Stanley Adams
Nascimento : 1915-04-07, New York City, New York, USA
Morte : 1977-04-27
História
Stocky character actor Stanley Adams had a relatively minor career in motion pictures, with the possible exception of his baby-faced millionaire Rusty Trawler of Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) fame. Otherwise, he played innumerable minor ethnic villains, bartenders and avuncular, fast-talking characters, known in the credits only by their first names. In other words, most of his roles were rather small. On television, conversely, he proved himself quite a scene-stealer, particularly in the 1960's and early 70's, when his face appeared on just about every major show. He was at his best as pool hustler Sure-shot Wilson in an episode of The Odd Couple (1970), Rollo, a quirky time-traveling scientist on Twilight Zone (1959), and - famously - as 'asteroid detecting', tribble dealing galactic entrepreneur Cyrano Jones on Star Trek (1966). Alas, he was also a space carrot named Tybo on Lost in Space (1965)....
His suicide in April 1977 has been attributed to severe depression as a result of a back injury, sustained earlier in the decade. Apart from the obvious pain, it would almost certainly have limited his employment opportunities.
Date of Death 27 April 1977, Santa Monica, California (suicide)
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Fifty years after the original Star Trek first arrived on television, is there anything about Gene Roddenberry's space opera that hasn't been uncovered? Plenty! On December 13, 2016 fans can experience Star Trek: The Original Series - The Roddenberry Vault, a newly produced multi-part documentary featuring footage from the cutting room floor, long preserved in film canisters by the Roddenberry Estate. The origins of the classic series are explored with new interviews featuring cast and production personnel combined with newly-found deleted scenes, alternate angles, outtakes, behind the scenes moments, and original visual effects elements to tell the definitive story on the making and enduring legacy of Gene Roddenberry's creation.
Dade McCrutchen
When their moonshiner father is killed by a corrupt deputy, two young girls decide to take over his business and get revenge on the men who had him killed
Freddy
An aging street cop goes after a gang of toughs involved in several robbery-rapes on his beat in this pilot (a spin-off from "Police Story") for the 1975-76 series. The veteran cop concept also was the basis for "The Blue Knight" series at the same time — and that, too, was based on a Joseph Wambaugh creation. Also known as "The Return of Joe Forrester."
Bernie / Foul Mouth
A woman is sexually assaulted by a serial rapist wearing a hockey mask. She and other victims form a squad that targets would-be rapists, all the while searching for the mask wearing maniac that raped them all.
Carl Swafford
A scientist discovers a plot to clone other scientists so the government can control the weather.
Truck Driver
A newspaper publisher listens to the personal tapes of investigative reporter David Norliss, who has disappeared during an investigation. The tapes tell the story of that investigation, involving a recent widow whose late husband has been seen working in his private studio. As Norliss and the widow investigate, they unravel a plot involving Voodoo and the walking dead.
Bus Driver
A male chauvinist architect pressured into hiring a feminist as his assistant finds himself falling for her.
President of Persia
Nixon and Agnew played as Laurel and Hardy.
Stomach Operator
Woody Allen pega o livro sobre sexo de David Reuben e explora seus capítulos humoristicamente. Dentre as principais sequencias, o filme mostra o corpo humano por dentro, em pleno ato sexual, um cientista que quer criar a máquina de sexo, a mulher que só tem orgasmo em locais perigosos, dentre outras.
Fred Hurley
Carl Kolchak é um repórter que investiga estranhos assassinatos de coristas em Las Vegas. Ele descobre que Janos Skorzeny, um vampiro, está por trás dos crimes. Kolchak tenta convencer seu editor sobre a natureza vampírica do assassino mas ninguém o leva a sério. Ele se vê obrigado a combater o mal sozinho.
Irwin Blair
The Seven Minutes is a steamy book written in 1969. To help with an upcoming election, a bookstore clerk is indicted for selling obscene material and most of the film centers about the trial. The defense attorneys need to find the mystery of the original publication of the book.
Granger
A Mexican bandit and his gang are offered a pardon and a cash reward if he will cross the border into America and bring back a gang of murderous gold thieves who robbed the local church and killed the priest and the Head Federales' wife and children.
Wally
Ryan O'Neal plays Russ Emery, a glib engineer who steals the heart of a fashion model named Sheila Blunden. She in turn leaves her jet setter fiance who turns out to be a psychotic who will not let go of Sheila that easily.
Buddy Miller
A British Columbia teenager dreams of show business but winds up as a call girl in Las Vegas.
