Nick Adams

Actor | Writer

Date of birth : 07/10/1931

Date of death : 02/07/1968

City of birth : Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, USA

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.