There has been reports that Don Adams has passed away. SitcomsOnline.com is investigating... details to follow.

WOW! :(

Awwww man, I hope not. I know that they have reported his death before, let's hope they are wrong again. :(

Wow, just yeaterday we were taking a limo to O'Hare airport which had a tv in it and we found an episode of "Get Smart" playing on one of the local Chicago stations. I remember saying that I hadn't seen an episode of this show in years.

:(

It is all but confirmed now. It's a good source I have and it is for sure correct. Now we play the waiting game and wait until it is announced over the wire.

That's sad. :(

Coincidentally, I have a co-worker who ALSO goes by the SAME name. :eek:

:(

RIP Maxwell Smart/Inspector Gadget

I don't mean this out of disrespect, but who's Don Adams?

I don't mean this out of disrespect, but who's Don Adams?
He was the voice of Inspector Gadget in all the animated versions that was released, plus he did the voice of Brian in the 1999 live-action Inspector Gadget movie.

I grew up watching Inspector Gadget, so I'm familiar with Don. RIP. :(

http://imdb.com/name/nm0010915/

MSNBC just confirmed it a few minutes ago... :(

Sad, first online report I found:
http://www.news10.net/storyfull3.aspx?storyid=13301

I don't mean this out of disrespect, but who's Don Adams?

It's ok Karen, I didn't know either.

It's ok Karen, I didn't know either.


He played Maxwell Smart on Get Smart in the 60's. He was also the voice of Tennessee Tuxedo.

He was the voice of Inspector Gadget in all the animated versions that was released, plus he did the voice of Brian in the 1999 live-action Inspector Gadget movie.

I grew up watching Inspector Gadget, so I'm familiar with Don. RIP. :(

http://imdb.com/name/nm0010915/

Aw. I used to watch Inspector Gadget too. That's very sad. RIP. :(

this is the SECOND saddest thing I've ever heard :( :( :(

R.I.P. #86

I don't mean this out of disrespect, but who's Don Adams?


Don also provided the voice of Tennessee Tuxedo, a sort of smart but wise cracking penguin who with his friend Chumley, a large, dim-witted walrus reside at the Megopolis Zoo who always come up with new ideas on improving the quality of life at the zoo. The series Don voiced was called "Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales in 1963, first on CBS and in syndication.

More about Tennessee Tuxedo can be found here (http://www.toontracker.com/totaltv/tennesse.htm).


From Yahoo!

Don Adams of 'Get Smart' Dies at 82

By BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES - Don Adams, the wry-voiced comedian who starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s television spoof of James Bond movies, "Get Smart," has died. He was 82.

Adams died of a lung infection late Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, his friend and former agent Bruce Tufeld said Monday, adding the actor broke his hip a year ago and had been in ill health since.

As the inept Agent 86 of the super-secret federal agency Control, Adams captured TV viewers with his antics in combatting the evil agents of Kaos. When his explanations failed to convince the villains or his boss, he tried another tack: "Would you believe ... ?" It became a national catchphrase.

Smart was also prone to spilling things on the desk or person of his boss — the chief (actor Edward Platt). Smart's apologetic "Sorry about that, chief" also entered the American lexicon. The spy gadgets, which aped those of the Bond movies, were a popular feature, especially the pre-cell-phone telephone in a shoe.

Smart's beautiful partner, Agent 99, played by Barbara Felden, was as brainy as he was dense, and a plot romance led to marriage and the birth of twins later in the series.

Adams, who had been under contract to NBC, was lukewarm about doing a spy spoof. When he learned that Mel Brooks and Buck Henry had written the pilot script, he accepted immediately. "Get Smart" debuted on NBC in September 1965 and scored No. 12 among the season's most-watched series and No. 22 in its second season.

"Get Smart" twice won the Emmy for best comedy series with three Emmys for Adams as comedy actor.

CBS picked up the show but the ratings fell off as the jokes seemed repetitive, and it was canceled after four seasons. The show lived on in syndication and a cartoon series. In 1995 Fox network revived the series with Smart as chief and 99 as a congresswoman. It lasted seven episodes.

