Description:
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.
Birthday
July 10, 1931
Born In
Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, USA
Alternative names
Nikku Adamusu
Height
170 cm
Spouse/Ex-
Carol Nugent May 11, 1959 - February 7, 1968 (his death)
Parents
Peter Adamshock
Trivia
Shortly before his death he bought a plane ticket with his own money and flew to Rome to co-star with Aldo Ray in a sci-fi horror movie called "Murder in the Third Dimension". Once he got there he found out no one had told him the project had been scrapped.
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.
Salaries
$3,000 per week
