Tom Adams is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 with roles in horror and mystery films, and several TV shows.

He starred as Charles Vine in Licensed to Kill

Licensed to Kill (1965 film)

Licensed to Kill is a 1965 superspy imitation James Bond film starring Tom Adams as British secret agent Charles Vine. It was directed and co-written by Lindsay Shonteff. Producer Joseph E...

(aka The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World, 1965) and the sequels Where the Bullets Fly

Where the Bullets Fly

Where the Bullets Fly is a 1966 British comedy spy film directed by John Gilling and starring Tom Adams as Charles Vine and John Arnatt repeating their roles from Licensed to Kill/The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World...

(1966) and Somebody's Stolen Our Russian Spy (1967).

His television credits include General Hospital

General Hospital (UK TV series)

General Hospital is a British daytime soap opera produced by ATV which ran on ITV from 1972 to 1979. It was modelled after the American drama of the same name....

(1972); The Onedin Line

The Onedin Line

The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham.The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin...

as Daniel Fogarty (1977–1979); Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

as Vorshak in Warriors of the Deep

Warriors of the Deep

Warriors of the Deep is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from 5 January to 13 January 1984...

(1984); and Emmerdale Farm as Malcolm Bates (1987).

For many years in the 1980s and '90s he was the face of furniture stores DFS

DFS (retailer)

DFS Galleria is a chain of upscale department stores and shopping malls comprising high-end boutiques, located primarily within Oceania and around the Pacific Rim. Its website proclaims it to be "the world's leading luxury retailer catering to the travelling public"...

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