14 Facts About Mason Adams

Mason Adams's father, Morris Abrams, was an immigrant from Russia and the owner of a company that made machinery and factory tools.

Mason Adams's mother, the former Freda Sugarman, was an immigrant from Russia.

Mason Adams studied at the University of Wisconsin, earning a bachelor's degree in theater and speech in 1940, and a master's degree in theater arts in 1941.

Mason Adams later studied acting at New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, where he taught speech.

Mason Adams made his stage debut in 1940, appearing in summer stock at Baltimore's Hilltop Theater.

Mason Adams was heard on many radio programs during Radio's Golden Age.

Mason Adams portrayed the deadly Nazi Atom Man in a classic 1945 serial on the radio version of The Adventures of Superman.

Mason Adams did the vocal part of the television commercials for Smucker's preserves, a role he resumed in his later years.

Mason Adams was the announcer for a 1992 WCBS-TV news promotion and a 1986 Lysol commercial.

Mason Adams appeared in popular TV movies, such as The Deadliest Season, Revenge of the Stepford Wives, and The Kid with the Broken Halo.

In 1983, Mason Adams joined The Mirror Theater Ltd's repertory company for their first season, appearing in Paradise Lost, Rain, Inheritors, and The Hasty Heart.

Mason Adams played many characters in Old-Time Radio programs, among them:.

Mason Adams played Mack in the episode "Miracle for Christmas" of the Grand Central Station radio series.

Mason Adams achieved a bit of holiday immortality by taking part in a comedy spoof of "The Twelve Days of Christmas", called "The Chickens Are in the Chimes".