Tony Adams, Crossroads actor who played Adam Chance, dies at 84

Tony Adams, the actor best known for playing accountant Adam Chance on the longrunning soap Crossroads, has died at the age of 84. Adams, born Anthony Sawley Adams in Anglesey, Wales, in 1940, died at Sussex County Hospital in Brighton on Saturday with his wife Christine at his side, his representatives said.

Adams trained at the Italia Conti theatre school and began his career on stage before moving into television. He won early recognition as Dr Neville Bywaters in the 1970s soap General Hospital and appeared in the Doctor Who serial The Green Death. In 1978 he took on the role of Adam Chance in Crossroads, becoming one of the programme's most familiar faces. He remained with the series until it ended in 1988 after more than 4,500 episodes and returned alongside original cast members such as Jane Rossington and Kathy Staff when the soap was revived in 2001.

Beyond television, Adams maintained a presence in musical theatre. In 2004 he played Grandpa Potts in the stage production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium. More recently he made a cameo in 2023 in Nolly, a threepart drama by Russell T Davies that revisited the career of Crossroads star Noele Gordon....