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Nick Adams
Occupation:
Actor
Born:
07-10-1931
Died:
02-07-1968
Remembered Best As:
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.
Suicide/Overdose:
Suicide
Biography
Nick Adams, best known to audiences as Johnny Yuma of the TV series The Rebel (1959), played leads and supporting parts in many films of the 1950s, often cast in the same "troubled young man" mold as his good friend, James Dean. He was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in Twilight of Honor (1963) He died in 1968 due to an overdose of drugs he was taking for a nervous disorder.
- source1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams_(actor)
- Sources2 - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011244/bio
- image1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nick_Adams_The_Rebel_1959.JPG
- image2 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AdamsNugent1959.jpg
- image3 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nick_Adams_The_Rebel.JPG