Tony Adams (producer)

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Tony Adams (February 15, 1953 - October 22, 2005) was an Irish film producer and theatrical producer. He produced six The Pink Panther films, 10 and Victor/Victoria, the latter for stage and screen.

He was born Anthony Patrick Adams in Dublin, Ireland and attended the Eblana Avenue Christian Brothers Secondary school in his native town, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin. There, at the age of 16, he was the Chief Reporter and co-founder of the school magazine, ARK.

He attended Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.

He had four children; Andrew Hopewell, Alister Adams, Molly Adams, born 1992 (mother is actress Debrah Farentino and Tess Adams (mother is actress Anne Runolfsson).

In Adams' 1995 revival of Victor/Victoria on Broadway, his wife, Anne Runolfsson, was Julie Andrews' understudy.

He died at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York after a stroke at the age of 52. His stroke occurred at the New York apartment of U2's The Edge, where Tony was finalizing contract details for an upcoming Spider-Man broadway show.

[edit] Filmography

• Son of the Pink Panther (1993)
• Switch (1991)
• Skin Deep (1989)
• Sunset (1988)
• Blind Date (1987)
• That's Life! (1986)
• A Fine Mess (1986)
• Micki + Maude (1984)
• The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
• Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
• Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
• Victor/Victoria (1982)
• S.O.B. (1981)
• 10 (1979)
• Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
• The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)