Peter Adams

Acting

Peter Adams

Born 1917-09-22 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Acting credits

The War of the Worlds poster
6.8

The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.

The War of the Worlds

1953

Funny Girl poster
7.2

The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.

Funny Girl

1968

The Incredible Mr. Limpet poster
6.2

Milquetoast Henry Limpet experiences his fondest wish and is transformed into a fish. As a talking fish he assists the US Navy in hunting German submarines during World War II.

The Incredible Mr. Limpet

1964

Pat and Mike poster
6.4

Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.

Pat and Mike

1952

Midnight Lace poster
6.6

Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.

Midnight Lace

1960

Turnabout poster
6.0

Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.

Turnabout

1940

Silent Fear poster
6.0

Mexico miner Pete Carroll is in Acapulco and meets Terry Perreau and falls in love with her after he hears her singing on a recording of "Extraño amor". The troubled Terry decides she wants to go shark fishing, so Pete poses as the skipper of a fishing boat, owned by Thursday, and off they go. Pete lands a mantray and cuts it up for bait and the sharks are soon swarming, and Terry dives in the water. Terry does likewise and fights a few sharks and gets his leg gashed but finally rescues her. Gradually, her friendship also turns into love. But back in Acapulco she learns of Pete's "fake skipper" joke, is all hacked off and goes to Mexico City with her friend Dr. Antez. There, a specialist, Dr. Rivas tells her that unless she has a dangerous operation she has only three months to live. Depressed even more than usual, if possible, she returns to the hotel and is met by!

Silent Fear

1956

The Big Fisherman poster
5.1

Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.

The Big Fisherman

1959

The Scarlet Coat poster
6.6

An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.

The Scarlet Coat

1955

Ransom! poster
7.2

A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers.

Ransom!

1956

Donovan's Brain poster
6.2

A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality upon the doctor who saved it, creating a "Jekyll and Hyde" paradigm.

Donovan's Brain

1953

The Magnificent Stranger poster
7.0

Rowdy Yates is accused of murder, and has to alert the Army to a bandit assault.

The Magnificent Stranger

1966

Omar Khayyam poster
5.8

Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for him and includes in it his real achievements - the invention of a new calendar and the penning of those epigrammatic poems. This film has him romancing a sultan's bride and foiling the assassin sect's plot to kill the sultan's son.

Omar Khayyam

1957

Bullwhip poster
4.9

In order to avoid the hangman's noose, a cowboy agrees to marry a beautiful but fiery redhead.

Bullwhip

1958

Lord Love a Duck poster
5.7

From his prison cell, young Alan Musgrave relates his experiences of the previous year dedicated to fulfilling every whim of beautiful and self-absorbed high school senior Barbara Ann Greene.

Lord Love a Duck

1966

Hell on Devil's Island poster
7.5

An ex-con from Devil's Island enlists the support of the governor's daughter in exposing a prison mining operation.

Hell on Devil's Island

1957

Project Moon Base poster
3.3

In the future (1970) the US sends a mission to the moon to investigate the building of a moon base.

Project Moon Base

1953