Granville Adams, 58, died today Best known for his role as Zahir Arif on Oz, a show about prison that that ran on HBO. He died after a battle with cancer that he announced this past December. He also had a recurring role on the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street as Officer Jeff Westby.
Tom Fontana, the showrunner for OZ took to Instagram to pay his respects to the late actor. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tom Fontana (@sonofsicilia)
Others have also started to show support for Adams via their social platforms just as many contributed to a GoFundMe that was started earlier this year by Fontana and Oz co-star, Dean Winters. Winter’s wrote;
“I first met Granny in 1992 and I immediately drank the Kool Aid,” Winters wrote. “His smile was infectious, his chuckle was intoxicating.
He never, ever spoke ill of anyone and I defy anyone who knew him to say anything negative about this man. Granville was beloved, period… A humble, beautiful soul who just elevated the afterlife to a whole new level.
You will be missed my friend.”
Everyone speaks of Adams’ kind nature. In 2007, he was cleared of a charge of negligent homicide after an altercation in a nightclub led to a man’s death when there was no evidence to support that he behaved negligently. Granville Adams was a part of the OZ cast for six years.
We send our sincere condolences to his family, friends, and fans.