Personal Info
Birth date
1931-02-14 (94 Years)
Day of death
2005-06-13
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Northampton, England, UK
Also known as
Jonathan Adams (I)
Jonathan Adams
Biography
Jonathan Adams (14 February 1931 – 13 June 2005) was an English actor, born in Northampton, England.
Filmography
Z-Cars
7
Overview:
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.The BBC Television Shakespeare
6
Overview:
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.Crown Court
5.4
Overview:
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.Howards' Way
5.625
Overview:
The BBC's answer to Dynasty, Howards' Way was launched in 1985 with an enormous 1 million pound budget. The main characters in the show were 'best boat designer in the world' Tom Howard, his boutique running wife Jan Howard, 'I'll have a drink' Jack Rolfe and a nasty man called Ken Masters. It starred Maurice Colbourne.Bergerac
6.667
Overview:
Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.The Wednesday Play
4.5
Overview:
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.Jesus of Nazareth
7.8
Overview:
Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.Dixon of Dock Green
5.3
Overview:
Created by Ted Willis. Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.Sherlock Holmes
8.1
Overview:
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
7.3
Overview:
Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.The Man in Room 17
5.3
Overview:
The Man in Room 17 is a British television series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s, produced by the Northern ITV franchise, Granada Television. Key to the series' success was the involvement of writer/producer Robin Chapman. The show was set in Room 17 of the Department of Social Research, where former wartime agent-turned-criminologist Edwin Oldenshaw solved difficult police cases through theory and discussions with his assistants. The novelty of the series was that Oldenshaw and his colleagues never needed to leave their office in order to resolve cases, preferring to spend their time playing the Japanese board game of Go. They simply provided their prognosis and left the police to do the cleaning up. Different directors were often appointed to film the Room 17 and outside-world scenes independently, to maintain a sense of distance between the two worlds.Kavanagh Q.C.
7
Overview:
James Kavanagh QC is one of the top flight barristers in Britain. Each episode has him handling challenging cases and defendants which put his skills to the test regularly.Maigret
6.9
Overview:
Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the Sûreté in this 1992 revival of the 1960s BBC drama series. Maigret is an intuitutive detective, who investigates his cases by watching and listening, getting to know everyone on his list of suspects until someone makes a slip or breaks down and confesses.The Piglet Files
7.6
Overview:
The Piglet files is a British sitcom produced by LWT. The show consisted of three series totalling 21 episodes that ran between 7 September 1990 and 10 May 1992. The programme follows the life of reluctant MI5 agent Peter “Piglet” Chapman as he tries to instruct his fellow agents on the finer points of spy gadgetry while keeping his wife Sarah in the dark about his new career.Special Branch
4.3
Overview:
Special Branch is a British television. A police drama series, the action was centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Metropolitan Police.Hunter's Walk
NYR
Overview:
Hunter’s Walk was about crime on a smaller – but no less dramatic – scale, and featured a police force in the fictional Midlands town of Broadstone (the series was actually filmed in Rushden, Northants). Devised by Dixon of Dock Green creator Ted Willis, Hunter’s Walk shared several similarities with the classic 1950s police drama – in particular a small-town setting, and storylines encompassing the more human aspects of police work. Hunter’s Walk offered a contrasting alternative to the 1970s more hard-hitting, action-led urban crime dramas. The small, idiosyncratic team of officers faced a typically broad spectrum of cases, from neighbours’ disputes and hooliganism to suspected murder.Star Cops
5.7
Overview:
Star Cops follows Nathan Spring and the rest of his multinational team of the International Space Police (Star Cops) as they work to establish the Star Cops and solve whatever crimes come their way. Operating in a relatively accurately realised hard SF, near-future, space environment, many of the cases that the Star Cops investigate arise from opportunities for new crimes presented by the technologically advanced future society the series depicts and from the hostile frontier nature of the environment that the Star Cops live in.Reilly: Ace of Spies