Adams never had another showcase to display his comic talent.

"It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it," he remarked of "Get Smart" in a 1995 interview. "But it also hindered me career-wise because I was typed. The character was so strong, particularly because of that distinctive voice, that nobody could picture me in any other type of role."

He was born Donald James Yarmy in New York City on April 13, 1926, Tufeld said, although some sources say 1923 or 1927. The actor's father was a Hungarian Jew who ran a few small restaurants in the Bronx.

In a 1959 interview Adams said he never cared about being funny as a kid: "Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all. I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand."

In 1941, he dropped out of school to join the Marines, lying about his age. In Guadalcanal he survived the deadly blackwater fever and was returned to the States to become a drill instructor, acquiring the clipped delivery that served him well as a comedian.

After the war he worked in New York as a commercial artist by day, doing standup comedy in clubs at night, taking the surname of his first wife, Adelaide Adams. His following grew, and soon he was appearing on the Ed Sullivan and late night TV shows. Bill Dana, who had helped him develop comedy routines, cast him as his sidekick on Dana's Jose Jiminez show. That led to the NBC contract and "Get Smart."

Adams, who married and divorced three times and had seven children, served as the voice for the popular cartoon series, "Inspector Gadget." In 1980, he appeared as Maxwell Smart in a feature movie, "The Nude Bomb," about a madman whose bomb destroyed people's clothing.

Tufeld said funeral arrangements were incomplete.

Yahoo! News/AP-September 26, 2005 ohno: ohno: ohno: :crying: :crying: :crying: :tv:

I've just seen it on Fox news, I guess it's offiially on the wire :(

Too bad. :(
At least I got to meet him a few years ago.

He was excellent as Maxwell Smart in his TV show "Get Smart" (1965-1970).
I used to watch reruns of that in the mid-1970s.

I remember Inspector Gadget being on early mornings. RIP.

Read SitcomsOnline.com's Tribute to Don Adams:
http://sitcomsonline.blogspot.com/2005/09/another-tv-legend-passes-away-this.html

Cool, I didn't know we had a blog...

...missed it by that much.

RIP

R.I.P. Don. You were one of the best. :(

RIP, Don. You'll be missed.

RIP DON YOU WERE AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!! :( :crying:

Aw RIP Don Adams :(

Aw RIP Don Adams :(
Did you ever see Get Smart?

IT was one of my fav shows EVER but it hasnt been on TV Land in a while

So very sad to hear of Don's passing. I certainly did not realize he was eighty-two-years-old. He will be missed... :(

It is so sad to hear about him passing away he was my favorite. I loved Get Smart it was one of my all-time favorite shows. I also liked Inspector Gadget too that was a good cartoon. He will be missed alot.

RIP :(

Would you believe that sucks? :(

He was 82?! I didn't think he was that old.

Just before I came here, and saw a headline about him, but it didn't say anything about him dying. I thought to myself, "I wonder what he's in the news for?"

I never liked Get Smart (there was something about a show with a guy who talked into his shoe that turned me off :lol: ) but I am sorry to hear that Mr. Adams has passed away. :(

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This is so sad. :rip: Don Adams, you were awesome.

Loved Get Smart when I was a kid. Also watched Tenessee Tuxedo religiously.

Also says that the voice of Phineas J. Whoopie was Larry Storch--the same Larry Storch of F-Troop fame, whom Al Bundy idolized?? :eek:

He may have been best known on Get Smart, but I grew up watching him or listening to him as the voice of Inspector Gadget.

Rest in Peace Mr. Adams. I grew up watching Get Smart.

Rest in Peace Mr. Adams. I grew up watching Get Smart.


The good news is the series will be coming out on DVD in 2006! I watched "Get Smart" on NBC originally (when I was about five or six years old) and on KCOP channel 13 in Los Angeles locally in the 1970's and '80's in the afternoons. I loved his work when he did the voice of Tennessee Tuxedo in "Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales". He was great at what he did! :)

I'm Glad I took this photo in 1999. :)