Captain Roach
Guy Lambert decide levar seu show de Londres para Bruxelas. O que ele não sabe é que também está levando duas beldades, que o seguem secretamente. Uma (Annette Day) é uma herdeira apaixonada, a outra (Yvonne Romain) uma enigmática tentação. Uma é pouco, mas duas podem ser demais para o desencanado Guy. Comédia, mistério e caos se combinam em Canções e Confusões. Elvis Presley interpreta Guy, nesse filme que mistura o desaparecimento de pedras preciosas, detetives de sobretudo e mais. E no meio de tudo isso, um homem tem que fazer o que um homem tem que fazer: interpretar uma fantástica trilha que inclui Double Trouble, City By Night, Could I Fall in Love?, Long-Legged Girl e There s So Much World to See. Com Elvis Presley, até os confusões são pura diversão.
Mac
Stock car racer Tommy Callahan is forced to join Pete Madsen's thrill circus after his blackouts cause a fatal accident that gets him thrown off the circuit.
Storekeeper
Nevada Smith é o jovem filho de uma mãe índia e pai branco. Quando seu pai é morto por três homens por causa de ouro, Nevada sai em busca de vingança. O menino é levado por um comerciante de armas que ensina como carregar e disparar rápido e certeiro.
Stanley
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.
Lank
A playboy helps a young woman turn her father's Nevada ranch into a haven for divorcees.
Hutten
1933: Um transatlântico pertencente a uma empresa alemã de segunda categoria está fazendo uma viagem de 26 dias partindo de Veracruz, México, para Bremerhaven, Alemanha. Ao longo do caminho ele vai parar em Cuba para pegar um grande grupo de trabalhadores agrícolas espanhóis que estão sendo enviados para casa e que serão alojadas como gado na terceira classe. Vão também pegar La Condesa, uma condessa espanhola. Vão parar em Tenerife, onde os trabalhadores agrícolas irão desembarcar e onde La Condesa será enviado para uma prisão alemã por suas atividades "traidoras" em Cuba. Esta viagem será a última de três para o médico do navio, Willi Schumann, que tem uma doença cardíaca grave e que pensou que poderia encontrar algum sentido para sua vida através deste trabalho. Willi e La Condesa se apaixonam e o capitão do navio Thiele, que é o melhor amigo de Willie a bordo, acreditando que a viciada em drogas La Condesa está apenas usando-o para obter suas doses.
Bernie (uncredited)
A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason. Airliner crashes near Los Angeles due to unusual string of coincidences. Stewardess, who is sole survivor, joins airline executives in discovering the causes of the crash.
Harry
Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.
Employment Service Official (uncredited)
An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.
Mayor of Man La Loquet
Cognac, um poodle mimado, que é estrela de TV na França, cria problemas para o casamento de Giselle, sua bela dona. Ele não consegue conter os ciúmes do novo marido de Giselle.
Juan
Homer Smith, um trabalhador da construção civil desempregado, dirigindo-se a oeste para em uma fazenda remota no deserto para conseguir um pouco de água quando seu carro superaquece. A fazenda está sendo cuidada por um grupo de freiras católicas do Leste Europeu, chefiada pela rígida Madre Maria, que acredita que Homer foi enviado por Deus para construir uma capela muito necessária no deserto.
Bartender
Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage.
Perelli (as Stan Adams)
Mountain Rivera (Anthony Quinn) é um lutador de boxe à beira da aposentadoria que não consegue arrumar um emprego normal e é obrigado por seu empresário a participar de lutas-livres, daquelas que mais parecem um circo.
Finney
Walt Sherill is attacked and beat down by a group of juvenile delinquents on his way home from work one night. The boys who attacked him are not previously known by the police and are therefore hard to track down. As Sherill starts getting impatient he begins his own investigation. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Koleski does his best to track down the culprits.
Noomie
Ira Hayes, a young Pima Indian, enlists in the Marine Corps. At boot camp, he is shunned and mocked by everyone, aside from a Marine named Sorenson, who he befriends. They happen to be two of the six marines captured in the famous photograph of Marines raising the U.S. flag on Suribachi during the battle of Iwo Jima, but Sorenson is killed soon after. Although he is hailed as a hero, Ira's life begins to spiral out of control after the war.
Grumpy
Em um dos grandes estúdios de Hollywood, a Paramutual Pictures, o big boss da companhia, T.P. (Brian Donlevy), está muito irritado, pois a empresa dia a dia está perdendo dinheiro. Porém isto não acontece na bilheteria, e sim dentro do próprio estúdio. Durante uma reunião de diretoria, onde o assunto é levantado, T.P. apresenta para os diretores um técnico em eficiência, mas Irma (Isolbel Elsom), uma das sócias da companhia, se indispõe com ele, dizendo que isto não ira funcionar. O técnico se retira irritado, então T.P. e a diretoria concluem que precisam de uma pessoa totalmente desconhecida para fazer esta inspeção. Eles acabam escolhendo um colocador de cartazes, Morty S. Tashman (Jerry Lewis), que é uma pessoa muito boa e honesta, mas com uma incrível capacidade de arrumar confusões.