7
Overview:
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.Yes, Prime Minister
8.38
Overview:
James Hacker MP the Government's bumbling minister for Administrative Affairs is propelled along the corridors of power to the very pinnacle of politics - No. 10. Could this have possibly have been managed by his trusted Permanent Private Secretary, the formidably political Sir Humphrey Appleby who must move to the “Top Job” in Downing Street to support him, together with his much put upon PPS Bernard Wolley. What could possibly go wrong?A Tale of Two Cities
5
Overview:
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.Rogues' Gallery
10
Overview:
Rogues' Gallery was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1968 and 1969. It was set around London's Newgate Prison in the 18th century.Mitch
5
Overview:
Mitch is a newspaper reporter with a difference, he cares about the people he reports.An American Family
4.5
Overview:
Originally intended as a chronicle of the daily life of the Louds, a Santa Barbara upper-middle-class family, the groundbreaking program documented the breakup of the family via the separation and subsequent divorce of parents Bill and Pat Loud.The Invisible Man
7
Overview:
A deranged scientist discovers a formula by which to make himself invisible, but is driven to insanity by his inability to reverse the formula and is evoked to use his invisibility to terrorize those around him.1990
6
Overview:
The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.The Rocky Horror Picture Show
7.5
Overview:
After getting a flat tire, two sweethearts discover the eerie mansion of a flamboyant scientist and houseful of wild characters. Through elaborate dance and rock songs, the mad scientist unveils his latest creation: a perfect, muscular man.The Devil's Crown
7.333
Overview:
The Devil's Crown was a BBC limited series which dramatised the reigns of three medieval Kings of England: Henry II and his sons Richard the Lionheart and John.Two Evil Eyes
6.117
Overview:
A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat.Revolution
5.3
Overview:
New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.Acting
1995The Rocky Horror Double Feature Video Show as Self
1995Kavanagh Q.C. (1 Episode) as Karol Somper
1993Never Rest: A Drama About Farm Safety for Children as Joshua Walker
1992Maigret (1 Episode) as Dr. Bouchardon
1992The Count of Solar as Physician
1992Moon and Son (1 Episode) as Unknown
1990Shoot the Revolution as Man at TV Station
1990The Bride in Black as Lee
1990The Piglet Files (1 Episode) as Unknown
1990Two Evil Eyes as Unknown
1989A Beginners Guide to Freud as Meynet
1989A Tale of Two Cities (2 Episodes) as Stryver
1989Danny the Champion of the World as Samways
1987The Trial of Klaus Barbie as Lawyer
1987Star Cops (9 Episodes) as Alexander Krivenko
1986Yes, Prime Minister (1 Episode) as Professor Marriott
1986The Day After the Fair as Parnell
1985Revolution as Chaplain
1985Howards' Way (1 Episode) as Coastguard
1985Exploits at West Poley as Miller Griffin
1984The Invisible Man (1 Episode) as Unknown
1984Mitch (1 Episode) as Peter Allison
1984Squaring the Circle as Gwiazda
1984Sherlock Holmes (1 Episode) as Jonas Oldacre
1983Reilly: Ace of Spies (2 Episodes) as British Ambassador
1981Strike: The Birth of Solidarity as Andrzej Gwiazda
1981Bergerac (19, 1 Episode) as Dr. LeJeune, Dr. Lejeune
1981Antony & Cleopatra as Ventidius
1978Richard II as Gardener
1978The BBC Television Shakespeare (1 Episode) as Ventidius
1978Adventures of a Plumber's Mate as Rent Collector
1978The Devil's Crown (1 Episode) as Unknown
1978Danton's Death as Collot d'Herbois
19771990 (1 Episode) as Unknown
1977Jesus of Nazareth (4 Episodes) as Adam
1977Adventures of a Private Eye as Inspector Hogg
1977The Winslow Boy as Unknown
1976It Could Happen to You as Henry VIII
1975The Rocky Horror Picture Show as Dr. Everett V. Scott
1975Three for All as Dr Sparks
1975Eskimo Nell as Lord Coltwind
1973The Donati Conspiracy (2 Episodes) as Detective Sergeant Cole
1973Hunter's Walk (1 Episode) as Unknown
1972Crown Court (2 Episodes) as Det. Inspector Robert CID
1971The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1 Episode) as Sgt. Finch
1969Special Branch (1 Episode) as Unknown
1968Rogues' Gallery (1 Episode) as Pewter Potts
1965The End of Arthur's Marriage as First Policeman
1965The Man in Room 17 (1 Episode) as Supt. Cannon
1964The Wednesday Play (1 Episode) as First Policeman
1962Z-Cars (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1955Dixon of Dock Green (1 Episode) as Unknown
Sound
1973An American Family (12 Episodes) ... Music Supervisor