Dallas Adams

Dallas Adams
Born
Dallas Roland Adams

(1947-02-17)17 February 1947
Islington, London, England
Died29 August 1991(1991-08-29) (aged 44)
Camden, London, England
OccupationActor
TelevisionSpace: 1999
Bergerac
Doctor Who

Dallas Roland Adams (17 February 1947 – 29 August 1991) was an English actor noted for his television performances.

His television credits include Strange Report, Thriller, Space: 1999, Bergerac, Doctor Who (in the serial Planet of Fire), Robin of Sherwood and Agatha Christie's Poirot,[1] and his film credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), Frankenstein: The True Story (1973), From Beyond the Grave (1974), Gulag (1985) and King Ralph (1991).[2]

Adams, who started his career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1968 was also a painter and a playwright.[3] His working-class family (his mother worked as a cleaner , and his father Alec as a taxi driver ) moved from Islington to the L.C.C. Estate at South Oxhey near Watford in the 1950s , where they lived in Little Oxhey Lane.

According to the audio memoirs of John Nathan-Turner, in the early 1980s, Adams was the largest gay palimony lawsuit winner in English legal history, and his casting in Doctor Who had been criticised by homophobic elements in the British tabloid press.[4] He died in Camden, London in 1991 of AIDS, aged 44.[5]

Partial filmography

References

  1. ^ "Dallas Adams : Actor - Films, episodes and roles on digiguide.tv".
  2. ^ "Dallas Adams". Archived from the original on 23 September 2020.
  3. ^ Selway, Mary (10 September 1991). "Migratory talent". The Guardian. p. 35 – via ProQuest.
  4. ^ The John Nathan-Turner Memoirs: Volume 2
  5. ^ Mulkern, Patrick (29 March 2012). "Planet of Fire". Radio Times. London. Retrieved 14 January 2013.


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