20 Facts About Don Adams

Donald James Yarmy, known professionally as Don Adams, was an American actor.

Don Adams provided the voices for the animated series Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales and Inspector Gadget as well as several revivals and spinoffs of the latter in the 1990s.

Don Adams's father was of Hungarian Jewish descent and his mother was Irish-American.

Don Adams was an expert marksman and was noted for his competence.

Don Adams decided to take her name because performers were called up for auditions in alphabetical order.

Don Adams worked as a commercial artist and restaurant cashier to help support his wife and three daughters.

Don Adams had a role on the NBC sitcom The Bill Dana Show as a bumbling hotel detective named Byron Glick.

Don Adams gave the character a clipped speaking style borrowed from actor William Powell.

Don Adams was nominated for Emmys four seasons in a row, from 1966 to 1969, for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series.

Don Adams had been typecast as Maxwell Smart and was unable to escape the image, although he had success as the voice of the title character of Inspector Gadget.

Don Adams earned most of his income from his work on stage and in nightclubs.

Such moments as the bar scene from The Lost Weekend, the duel scene from The Prisoner of Zenda or the beach scene from From Here to Eternity were used, with Don Adams directing and a celebrity guest playing the other lead in the scene.

Don Adams resurrected the Maxwell Smart character for a series of television commercials for Savemart, a retail chain that sold audio and video equipment.

Don Adams appeared in the film Jimmy the Kid and played a cameo role as a harbormaster in Back to the Beach.

Don Adams voiced the character in the original television series and a 1992 Christmas special, as well as in subsequent 1990s spinoffs Gadget Boy and Inspector Gadget's Field Trip.

Don Adams divorced Adelaide in 1960 and married Dorothy Bracken, an actress.

Don Adams left Bracken in 1977 to marry actress Judy Luciano, with whom he had one child.

Don Adams had seven children: Carolyn, Christine, Cathy, Cecily, Stacey, Sean, and Beige.

Don Adams died on September 25,2005, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.

Don Adams's health had declined after the death of his daughter Cecily.