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Mary Adams (broadcaster)
English TV director and producer (1898–1984)
For others named Mary Adams, see Mary Adams (disambiguation).
Mary Grace Agnes Adams (néeCampinOBE; 10 March 1898 – 15 May 1984) was an English television producer, programme director and administrator who worked for the BBC. She was instrumental in setting up the BBC's television service both before and after the Second World War. Her daughter says, "She was a socialist, a romantic and could charm with her charisma, spontaneity, and quick informed intelligence. She was a fervent atheist and advocate of humanism and common sense, accepting her stance without subjecting it to analysis."[1] Mary Adams was the first female television producer for the BBC.[2]
Biography
Mary Adams was born on 10 March 1898 at Well House Farm, Hermitage, Berkshire.[3] She gained a first-class honours degree in Botany from the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire (now Cardiff University). Subsequently Adams studied tissue culture at Cambridge University at the Strangeway
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Mary Adams (actress)
Mary Adams | |
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| Born | (1910-06-27)June 27, 1910 |
| Died | November 30, 1973(1973-11-30) (aged 63) |
American actress
Mary Marguerite Adams also known as June Mary Adams (1910–1973) was an American actress. She is best known as a television character actor from the 1950s. She was a regular, usually cast as a dowdy nurse or wife, and is best remembered as the day nurse in The Twilight Zone: "Twenty Two".[1]
Life
She was born on June 27, 1910, in Ogden, Utah.[2]
She began acting late in life (38) but was a popular choice in supporting roles throughout the 1950s to the degree that she could be called a "familiar face". Her career faded in the early 1960s.
She died on November 30, 1973, in Los Angeles. She is buried in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.[3]
Career
Television
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Film
References
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Mary Kawennatakie Adams
Artist Biography
Mary Adams's life—her dual Mohawk and Catholic heritage—is interwoven with her splint ash and sweet grass baskets. During a childhood of poverty in the late 1920s along the banks of the St. Lawrence River on the Mohawk Akwesasne Reserve, which straddles the New York/Canadian border, she made baskets to provide for herself and her brother. Later, freed from the economic necessity of having to produce them for a living, she devoted her time to creating innovative, ornate baskets and grew into an artist of international stature. Highly sculpted basketry art forms such as the Wedding Cake Basket, which she made in 1986 for the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of one of her children, and the Pope Basket represent the culmination of her life's work. (1)
I was honored to interview Adams a few months before her death on May 23, 1999, at age eighty-two, at her daughter Trudy Lauzon's home in Fort Covington, New York, near the reserve. We talked about her work, especially the creation and presentation of a basket to John Paul II in 1980 to commem
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