Dallas Adams

{{Short description|English actor (1947–1991)}}

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| name = Dallas Adams

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| birth_name = Dallas Roland Adams

| birth_date = {{birth date|1947|2|17|df=y}}

| birth_place = Islington, London, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1991|8|29|1947|2|17|df=y}}

| death_place = Camden, London, England

| occupation = Actor

| television = Space: 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,{{Cite web|url=https://digiguide.tv/celebrity/Dallas+Adams/197190/|title=Dallas Adams : Actor - Films, episodes and roles on digiguide.tv}} 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).{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba5466fe8|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923122816/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba5466fe8|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 September 2020|title = Dallas Adams}}

Adams, who started his career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1968 was also a painter and a playwright.{{Cite news|last=Selway|first=Mary|date=10 September 1991|title=Migratory talent|page=35|work=The Guardian|via=ProQuest}} 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.[http://www.timelash.com/tardis/display.asp?1225 The John Nathan-Turner Memoirs: Volume 2] He died in Camden, London in 1991 of AIDS, aged 44.{{cite web | url= http://www.radiotimes.com/blog/2012-03-29/planet-of-fire | title= Planet of Fire | work=Radio Times | location=London | first=Patrick | last=Mulkern | date=29 March 2012 | accessdate=14 January 2013}}