Biography
He was born Anthony Patrick Adams in Derrinturn, Carbury, Co.Kildare, Ireland one of a family of eight, (four boys and four girls). His father had opened one of the first cinemas in rural Ireland in Derrinturn in the 1940s. He attended Derrinturn National school before moving at the age of 12 to Dún Laoghaire County Dublin and attended CBS Eblana there . 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 1991 (mother is actress Debrah Farentino) and Tess Adams (mother is actress Anne Runolfsson).
While he originally signed on to become producer of the Spider-Man musical, he died during his time. He was going to the Edge's house, who co-wrote the score, for him to sign various contracts and he suffered a stroke at the Edge's apartment. Adams died at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York after a stroke at the age of 52.
Andrew and Alister's mother is Avril
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