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Donald James Yarmy (April 13, 1923 – September 25, 2005), known professionally as Don Adams, was an American actor and stand-up comedian. [1] In his five decades on television, he was best known as bumbling Maxwell Smart (Secret Agent 86) in the television situation comedy Get Smart (1965–1970, 1995), which he also sometimes directed and wrote.
Don Adams was born in New York, to a father of Hungarian Jewish descent, and a mother of German and Irish ancestry. He had a sister, Gloria, and a brother, Dick Yarmy. He served in the U.S. Marines in World War II and contracted malaria during the fighting on Guadalcanal island.
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Don Adams. Actor: Get Smart. Don Adams was born in New York, to a father of Hungarian Jewish descent, and a mother of German and Irish ancestry. He had a sister, Gloria, and a brother, Dick Yarmy. He served in the U.S. Marines in World War II and contracted malaria during the fighting on Guadalcanal island. After the war he began a career as a stand-up comic. He married singer...
- April 13, 1923
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Sep 27, 2005 · Don Adams, who played Maxwell Smart in the 1960's sitcom ''Get Smart,'' combining clipped, decisive diction with appalling, hilarious ineptitude, died on Sunday at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 82.
Sep 26, 2005 · Don Adams, the wry-voiced comedian who starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s TV spoof of James Bond movies, “Get Smart,” has died.
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Los Angeles, CA – Actor Don Adams, who created one of the most indelible characters in television history as the star of the 1960s spy spoof Get Smart, has died.Adams, who was 82 and had been diagnosed with bone lymphoma more than two years ago, passed away at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from complications of a lung infection.