Ronald George Hinings Adams, OBE (31 December 1896 – 28 March 1979), known professionally as Ronald Adam, was a British officer of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, an actor on stage and screen, and a successful theatre manager.

[1] When still only 17 years old, Adams volunteered to join the British Army on the outbreak of the First World War.

The squadron was based at Hainault Farm aerodrome in Essex and was pioneering the use of night-fighters against Zeppelin raids on London.

Adams was badly wounded in the engagement and on the evening of his capture he was visited by a German orderly who passed on the compliments of von Richthofen.

Thirty of his productions were transferred to various West End theatres, including Ten Minute Alibi, Close Quarters, The Dominant Sex, Professor Bernhardi and Judgment Day.

At the Old Vic in June 1939, he played Lord Stagmantle in The Ascent of F6 and at the Phoenix in November 1939, Judge Tsankov in Judgment Day.

[1] On the outbreak of the Second World War, Adam rejoined the RAF as a pilot officer,[6] eventually rising to the rank of wing commander and served from 1939 to 1945.

[2] Jeffrey Quill, the distinguished Spitfire test pilot on attachment to 65 Squadron at Hornchurch during the Battle of Britain, wrote of Adam: "Apart from being highly competent at the actual job, his voice had a quality of calm and unhesitating certainty.

"[7] During the war, he continued to take part in films, for example as a German bomber chief in The Lion Has Wings (1939), as Mons.

He published a book on his theatrical memories: In the middle of the war he wrote two novels arising from his experiences in the RAF.