick Adams  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography: Nick Adams Starpulse.com, accessed February 27, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Adams, Nick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adamschock, Nicholas Aloysius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Nanticoke , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH 7th February 1968
Place of death Beverly Hills , California