‘Oz’ Star Granville Adams Dead at 58 After Battle With Cancer

Actor Granville Adams (C) appears at Tower Lincoln Center to sign copies of OZ: The Complete Third Season DVD, in New York on Feb. 24, 2004. Peter Kramer/Getty Images

By Kate Feldman From New York Daily News

Granville Adams, who starred as inmate Zahir Arif on HBO’s prison show “Oz,” has died, 10 months after announcing he had been diagnosed with cancer.