Nick Adams (July 10, 1931 – February 7, 1968) was an American film and television actor. Adams made four films in Japan during 1965 and 1966. In 1965, after publicly insisting he would never work in films produced outside the US, Adams began accepting parts in Toho kaiju eiga. His first Japanese movie was Frankenstein Conquers the World, in which he played Dr. James Bowen, a radiologist working in Hiroshima who encounters a new incarnation of the Frankenstein monster. Adams next starred in the sixth Godzilla film, Invasion of Astro-Monster, in which he played Astronaut Glenn, journeying to the newly discovered Planet X. In both film plots his character had a love interest with characters portrayed by actress Kumi Mizuno. Actors at Toho Studios later fondly remembered Adams as a "team playe