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\nTV Times cover featuring Crossroads actors (L-R) Jeremy Nicholas, Jane Rossington and Tony Adams, circa April 1988<\/p>\n
Crossroads actor Tony Adams has been hailed as “an absolute joy” following his death at the age of 84.<\/p>\n
Adams died at Sussex County Hospital in Brighton on Saturday, with his wife Christine by his side.<\/p>\n
Michael Rose, of The Michael Rose Organisation Ltd, paid tribute to Adams as an “absolute joy” and a talented actor, dancer and singer.<\/p>\n
“He was one of the warmest gentlemen you could wish to work with,” Mr Rose said.<\/p>\n
“He was an absolute joy. He was a dancer originally but there was nothing Tony couldn’t do.<\/p>\n
“He was a very accomplished actor, he was a really good dancer and singer.<\/p>\n
“He played Grandpa Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and was a joy to have in the company, as he was in every company.<\/p>\n
“We shall miss him.”<\/p>\n
\nTV Times cover featuring Crossroads actors (L-R) Jeremy Nicholas, Jane Rossington and Tony Adams, circa April 1988<\/p>\n
Anthony Sawley Adams was born in Anglesey, Wales, in 1940 and later trained as an actor at the Italia Conti theatre school.<\/p>\n
Following performances on the stage, he made his name as Dr Neville Bywaters in the 1970s soap General Hospital and appeared in the Dr Who series The Green Death.<\/p>\n
In 1978, he took on the role of accountant Adam Chance in soap Crossroads \u2013 the role for which he became best known.<\/p>\n
The series ended in 1988 after more than 4,500 episodes, with Adams staying until the end.<\/p>\n
He was one of the original cast members, including Jane Rossington and Kathy Staff, who returned when the soap was revived in 2001.<\/p>\n
Adams then appeared in the stage version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium Theatre, where he played Grandpa Potts, in 2004.<\/p>\n
In 2023, he had a cameo role in Nolly \u2013 a three-part drama created by Russell T Davies which tells the story of Crossroads actress Noele Gordon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crossroads actor Tony Adams has been hailed as “an absolute joy” following his death at the age of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-147759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115446122200853227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}