Stanley Adams (1907 - 1994) was a U.S. lyricist and songwriter. He wrote the English lyrics for the song What a Diff'rence a Day Makes (song written by Mexican composer Maria Mendez Grever in 1934) and the English lyrics for La Cucaracha. He was the president of ASCAP between 1953 and 1956, and again from 1959 until 1980.
Stanley Adams (April 7, 1915 – April 27, 1977) was an American actor and screenwriter.
Born in New York City, he came to films permanently in 1952, when he played the bartender in the movie version of Death of a Salesman, and another conniving barkeep in The Gene Krupa Story.
He is well-known for playing Cyrano Jones in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" which aired in 1967. During the following season he co-wrote the Star Trek episode "The Mark of Gideon". He appeared at a number of Star Trek conventions in the 1970s and is remembered as very friendly and gracious toward his fans. Archive footage of Adams was used in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Trials and Tribble-ations".
He played Otis Campbell's brother on an episode of The Andy Griffith Show who berated Otis for being the town drunk but turned out to be one himself.
His other roles on TV shows include a time travelling scientist and a bartender on The Twilight Zone, "King Kaliwani" in the finale episode of Gilligan's Island and "Tybo" the carrot leader of the vegetable rebellion on Lost In Space. He also played Bernie the foulmouth caller in the 1974 action/adventure movie Act of Vengeance and the Chicano cafe owner in Lilies of the Field. He played Rusty Trawler, "the 9th richest man in America under 50" in the classic Audrey Hepburn film Breakfast at Tiffany's
He died in 1977 as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 62.
Stanley Adams (born c1927) is a former pharmaceutical company executive and corporate whistleblower, whose case was a cause-celebre in the 1970s.
The Malta-born Adams was a senior executive with the Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-LaRoche when in 1973 he discovered documents which indicated that the company was involved in price-fixing to artificially inflate the price of vitamins. He passed on the documents to the competition commission of the European Economic Community, aware that Switzerland, while not part of the EEC, had a free trade agreement with it.
The EEC failed to keep his name confidential during its investigation, passing documents containing Adams' name to Hoffman La Roche. Adams was arrested and charged with industrial espionage and theft. He was held in solitary confinement for three months. Adams' wife was told that he faced a 20-year jail term for industrial espionage. She committed suicide. In the end, Adams served six months in a Swiss prison. When released, he fled to the United Kingdom and, with the assistance of a number of Labour Party MPs, notably John Prescott, later deputy party leader, he attempted to recover compensation from both the Swiss government and the European union. In 1985 the European Union agreed to pay Adams £200,000, about 40% of his total costs. He documented the saga in Roche vs Adams.
In 1985, he was elected rector of St Andrews University (a student-elected post). In 1993 he was convicted of hiring a hit-man to kill his second wife for the insurance money, and served five years in prison.
