Adams, Ted, 1890-1973

LC control no.	no 89001951
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Adams, Ted, 1890-1973 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Adams, Richard Theodore, 1890-1973
Birth date	1890-03-17
Death date	1973-09-24
Place of birth	New York (N.Y.)
Place of death	Los Angeles (Calif.)
Profession or occupation	Actors
Found in	Ghost Valley [MP] 1932: credits (the players, Ted Adams) Int'l film necrology, 1981 (Ted Adams; r.n. Richard Ted Adams; actor; b. Mar. 17, 1890, N.Y.; d. Sept. 24, 1973) IMDb, September 28, 2017 (Ted Adams (1890-1973); Actor; born March 17, 1890 in New York City, New York; died September 24, 1973 in Los Angeles, California; Richard Theodore "Ted" Adams; for more than half his life he performed on the stage before coming to films around 1926; Adams quickly established himself in westerns, in which he worked almost exclusively for 25 years in over 200 films; he was a mainstay performer (mostly lead villains) for the low-budget films cranked out by independents such as Supreme, Metropolitan, Puritan, Colony and Victory in the 1930s and PRC and Monogram in the 1940s, in addition to appearing in films from Republic, Columbia, Paramount and Universal; Ted Adams hung up his spurs at the age of 62; he lived quietly in retirement until his death from heart disease at the age of 83)