Neile Adams

Known for ActingBorn 1932-07-10 (age 93)Manila, Philippines

Ruby Neilam Salvador Adams (born July 10, 1932), known professionally as Neile Adams, is a Filipino American actress, singer, and dancer who made more than 20 appearances in films and television series between 1952 and 1991. She was married to actor Steve McQueen, and then divorced (1956-1972); they had a son, actor Chadwick 'Chad' McQueen, and a daughter, voice actress Terry McQueen. In 1958, producer George Abbott offered Adams a role in the Broadway production of Damn Yankees. She was unable to accept because the Versailles Club would not release her from her contract as a dancer. Her Broadway credits include performing in Kismet and The Pajama Game. She also performed in Broadway Bound at The Grand opposite Paul Muni. She married then-struggling actor Steve McQueen four months after their meeting in 1956 while filming MGM’s This Could Be the Night (1957) where she was under contract. She opened the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas in 1958 with Dick Shawn and Vivian Blaine. Her other screen credits include Women in Chains (1972), Fuzz (1972), So Long, Blue Boy (1973), Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981), and Buddy Buddy (1981). Her television credits include: The Perry Como Show, two Bob Hope Christmas specials, The Eddie Fisher Show, The Patrice Munsel Show, The Pat Boone Show and The Hollywood Palace. Her dramatic television roles include a 1960 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, titled "Man from the South", opposite her then husband and Peter Lorre. Two more Alfred Hitchcock episodes followed: a half-hour show directed by Arthur Hiller in which she starred, "One Grave Too Many", and an Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode entitled "Ten Minutes From Now". She also appeared on episodes of television series including Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Rockford Files, The Bionic Woman, Fantasy Island, and Vega$.Read more

Movies & web series

Steve McQueen: The King of Cool

E! True Hollywood Story

Grubstake

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Rockford Files

Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge

The Bionic Woman

Vega$

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Women in Chains

Hotel

I Am Steve McQueen

Buddy Buddy

Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

This Could Be the Night

Fuzz

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash

So Long, Blue Boy

The Last Days of Sharon Tate