Don Adams

Don Adams was an American actor, comedian and director. In his five decades on television, he was best known as Maxwell Smart in the television situation comedy Get Smart , which he also sometimes directed and wrote. Adams won three consecutive Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Smart . He provided the voices for the animated series Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales and Inspector Gadget as their title characters. He voiced Sid Pickles in all episodes of Spike & Mike , and two follow up films, Spike & Mike Movie and Spike and Mike: Got Hostaged. Adams was born Donald James Yarmy in... Manhattan, son of William Yarmy and his wife Consuelo Dieter. His father, a restaurant manager, was Hungarian and Jewish and his mother was Irish and Roman Catholic. Adams and his brother were each raised in the religion of one parent: Don in the Catholic faith of their mother, and Dick in the Jewish faith of their father. Dropping out of New York City's DeWitt Clinton High School, Adams worked as a theater usher.
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