Don Adams (actor)

Don Adams (* 13. April 1923 as Donald James Yarmy in Manhattan , New York City ; † 25. September 2005 in Los Angeles ) was an American actor .

Life

Donald Yarmy served as a soldier in the US Marines in the Pacific during World War II . He became infected with malaria when landing on Guadalcanal . After the war he made a career as a stand-up comedian. When he married his first wife Adelaide Efantis in 1949, who appeared as a singer under the stage name Adelaide Adams , he took her pseudonym and called himself Don Adams from then on .

His television career began in 1948. He became known worldwide in the role of secret agent Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) in the comedy series Mini-Max (original title: Get Smart), which was filmed between 1965 and 1970 in the United States and from September 1967 was seen on ARD . He won three Emmys for the role between 1967 and 1969 , and was once nominated for a Golden Globe . He also appeared in serious plays on Broadway . His greatest success as a voice actor was the role of the cartoon character Inspector Gadget , to whom he lent his distinctive voice in the original version from 1986 to 1999. He himself was portrayed as a cartoon character in the 1972 TV series "New Scooby Doo Movies".

Adams was married and divorced a total of three times and had seven children. He died of a lung infection in a Los Angeles hospital in 2005 at the age of 82. He was buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery . His daughter Cecily Adams died in 2004.

Filmography (selection)

1965-1970: Mini-Max (Get Smart) - (138 episodes)
1971–1972: Die Zwei von der Dienststelle (The Partners)
1978–1984: Love Boat (6 episodes)
1979: Fantasy Island (1 episode)
1980: The Nude Bomb (The Nude Bomb)
1983–1986: Inspector Gadget - (as voice actor, 86 episodes)
1984: A Colt for All Cases (1 episode)
1985–1988: Checkout, honey! (Check It Out) - (66 episodes)
1989: The Naked Bomb 2 (Get Smart, Again)
1995: Maxwell Smart (Get Smart) - (7 episodes)
1997–2000: Pepper Ann (as voice actor)

Sound carrier

1964: No. 3 on his way (Atlantic)
1967: Get Smart (United Artists)
1972: Black voice (United Artists)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Douglas Martin: Don Adams, Television's Maxwell Smart, Dies at 82. In: The New York Times . September 27, 2005, accessed January 21, 2013 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Adams, Don
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Yarmy, Donald James (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American actor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 13, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	new York
DATE OF DEATH	September 25, 2005
Place of death	los Angeles

[NYT-1] A ^b ^c ^d Douglas Martin: Don Adams, Television's Maxwell Smart, Dies at 82. In: The New York Times . September 27, 2005, accessed January 21, 2013 .