Rusty Trawler
Holly Golightly quer viver intensamente e casar com um bom partido. Mas quando o caso amoroso com um potencial escritor ameaça transformar-se na única coisa que receia - o verdadeiro amor -, o cenário muda radicalmente.
Montbars
After a lengthy voyage, Capt. Bart docks his ship in a London harbor and is given a new mission by British Admiralty: capture the notorious Henry Morgan, a pirate who has been wreaking havoc throughout the Caribbean. After recruiting some former shipmates for his crew, Capt. Bart sets sail in search of the infamous buccaneer, and is joined by a beautiful female stowaway in the process.
Warden Kvetch
A genie turned mortal after his many failures is sent to Baghdad. As his last chance to prove himself he must help a prince and princess fulfill a prophecy.
Breezy
Faroeste que mistura comédia e aventura, cuja ação ambientada durante a corrida do ouro no Alasca, conta a história dos amigos Sam (Wayne) e George (Stewart Granger) se aventurando no garimpo. George pede a Sam que busque sua namorada Jennie em Seattle. Mas quando Sam descobre que ela casou-se com outro, ele arquiteta um plano para levar um novo amor para George e convida uma bela dançarina (Capucine) para ser a substituta de Jennie.
Pete (uncredited)
Mitch Barrett becomes embittered because his wife is allowed to die when he can't pay for the medicine she needs. The remorseful townspeople hire Mitch to be a deputy sheriff, thereby enabling him to plot an elaborate bank robbery with the help of an artist, a pickpocket, a gunslinger and a bar-girl.
Cab Driver (uncredited)
An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.
Harry March
Marv needs money. His unemployed dad is so poor that he makes Marv give up half his last six bucks so they can both go on three-dollar dates; he's just lost his scholarship after getting caught writing a term paper for Betty, the prettiest (and only) girl in his class; and Betty herself has told him he doesn't stand a chance with her unless he can give her what she wants most: money, money, money. But Marv has mob ties and Marv knows where to find a million dollars cash.
Lieutenant Harding (uncredited)
O executivo publicitário Roger O. Thornhill é confundido como um agente do governo por um grupo de espiões. A partir daí, envolve-se numa série de desventuras incríveis e passa a ser perseguido tanto pelo governo quanto pelos espiões por todo os Estados Unidos.
Dr. Frank Baxter, with the help of The Mad Hatter and Jabberwock, takes young Judy exploring the world of language, in which she finds out that language is for doing more than just talking.
Joe (uncredited)
Concedido por um pequeno pedaço de terra em um vale exuberante e uma criação de gado pelo generoso proprietário de terras e barão do gado, Dennis Deneen, o antes temido pistoleiro, Steve Sinclair, renunciou à violência, com a intenção de manter a paz na comunidade.
Cabbie (uncredited)
Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake.
Roxy
A ship's captain in the South Seas battles a villainous pearl trader who uses island natives as slaves for his business.
Second Counselor (uncredited)
The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which is a bit hard on the children) and refuses to help a rival town when it's flooded. But rats (seen only as shadows), fleeing the flood, invade Hamelin in droves; a magical piper, whose music only children (and rats) can hear, strikes a bargain...which, once the rats are gone, the Mayor and council renege on, to their subsequent regret.
Herbert Fay Jr.
After WW2, a Los Angeles crime ring uses a complex scheme, involving a freight ship, a junkie, and a corrupt health officer, to smuggle drugs into the USA.
Drummer
A New Mexico Town Marshal, Clay Morgan, known as 'Black Patch' since he had lost an eye in the Civil War, takes his job seriously, especially after an old friend, Hank Danner, arrives in ...
Dr. Jackson
After the American Civil War, former Union Major John Garth marries pretty settler Valerie but tragedy strikes and the two spouses end up in court where they give two different conflicting accounts of their marriage.
Heathcliff
When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son.
Pirelli
An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his manager, despite the efforts of a compassionate young woman who tries to help him recover his self-respect.
Peter von Elda
Cop Andy Doyle investigates a car-bombing murder and the killing of a sleazy modeling agency owner. Are they connected?
Romolo's Attorney (uncredited)
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Honor Farm Guard (uncredited)
Um desequilibrado criminoso cuja mulher, acidentalmente foi morta por um detetive da polícia durante sua prisão, pretende vingar-se matando a esposa do policial.
Master Sergeant
An assortment of American types come together in the Italian campaign of 1944.
Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair Vicker, so he can put his old rackets back into the auto factories. Vickers fights him off, ultimately winning help from Linden's attractive daughter Barbara and from Joni Calvin, Vickers' moll.
Dixie
The pilot, co-pilot, and crew of a bomber try to hit a Korean bridge in bad weather.
Hammy
A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.
Wildcat Hooper
A uranium prospector is eating a peanut butter sandwich in the desert where atom bomb tests are being done. He becomes radioactive, and helps the FBI break up an enemy spy ring.
